Alex looked around cautiously with the goblin team right behind him.
There was just nothing right about the scene. Alex could see for himself. The ancient brown rocky walls of the mine were juxtaposed with tiny blue mana rocks that served as lightning for the place, giving the impression that they were the night stars.
Although Going in now was risky, inside the mine could be any number of adversaries with any kind of level, Alex still chose to chase after whatever pulled the goblin. not because he cared about the goblin or anything but because of the blue rock held in the Goblin's hands.
this stone was something that had been built on the blood and bone of a high level magic beast, that was a mana core of a beast that had at least gotten to the second circle and must have taken human form.
The moment they step into the darkness, the goblins began to shiver and could barely talk or continue making a racket. for some reason Though, Alex could hear the whispers of those whose lives were lost in this place, they remained cloistered in the mine dungeon Entrance and echo around the twisted rocks.
"You must have So much to say..." Alex murmured as he soon spotted a Door of some sort.
He checked on the symbols at the door. It was covered with dust, but he reached out to clean it off. Many memories flashed by him as he looked at them.
When he looked at the symbols closely, he couldn't help muttering a bit loudly,"English alphabets?"
It said, "Den of Groles"
'could this be what the author referred to as Ancient text?...Aren't you proud?...Lazy' Alex had the urge to roll his eyes while thinking. He turned back to his 'team', at some time this Goblins had picked up some of the small mana stones to play.
'seems like they've calmed down...' Alex tried to push the gate but it didn't budge besides releasing sand and dropping dust.
He then looked around for an alternative and saw a rather big crack a meter above the Door.
'Looks like something even I can cross' With a crooked smile, he picked up a Goblin in one arm and accurately tossed it through the crack.
"O-OUCH…." The goblins voice came from the other side of the door but it made no sound of discomfort, so Alex picked up the rest and began tossing them. brief yells came from the other side of the door with some voicing their confusion.
The last two began running away as their fear got the better of them...
"Get back here!!" Alex smirked as he grabbed on of them by the head and then proceeded to toss him. He soon caught the other and used <leap> to jump towards the crack.
When he landed, he rounded up the goblins who did not dare resist and continued their exploration. It was only now he understood that the mine was actually much bigger than he imagined but its was two times hotter than the other side of the door.
[Ding!]
[You have found a new location..."Den of Groles", add to system archives.]
With raised brows, he looked at the notification before walking forward while observing his surrounding, He noticed there were a lot of spider webs accompanied by different kind of bones and such.
Soon he spotted two silhouettes a huge spider that was about two meters, It had a human male upper body with eight eyes, it's lower body was a spider's with numerous green spots,The other seemed to be a pale woman with purple hair.
Alex quickly used the system to look at the status of this two immediately after hiding...
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[Name: _____]
Race: Grole spider(Male)
Level: Lv 13 (Order of the first circle)
Power rating: 5433
Relationship:-
Alignment: Chaotic Neutral
[Name: Jenetta Sewell
Level: Lv 24 (Order of the second circle)
Power rating: 11342
Relationsh.i.p.s: princess of the Sewell clan, Queen Candidate.
The half spider bowed to the human looking female while respectfully presenting the Blue mana core the goblin had in its hands.
"You've done well" She said with a seductive smile on his face but the former only responded with a small bow while Jenetta proceeded to head deeper into the mines.
Without much delay, The half spider turned towards the cocooned goblin in the distance.
After being bitten, wrapped up with thread in a cocoon and kidnapped by the Grole spider It had fainted from the pain and shock…. it seemed to have awakened to feeling it's body as it began to struggle with while being dragged on the ground.
"Haaa..." Alex sighed as he weighed his options, He could just turn back now as there a lot of variables in this exploration...he didn't understand, like Who was this Jennetta ?, Sewell clan, how many were they?, what was their strength?...the more he listed, the more convinced that he couldn't go back empty handed like this.
KKIRIRIRIIRIR!!!!
With that thought an angry shriek brought him back to senses...
Eight Black eyes were looking at him from above where he and the Goblins were hiding, The other spider that had been leaving with the other goblin also stopped and looked in their direction.
"Just great..." Alex muttered with a frown.
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Meanwhile, News had reached the village, about how the Chief went into the mine. Dabok summoned Urim, Lovan and Torrelsav to the Main Hall immediately.
"Brother gone for so long...Let me go in and find him!!" Urim's angry roar could be heard by Lovan the moment he came in, struggling with his black robe. Urim had his fist clenched, Torrelsav soon arrived with the normal Black battle 'skirt' the orcs were wearing.
"Wait..." was all Dabok said to Urim before turning toward Torrelsav and Lovan, "What will you do?, will you Cooperate?"
""Of course"" They responded immediately after exchanging a glance and nodding.
"Good..." Dabok turned to Urim with a nod of his own after getting their confirmation.
"Lovan...prepare plenty Boom rocks for Urim and Torrelsav" He said while alternating his glance between the three of them.
"Urim gather as many warriors as the number of your fingers and toes...then with him, you go find your brother" Dabok gave another order while scratching the short hair on his head, to which Urim only nodded solemnly before leaving with the other two.
At the same time, Lovan's son rushed into the Hall with an anxious face that made Dabok frown further.
Alex was pushed back by three steps while the Spider quickly recovered and charged again, the first Grole spider was also fast approaching.
"Now!!!"
screee!!
Boom!!!
Boom!!!
The alchemy stone struck the ground surrounding the spider and caused small explosions, and the spider behind immediately turned its head toward the goblins before heading up the walls.
beneath it's face soon divided and sprayed strong acid, sending a green, gooey splash of acid at the goblins direction.
Splash!!!
Luckily it missed the goblins due to the distance, the one in front of Alex was still in the middle of it's charge and tried to body slam him with one of its front legs raised like a sword. Alex rolled to the left barely dodging the spider's attempt to slice him with it's front leg as well.
when it turned towards him, he kicked up some dust, temporally blinding it as it screeched anxiously. He immediately tried to Hack at it but barely dodged another acid spray from the green spotted Grole.