In this vast and endless dark domain, within this expansive and obscure underground cavern, a small flame stubbornly burned on.
Hundreds and thousands of spiders of various species encircled the firelight at the center. Their sinister shadows crept along the ground, and the light flickered in the countless black spider eyes.
Among the spiders were many humanoid corpses that could not find rest, thirstily extending their arms as if to touch the firewood ablaze.
A muscular man holding the fire stood calmly in the midst of the creatures, gazing solemnly into the darkness ahead. There, a gigantic white spider stood at the boundary between darkness and light, its indistinct shape flickering in the fire's sway.
...
It wasn't just an ordinary large white spider, Bartlett squinted to discern.
