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But you understand how timely the whole situation was right? Like the world was somehow set up before me. Like the whole Labyrinth was a test from the heavens and they wanted me to have a meal before the fight. A free meal where I was able to recover from my injuries. Everything seemed unnatural. Or did the heavens hate me instead? Did they give want to give the boss of the labyrinth a reason to come after me?
Was the whole situation a scheme?
I didn't know... even now, I don't know.
Do you know?
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Tension spread throughout my body as the feeling of danger crept up on top of me. I looked directly at the hole in the wall. I was slightly worried but mostly confident. 'It's just another Frostfang.' I thought as I brushed off the situation.
I was sure it was the Female Frostfang and it noticed that its eggs were missing or something had happened to them. Like a supernatural disaster - or in the correct case, me. I mean how could it have chosen that specific moment to come after me?
In anticipation, I waited for the source of the movement to come after me.
I waited and waited, but nothing happened.
Silently a single sharp tipped foot dropped down from the ceiling above me as the darned Reward System cried out.
[Side objective: Defeat dungeon boss: The Silver-backed Frostfang ♀]
Yes, the Reward System was the one that warned me of its presence.
As soon as it called out... I knew that I was in trouble, but like a western child expecting a creepy old man with a sack of gifts to come down the chimney on a winter night, I was waiting for nothing. The Frostfang seemed to somehow take notice of this its poisoned leg crept up and entered the room from the ceiling.
Swish.
The sound of something ripping through the air filled my ears (skin).
But I couldn't react in time.
With a burst of speed, it had attacked swiftly and decisively. I'm sure now that it didn't intend to keep me alive as it struck my shell with impunity.
Like a strike from the heavens, my body was smashed into my shell like a piece of bread into an overstuffed grocery bag.
My body caved in.
Crunch. I felt a part of my shell crack with the pressure as the sharp tip of the Frostfangs appendage had broken through just milliseconds later.
Slowly, a numbing sensation entered deep inside my body and travelling from my back to my innards - I knew I was poisoned once more. I struggled to get free, but it didn't work. I was stuck - pinned to the elastic floor of the room.
The poison crept into my body with a fury. Like it was alive, it searched for my most vulnerable. Inching along, the chilling pain caused by the poison travelled along my highway-like veins throughout my body until it reached my stomach where it gathered - it had found it. My weak spot. Like thousands of sucker punches, I felt a pangs of pain within my stomach in one instant and nearly blacked out as I screeched out loud in pain.
The poison of the female Frostfang was on a whole other level!
Grimacing through the pain, I tried as hard as I could to push up against the force that was squishing me down as the sound of [Status: Iced Poison] and [Euphoric Rush] seemed to ward off the status effects.
Unfortunately the pain made it through.
Crumpling against the floor I suddenly lost all the strength to fight back.
I didn't know what to do as I stared up at the giant appendage that had punctured into my shell.
My eyes went wide.
By no means was the Female Frostfang small. Covered in long hairs the thickness of my eyestalk, its single foot spanned the entire room as it seemed like the whole ceiling seemed to be replaced with a curtain of black.
'How... so big... how didn't I notice that?' I questioned myself as I stared in horror as I felt the weight above me suddenly lessen.
I was rising now...
Like a snail on a barbecue skewer at some sick gourmets restaurant, I was pulled upward by the owner of the skewer towards who knows where... mouth, followed by a stomach maybe?
'What have... I gotten myself into?' I questioned myself as I was slowly raised upwards towards the hole in the ceiling.
Left dangling as it pulled me upward, I panicked as I knew it was right. Swishing my body back and forth, I began to struggle to wiggle myself free.
But it felt me struggle.
Feeling my movement, I felt my body change direction. I braced myself as I felt the might of the giant once more.
Boom!
Slamming into the floor, I felt the Frostfang's appendage puncture deeper through my shell as the hole it chipped wider and wider as it stabbed me once more.
[Status: Iced Poison] (Updated) the metallic voice boomed as I continued to struggle to free myself.
Soon a warm liquid began to flow within my shell that contrasted with the coldness of the poison.
Blood. It was my blood.
'... moving... is definitely not the solution.' I thought through the pain as I was drawn upwards once more.
This time I didn't struggle.
I decided to let it take me upward.
Because in the face of pure strength and size, I was left at the mercy of female Frostfang.
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