Chapter 130: Underground Mine Part 5 (1/2)

Tyler walked at the head of the group as they slowly proceeded down the path, deeper into the tunnel where the gold vein seems to be getting more highly concentrated. They would occasionally stop to extract the gold from the walls whenever they encountered Lodge chunks of gold embedded in the veins.

They also extracted bits of silver which gave them hope that the mine would possess even rarer metals like Orichalcum or adamantine. While that may have been a pipe dream since this was only a Grade 3 mine, it was still not within the realms of impossibility.

As they walked in the dark tunnel in what was considered the remnant of their former formation, Tyler suddenly spoke to them:

”It doesn't seem like the lack of light is affecting the monster's vision, neither is it preventing them from noticing us.”

”Indeed. The spiders seem to be adept at locating or sensing other creatures in the tunnel so we are just putting ourselves at a disadvantage at this point.”

”Well, they do have six eyes, it would be weird if they can't see better than us, haha...” Dohel spoke in his usual joking tone and Larut simply glared at him.

”You shouldn't be playing around right now leader, you're distracting Mr. Lix.”

”Yes, Anne thinks so too.”

”...”

Dohel had only tried to lighten the mood because everyone aside from Lix looked tensed as they traveled in complete darkness. They had decided to turn off their lantern as they headed deeper into the tunnel in order to avoid attracting anymore Lesser Djieien but that idea had not borne any fruits as they had still been attacked by several Lesser Djieien over the past few minutes they had been here.

While Tyler could see very well within the darkness, his vision was still not perfect so the lack of light would only serve to give the monsters an advantage over him. Moreover, the other party members didn't have Darkvision so it was a pain leading them forward which also affected their movement speed.

Dohel quickly took out the magic lantern and lit it. He walked closer to Lix so he could shine some light on the path ahead as they kept walking. They had been walking for around ten minutes now and he was starting to get worried about the missing Kylyra and Lilith but Lix had assured them that they were fine.

He had no idea how this man would have had that information but he had still chosen to believe him. The girl known as Lilith was surely strong and maybe even stronger than Kylyra but she surely wasn't at Lix's level. However, perhaps she possessed a tool or item that guaranteed her safety.

As they kept walking, the hooded man in front of him suddenly stopped and by this point, the group already knew what this meant. They immediately readied themselves for a fight even though they knew they would not be of any help to him but their instincts as experienced Hunters, would not allow them to take a lackadaisical approach to something like this.

Dohel then raised the lantern slightly to shine some light further ahead. He then saw something moving rapidly at them. Five spider-like creatures were charging straight at them with insane speeds. Some running on the ceiling, others on both sides of the wall and only one ran normally on the ground.

Each of their six eyes flashing red the moment they got in range. it was obvious that they had used a blood skill on them so Anne quickly boosted everyone's resistance with magic. However, they were still unable to fully resist the attack and their bodies immediately felt sluggish making it hard for them to move even though they hadn't taken any damage as the skill was meant to inflict injuries within their blood.

Tyler also felt a bit sluggish as he had already realized from the previous Lesser Djieien that attacked them that he didn't have any natural resistance to Blood type attacks which was understandable, given as he hadn't been aware that something like this existed till now.

Reaching into the space before him, he pulled out his sword as he focused on resisting the skill with nothing but willpower alone. However, the moment his weapon left the void and into this plane, his body fully resisted the blood attack and his body felt like it was under the influence of the passive effects of the tranquility spell.

It was also the same feeling he had gotten in the presence of the peak Tier 6 magic crystal at the Darknar forest. Yet again another reason why using a magic crystal for this weapon was a good idea even though he hadn't gotten any good skills as Rain had.

As Tyler was in the midst of admiring his weapon, the Lesser Djieien on the ground suddenly shrieked and swiped both claws at him.

Blood Skill- Blood Strike.

Ten blood-red waves of energy left its claws and tore through the earth at Tyler in the shape of an X. While the attack would normally be easily avoided, Tyler didn't want to put the Hunters behind him in harm's way so he had to face the strike head-on.

'I guess I'll use a skill of my own then.'

°Uppercut Slash°

Tyler casually swung his sword and a huge gust of energy he hadn't even expected almost exploded out in a straight line as it completely shattered the blood Strike and even went further until it had split two of the Lesser Djieien in half.

One ran on the ground and the other on the ceiling. The other three monsters seemed enraged by the death of their kins but they had quickly come to a halt, no longer charging in recklessly as they once did.

Blood Skill- Blood Web Entanglement

Thin threads that looked like they had been dyed in blood sprung out from all around the group as they entangled and tried to bound them all. Dohel and Larut quickly realized what was happening and immediately tried to cut the threads with their weapons.

However, the threads had already wrapped around and bound their weapons in place and they were unable to make it budge. Before they had even realized it, the threads had somehow attached themselves to them, and no matter how they tried to struggle the threads only got tighter.

Aine and Anne had the least physical resistance amongst the group and as the skill had been unexpected, they had been ill-prepared and were unable to cast any spells before the threads had strung them up even to the point of ripping parts of their clothing's even though they were relatively high-quality items.