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Chapter 9 - Ambush

After a few moments Alice calls back the mantis and Alice makes a magic circle so the mantis leaps towards it and enters

Alice then closes the magic circle and they starts to explore once more

This time Caleb makes their direction towards a vast forest that he passed by before so that Alice will finally go back

Soon they arrive at the forest and when Alice takes a look he instantly sees the dozens of spiders five in total

Alice summons back the Martial mantis again and orders it to attack the spiders and she picks the mantis up and when she was about to throw it the spiders notices her

This makes Caleb confuse since most of the spiders that he have ever fought never even noticed him without going near but this time the spiders saw them even though they're far

When Alice threw the mantis the spiders immediately gather in one place trying to kill the mantis when its about to land but it was futile since when the mantis is about to land it was able to avoid the spiders attack using other spider's fangs as a platform to push itself

The mantis then lands in the back of the other spider and starts slicing it and when the other spiders sees it they tries to kill the mantis without killing the other spider

This surprises Caleb again as he has never seen the spiders work together this good so he starts to suspect that someone is ordering them as a normal spiders he have ever seen never had the intelligence to help each other in fighting

"My mantis it's having a hard time dealing with the spiders this time" Alice said with worry in her voice

While Caleb is thinking more about the situation he suddenly hears footsteps behind them and when he looks back it also catches Alice attention so she also looks back and there they see fifteen more spiders going towards them and one of the spiders is more bigger and larger fangs with its skin having little spikes

This makes Caleb think that the unique spider is the one ordering the other spiders so he tells Alice to order her mantis to keep the other five spiders away

"I will fight the spiders you stay back" Caleb said before rushing towards the fifteen more spiders

And when Alice is about to stop him it's already late since Caleb has already used the Wind dash and instantly arrives in front of the other spiders

He then creates a sword and starts killing the other spiders one by one in seconds making Alice astonished by the display of power that she's seeing but the unique spider didn't just let that happen so it starts to hiss and orders the other spiders to attack Caleb at the same time

The spiders the surrounded Caleb but he remains calm and when the spiders rushed towards him at the same time he immediately uses his skill Simple body enhancement to enhance his defense

Caleb then starts slaughtering the spiders and whenever the spiders tries to bite him they fails to wound him as his skin is very strong after the enhancement he got for defeating a elite creature

When the unique spider saw the one sided slaughter it starts to run away trying to escape Caleb fires a Holy blast to stop the unique spider

And the Holy blast hits the spider and got launched away and immobilizing it for a few moments but it was enough time to defeat all the other spiders

The spider then tries to escape again but this time Caleb is chasing it this time

Caleb easily catches up and starts to slice the spider's legs immobilizing it and soon Caleb uses the sword to kill the spider

And when the other three spiders left that the mantis is fighting saw this all of them starts to retreat and when Alice is about to order her mantis to stop them but Caleb stops her and tells her to just let it

Soon they're the only ones left so they starts to leave and go back at the hotel as their mother might already be there

But while walking to the door Alice is thinking about Caleb's power that she saw a while ago

"His power surely isn't giving skills since he literally uses other skills and never gave a skill" Alice said in her thoughts doubting Caleb's skill to lend someone skills rather she believes that Caleb has a different skills

Soon they arrive outside the blue tower and Caleb goes to a close grocery again to eat only a bit since the enhancement of his body also lessen his craving for food after using skills

After a few moments Caleb is done eating and so he picks up Alice again and uses Wind dash to quickly go back at the hotel

A few minutes later they arrive and Caleb went back to his room to clean himself again after getting the blood of the spiders splashed onto him

Soon he's done and now looks fresh again and went into Alice's room

"I'm gonna go to the Collos area to check what's mom doing there since it's been quite some time now" Caleb said before leaving the hotel

"If im not mistaken the Collos area is supposed to be in the east side close to the middle of the city" Caleb said in his mind

He then starts run towards east with his skill Wind dash activated to arrive there faster

But to Caleb's surprise it took him fifteen minutes to reach the Collos area

"Now this explains why it's taking so long for mom to go back, it only took me 5 minutes to go to the blue tower but to go here it takes 15 minutes" Caleb thought

"Well at least the beauty of this place is way more than what's in the video" Caleb said seeing the ten huge buildings and cafeteria that even has a park behind and the surrounding full of nature

"I can't believe they made this in days, they surely had someone helping them since a single building takes months even years to make" Caleb said thinking that the chances of someone who have a powerful skill is in the government is higher now