Spider Queen Arachnainera – 7
What I found was a ring worn on the right index finger of the dried up corpse.
The overall color was close to grayish silver, and the upper part had intricate patterns engraved on it. It must have been quite a while, but it did not lose its original color at all.
This is an item for the progress of the next main story. That’s why Arachnainera is a boss that must be defeated in order to progress the story.
I tried to ignore the horrible feeling of my fingers and grasped the parched, twisted corpse’s hand. As long as I took this out and took it, I would never come back here.
‘I can’t take the whole corpse.’
Even in-game, if you press the interaction key here, the character only takes the ring and takes it. Anyway, the story goes well.
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Moreover, it is firmly anchored to the wall with cobwebs. First of all, I couldn’t take it off with my own power, and the knight commanders might be able to do it, but there was a high possibility that the body would be damaged in the middle.
It’s better not to take it than to smash it somewhere and take it.
‘… … More than that, why aren’t you falling for it?’
I struggled for a while trying to get the ring off my finger. I thought it would be easy because it was inserted into the dry, twisted corpse, but it didn’t even move as if it was attached with glue.
added strength to the hand. Then I felt the ring fall off little by little. My arms trembled. The ring is being pushed out little by little, so if you give me a little more strength in this state–
ㅡpajik.
‘what.’
The ring is missing.
The problem is, the corpse’s fingers are also missing.
“… … .”
I stared at the shattered finger, then slipped it back between the cobwebs. I just assumed I didn’t see this.
At the end of the twists and turns, I put the ring that I took out of my finger into the potion bag and came out of the cave after taking care of it. I could see the knight commanders who had dealt with Arachnainera waiting for me in the distance.
Lize smiled and waved at me.
“It is quite late. What have you been doing?”
I was wondering what to take the subjugation evidence with, but in the end, I guess I decided to take it by beating the neck in a standard way, but Claudia had the severed head of Arachnainera in her hand.
I took the ring out of my potion pouch and placed it on my palm. Three different pairs of gazes turned to my palm.
“Go get this.”
“This… … .”
Erica seemed to know something. Those eyes narrowed.
“You know something, Erica?”
“yes. This is the crest of an aristocratic family. Wait. Which family was it… … .”
The knight commanders were deep in thought.
Originally, it was an event that occurred after returning to the Knights and showing the ring, but now that everyone came together to subdue Arachnainera, it seemed like it just started here.
I, of course, know which family it is. But since we couldn’t rule out the possibility that the name had changed, we waited silently for Erica’s words.
No, rather, looking back on things so far, it would be more accurate to say that things have changed unconditionally. It’s quicker to find something that hasn’t changed than one whose name has changed right now.
“I remembered. It’s a Pratroid. The pattern of the Pratroid family is clear.”
‘Also.’
It was a name I had never heard of.
“By the way… … Why was the ring representing the family found here?”
“Why?”
I pointed to the corpses strewn across the walls. All of them were blood-sucked and dry, and were firmly held together by spider webs. Some of them were even swollen in parts of their bodies.
The expression of the knight commanders, who immediately recognized the meaning, hardened.
“… … I got it. First, take this ring. I will send a letter to the Pratroid family later.”
Erica said in a slightly subdued voice. Claudia put strength on the hand holding Arachnainera’s head, and Rize slightly bit her lip.
“okay. okay.”
The main story progresses as one of the knight commanders sends a letter to the Platroid family, and the player visits there to deliver the ring.
If the ring is not acquired, the exit itself will not be open, so it was good to say that there is no case that the player will not notice the existence of the ring.
Even if there are players who haven’t found the hidden passage, they can’t see the way out, so they go around the boss room, find a cave, and go in to see if that’s the exit.
“Ah, finally going back to the castle?!”
For a moment, Claudia stopped talking and covered her mouth with her hand. Our eyes focused on Claudia. Claudia coughed violently as if she were about to spill her intestines.
“Cheuk! Cool, cool!”
As soon as I heard that cough, a cold sweat broke out on my back. No way, the thought passed through my mind.
“Claudia. What is it? Are you sick?”
“… … no. I just suddenly have a bit of a cough. It must be because the air here is bad. Get out and you’ll be fine.”
“It doesn’t look good at all. Your complexion is serious?”
Rize and Erika said one word at a time with worried faces. It was as they both worried. If I’m right, the current Claudia is absolutely not okay.
“Why is everyone like this? Cause I’m really fine Just get some fresh air.”
Claudia laughed and tried to make excuses, but the cold sweat on her face showed that her condition was not okay at all.
“It’s not okay, so give it to me first.”
“uh? delta you… … .”
He snatched the head of the Spider Queen from her hand.
As soon as I grabbed her head, Claudia collapsed on the ground helplessly, unable to finish her words. His breathing became noticeably quicker, as if he had no strength to conceal it now.
“Rise. Please hold this instead.”
“What happened? Why is Claudia doing this all of a sudden?”
“Didn’t I tell you that these bodily fluids are poisonous? So, if you don’t want to get poisoned, I also told you never to touch me.”
“… … no way?”
I nodded vigorously.
“right. It’s an addiction.”
Poisoning was one of the brunet 4 status ailments inflicted by normal poison and deadly poison.
Once poisoned, health is reduced by a percentage for the duration. In the case of normal poison, 50% of max health is lost for 3 minutes, and in case of deadly poison, 85% of max health is blown away for 3 minutes.
Since it is proportional to the maximum physical strength, one might say that the lower the HP, the better, but it was not necessarily the case because there was minimal damage.
In fact, the duration of poisoning was so long that it was difficult to find a situation in which a person died from poisoning unless it was really dire.
Based on normal poison, 50% of maximum health is reduced for 3 minutes, so the damage per second is at most 0.2% of maximum health. Even the deadly poison did less than 0.5% of the damage per second.
However, the poison’s real fear lies in restricting the player’s movements.
Causes the player to cough once every 15 seconds, for 1 second for normal poison, and for 2 seconds for deadly poison, preventing the player from taking any action. What if you get a cough in the middle of a fight? just die
That’s why the poisoning lasted 3 minutes.
“… … sorry. It ended up like this.”
“You have to do it, so don’t keep saying you’re sorry. Just one more time and it will reach Erica.”
Claudia smiled helplessly as she sat on her back and repeatedly said she was sorry the entire time she left the valley. It seemed to really bother me.
There was a reason why I was carrying Claudia on my back, leaving Rize and Erica behind.
Rize and Erika were much stronger than me by simple strength alone, but his height got in the way. Claudia was incredibly tall, but Lize and Erica weren’t.
Erica was exactly the average female, and Rize was a lot smaller than Erica. Because of the difference in height, if Claudia was carried on her back, both would be in an uncomfortable position.
So I, being taller than Claudia, had no choice but to take on this role. No matter what country it is, it’s enough to lift one person up.
We returned to the harness and leaned Claudia against a nearby tree. His whole body was covered with sweat, his limbs were limp, and his complexion was seriously bad.
“Cool, cool!”
Then he coughed up as if his lungs would tear.
‘I should have packed an item that can cure my addiction before starting the boss battle.’
The root of the problem was that he had taught him how to deal with unexpected situations, so he thought that if he had the skills of a knight commander, he would be fine.
Of course, it didn’t really matter much.
That is until coincidence after coincidence piled up and things went wrong. Who would have imagined that a situation that was difficult to deliberately aim for would happen just in time.
‘Symptoms should be the same as the game.’
In the game, it just causes some coughing and ends up blowing away some of your max health. But here? Shall we end with losing some stamina here?
‘I do not know.’
There was nothing to be sure of.
“To ride a horse in that state… … .”
“Never overdo it alone. Erica, you must first return to the castle and find a way. Delta will ride with Claudia, and I will escort you.”
Rize and Erika exchanged conversations with serious faces. The atmosphere was more serious.
“You’re too tall, too big… … I’m sorry… … If Rize was like this… … It would have fit right into Delta’s arms, cool, but… … .”
“Are there any jokes in this situation, Claudia? We are serious, so keep your mouth shut.”
Claudia laughed and joked. It seems that it was part of an effort to arouse the atmosphere in its own way, but it only had the opposite effect. Erica let out a deep sigh.
“Is there any way, Mr. Delta?”
It seemed that he was trying to cast his last hope on me. There was a subtle anticipation in his gaze as he looked at me.
“There is none.”
Brunet 4 is a difficult game, not an unreasonable one, so most of the places where monsters using poison and deadly poison appeared, consumables that relieve poisoning were also dropped.
‘The problem is the della mode.’
But Darkest Light mode is absurd.
Originally, you could get a bunch of grass that functions as an antidote for deadly poisons around here. Even things that are reproduced after a certain amount of time, so if time permits, it was possible to stock them indefinitely.
However, it wasn’t in the della mode.
First of all, the things near the Arakrainera boss room were all gone, and I could barely get one after going here for a while, but it didn’t regenerate, so I ended up eating it once.
At the very least, if you have a skill that will cause a status abnormality to bosses in the early and mid-half, just get poisoned and die.
‘… … I don’t know what the distance would be.’
know the direction What matters is how far you are from here.
“If you go in this direction, you can get detoxifying grass. Instead, I don’t know how far to go. One hour or two hours. That or something more.”
“Time is of no concern. Are you saying there’s a way anyway?”
When I nodded, Rize put on a determined expression as if she had made up her mind. I could easily anticipate the words that would come out of his mouth, so I prepared to go find the antidote.
“Erika, get ready. I need to go find an antidote. According to Delta, there will definitely be an antidote in that direction, so before returning to the castle—”
“Looks like you need some help?”
I heard a strange voice I had never heard before. Rize and Erika drew their weapons like the wind and were vigilant in all directions. Flames blazed on the Japanese sword, and ice formed on the double dagger.
So did I. It was a situation I had never experienced before someone else appeared here, so I gripped my bloody sword nervously.
“Who said it? Respond or show up. If not, I will consider you an enemy.”
“Because we don’t have enough room right now? If you don’t want to fight, you’d better get out soon.”
A grim atmosphere prevailed.
If both of them were normal, they could have behaved a little more kindly. However, because Claudia was addicted and the time was urgent, it seemed that such a reaction would come out.
“Oh, you are scared. I kindly said I would help, but there is nothing to be angry about, right?”
The standoff did not last long. A woman walked out from behind a nearby tree, making her way through the undergrowth.
It was a blonde, green-eyed woman.