29 – Border (7)
The rain that had been falling all night stopped only at dawn.
I was worried that if I made a mistake, the water would fill the cave, but it didn’t fall that much.
The old bonfire had suddenly swallowed up all the firewood.
She felt like she needed to smoke some more, so she gathered more twigs. There was a big one buried there, so I pulled it out and the flimsy earthen structure collapsed.
Beneath the collapsed castle were buried things I had not seen before.
My eyebrows naturally furrowed.
“Tsk. Well then. “How could there be anything in such a nice cave?”
What was hidden was a pile of bones.
Most of them were old bones. It was not an amount that could be created overnight.
It appears that there was a homesteader in this cave.
A monster naturally came to mind, but I quickly shook my head.
The cave was too narrow for the giant to enter. It would be more correct to think that there was another guy.
There were quite a few thick and large bone fragments visible in the bone tomb, so it seemed like it wouldn’t be easy if they had to fight.
Is it better to leave now?
No. This is too hasty.
‘It’s too early to leave right away.’
It hasn’t been long since Sirien fell asleep. If you wake up now, you will suffer from lack of stamina all day.
Besides, it was still dark outside. I didn’t want to cut with bright night-sighted animals in a place I couldn’t see properly.
If your sword gets stuck in a tree while fighting, you die, right?
Wandering through this dangerous forest at night was a choice not much different from suicide.
In contrast, the threat of this cave was still uncertain.
I don’t know why the oyster was emptied, but whatever. I guess we could pretend we were going hunting.
All we had to do was not return until we left.
Let’s just borrow it until the sun rises.
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As a result, nothing happened until dawn came.
In other words, something happened when the sun rose and it was time to leave.
Cheaeng! He struck off the sharp front paw with his sword.
A clear and clean sound rang out, causing the hair to flutter slightly.
‘The body collided with the sword and the sound that was heard was a metallic sound. I guess it means the outer shell is extremely hard.’
This time, the opponent’s appearance looked closer to a spider.
Looking at the way it moves around on eight legs, it does not look like the type that hunts by spinning a web, but rather seems to kill its prey directly with the strength of its legs and jaws.
If you think about it that way, there might be deadly poison in those teeth. I need to make sure I don’t get bitten.
It didn’t seem that difficult.
The enemies I faced here always had weapons capable of killing me in an instant.
If you get bitten, you die. Or, the fact that you die if you get hit is not that new. In the first place, isn’t it the same as dying if you get hit with a knife when dealing with a person?
I almost died not long ago. No, it was luck, so wouldn’t it be wrong to say that he died once based on his skills?
Anyway, the spider’s main attack method was to stab its two front feet downward.
There are very few attacks that can come from that body structure. This alone provides enough power.
“Still, it’s still somewhat bland.”
I wasn’t weak enough to suffer that level of attack. It seemed like this opponent would be easy to beat.
Of course, it was not arrogance. Objectively, this spider was inferior to the monsters it had faced in the past. In the meantime, I also became stronger.
This spider had a hard exoskeleton. But it wasn’t thick.
If you stab it with intention, it pierces it in one go, and if you hit it with a pommel, it shatters without any help.
How to use half-swording. So, the idea of grabbing the blade and striking it with a cross guard like a war hammer came to mind.
The only reason he didn’t do that was because of his skill level. It’s not that I’ve never used it before, but I did it with armor back then.
I wasn’t sure that I wouldn’t hurt my hand even if I held the sharp blade.
If I were not careful, I felt like the injuries I would get from swinging the knife would be worse than the injuries I got from this spider.
‘I don’t think this guy has anything to do with the cave. ‘Did I just get caught out of luck?’
Bone fragments seen inside the cave.
Some of them were not prey to be hunted with this much force.
Giant spiders continue to use hard, sharp forepaws. They attacked with a mass superior to mine.
Every time the front foot hit the ground, a dent was created in the ground.
In other words, it was barely that much. I was on guard because I didn’t know when it would spit out venom from its mouth, but there was no need to do that anymore.
If I had been able to use something like venom, I would have done it a long time ago.
Before the front paws were cut off.
The sword was drawn horizontally. A light blue afterimage of the still blue sky remained.
– Kieeek! Kiek!
One of the eight legs was cut off cleanly.
It was rewarding to keep breaking down the outer shell. When the spider’s front paw was cut off, a crack was left behind, and the results are now visible.
The condition of the other leg was no different.
The left leg came first in order, and it was only a matter of time before the right leg was cut off.
A bizarre and painful scream erupted from the spider.
My remaining legs had no place to go and were shaking restlessly. Several eyes moved around. It seemed like he was looking around.
The guy seemed to have given up on fighting, focusing solely on me. This means that they no longer perceive me as prey.
‘Are you really trying to run away?’
For some reason, I feel like I will get out there as soon as I get the chance.
That’s troublesome.
How do I know if that spider will bear a grudge?
I wasn’t sure if that guy was just an overgrown spider or a monster in the form of a spider. The important thing was that among the monsters, there were those who often took revenge.
Whatever it was, there was no harm in killing him here.
Because the corpse cannot take revenge.
The spider swung its remaining front paw as if struggling. It seemed like a beginner who had picked up a sword for the first time was panicking and was swinging it wildly.
Random cutting was effective in briefly increasing the distance.
No matter how much I did, I had no intention of going in there calmly.
However, if the movements are large, they become monotonous, and weapons that are wielded excitedly cannot think of the next step.
Just time it right. A clean sword light took aim at the moment.
Almost blue blood soaks the floor, and the large legs fall helplessly.
Now, he had no weapons left. With that body structure, the only option would be a hand-to-hand attack.
The large body slowly retreated back.
I moved forward accordingly. The distance between us did not narrow at all.
Forces a choice.
Will you fight even if you lose both legs?
Or will you turn around and run away now?
I have no intention of saving either of them.
Slurp, slurp. I lightly scratched the floor with the tip of the knife.
The guy’s body shrank.
His decision was to run away.
“Yes. “It would be wiser.”
We become comfortable with each other.
I did not miss the movement of turning back. It was as if a knife was inserted into the body and the handle was pulled, leaving a large wound on the body.
Blood pouring out. Things that should have been inside the body poured out. I didn’t want to get spider blood on my clothes, so I pulled out to the side and climbed on top of the thing.
From then on, it was a one-sided assault.
Like a cowboy in a western movie, I sat balancing on a wildly rampaging guy and cut him with a knife.
Bang! Bang! The guy ran wild for a while and ended up crashing into a tree or a cliff. The tree shook greatly, but it did not fall because it was a huge tree with deep roots.
Even though the outer shell was hard, the upper part of the body was soft.
In the end, his rampage did not last longer than 3 minutes. In the end, my sword penetrated his neck and head and cut his life cord.
A limp body. I slit his throat even more as a confirmed kill. It was only when I saw that the guy wasn’t even moving that I withdrew my sword.
Ppaekkom. Sirien stuck his head out from afar.
It seemed like he came out to check as the area became quiet.
It was just a coincidence that our eyes met.
“Razen! It’s over?”
“Yes. “You can come out.”
“You worked hard. “I brought out beef jerky. Do you want to eat it?”
“Yes. After working hard, I’m hungry. “Just give me a few.”
The meat I got from hunting was what I ate yesterday, so I had to eat the preserved food I brought with me.
As expected, the beef jerky was tough and salty. Although I didn’t eat it for the taste, I couldn’t help but dislike it.
“How much beef jerky is left?”
“Not much time left. “You have to eat sparingly.”
“Then I guess I’ll just have to eat this.”
My eyes slowly turned to the spider’s corpse.
If you think about it, that was meat too. Even in modern times, aren’t there countries where spiders are often eaten?
Still, I didn’t dare to eat it.
“Because it’s a spider, it’s a bit awkward to eat. “Should I just throw it away?”
“Ugh! Are you eating that? I do not want to. “No matter what, I can’t eat that.”
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“I’m not feeding you. “I’m not confident I can tell the poison glands apart, so I won’t be able to do it.”
“Ugh.”
How long has it been since I leisurely ate beef jerky like that?
As I was packing up my bags, I heard huge footsteps from far away.
“Sirien, stay in!”
“Uh, yeah…… !”
It’s big. The vibration echoing through the floor was unusual.
Looking at the vibrations and sounds getting stronger, there was no doubt that the direction was in this direction.
It is still not visible because it is covered by trees. I picked up the sword again and caught my breath.
Soon he appeared from the forest.
– Kiaaa!
When we confirmed his identity, his purpose seemed clear.
It looks as if the future that the spider just killed has grown into has been taken out.
The sadness of losing our child overtook us.