"Mhmfh..!" Soon continued to struggle and wiggly his body, he couldn't talk or move he was cleary panicking yet again. Not only that, but he was also worried about the situation.
Paul continued to stay calm and focused, the spiders who used to be very aggressive now stayed and wait for opportunities to attack, although they were hissing. The mother Spider continued to stay aggressive all the way and wait for the outcome.
"I might do the whole work here," Paul said he touched his blade with his fingers and so suddenly the blade glowed on a dark red colour.
He smiled, " I just know these things because of the system and I'm on the second stage on the Demonic Path." He said into himself. "I might learn new skills." He said again so he dashed sideways as fast as he can and stabbed a spider in the ground killing it.
[ Shounpo Skill Unlocked. ]
"A skill on which I can dash in speed no one will expect huh." He continued dashing in front of the spiders and killing it one by one. The mother spider panicked and tried to predict Paul's movements by spitting an acidic green liquid but it missed just so slightly.
At this moment the baby spiders or so didn't know what to do. Instead, they all jumped at the same time on top of Paul.
"Pierce!" He shouted as a beam of light shined from the tips of Paul's sword. The spiders who tried to jump on him disappeared like there's nothing.
Soon was shocked, his eyes widened and as he constantly observed Paul's movements. And then so suddenly he heard the Mother Spider on side of him looking at him. His fangs were ready to bite so he rolled sidewards and just missed the giant bite of the spider. He rolled even more until the spider was out of reach. The spider hissed at him more, he tried making sounds to alert Paul by shouting and moving a lot.
Paul's sword started craking at this point, handle feels off by now, up to this point it was one shot at killing the big one, all of the baby spiders were scared and didn't have any fighting spirit left on them. "Then let's level up power for this..." he said to himself, he quickly summoned the system and went on his status and put all of his skill points of Power making it doubled its the original number. Soon didn't know what Paul's doing he was confused on why Paul was tapping into seemingly nothing.
Paul immediately felt more powerful than a while ago, he saw the spider slowly crawling into Soon, Soon's was just there staring at him stating he was indeed in danger. Paul just winked at him, " Spider!" He shouted the mother spider stopped for a moment even tilted her head as like underestimating him. She showed her huge fangs and turned facing him. "That's right stupid spider." Paul mocked the spider, it was pissed even more as like it knew the human language.
"I might have one shot at this so come!" He shouted as he pointed his sword at her. Immediately the spider charged at him at a fast rate although their distance to each other was quite far the speed of the spider's eight legs were quite fast.
Paul stood there calmly and waiting, Soon who don't know what to do tried screaming even though his mouth were covered by the sticky silk of the spider. He tried warning Paul but Paul didn't bother looking at him. Instead, he saw a blatant dead look of Paul to the spider as if time stopped for a while. Soon felt shivers and fear in his eyes, the mood suddenly became full of bloodlust and power. He was frightened to the bone. He knew that the homeless man he met today was actually cable killing hundreds of people and go and leave without a problem or so.
And then so suddenly Paul trusted his sword even though the spider was out of reach, another beam from his sword appeared yet again but this time it was dark red, the wind blew past disturbing the once peaceful leaves of the trees, the beam penetrated the spider even coming off from its back, the tress was cut in half behind the spider. And so the spider collapsed to the ground, its head gone and was there dead lying. Paul's sword shattered because of this and he also collapsed to the ground. Although catching himself. He took the hilt of his sword and dragged himself into Soon. He cut the sill of the spider using the sharp edge of the broken sword.
Soon was freed from the silk and caught Paul through his arms. "You are definitely not a homeless man!" Soon screamed and he puts Paul's head into his lap. Paul, however, didn't like this and flung his hands signalling he was alright he sat down and coughed for a while. "Let's rest for a while here, that spider, try cutting its legs we can eat it." He said as he went under a tree and rest for a while.
Soon knew he was un-injured totally agree and went to cut the spider's skin, the meat of the spider was really fatty and juicy, to begin with. Soon's hands were full of blood as he finishes cutting it he presented his cut to Paul. He came back to see they are already twigs there for a fire. "Icenderei" Paul cast and the twigs caught on fire.
Surprised yet again, Soon didn't ask how did he do it. He was definitely impressed and also curious about his skills. He couldn't prove anything and so sadness ran through his face as he sticks the meat on a stick to cook it.
Paul realized this and also his bruises are even worse. The herbs he picked appeared beside him. "Come here," he said to Soon as he placed their food in the fire. He wrapped a leafy to hid right arm which was already turning purple and spit on it. Disgusted, Soon flitched for a bit. "Don't worry this leafy needs to absorb some liquid in order for it to release its liquid that would penetrate your pores," Paul said as he finishes up and flipped the meat on the fire.
"It was my fault," Soon said in disappointment, "I proved some baby spider and went there alone, I thought it was just a spider so I punched it only to being webbed by the mother spider." He said in a soft tone that would make anyone felt pity or sad.
Paul however didn't bother it. "It's fine I'll teach you some moves maybe." As he looks around and leaned to the tree.
"I never saw a person which sorcerer and a Cultivator at the same time you know!" Suddenly he felt much better, a sense of hope to cheer him up glaze like a light in the darkness. Paul just smiled at him, "I believe one powerful King is like that." He said, even though he was just boasting he was him actually.
"Yeah King Paul, shame sects and the world tuned upon him and killed such powerful figure." He said as he checks on the meat in the fire. "I was just a kid when be ruled the world, and my adult's said that the world back then was a lot better than now."
Paul suddenly felt saddened about this, he remembered the times they spent with his knights the battle he has won and also the unforgettable drinking nights he got. And so he remembered the day the news broke that hundreds of thousands of soldiers surround his castle, the butler's maids and knights of the castle turned to him also. His knights were the only one to support him. He suddenly broke a stick he was playing, Soon was surprised about this as he looked as is face and saw he was quite mad. "Did I offend you by any chance? Seems you are some ally of the former King? But, your too young right?" He questioned, Paul took a deep breath and went back to his senses. "No, I- just can't imagine being betrayed like that and killing your precious friends." He said as an excuse, he felt furious and mad but so suddenly he had calm again.
Soon realizes that the king was actually executed to the same ravine a while ago, " You know King Paul and his Knights were thrown into that ravine a while ago!"
Paul which already knew this, of course, faked his expressions of the situation, "Really? All of his knights were executed to there?! Shame..." he said, the tone of his voice was loud as if he was shocked.
"Well, 4 of his knights."
Suddenly the smiling Paul stopped for a moment, "what?!" He said and this time he was serious all of the sudden.
Soon which was busy cooking the meat didn't saw his face and just listened on the reply of Paul as if treating it as a normal question. "Well on Girl surrendered and she joined well er... the other side. In exchange, she sacrificed her hand to be thrown into the ravine."
Paul's eyes widened he felt betrayed yet again, even his most trusted knights betrayed him all along! He proceeded to be calm even though deep inside him his head craked. "Where is she now?" He questioned, Soon finishes the meat and gave it a huge stick to Paul. " she's currently the ruler of the Tower of God on the other country" as hs toom a bit into the cooled meat of the spider, his face smiled as it was very delicious for spider meat.
Paul didn't ask for more questions as he didn't want to bother Soon, he looked like he was enjoying the food. Paul shrugged and took a bite on it and instantly loved it and ate more.
They finish up in the threw away the sticks, the spider was indeed delicious but the dead spider started decomposing and stating to be smelly. They didn't have a choice where to sleep as the place is the only area they can with a flat ground behind their backs. They decided to just sleep the night and wake up tomorrow morning to went on to their journey.
The moon shined at the top of the opened area as stars twinkle beside it, crickets made the sounds and the rustling of the cold wind could be felt through their skins. It was peaceful in the forest, no sounds other than nature, and Paul's eyes closed shut...
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"Paul!..." suddenly someone screamed...