The war between the cave spiders and cave bats was quite fierce. To the extent, that Poe could feel his hair stand on end just from observing the war from a distance.
Moreover, he was hiding behind a big rock, so he could not really see so much of it, but what he saw was quite good nightmare material. Building up some courage, Poe peeked over the rock to see how the war was going. Only to be greeted with a cave spider flying towards him.
[Cave spider, lvl 9]
Thinking quickly, Poe enchanted his stick and hit the flying spider directly in the head killing it in one move.
[Gained 45 EXP + 55 EXP: for killing higher level enemy]
[*ding* level 4 reached]
Looking at the dead spider, Poe was first surprised at how easy it died before realizing that it was already injured before he hit it.
Calming himself down, Poe suppressed the urge to look at his status because of the spider and bat war happening behind him.
Now that the spider that jumped or was knocked towards him had died, Poe once again tried to peek out from behind the hiding rock that helped conceal him.
The first thing Poe saw somewhat surprised him, no, not somewhat, but really surprised him.
[Cave spider queen, lvl 20]
[Cave bat king, lvl 25]
A giant spider that was several times larger than the average cave spider was fighting against a giant bat that was almost as big as the spider. The difference was that the spider shot venom and that bat had a crown on its head that would shine from time to time.
Every time the crown shone, wind blades would rush towards the giant spider queen.
Seeing this scene straight out of a nightmare, Poe felt like pissing his pants and going into a foster position crying on the floor, but Poe had gotten braver after killing monsters and killing his nemesis the spiders.
Well it did not really help his fear against the giant spider queen in front of him. Doing the only thing he could, Poe went as quiet as possible and hid behind the rock again waiting for the battle behind him to finish and for the victor to leave.
Time slowly passed, Poe peeked out from behind the rock a few times, but the war did not really change and the king bat and queen spider was still fighting. The cave spiders and cave bats did start to die out after time passed and in the end, only the king bat and queen spider were left on the battlefield both with heavy injuries.
The cave spiders and cave bats that survived the first few clashes between the spider queen and king bat had retreated to either the floor below or where the spiders came from.
After another few minutes passed the cave spider queen died to the wind blades from the cave bat king, but the cave bat king did not escape either as he soon perished to the venom from the spider queen.
Poe who saw the whole scene was left speechless as he stared at their body slowly turning into light particles, before quite a few items were left behind.
Poe took the chance and walked over to the items and inspected them.
The notable things from the cave spider queen were,
[Spider Venom]: poison can be smeared on blade to inflict poison damage each time you hit.
[Tier 1 magic stone of vitality]: absorb increases HP by 5, can be used MAX 5 times.
From the bat the most notable things were,
[Tier 1 magic stone of intelligence]: absorb increases MP by 5, can used MAX 5 times.
[Robe of the bat king]: Makes you harder to see in the dark, increases affinity towards bats.
Putting the spider venom in his worn out backpack, Poe put the bat king robe on. The bat king robe was like a black robe just a little more solid and rougher looking.
After having put on the robe, Poe looked towards the magic stones.
Magic stones had different tiers and could be absorbed to increases the user's stats. The higher level you got the harder it would be to get stat points and going after magic stones was one of the ways to grow stronger.
Tier 1 was the lowest tier, only increased a stat by 1 point and could only be used 5 times each, so using all the tier 1 stones would give the user of the magic stones 25 stat points that is overall the same as 2.5 levels for Poe right now.
The magic stones of tier 1 could only be gotten from killing strong monsters like monster with king or queen in the name at level 20 or above. The other way to get magic stones is finding them in mana rich places.
That is all Poe know about magic stones, for tier 2 and above he has no idea, but he thinks it is the same way just killing even higher level monsters with king or queen title or even more mana rich places.
Shaking his head, Poe throws the idea of getting more magic stones to the back of his mind.
Picking up the tier 1 magic stones, Poe gets a notification.
[Would you like to absorb tier 1 magic stone of vitality?]
[Y/N]
[Would you like to absorb tier 1 magic stone of intelligence?]
[Y/N]
Thinking yes, the magic stones turns into light that slowly flows into Poe's body before vanishing.
Grinning to himself, Poe pulls up his status screen and puts his stat points into INT and WIS.
Poe, class advancement underway
Race: Elf
Lvl 4, EXP required: 337
HP: 40/40
MP: 185/185
STR: 2
VIT: 4
INT: 18.5
WIS: 20.5
AGI: 4
SP(stat points): 0
SK(skill points): 0
Active skills: [Mana Manipulation lvl 3]; [Mana Ball lvl 1]; [Mana Enchantment lvl 1]
Passive skills: [Fall Resistance lvl 1]; [Stick Mastery lvl 2]
Titles: [Part of the Elven Race]; [Bookworm]; [Mana Stream]; [Schemer]
Putting the status away, Poe picks up some bat meat from the ground and takes a bite of it.
Slowly gnawing on the meat, Poe walks towards the place where the remaining spiders ran.
That was most likely where the exit to this cave or dungeon was.