Chapter 19: The Spider Swarm

The cave, which had been dark and silent, was now filled with the incessant hissing sound of spiders rubbing their front legs as they moved.

Rosie leaned against the damp, cold, uneven stone wall, clutching his wand in one hand and pointing ahead, the other flickering through the skill list.

Due to her lack of wand affinity, she is now able to use only a handful of magic, other than healing, defending, and enchantments that reveal hidden information about invisible units and items.

"Can the 'Remove Your Weapon' spell be used?" Rosie muttered and glanced at the giant spider not far away, "Its mouthparts should be considered weapons, right?" But this magic can't deal with that swarm of spiders! ”

Seeing that the spider closest to him had raised its front legs and made an attack gesture, Rosie didn't think about it anymore and threw out the spell directly.

Red light shot out like lightning from the tip of the wand, and the huge force slammed the spider into the air.

With the fleeting light of the spell casting, she couldn't help but gasp even though she could see the panorama of the cave again.

At this time, the cave was densely packed with spiders of different sizes, and Rossi could clearly see that the giant spider that had been knocked away by the spell had crushed several spiders that had no time to dodge when they landed.

However, this time also allowed Rossi to discover the weakness of these spiders: the moment the red light turned on, all the spiders crawling towards her took a few steps back.

"They're afraid of light?!"

Thinking of this, the creepy Rosie couldn't help but feel a little remorseful, "Why didn't I learn 'fluorescent flicker' at that time!" What is it to learn 'Marking Manifestation'...... Marking the ?!! ”

Rosie, who was complaining about herself in her heart, suddenly thought of something, and her face couldn't help but show a happy expression.

Mark Manifestation: When cast, it creates a burning line of fire in the air that can be "painted" into a specific shape with a wand. No damage effect, used to deliver messages or flag messages. Duration: 10 minutes.

I saw Rosie point the wand in his hand diagonally upward, and a burning flame burst out of the wand, and when he saw another fire, those spiders retreated dozens of steps in unison.

After writing a big word "roll" in the void in front of him, Rosie couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when he saw the retreating spider swarm just letting go of the stone door by the light of the fire.

Sticking out her tongue and grimacing in the direction of the spider swarm, she picked up the broomstick that happened to fall not far from her side, and carefully moved in the direction of the stone gate.

Just as he was about to reach the door, the spider colony suddenly stirred.

Seeing this, Rosie couldn't help but feel a pang in his heart, and immediately threw off his pace and rushed towards the stone gate desperately.

However, before she could take two steps, a huge cobweb swept her up, and she felt the sticky cobwebs sticking to her skin, and Rosie instantly got goosebumps all over her body.

Before she could struggle, the second and third cobwebs came over her and wrapped her tightly.

"It's over, this time it's completely hopeless!" Rosie's heart instantly turned to ashes.

Seeing that the prey was caught in the net, a giant spider in the spider group, which was obviously larger, slowly climbed forward, and walked to Rossi, who was crushed to the ground by the net, and tentatively stretched out his front legs and flicked Rosie's bare legs outside the spider web a few times.

Seeing that she had not moved, the giant spider rubbed its two front legs in satisfaction, making a piercing sound like the clashing of gold and iron.

Rosie, whose body trembled with fear, couldn't help but close his eyes when he saw the giant spider open its sharp claws, revealing its huge mouthparts and coming to him, ready to open the system panel directly, and choose to commit suicide and resurrect.

"After committing suicide, the current quest will be considered as a voluntary abandonment, is it confirmed?"

Rosie was about to confirm, but suddenly heard the giant spider next to her seem to take a few steps back, and for some reason, she immediately stopped the suicide operation and opened her eyes to look over there.

As if sensing something terrible, these giant spiders crowded one after another, retreating like a tide from the hole that Rossi had broken before, and in a few moments, there was no longer a living spider in the cave.

"Whew!" Rosie took a long breath and muttered to himself, "Did I survive this death?" ”

Although she was still clinging to the ground by cobwebs at this time, her heart was already much more relaxed.

Holding the wand, his right hand, which could barely turn, slowly pointed the tip of the wand at him, and used a levitation charm to float himself from the ground with layers of cobwebs.

Rosie, who was hanging in the air, didn't care whether he felt disgusted or disgusting, put his wand in the inventory, grabbed the cobwebs with both hands and pulled them hard, and threw the whole person to the side.

The sudden increase in gravity caused the Level 1 Levitation Charm to instantly fail, and the webs suspended in mid-air and her immediately fell to the ground.

Fortunately, Rossi did not hesitate in his actions just now, so that he could shake off the cobwebs at the same time as the suspension spell failed, and his body drew a parabola and landed lightly on the ground.

Glancing in the direction where the spider had receded, Rosie, who didn't notice anything unusual, thought for a moment and decided to walk in the direction of the stone gate.

Out of the stone gate, there is a long narrow path that leads diagonally upward, and on the left side of the path there is a small canal that submerges into the mountain at the stone gate.

From the system map, the upper part of this location is already within the limits of the forbidden forest.

After crouching down and dipping his hands into the canal to clean the spider slime that had stuck to it, Rosie walked up the path.

Without magical flames to act as illumination, her field of vision soon became dark and narrow again.

After walking like this for about two minutes, Rossi finally came to a platform.

The platform was clearly artificially constructed, with one passage to the left and one to the right, except for a passage upwards where the wind could clearly feel blowing in. And in the center of this platform, there is a cistern flowing with living water.

Before Rosie even stepped on the platform, she could smell a putrid smell, and when she walked up cautiously, she immediately saw the dry toad corpses piled up on the platform.

"What's the situation?" Rosie's brain spun rapidly, guessing what kind of monster would be that feeding on the blood of a toad would be.

At this moment, she suddenly felt her arm tighten, as if she was being pulled by someone.

"Yikes!!" Rossi was startled, and with all his strength he could break free from the grabbed arm, his body slammed forward a few meters, and at the same time quickly took out his wand from the inventory, pointed to the dark figure in the corridor on the left, and said, "Who?" What is it? ”

I heard a hoarse female voice say a little stiffly, "Rosie, don't be afraid, it's me, Grice." ”

Hearing this, Rosie took a few steps closer in disbelief, and was truly relieved to see that the girl in the emerald robe and wearing the emerald blindfold was the Grice he had seen before.