Spell Weaver [Book 2 Complete]

Alex’s third and fourth days with the Mana Spinners went much the same as the first two. They would wake up early, or at least what felt like early to Alex’s internal clock, and begin walking the tunnels. As Val’s level increased, so did Alex’s Mana. This allowed him to begin using his [Empowered Step] between the web traps. He was surprised to note that the Mana Spinner had no problem keeping up with him, as it could attach a web to him as he leaped forward and glide along the webs of mana with almost no friction.

While this increased the speed of the group throughout the day, the distance between traps with monsters in them continued to grow. After another two full days of farming hapless monsters, Alex managed to reach level 15, and Val had all but caught up and was level 14. It was beginning to get to the point where Alex felt uncomfortable with the rapid growth. It felt unearned to him, at least compared to how much he'd had to struggle for his first five levels.

It was on the fifth day in the Rift that Alex found himself a bit confused and bored. While Val had woken him up as soon as the spiders approached their small room, they hadn’t immediately left to begin hunting the webs. Instead, the spider had constructed a two-foot high semi-circle fence of webs around his room's doorway. It gave him something of a minimal, city-sized “front yard.” This allowed him a small amount of space to move in or out of the room, but it was clear that they wanted him to stay put.

At first, Alex had shrugged and busied himself by looking over Valtherion’s Status Window.