OP System The Hero Backup

Chapter 1.8: Entrance To The Cave Full of Profits!

My steps stopped right in front of the dark and damp lips of the cave. I was curious about this place because according to my observations during the first two weeks when I arrived in this world, this cave was where the goblins lived.

"Now, what made you get out of this place?"

I entered the lips of the cave lazily. I know, I know! The goblins escaped because there would most likely be a powerful enemy I encountered here. And that's what I'm after!

I grinned with excitement and my saliva almost spilled from imagining what more Skill I would gain from defeating the powerful enemy that was here. It's even possible that I could get a new title and Buff.

Hehe! Life won't be fun if you don't put your life at risk. Especially if you live in the world of RPG systems like this, of course what you want is not a normal life like NPC games in general. You— more precisely I want to be the strongest!

Although there may be powerful beings like the Legendary Dragon Gaia and Mr. Hecaton, but the proof is that I have defeated one of them. So my journey is only half a step away.

Become the strongest and live quietly forever. Ahh .... May I not meet other beings like Gaia, or perhaps the demon lord. And the most powerful of all is probably the Hero.

You know, there's always a human with the title Hero fighting on behalf of a human. I wanted to see it directly with my own eyes how it came to be.

By the way, I walked quite smoothly into the cave. Whahuh? You guys ask about the lighting in this cave? Come on, this place is a former goblin headquarters. Of course there were rows of torches lined up all the way at the edge of the cave. Besides I've checked it before, so I dare to come in here.

The cave state is usually dark and moist. But this cave is surprisingly warm. Stalactites and stalagmites formed on the roof and floor of the cave also add to the aesthetics of this cave. I did not expect it turned out that the cave is indeed as beautiful as this— well .., I only ever saw the cave from TV, anyway.

"Eh?"

Suddenly, I was shocked because my feet were stuck stepping on something. Its sticky but smooth texture keeps my feet stuck there. The minimal illumination here makes me hesitate, but it's a thread, right?

The shape is similar to yarn and white color I'm sure is the thread that comes out of the animal. Although I was still not sure, but as I looked ahead, I could see these white threads scattered all over the corners of this cave.

"W-what the fuck?"

The walls of the cave close to the lips of the previous cave were black colored stones, but the more it entered into the color changed to white covered by this thread.

I swallowed my cold spit. It's worse than I imagined. It was only fitting that the goblins chose to leave here, because whatever was here now had taken possession of this place and made it a nest.

Now my only choice is two, move on or get out of here.

It's not too late to get out of here now. But I was too curious to know what was really inside. I already have a shadow in my head, but I still want to see it.

"Grkh ...."

I grit my teeth at each other and hit my head many times— but not too hard. I felt that I would regret not going in there, but on the one hand I also felt that I would regret going in too deep.

How's this? How's this? My head was getting more and more disoriented because it was at the peak of confusion. Until I finally decided.

"ah! Bodo is great! Fuck what's inside!"

I cut the thread trapping my leg and continued my steps towards the deeper cave.

And without me noticing, from my blind spot it was as if someone was watching and creating eight small but sharp points of light from the ceiling of the cave. After which, he crept quickly away from there.

**

Long enough I have walked straight deeper into this cave. And now every inch and corner is filled with white threads that adorn all parts of this cave. Surely who has this thread is a reliable architecture, I thought.

And I stopped going, because in front of me now there are two forked roads that make me have to choose one if I want to continue.

I held my chin up with my hands and thought. No need to be too specific and just need to choose one in my opinion.

People say, right is the path that always leads you to luck. So most people will choose the right lane if there is branching in every place. So I guess I'll do it too.

"Yosh, I've decided." I also turned left.

The atmosphere of the cave from the path I chose somehow grew increasingly gripping. The torches attached to the walls of the cave are getting fewer and fewer— if there were, some would have fallen and died as long as I found.

The air was also thinning because I was far away from the cave door. And the sound of water droplets dripping from the ceiling of the cave seemed to be an uncomfortable companion to hear.

Come, Arka! You're the one who chose to come in here and turn left! After all, what's here can't be too bad. At most there were only a few other powerful and troublesome monsters. Miss, there's nothing to fear.

I calm and calm myself. It seems too late to get out. I need to find out what's really here.

But then I heard myself. If according to the Japanese manga I've read before, who knows here there are beautiful women trapped here.

After that, I saved him and he thanked me and asked me why you saved me. But I just replied, 'I don't need a reason to save someone'. Sheesh ...! Really cool!

"Ngehehe .. ehehehe ...." Unknowingly my laughter came out of my mouth because of the scenario I created inside my brain.

CRKC...

"Hn?"

Because I made too many false scenarios, I didn't realize I wasn't in the cave hall anymore. Now the place is bigger and wider. A room full of white threads.

I also saw many circles of white thread hanging on the ceiling of the cave. The number is many. A great deal. The large circle seemed to be able to fit my body and sickle inside.

"I-it's like ...."

The nest. Right, that's the word I've been looking for. It's a creature's nest and I've entered it. And those circles have only two possibilities.

It could be their food. Or their eggs.

It's critical. If I'm caught by the nests entering their privacy, then I'll be the target of the entire colony.

Slowly and carefully, I began to step back from the lair of this creature. But my carelessness seemed not to allow myself to have a quiet life. I accidentally stepped on one of the threads connecting the thread with the hanging circle. The rest you can guess.

BRAAKK... BRAAKK... BRAAKK...

From the falling threads, some of them opened and I accidentally looked into them.

My eyes were slightly widened, but I wasn't too surprised. Something I saw inside the thread circle was a lifeless goblin whose body was already half melted.

I could see one of his eyes that was out of place, but it still depended on his skull and his skin and flesh that had not covered his ribs. One word. Disgusting.

Following the sound of falling noisy circles of thread just now, I felt a tremor from the threads on the cave floor, as if an earthquake had occurred. But I know it wasn't an earthquake.

I smiled and realized it. The tremor came from the owner of the nest who was heading here.

"Hidden ..hidden .... Uhh!"

I didn't want to take too many risks and ended up hiding in that circle of threads. And all I can do next is wait.

Waiting for the owner of this nest.

Therehewas.

Initially appeared one, then then five, then then I lost count as the other hordes came together and instantly spread out to all corners of the direction— to the right, left, cave wall, and so on, even to the ceiling.

And the owner of this nest as I expected. The spider. But I've never seen a spider with this color combination on earth.

His whole body is white. There is no other color. White, white, and white. Then his eight eyes emitted an intimidating red glow. The color combination is quite strange for a spider.

By the way, I just secretly did [Appraisal] to some of these spiders and on average they were only around Level 5 to 8. Equivalent to a goblin. And I understand why the goblins chose to run away instead of fighting them.

The goblins were not even more than a hundred, but these spiders were still constantly growing in number from the entrance to check what was happening in their food storehouse. The number is two— no, maybe three hundred tail.

It even seems like I will have a hard time fighting those who excel in numbers. That means I have to get out of here. My curiosity has paid off and I don't want to fight in vain here either.

But my question is one, how do I get out without being caught by them? I mean, look over there! There! And there too! This place is full of white spiders, woi!

Even if I show a slight movement or bring up a part of my body will make them realize that I am here. What am I supposed to do now? Would staying quiet here help? The enzyme liquid used to melt its prey inside this circle doesn't work on me, anyway.

It seems like it was the right decision. I'll wait until they leave or at least the number decreases. Is correct. That's the best way right now. Waiting and waiting.

Or I thought it would be that easy.

Why is! The world! Never was! Take sides! On me! Just once! The spiders suddenly began to check the thread circles one by one and pulled out the prey that was being processed in it.

Even more cruel, they directly ate the prey in place with their fangs. What the hell was that horrible show just now?

Without waiting for long, they instantly shifted to the second thread circle, then the third, then the fourth, and then mine simultaneously.

I have no other choice. If that's what you want, then fine!

As some spiders began to approach the thread circle with me inside, I prepared to cast my spell. And after they tore the thread, the eyes of the two of us met.

"Hello, spider lord."

"Khiik ...?"

"spread out! [Dark Wave]"

Waves of black aura blew away all the spiders that were around me. Not only did it blow away, many of them also instantly erased its existence because it had a small stat and could not hold back my [Dark Wave].

And after they were all swept away and opened the way for me, this was my chance to escape. "Now!" I shot up at high speed because my speed stat had increased.

The spiders are sound— no, yell? I had never heard the sound of spiders before, so I was a bit confused. The sound they produce is almost similar to the sound when you swipe a glass surface with a fingernail. Gripy? Ja.

But I didn't think about it for too long, because a huge wave of spiders like a tsunami started following me. During the run, I fired a few [Dark Marble] and enlarged them which made their movements obstructed.

I kept running for a few minutes and finally came to the branch where I chose to turn left earlier. That means staying a little longer, before I can get out of here.

"Huh ...?!"

As I wanted to walk straight, the spiders suddenly closed the path by making the cobwebs sticky. I ran faster and split it with a scythe.

But it wasn't easy. My scythe couldn't directly split it and instead stuck to the cobweb. One layer alone takes time and extra effort and the layer they have created .... God fucking. Too many.

They make me unable to get out of here and the only way is the right lane that I inevitably run to. But here are also so many spiders— though not as many as before, so I can still slash them with a scythe when they jump towards me.

I looked back and it was a bad choice. The tsunami waves of spiders were still chasing me tirelessly. But this is the only straight path in this cave. I don't know what's at the end of this cave.

"??!!"

I have reached the end of the cave. But it wasn't a dead end, there was a big hole that was on the floor and it was pointing straight down.

Is that safe? What about the basics? What's waiting for me there? Can I still go up again after going down?

My overthinking habits are starting to emerge again. But there was no time for that, I jumped straight into that hole without thinking about much. And in order to prevent hundreds of spiders from entering into following me, I had a brilliant plan.

"[Shadow Construct: Wall]"

The hole was covered with the [Shadow Construct] skill and prevented the croco spider from following me. At least I'm safe for now from them, but I landed safely and saw this nest room.

This nest is bigger than a food storage because I know why. Is correct. My eyes widened because the first thing I saw here was eight large legs resting with eight red eyes that were aware of my existence.

I let out a sigh and did not know why I could have this session in this world. Is it because Goddess Loki called me, or because of something else? I don't know.

"Huh .... Why do I have to meet the queen, anyway? Shucks, shucks," I said resignedly.