Something charming like arrows flying from walls! They stepped on the ground and had their feet sink right in, and were ambushed by venomous snakes. Thief Nide dismantled the traps and hunted the snakes, but they were delayed by a lot of time.
And then, in a moment while they were advancing like that!
*Rumble!*
A big boulder was rolling towards them from an alley they had passed.
It filled up the entire passage. The boulder that rolled forward without even a corner to escape out of.
“Run!”
The party that had seen the big boulder that was rolling forth behind them ran for their lives into the dungeon.
“We don’t know what might be in front!”
“Better than being crushed and killed by the rock.”
“The passage was getting narrower!”
*Rumble!*
The passage became narrower and narrower, so the big boulder was wedged in between the walls. The walls were considerably ravaged, and although it was a boulder that had rolled all the way here, it finally stopped..
“What a relief.”
“Are we saved by this?”
There wasn’t any time to nonchalantly express happiness. Thief Nide knew from experience that in cases like this, even greater crises would come find them.
Nide hurriedly opened his mouth.
“Hey, guys.”
“Hm?”
“There’s three things of bad news… there’s really bad news and less bad news. And there’s also one piece of unlucky news.”
Selsia beamed a smile. After repeatedly doing only boring hunting every day, experiencing this kind of dungeon exploration was very exciting for her.
“Tell us the less bad news first.”
“Ok. That’s that our way back is blocked. And the really bad news is, that we don’t know what kind of traps there are in the place where we’re standing.”
“Traps, you say?”
“Just now, I tried using my Trap Seeking Skill… this entire place is lit up by traps, blue light, so by the way, I think it’ll be better to stay put.”
“Dismantling the traps is impossible?”
“Yeah. This whole passage is marked with traps… this place is probably not originally a normal path, so it’s a passage connected separately. By the look of it, it seems like we chose the wrong direction ever since the boulder came rolling.”
“…”
Rumi’s skin turned pale. Still, before she gave up she asked hopefully, “Then what’s the unlucky news? Isn’t there nothing worse than this?”
“Yeah. Right now that the one who is coming to where we are, that the sole person who can help us… is Weed hyung.”
“…”
The party members who sank into despair, hopelessness, frustration, and dejection!
They could easily feel Nide’s drooping meaning from his tone.
‘It ends here.’
It seemed like they’d somehow be going back with the dungeon exploration assignment as a failure. The points for finding an undiscovered dungeon would probably be high, but if they all died in the middle of it, it would become a total failure in the end.
The assignment in itself was regretful, but the level or skill proficiency they would lose from dying could be nothing but extremely upsetting.
Then Hegel strode in with a detached step. After resting quietly, his exhausted stamina had been restored.
“What’re you all doing. Are you just going to sit here quietly and die?”
“Hegel! It might be dangerous.”
“We don’t have the freedom of choice anyways. Then we’ll press on. And it’s a dungeon where weak monsters like Kramanoims come out… even if you say it’s dangerous, it’s probably not that bad.”
Hegel’s remark was strangely persuasive.
Even if were still standing here, they would move forward. If they were going to die all the same, be it this way or that, they would not die standing still.
Although it was a Swordsman-like action, it was before he had even taken just a few steps.
“Hegel!”
“What?”
Hegel didn’t turn around to look and was only walking forward.
The party members could see the spiders clinging to Hegel’s back and shoulders. They were spiders the size of fists that furtively crawled over the walls, floor, and ceiling. Because of the armor he had equipped, only the person involved couldn’t feel them.
“Umm, you’re in danger right now.”
“What is it.”
“On your armour…..”
“Is something there?”
By the time Hegel turned around to look, the spiders had already spewed silk and had tightly encased his whole body in it.
His body was completely wrapped up so he couldn’t even swing his weapon.
The so-called airtight seal!
Every time he squirmed, trying to escape, the spider silk didn’t break and became more and more tight instead.
“Ah!”
A scream burst out of Hegel’s mouth. His Health didn’t fall by a lot because he was wearing good armor, but no matter how much strength he used, he couldn’t move an inch in the spider silk.
All the other party members were also tightly tied up by the spider silk that fell from the ceiling, wall, floor, and behind them.
The entire passage was filled with spiders, so there wasn’t even a place to escape to.
Even though Ranger Twitter’s arrows got in the way of the spiders’ approach, it wasn’t that much of a help, and even Thief Nide’s dagger only managed to cut a few spider silk strands.