48 Reverse Temple (1/2)
I stay nearby and have the spiderlings climb their way to the temple. Xelu's spiderlings can just fly towards the temple so they reach it a bit quicker. When they reach the top though, something ridiculous happens. A large rumbling occurs and my view becomes distorted. When everything settles down I finally understand what happened. The entire cave flipped leaving the lake on the roof while the temple lies on ground level.....
Kess and Xelu are greatly confused while Vulki and Neme are closely guarding me. Set is on edge right now as it seems like she is trying to drill her way deeper into my skin. I try to guess what happened. I can't tell if the entire cave just flipped or if.... Gravity for us was reversed. I start sweating at imagining the consequences..... If we were to go outside wouldn't we fall into the sky? Well..... We would still be technically underground so I guess it would still be fine?
I check my status and find out I was right. Under condition it has reversed gravity with an unlimited time attached to it.... It seems that we 'have' to explore the temple now. I tell the others what I've discovered and other than Xelu, they seem a bit worried. Neme even proposes something horrible.
”Well, I can be resummoned after death right? If I die in there I can just try again and again until I conquer it.” Nemesis
She seems rather eager.... That kind of mindset is something I can't approve of though. The rest just think I should use spiderlings but, who knows if we can get more from the nest. I have Kess have her spiderlings check out if the tunnel is still ok. I get really bad news. The tunnel is gone....
After contemplating I come to this decision on how to conquer the temple. Kess' spiderlings will act as tanks, Vulki's will act as mages and by the most heavily defended. Xelu's will be similar to aerial assassins. Unfortunately Neme doesn't have many spiderlings at the moment so they won't have too much of an effect. I can use them in emergencies as bombers when the time comes though.
We will follow behind this group and have another smaller group of spiderlings covering our rear as we advance. Retreat is an important thing to keep in mind as well. It would be better to retreat well ahead of the time that we would be 'forced' to retreat.
My planning was ruined though.
When we advanced to the entrance, all of the centipedes fled quickly into the temple. We did manage to kill one but, unlike what I imagined, it only provided one experience point..... proceeding through the temple was easy as well.... No enemies or traps paved the way making me slightly nervous. I would have felt much better if we met some form of resistance. This is just eerie.
As we continue down the passage, metal statues of cow people start to pop up on both sides of the passage. Buried into the brick, they stand really tall, about three meters. Unlike the ones outside, these are covered in heavy armor with only their horns and hooves exposed. They each carry blue halberds with cloth covering the ends.
I thought that they would spring to life and attack but, I was only partially right. They followed behind our group without showing any signs of aggression. More and more of them escorted us as we went along.
”I don't like this” Vulki