Chapter 101 - Ch 101 : Spiders Dungeon

"Fuck!!! Why must it be spiders!!"

Almost all the girls cried out. Even though they had become awakeners, the nature of a woman that was afraid of Spiders was hard to be changed.

"Stop Yapping! Get into your positions!! Get ready for a confrontation!!"

As the two tankers of the group, Tony and Jane assume the foremost position as usual.

But at this time, Ray's and Eve's danger sense rang again. Some things were madly rushing towards them in a large group from the other side.

"Tony, there are others coming from the other direction. What should we do?"

Eve threw the question at Tony.

"Do we have any choice? Split into two groups, and after you finish dealing with your enemy, return quickly to support the other group."

The spider was one of the most troublesome to deal with out of all the monster types. Their shells were quite hardy, they always moved around in large groups, and each individual possessed pretty high combat potential, as well. Furthermore, Spiders could also spit poisons or webs that could hinder the movement of awakeners or even poison them to death.

Rumble, rumble!!

At this time, Tony's decision is the most correct one. Dividing the battle into two areas was a lot better than being surrounded by two sides. 

So without any further due, Eve quickly brought Ray away with her.

" I will handle the side with Ray and leave the rest to you, Tony!"

The sounds of the ground trembling noisily reverberated throughout the Dungeon. It meant that the spiders should have come pretty close now.

As the group split into two, the battle would also be happening in two places.

. . . .  . 

On Eve and Ray's side, the two rushed in the direction of one of the passages, trying to block the spiders from getting into Tony's area.

"What's going on here? Why can't I see them?" Said Ray as he walked behind Eve.

"Me too, but its's strange. I was sure that My danger sense told me danger was rushing from here." Replied Eve as she also felt the same thing as Ray.

At this time, the two's danger senses rang almost at the same moment..

"Above!"

Like in a consensus, Ray and Eve immediately flashed from their current location, successfully avoiding the pre-emptive attack of the spiders.

'What?!'

Ray and Eve reflexively looked up.

Rumble…..!

A group of spiders was running towards them on the ceiling.

If they were discovered late even for a single second, those things would've jumped down on top of their heads.

'If those were discovered too late, then….'

Ray and Eve shuddered as the thought of being surrounded alive by the spiders came into their mind.

Eve raised her voice and asked.

"Do you think we can handle them?"

" I don't think it is a question anymore, but rather an obligation." Ray stretched his knuckle as he was ready for the battle.

In fact, their stats should have outnumbered the spiders, and they should have been able to singlehandedly solve the spiders based on stats alone. But the spiders are tricky monsters, and a simple mistake would be fatal to them.

Swish, pow!!

Boom!!

Kiiieeehhk!!

Kiieehh…

Ray and Eve began their attack. Ray was using his natal weapon, the rock, to hit the spiders, while Eve using her shadow.

The spiders were not ghost-type monsters, and the effectiveness of the holy staff slingshot has been pressed to its minimum right now.

However, the current Ray was different from before. He had raised his stats so high that he could easily kill a spider even without the type advantage in one shot.

When a few spiders fell down after getting struck by the attacks of Ray and Eve, the rest of them followed suit and landed back on the ground. Without a doubt, they were planning to have a life-and-death battle with the two.

From here onwards, the two must be really careful with their movement. A small mistake, and they might have found themself surrounded by webs and poison.

Eve made a hand gesture and summoned a shadow gorilla to attract the gazes of all the spiders, lessening the burden for both her and Ray.

And as if they had a prior agreement, all the spiders turned their heads to glare at the shadow gorilla. Eyes red like mad and were ready to pounce at any given moment.

ROARR!!!

The Shadow Gorilla roar further provoked the attention of the spiders.

Kiieeehhh!!

Dozens upon dozens of spiders rushed towards the shadow gorilla's position.

BANG!!!! BOOM!!!

BANGG!!!

BANG! BANG!!

The shadow Gorilla was struck multiple times, but it was still standing strong.

The burly body made of shadow easily handled the impact from the spiders' attack without fail.

The jaws and fangs of the spiders tried to make a hole in the shadow gorilla's body, but the shadow Gorilla defended commendably from all the attacks, all stable and unmoved at all.

"Ray, we need to attack now!"

Eve instructed Ray as the right timing eventually came.

All the spiders were gathered in one place as they tried their best to deal with the shadow Gorilla, leaving them vulnerable to Ray's and Eve's attack.

At this moment, a smile appeared on Ray's face.

" Leave it to me, Eve." Said Ray confidently.

" Snowy white, Swift wind, Become a shooting star in the night sky, I summon thee Bintang!!!"

Immediately, a portal appeared behind Ray as Bintang emerged from it.

Ray actually had thought about this before. He knew that sooner or later he would expose Bintang to everyone, so rather than keeping it low, he would go with a Bang and let Bintang's power be witnessed by everyone.

This time might be only Eve, but it was a good rehearsal before he eventually showed Bintang to everyone else.

" Bintang, Water spear style: Water Dragon Blast!"

As Ray knew he must not waste any time, he quickly commanded Bintang to use her biggest move as soon as she emerged.

ROAARRR!!!!

Bintang created a giant water spear behind her and threw them in the direction of the spiders.

A phantom of a water dragon appeared as the big water spear collided with the spiders and then..

BOOM!!!!

All the spiders were eliminated by this one big move. The spiders were not Freed, and they obviously didn't have any means to dodge this one like how Freed displayed against Bintang before.

When all the spiders were eliminated in one move, Eve's eyes became extra round in surprise.

"Wow."

The spiders were not that strong, but to fully dealt with that many with one move, the power of this move was definitely not weak.

Ray was a complete mystery to Eve. She had never heard his name before the Lawang Sewu Dungeon, but now Eve felt that Ray should be no weaker than her or even stronger.

Under that thought, Eve approached him and carefully asked him.

"Have you been stronger recently?"

For this kind of question, Ray didn't answer and just smiled.

Everyone has their own secret, and it was not his obligation to answer this kind of question.

Eve saw Ray have no intention of answering her question and twitched a bit. This man.. couldn't he be a bit kinder to a beautiful woman?

Nonetheless, Eve was not the type that could not read the situation and quickly changed the topic away.

" By the way, the other side should probably have dealt with the spider. Let's go!"

" Yeah!"

The two didn't talk anymore as Ray followed Eve who was leading the way. But just before they arrived at the place of the other awakeners, Eve suddenly said something that shocked Ray a bit.

" Don't worry, I'm on your side. Alyssa had told me about you and told me to protect you. However, you need to remember that you can't trust anyone here." Said Eve without even turning away her face.

Ray was pretty shocked when he heard this. He knew this Dungeon exploration should be a big conspiracy from the Government to investigate him, but he never expected that there would be many parties involved here.

. . . . .

- On Tony's side -

When Ray and Eve arrived, the other side had almost done with their battle.

Kiiiehhhk….!

Tony smashed his weapon at the spider and incapacitated it in one hit. Once the surroundings were more or less clear, Tony issued another order to the other.

"Don't forget about the corpse! We will split them later after we finish the Dungeon!"

"Yep."

Without wasting any time, the other group member quickly moved to collect the loots and put them inside space storage. The monsters in the real world didn't leave loots and only their corpse to the awakeners.

Nonetheless, the corpse was very valuable to humanity. Humans could use them to make armor, food or even use the corpse as a fertilizer to help plants grow.

Tony confirmed that everyone was working hard to collect the loot and walked closer to Ray.

"Good Job brat, you and Eve were able to handle the side just by yourself, huh."

"Excuse me?"

Tony's words were polite, but Ray somehow found a hidden meaning behind it.

"Well, no need to be worried. I just think that you are stronger than everyone here, so I guess you should take a greater responsibility than others, okay?"

' So it's about this..'

Ray sighed as he heard Tony's words.

This bastard clearly wanted him to die in the Dungeon, but because he didn't want to dirty his own hand, Tony wanted to use the monsters to kill Ray.

' But why is he telling me this? Is he an idiot.. or....'

Ray shuddered on the spot.

If Tony said those words to make Ray drop his guard as he thought Tony wouldn't make a move on him personally, then this bastard's plot is really great.