It had been days since Druak left the ritual site to look for the Necrotic crystal.
As he traversed the land of Argonaut he encountered a group of bandits fighting amongst themselves, some lay dead on the ground. However, Druak just stared at the cold dead corpse on the ground and continued walking, his eyes completely devoid of life.
The last time Druak showed any emotions was when he was at the ritual site, after that he lost almost all interest in everything.
The only thing on his mind was 'I will make him pay.'
As he continued walking past the bandits one of them seemed to notice him walking past.
"Hey, you. Where do you think you're going." The man was covered in dust and his teeth had almost completely rotted away.
Druak completely blanked the bandit and continued walking.
This had managed to get the attention of the rest of the bandits as they saw this as Druak not showing them enough respect.
One of the bandits charged straight at Druak holding a knife in his hand.
Druak's face tilted to the side and stared at the bandit running at him. Just as the blade was about to stab him he grabs the blade with his bare hands.
"I'm not in the mood piss off." Blood dripping down his hand he rips the blade out of the bandit's hand. The bandit didn't show any resistance as the bandit's face began to sweat bullets.
"You're.... you're insane!" The bandit drops to the floor scurrying back to the rest of his mates.
"What the hell's wrong with him?" The bandits began murmuring amongst themselves.
Druak completely ignores them, turning around and continuied walking away, the bandits didn't see a reason to rob him especially due to his ragged attire and they were also a bit afraid of him.
The last thing Druak hears is."What kind of psycho would grab a blade with their own hands."
Druak continued his journey towards the necrotic crystal without any more disturbances.
"This is the place if they were telling the truth about where it was found." Druak had learned of this place due to leaked information found by the Argonaut kingdom a few months from now.
'Guess this is the mountain' Druak didn't need to look around much as this was the only mountain range for miles and he was almost certain this was the exact location that was leaked out.
He began inspecting his body.'Looks like most of my wounds have closed up. Gonna take a while till I'm in perfect condition but this will have to do.' Druak was still covered in cuts, burns and bruises but he needed to get this necrotic crystal as fast as possible or he'd miss the start of the academy.
3 hours later
Druak had finally reached the frostbite cave, which was what it was named once it was discovered.
*Huff*Huff* Druak looked down at the mountain he had just climbed out of breath.' I really need to put some muscle on this body.' he said as he looked at his arms which although had definitions were still rather scrawny.
After taking a short break he cautiously entered the cave. As he sneaked towards the entrance he barely even noticed the human skeletons that were sprawled throughout the cave.
'This looks like a good enough place to set up a trap.' He had been searching around for the cave to see if there was any place he could use to trap the frostbite spider as there was no chance he would be able to defeat it at his current strength.
2 hours later
It took him quite some time but he was finally done setting up his traps, the main one being the pitfall filled with dura crystals.
'Well, at least this shouldn't be as scary as what I've already seen.'
After checking his equipment he was now ready to face the frostbite spider. He had lost his sword but it didn't really make much of a difference, he was only here for the necrotic crystal anyway.
Druak began to set his plan in motion. The first step would be luring the frostbite spider away from the crystal.
As sneaked further into the cave he saw a few hatchlings that looked to be eating something from a cocoon of webs.
Druak hide in wait as the hatchlings continued to devour whatever was inside the cocoon. As he was waiting he heard something." Help please someone help me." It was the voice of an old man who seemed to be trapped within some webs.
Druak peaked around the corner to see an old man that had lost both his legs and was bleeding out.
After Druak looked coldly at the old man almost instantly he hid back behind the cover and continued to listen to the screams of the man till finally… they stopped.
'Sorry but I have to get my revenge… no matter what.' Druak hadn't realised, he was slowly going down a path that could lead to great despair.
Once Druak knew the hatchlings were distracted by the new food they had, he could finally put his plan to work. He quickly sneaked over to the spiderwebs near the hatchlings, it appeared as though they had eggs hanging from them.
Druak put most of his remaining dura crystals into the webs however one slipped out of his hand. As if in slow motion he watched as it dropped to the floor. * Thud*
"S**t." The hatchling charged straight for the running human. * CRWAAA* The hatchlings began screeching as they ran straight for Druak.
Druak only turned around for a single second blasting a {mana bolt} directly at the dura crystals.
* BANG * Loud screeching echoed throughout the cave as all the hatchling eggs were burned to a crisp. The flames began to travel through the cave like wildfire as they continued to burn anything in their path.
"Hopefully that got its atten….." *AAAWWWR * The cave shook as rocks began to smash into the ground, Druak dodging any that got close to him. "Guess that answers that question."