PS: Shoutout to El_dorado for gifting a Magic Castle worth 5000 coins! This is the last of the promised 5 Bonus Chapters.
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My breath was steady.
But my heartbeat was not.
I crouched just outside the hollow entrance of the hideout, dagger held tight in my grip.
The cold metal pressed against my palm, slick with sweat and dried blood.
My ribs still ached from before, and my skin stung where the acid had burned into me.
But none of that mattered.
My only priority right now was the hulking mass of legs waiting for me.
The Tier 1 Scaled Spider hadn't moved from its position.
It hadn't tried to hide, hadn't scurried away to heal, no—it was waiting for me.
Unlike what I had thought, the creature's body was a mess.
It seemed that the mana bomb I had thrown into the air had done more than I expected.
