I made G use Beast's Fury for a moment and then her body turned a bit red as she charged toward the giant stone spiders. The creatures tried to hit her with their legs and block her charge, but G easily khe arms out and then sshed the eyes of the beasts in a quick sequence.

  You received 03 experience points.

  You received 03 experience points.

  You received 08 experience points.

  The Giant Stone Spiders were a bit strohan the usual mohat a person find in the first se of a byrinth, so it was already pretty good that G could deal with two of them without using her magic.

  Using some spells would allow her to solo the pce, but I decided to train her with just physical attacks for a while. Using magic was ve, but it was too limiting.

  In any case, soon enough we reached the boss chamber. I wondered if she could solo the boss if she uses all of her abilities. It should be fine. If the worst es to the worst, I just heal her.

  “Shall I let you take the boss by yourself this time around?”

  “Awoo! Awooo!”

  “At least you are looking forward to it.”

  Putting my loneliness aside, I truly believed that havis like G would be useful, having more than one would make me able to focus on other things while they clear the path for me in byrinths and… I was only thinking about the merits ter. Still, I couldn’t fet the ahat I felt back then when she was forced to leave with Renna.

  ‘Well, I don’t have to do this, but if I am going to, then I should at least find an animal with a lot of potential first.’

  At least I could take some necessary steps to stop makihink about that too much. In any case, I kept taking the poison of the spiders in an. I lost t of how many of those I had… it smelled pretty badly too. I wonder who was the genius who thought that trying to drink this was a good idea. Hopefully, they didn’t use too many people as guinea pigs to obtain that kind of knowledge.

  Although Renna made Crice give me this book and this was something that they obtained from Crice’s parents, there was nothing that truly guarahat they didn’t obtain that knowledge from the dark Elves…

  ‘e to think of it, they never mentioned Crice’s parents, and that makes me think that they died i few decades. That would expin why this guy called Nylian decided to retire from his seat as the leader of the silver bows and Arsn took his pce. Arsn probably ged with their deaths and then decided to make the silver bows into a more active force tthen the Aeloria Dominion.’

  That didn’t involve me that much, so I wondered why I was thinking about it. In any case, we got ihe boss’ chamber and then prepared for our first gym leader in this byrinth. We weren’t going to get any badges, but we would get some power in exge.

  The boss chamber of the giant stone spider was a vast, oppressive chamber. The space was dimly lit by an eerie, pulsating glow emanating from the chamber’s walls, which were encrusted with crystalline veins that shimmer like veins of molten stone. Jagged stactites hang loosely from the ceiling, dripping moisture that echoes hauntingly in the silehe air is thid musty, carrying the faiallig of a stone and lingering magic.

  The chamber floor was uneven and treacherous, filled with deep cracks and jagged outcroppings of rock. Web-like stone formations stretch from the walls to the ground, f natural barriers and obstacles that restrient and provide cover for the boss. The spider itself was enormous and terrifying, its glowing eyes refleg the chamber’s ominous light.

  It looked like I didn’t have much tolerance for spiders… At least this pce didn’t have tless eggs for the boss to make them hatd then e to me. G took a fighting position in front of me as my loyal squire and soon was forced to act when the boss fired a bunch of stone bullets at me.

  “It use magic, huh?”

  G jumped in the air and then blocked the stone bullets that were flying to my head. It would have been fun to grab them with my hand, but G was taking things seriously as a real fight. The stone bullets fell to the ground after she blocked them and fell apart. She didn’t suffer any damage from that, so it seemed that increasing her spirit a bit made her a lot tougher.

  Before long, G charged at the moo prevent the creature from using led attacks and then the beast tried to stab her with its legs… G jumped to the side and avoided the attacks, that had been the right call because the legs pierced the ground like real earth spears.

  In the moment, before the boss could turn, G used a body sm to push the beast backward several meters. Still, it looked like she was the one who suffered most damage sihe skin of the boss looked tough, like a real wall.

  ‘I guess she paid attention when I said that she used too much mana when fighting. In any case, she afford to take some risks since I am here to support her.’

  I made G activate Beast’s Fury and sihe skill had leveled up a few times, she got a bit strohan before. When the monster approached to stab her with its legs, G used her cws to ssh them away.

  When she firmed that she had enough strength to block them, G summoned her Frostbite Cws… her inal cws became longer and covered in ice. Sparks began to spread around the area as she blocked all the attacks in the area. In the end, two legs of the monster fell apart and then G went for the kill, jumping to the head of the monster and then sshing her cws at it viciously.

  ‘... This isn’t a sight for those faint of heart.’

  I made G use Beast’s Fury once agai wore down, and then she was able to finish things off in no time. She was a bit tired since usi’s Fury several times in a row was quite training, but at least her skills leveled up.

  You pleted a trial. Please choose between the csses: Acolyte (Dark Acolyte), Venom Agent, and Venom Mage (Toxic Sage)

  You obtaihe Toxic Sage css.

  You improved the Magic parameter.

  You unlocked the Aptitude: Toxic Wisdom.

  You unlocked the skill: Corrosive Mist.

  You unlocked the skill: Noxious Wave.

  Venomous Wisdom: Gain 1 point of experience per sed for maintaining poison-based effects on enemies. You gain fifty pert more experience when a target is killed by poison effects.

  Corrosive Mist: Release a cloud of toxic gas in a small area, dealing poison damage equal to yic power every sed for 5 seds. It also reduces enemy physical and magic resistance by 20% while ihe mist. Cost: 100 Mana.

  Noxious Wave: Emit a pulse of venomous energy that damages all enemies within a medium radius for poison damage equal to yic power. Applies a slow effect, redug movement speed by 30% for 3 seds after leaving the wave. Cost: 150 Mana.

  While looking at the css, I couldn’t help but wonder… wasn’t it because of my own deaking that I was in a bind? If I hadn’t chosen those dark versions of the csses, they wouldn’t show up more often. At least that was my theory. If my theory was right, it would reach a point where all my options would be the same options of a vampire.

  ‘I already didn’t want to bee like them because of their blood sug nature, simir to parasites, but after learning and seeing how they treated those who they captured as guinea pigs, I got even less ied in joining their side. Still, it doesn’t look like this is a real option for me.’

  The more time passed, the more I felt like someone ulling the strings behind the ses, or at least someone was trying to make me follow that kind of path… I also thought that I was just trying to find an excuse for myself with that way of thinking. All these problems could be just sequeny own deaking…

  In a world like this, at least when it es to the media that I e, there should be gods, but I never heard of anything like that. I thought that sutities could be trying to trol my fate, but it looked like it could be just my imagination and overthinking nature.

  ‘Ugh, the more I think, the more this annoys me and the more my own thoughts make my head spin in circles…’

  I decided to store the body of the boss away and then disma ter… G was a bit tired, but she could rest as we walked. I just o keep my mind busy with fighting the monsters and then deal with whatever happens afterwards ohey happen instead of before and inside my head.

  We headed to the floor, and I was ready to use my bow… usually, when those feelings start to bother me, I get rid of them by grinding a bit. That should have the same effect here. I immediately frowned when I reached the se. There weren’t many differences in the walls, ceiling and ground, aside from wooden barricades and some obvious traps on the ground.

  From one of those barricades, a pair of kobolds emerged… armed with crude crossbows at that. Kobolds were small, reptilian humanoids with a scrappy, wiry build that hid their surprising agility. Standing around 4 feet tall, they were covered in tough, scaly skin that was brown aheir sleails sway behind them for baipped with small, jagged spikes.

  Their faces were sharp and angur, with elongated snouts filled with small but jagged teeth. Large, expressive eyes glint with ing intelligend mischief. Many kobolds sport small, curved horns atop their heads, adding a draic touch to their appearance.

  Their appeara what I read about them, but I didn’t hear anything about them using bows. In any case, they fired their arrows at my head and my first instinct was to grab them, but if they could have ons like that, they probably could poison too, so I ged my mind and just moved to the side, making the arrows just cross the air.

  WritingMaeGun