Chapter 121
*CRASH!*
Phew, there goes another spider-bot down.
As we ran through the labyrinthic Area 4, we kept on encountering more and more of those "spider-bots", as we decided to call them. Not that it’s "easy" to run away while dodging beams of light that can burn through even the toughest of armors. Luckily, they’re not that fast, and it’s still possible to use [Blink] to escape, so it’s not impossible...
Oh, and those critters have some sort of barrier that blocks my electric attacks. They seem to be able to cancel all forms of energy attacks. Some of the ninja-grunts can use the Darkness attribute, which is the opposite of light and electricity, but the barriers block even that! Even my phantasmal swords were erased when they touched that barrier! What gives!?
They’re not invincible though. As Alf demonstrated, physical attacks like his hammers made out of solidified shadows manage to pass through the barrier. Same with the walls of ice. And Revi’s new Swamp-skills are extremely useful against the spider-bots. One of those [Bog Holes] is enough to down one of the spider-bots, the vines can easily hold them down and make them aim at their allies. Plus, that wall of swamp-mud is a lot more durable against those lasers than we expected!
We haven’t lost any members, thanks to the medicines that Revi had been keeping in her Mirror Storage, but we are slowly getting cornered here.
I pierced a spider-bot that had appeared from an opening in the Dungeon wall with a [Crystal Spear], crushing it before it could ambush us. The skill is something I took to gain a weapon that could be used against these guys, seeing that energy-based skills are useless here. I had hoped that the crystal could reflect the lasers, but the first spear that I used for the experiment got its tip melted into crystal-goop.
"Damn these things! How many of them are there!?" - Mira
"Don’t waste your breath! Just focus on getting to a wider area!" - Kaizo
Tch, true, we won’t be able to fight back if these guys keep on coming out of every hole in the wall, but wouldn’t an open area enable them to fire at us however they please?
Even so, we don’t exactly have any other choice. We kept on running, sometimes almost getting grazed by the beams, but we managed to reach the large "cactus-door" room.