It’s amazing what a change in scenery can do for the state of mind. Ahhhhhh~
I feel so free! No spiders! This is great, it’s like I’m flying?!
Did you know? Spider webs are sticky because small globules of glue are left on strands to catch their prey. Normally, the webs aren’t actually sticky at all and they just act like an extremely high tensile strong material. They also aren’t very flammable due to the glue. If you try to light a newly made web, it’s more likely to wither in the flames rather than catch fire. The reason old webs catch fire is because the glue has dried out and dust has gathered on it, which is very flammable. You can actually burn down a barn if you leave the old webs unattended.
Now that my statuses have cleared, its much easier to think clearly. Anything is better than spiders. Even this downwards tunnel that I tumbled into which is encased in old webs.
Even as I continue to gain speed and old webs begin to wrap up my body as I hurtle further and further down this well.
Even as my small Vulca flame lights up the trailing dried out webs behind me as I begin to become a blazing comet.
Ahhhhhh~
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It wasn’t a mistake. Anything is better than spiders. I will not recant this point. Even if at the end of the shaft filled with webs is a canal with freezing cold and malodorous sewer water. Brrrrr. At least I didn’t drown or burn to death. The flames hadn’t gotten close enough to me before I smashed into the surface of the water. But I swallowed a mouthful of the filthy water as I escaped the bonds of the webs. I ended up coughing and hacking out everything that was in my stomach as I crawled onto a ledge. If there even was anything in my stomach. It was like if you had heated mud inside water, then fermented a rubber tire, then let it sit inside a freezer. Obviously Vulca had been put out by the water, so I mumbled a cast so that I could see. Also, so that I wouldn’t freeze. Did I mention it was cold? It’s cold. I can’t even stop my shivering, I can hear my teeth chattering. Maybe it’s because I can’t move at all with 0 stamina points.
I figured that my near death experience should have killed me when I hit the water. But lo and behold, my Health points are at an amazing 2/2(20)! I’m still at (debilitated) full hp.
Huh? Why? Well frankly, I don’t know. I’m not quite sure how HP is supposed to work, but I’m not willing to test it on myself. Ya nai.
With that out of the way, where am I now? I craned my neck to see up on the ceiling is the hole which I flew down from into the frigid water. There’s also a light coming from it, which is probably all the residual webs that weren’t dragged down with me falling while lit aflame. I won’t be able to go up there anytime soon.
Not that I wanted to go back into a den of spider monsters. This sewer made of cold stone and freezing waters with a smell like burnt refuse was much better. Well. Not significantly better mind you. Why is life so painful. Maybe I should have just ended up dying.
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Not before I take revenge on whoever did this to me. Rebirthing someone into this kind of twisted hell should be a sin. I didn’t do anything wrong in my old life! It’s not my fault they. . .
Haaa. . . I feel so tired. Maybe that’s why I’m collapsed on the floor with 0 stamina points thinking weird things. The status screen shows the bar flickering between black and red, which is something that never happened in AUO. Is it because I went beyond the stamina that I had? Frankly, I would like to keep moving, but my body disagrees. It’s hard to breathe, let alone move. The Vulca wisp is still hovering around, lighting up my surroundings, but I’m not sure if that’s a good thing or bad thing. Will it attract predators to me? Or is it keeping them away? I can’t see through the murky water if anything is swimming in that sewage, nor am I able to see around the corners of the dead-end where the spider tunnel had dumped me.
I really hope that stamina regen is a thing like it was back in the game. If I have to eat food to regain stamina points, I might as well starve to death now. There’s so many things I need to do.
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I can’t help but be amazed at myself. “So many things to do?” I’m trying too hard to stay alive, and it’s all just for some goal of why I’ve been reborn. It’s a pitiful revenge. But it’s the only thing I have right now. I would laugh at myself, but I think that’s more than my body can handle right now. The fact that I cast Vulca before entering this comatose-like state is practically a miracle because I can barely do anything besides breathe, let alone move my head anymore. My body is starting to cramp up, like my muscles are curling in on themselves trying to tear itself apart.
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My vision is fading now, but… is that a group of slimes? They look like light-blue gelatinous blobs and don’t appear that dangerous, but I have no doubts that even a slime could defeat me now. The group has noticed me now, I’m sure. The flame above my head probably looks like a sign of, “defenseless, delicious target here”. The slimes are rolling over to me now.
Ahh. They’ve covered my entire body now. Are they going to eat me by dissolving me? Is that how it works? I suppose it’s better than dying to a spider’s venomous bite. My body doesn’t even hurt anymore, I can’t feel anything from the neck down since they haven’t swallowed my face yet.
Is that how a person reborn into the Demon Lord class should go? Eaten up by slimes in a sewer? I don’t care anymore. It doesn’t matter.
Just don’t let me be reborn again.
Recastdev 