Chapter 16: Deadly
The four of them were about to escape from the cave, but their blood-red eyes suddenly enlarged, revealing their true outline - it turned out to be a huge black spider!
The thick limbs formed a twisted form, and the mouth was full of fangs, and a disgusting green mucus was leaking outward.
The spider hissed sharply, writhing its bloated body, and quickly rushed towards the four.
"Get outside!" Loras roared, raising her sword and slashing it forward, fending off the spider's onslaught.
Hearing this, Filin quickly took Ellie's hand and ran out, while Rodrith followed closely behind.
Loras's hands tingled at the blow, and her brow furrowed. In the face of such a behemoth, his heart suddenly burned with anxiety.
Unexpectedly, the spider did not make any further movements, but instead slammed itself and disappeared into the darkness.
Without hesitation, Loras immediately turned and ran out of the cave.
The undead warriors had lost their purpose and began to wander aimlessly. At this moment, he heard the shouts from the cave, and turned and gathered here again.
"It's going to be hard now. Loras squinted slightly, and said with a serious expression.
"Look, Film!" the magic apprentice suddenly exclaimed, only to see a huge black shadow crawling out of the entrance of the cave, which was the black spider he had just encountered.
The spider seemed to be very unaccustomed to the harsh light from the outside world, and writhed in place, its huge two-meter-tall body looked terrifying.
The wisest decision right now is to split up so as not to be surrounded by the undead and spiders.
With a roar, Filin rushed forward, swinging the shadow blade in his hand wildly, slashing an undead swordsman to the ground.
Rodrith unleashed his fireball spell to disperse undead archers with ranged attacks.
It doesn't mean that Fei Lin's martial arts have improved much, but the undead have lost the memory of their previous lives, and can only instinctively make some stiff movements, and their actions are very clumsy compared to the living.
In this way, the two who were not strong in combat gradually gained the upper hand under the tacit cooperation. The undead have also fallen, and the magic of Rodlis can hold up for a while.
"Whoosh~!" Ellie stood behind Loras, aiming at the spider's blood-red eyes, and the bow and arrow in her hand flew out, but unfortunately missed. The arrow hit the spider's hard shell and was immediately bounced off.
Loras roared in anger and struck hard at the spider's front legs, his sword stabbing into the beast's vulnerable position, splattering blood in splatters.
The black spider hissed in pain and began to gather a white mass in its mouth.
"Oh no, it's a cobweb, brother, get out of the way!" Ellie screamed.
Loras hurriedly rolled sideways to the side, the white spider silk was strongly corrosive, and as soon as it touched the ground, it broke down the surrounding soil.
At this time, the undead archers had all been cleaned up, and most of the undead swordsmen had been eliminated by Film. When Rodrith heard the shout, he immediately turned around and ran to Ellie's place, leaving Filin alone to deal with the remaining three undead swordsmen.
"Ellie, you keep aiming it in the eye, Rodrith, throw fireballs into its mouth!" Loras shouted behind him, holding his breath.
Rodlis agreed, and a flame immediately gathered in his hand, several times larger than before.
The pale blue fireball exploded in the spider's mouth, sending it back several meters, and since the spider was constantly moving, Ellie had a hard time hitting its eyes, but managed to divert its attention.
Taking advantage of the spider's lack of consciousness, Loras quickly circled behind it, clenched the sword in his hand, and stabbed it hard in the abdomen.
The spider's huge body began to constrict under the intense pain.
Filin managed to disperse all the undead and returned to the group, exhausted by this time.
"Did it work?" Loras pulled his sword out of the spider's body and ran back to the trio.
The spider suddenly stopped, and a thick green liquid flowed from its mouth, dripping to the ground with a hissing and corrosive sound.
"Something doesn't seem quite right with the way it looks......" Rodrith said, pointing to the ground beneath the spider's feet.
After the gray soil was eroded by the green slime, it gradually formed a regular triangle, surrounded by two glowing circles.
The spider began to flow with a substance-like gas, glowing a dark red glow like a shield.
"It's a magic array!" Rodelis exclaimed.
Before the words fell, the spider's mouth let out a sharp hiss again, and it had already entered a state of madness.
Fei Lin felt that his whole body was suppressed by this piercing cry at this moment, and his heart swelled with unprecedented fear, and his limbs were unable to move due to numbness, and he could only watch the spider's huge body rush towards him.
Seeing that the situation was critical, Ellie drew her bow and shot several arrows in succession, but all of them were bounced off without exception. Rodrith's fireball also lost its effect at this point, and could no longer deal substantial damage. Presumably, after the blessing of the magic array, the other party has become immune to low-level magic.
Seeing that the spider was about to rush in front of Film, Loras had no choice but to rush forward in a desperate situation.
The long sword in his hand slashed out with all his might, but it slumped into the dark red light without a sound.
Seeing that the red light spread violently, instantly enveloping the iron sword body, Loras secretly exclaimed that it was not good, and quickly let go of his hands.
The sword suddenly turned into a puddle of molten iron, and in Ellie's hoarse shout, the young swordsman was knocked out by the tremendous impact and landed heavily on the low slope in the distance.
"Brother!!" Ellie shouted as madly as she ran to where Loras had fallen.
Rodrith stared in disbelief at the scene in front of him—everything around him was as silent as death, except for the girl's long silver hair, fluttering messily in the blurred vision.
The swordsman's young face was stained with blood at the moment, his white light armor was stained red with blood, and his open palm was full of shocking cracks.
Ellie burst into tears and threw herself on Loras's top of her body and wept bitterly.
Filin's eyes widened, desperately watching as the spider's terrifying maw grew before his eyes, and he didn't even have the courage to pick up a dagger.
"You're really useless...... "The faint voice sounded in the depths of Filin's soul again.
The sky was darkening, and the darkness spread around it, and it was so gloomy that it was breathless.
Loras, in Ellie's arms, had passed out, and the apprentice magician stood still, casting a puzzled look at him.
At this moment, in front of Fei Lin's eyes, a strange scene emerged.
The white sky was obscured by clouds, and not a single ray of sunlight penetrated the clouds. On the vast sea, the wind and waves are calm, as bright as day.