In a mere second, their experience had shot up by more than 3000 points, making the whole party wild with joy, Rui even revealed a rare smile. After picking up the few coppers of loot, they carried on forward.
After three more waves of Exploding Magic Spiders, they had gotten around 13,000 EXP, and Yezekael and the rest were closing in on level 8. Rui also filled his experience bar by 20%.
He only had a little EXP left to earn before gaining a level.
Rui sighed as he looked at the last Metal Chip Bomb in his hands, thinking, ‘Well, hopefully it will be enough’ as the sinister cave looked as it was about to reach its end.
Even though Rui thought it would end soon, he still kept up his guard. It was better to be safe then sorry, as the saying went.
Silently passing through the narrow passageway, Rui climbed up the rocks to a vantage point. As he peered from above, he was instantly covered in cold sweat because of the sight in front of him.
“What’s wrong?”
Looking at Rui’s expression, the rest of the party was momentarily stunned. Never had they ever expected Rui who usually had a cold front up to show such feelings. Yezekael couldn’t help but to ask in worry. To shock a man like Rui to such extent, what exactly was the scene in front of him?
“Shhh!” Rui put a finger on his lips, hinting the others to keep silent and started typing in the party chat: “The whole area ahead is covered with Exploding Magic Spiders. I only took a glance but I’m pretty sure there are more than 500 of them. I also spotted a few larger variants of the spiders; if they’re not bosses then they’re Elites.
Rui’s words completely astonished Yezekael and the rest. Over 500 Exploding Magic Spiders? In addition, there were some troublesome Elites and even Bosses?
GULP! Yezekael and the others stared at each other helplessly, shock evident in their eyes. Such a mob of enemies would be more than sufficient to blow them all to smithereens many times over.
“Guys, shall we go crazy for once?” Looking at Yezekael and the others, Rui’s eyes narrowed as his eyes sparkled with a hint of madness.
“Even though I have only caught a quick glance at them, I’m pretty sure these spiders are extremely close together. I still have one last Metal Chip Bomb; if we can set off a proper chain reaction, in theory we can kill off all of the spiders at once. Of course, this is only in theory. Those elites and bosses will certainly not die so easily. If we do not manage to kill them all off, and they swarm us, we will definitely be killed.”
Upon hearing Rui, Yezekael and the rest were shocked beyond words. Looking at the crazy man in front of them, they lapsed into silence.
After witnessing the destructive power of the Explosive Magic Spiders, they knew how scary those monsters were. Yet, this man dared to plan to wipe them all out. Crazy! He was definitely crazy! Why was he so confident? The small little bomb in his hand… A 3 metre radius sounded good, and it seemed like it would work especially well against the small sized spiders.
In a densely populated area they could definitely kill more than 30 of them. However, there were more than 500 of them, including elites or bosses! Could that bomb really do the job?
“You’re too crazy, to depend on that single bomb to deal with those terrifying spiders!” Yezekael looked at Rui and the bomb in his hand and said with a bitter smile. Then he paused and shrugged: “But I like craziness. My dad always said — No pain no gain. To get a bigger slice of cake, we will have to take risks. We’re still young and adventurous, not old men who have to calculate every odds before acting. Since you want to bet, let’s go crazy and bet big! Even if we fail, we’ll just lose one level. With our skill we can always level again. I will follow your lead!”
“Haha! Not bad!” Rui let out a hearty laugh upon hearing Yezekael’s words, finding him more and more pleasing to the eye.
“Alright then. This is it folks, I’m going to throw it now!” With a shrug, Rui gave a wane smile and said.
“Wait!” Little Sweet Girl’s voice attracted everyone’s gaze. She took a deep breath as everyone stared at her, and said “Ugh, we may be surrounded by those disgusting spiders soon, at least let me prepare my heart!”
Looking at the girl seriously taking deep breaths, everyone couldn’t help but laugh.
After more than 10 deep breaths, Little Sweet Girl nodded to Rui.
Rui waved his hand, motioning for the rest to retreat a little as he crept forward.
This time, he clearly saw how many spiders there were in the cave, which was almost as large and shaped like the Colosseum in Rome. There were definitely more than 500 spiders, and more importantly, there were slightly larger ones which were likely Elites, and in the middle, a huge Exploding Magic Spider with a height of nearly 2 metres. It was clearly the final BOSS!
Whoosh…