The of day of the cave exploration in a blink of an eye and the most four that were exploring the cave had already finished the preparations and were about heading out.
The only ones who wasn't present were Lloyd and Zeke, they were already on their way just a few meters away from the city gate. Finally they had arrived, Duke glared at both of them but chose not to saying anything to them.
"Now that everyone is present, let's get going." Duke said and started walked out of the city.
Nothing was said during the trip and after two hours and few minutes of walking they finally reached the entrance of the cave. The cave formed beneath a cliff and the entrance of the cave had a weird triangular shape.
"This is the place, we don't know what lies in the depths of the cave, stay together." Duke announced.
They entered the cave, looked around a bit and proceeded in going deeper into the cave. The deeper they went the darker it became.
"Does anyone have a source of light?" Tessa asked.
Duke brought something that had a bright blue crystal which was on top of a small stick, acting somewhat like a torch, he gave one to each of them.
"Stay together." Duke said.
About five minutes later, they arrived at a part in the cave that sharp pointy blue crystals which were bright enough to light up the entire area similar to the one they were holding, platinum ores could be seen in most parts of the walls and grounds and right in front of them was were the cave splits into two different path.
"Duke brought out a silver pickaxe from his inventory and was about to start mining, then Lloyd stopped him.
"What?" Duke asked disdainfully.
"I have something better."
[Undead Summon HAS BEEN ACTIVATED]
Two small skeletons appeared before Lloyd, from the usual reddish black portal, it was the lumbering skeleton and the miner skeleton. He decided to do a test on the lumbering skeleton, then he brought out two orange colored pickaxe and headed it one to each of them.
He ordered them to mine all the minerals they could find, immediately they went to mine the platinum mineral they could find and like he thought, the lumbering skeleton could mine as well.
'Do that mean they could also fight, if I gave them a sword.' Lloyd thought.
Unbeknownst to them, a giant spider which was hibernating was forcefully awoken due to the sounds of the skeletons mining, out of rage it went towards the direction of the noise to find and put an end to the source.
Zeke stared at the path up ahead for some minutes, he drew his swords as if he was about to fight.
"Are you alright, Zeke?" Tessa asked.
"Something's coming." Zeke said.
Suddenly a giant black spider crashed into the wall shaking the entire cave.
"Prepare for battle," Tesss said as she drew out her sword.
The spider was black in color with eight legs that were as hard as steel and sharp as razor, it also had ten black eyes, eight small ones and two big ones. The spider shriek loudly at them and charged towards them, they were about to attack the spider when Zeke stopped them.
"No, this one is mine." Zeke said "Because I hate spiders"
[Sword Aura HAS BEEN ACTIVATED]
His swords and part of his hands were covered in a transparent green flame-like aura. Zeke dashed towards the spider. Upon getting close the spider lifted one of it's long sharp leg and swiped at him with an incredible speed.
Zeke was able to quickly react, he used his sword to block the hit but the spider didn't stop there, it release a flurry of attacks using two hands all at an incredible speed. Zeke was able to block every single one of them matching the speed of the spider if not even faster than the spider.
The others who were watching were visibly impressed with Zeke's swordplay.
'His swordsmanship far exceeds mine," Tessa thought.
The spider noticed that his attacks weren't working against Zeke, because even with it's fast consecutive swipes Zeke was blocking them all while also dealing some damage to the spider.
The spider jumped backwards and fired out a mouthful of greenish poisonous acid at Zeke. Zeke avoided it by rolling to the side, as the greenish liquid touched the ground it immediately started melting.
"Nasty." Zeke said looking at the place the poison landed.
[Consecutive Slashes HAS BEEN]
[ACTIVATED]
Zeke started slashing at the air rapidly, every slash he did a green arc would leave his sword hitting the spider. The slashes were easily able to cut through the spider hard skin leave deep cuts around the spider's body.
The consecutive sword slashes lasted for only five seconds, after five seconds the spider spat out a bunch of web balls at Zeke but he was able cut every single one of them.
Now the spider felt concerned because all of it's attacks felt useless against the person in front of him. It let out a loud shriek that made the whole cave tremble, it's eyes turned blood red, the spider now gave off a feeling of killing.
[Warning]
[Razor Feet Spider Has Entered A]
[Berserk State. All Stats Has Been]
[Increased By 30% For The Next Five]
[Minutes]
A red tab appeared in front of them notifying them about the sudden changes in the spider.
The spider charged towards Zeke at an even greater speed that before with one of it's legs held out aiming for Zeke's head. Zeke was barely able to avoid the sudden attack, but a small cut was made on his face.
'If it wasn't for my 'Super Sensitivity' I'm sure I would have died from that.' Zeke thought.
The spider didn't give Zeke anytime to rest, it charged right at him again.
[Double Slashes HAS BEEN ACTIVATED]
Zeke slashed his sword in an X pattern sending out two green arcs the created an X at the spider, the spider didn't bother because in it's berserked state, it loses all logical it's reasoning and just go well berserk.
The green arcs came in contact with the spider and did close to nothing, only creating small cuts.
Like before, the spider started swiping at Zeke consecutively but this time, Zeke was having a much more harder time blocking the attacks because they were faster and stronger.
From time to time the spider would make shallow cuts on Zeke's body. Zeke had no other option but to retreat back.
'I guess I underestimated this bug.' Zeke thought.