Female Novel
Chapter 60
Gravis sprinted in one direction, trying to get to the surrounding cliffs as quickly as possible. At the cliff, he would be able to find acave, and there he would temper his bones. With tempered bones, he could survive at least one hit from a medium-gradedemonic beast.
Gravis continued running, and after a while, he noticed that he couldn't see any animals. Typically, such a forest should be filledwith different animals, yet, he couldn't see or hear any. Gravis narrowed his eyes as he knew what that probably meant.
‘This is the territory of a demonic beast,’ he concluded, yet he continued running. ‘There shouldn't be many middle-gradedemonic beasts in here. The chances of me running into one are...’ When Gravis thought that, his eyes widened, and heimmediately stopped.
Gravis was angry at himself. How could he forget his incredible luck? Of course, this would be the territory of a middle-gradedemonic beast. With his luck, there was no doubt about that. He immediately took out his saber and concentrated on hissurroundings, silently. He had been running in here for a while. There was a high chance that the beast had already noticed him.
"So, what's your plan, Heaven? Will you send a strong creature with a valuable treasure or a weak creature with a worthlesstreasure?’ Gravis sneered. "You are probably not sure if | would die to a middle-grade demonic beast. So, what will you do? Willyou bet big and send a strong one, or will you bet small, and send a weak one?"
Gravis slowly turned and kept watch everywhere, even above himself. The fact that he did not notice any movement in this largearea, meant that the beast was an ambush predator. What if there was no beast? Impossible! Gravis wouldn't believe that for asecond. If there were nothing, that would be the best case for him, which never happened.
Gravis relaxed and lowered his saber, and then immediately released all of his Will-Aura.SCREEE!
He heard coming from above and behind him, and he immediately jumped to the side. He evaded not a second too earlybecause a long, thin, spiky leg stabbed into the position where he stood previously. The beast had attacked when Gravis showedhis relaxation, and it got startled when it suddenly felt the pressure of the Will-Aura. That's why it had screeched.
Gravis could see the beast now. It was a giant spider, the same color as the night. While standing normally, its body reached 1.5meters height, and its legs were incredibly long and thin, with little barbs coming out of them. The legs were nearly ten meterslong, each, and its four red eyes looked neutrally at Gravis. They were emotionless, soulless eyes that only saw prey. WhenGravis saw it, his mood grew severe.
‘Big bet it is," he thought to himself. To him, the beast felt like it was just as powerful as the centipede. He could guess that thisbeast was in the later stages of a middle-grade demonic beast. This was definitely one of the absolute apex predators in thisbasin!
Gravis couldn't watch it for long, as it immediately lunged forward with incredible speed. Gravis was back in a real life and deathbattle, and one single mistake would doom him. Just like in his early fights with low-grade demonic beasts, Gravis was utterlyoutmatched in speed, power, defense, and stamina. He had to predict the enemy's movements again because he had no time toreact to the enemy's actions.
Gravis had already seen how the spider attacked earlier, and when he saw it's long, agile, thin legs with barbs, he was prettysure that those were its primary weapons. Its legs ended in a thin, long, sharp spike. Every step stabbed its legs into the earth,and it was using that increased foothold as a quick way to jump around. Its movements seemed less like walking, and more likeclimbing.
Just like he thought, the spider stabbed its leg forward like a spear, as it would not use a slash from this distance. Gravis hadalready prepared himself, and used the Vanishing Shadow Art, to sidestep. The Vanishing Shadow Art was that sidestep thatWilliam had shown him. It moved him quickly beside the leg, as it flew past him.
Gravis had already started gathering his strength while sidestepping and immediately released a Splitting Wind Chop onto itsleg.
CRCK!
The chop broke the carapace, but it did not sever the leg. ‘Medium grade demonic beasts are powerful,’ Gravis thought tohimself. He immediately did a little jump and firmly held his saber. If everything worked as planned, he could gain some groundwith that.
The spider screeched and quickly threw its leg to the side, where Gravis previously stood. Just like he expected, the spider wastoo shocked to mount an actual attack, and just wanted to shove him away. If he had remained on the ground, he would havelost his balance and would have fallen over. Yet, in the air, he got pushed away, and when the swing of its leg reached sufficientpower, his saber dislodged, and Gravis flew away in a curve.
He flew for several tens of meters until he rolled on the ground and continued running. There were several reasons why hedecided to get thrown away. First of all, he would gain a lot of ground like that, but that was not the main reason. The mainreason was something else.
As Gravis looked back, his assumption got proven, as he saw the spider climb over a seemingly invisible three-meter-high wall.As an experienced ambush predator, and a spider at that, it had surely already spun a net around this place. Why else would itwait for so long to attack him? If he blindly ran into one direction, he would have been caught in the net.
Gravis had a lot of knowledge and experience with fighting beasts. He wouldn't forget something as basic as a spider being ableto create a web. He was sure that the spider wouldn't make the web too high, since it had to create it quickly.
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If he managed to reach the cliff, he would have many more options for fleeing. One would think that transitioning from a 2Darena to a 3D arena would only benefit the spider, but actually, the opposite was true.
It was true that the spider would beable to climb the cliffs faster, but itwasn't able to jump very well. It'slong legs, Suit earn) and greatweight Bade it Rarder to survive a fallfrom a great height. So, if Gravisquickly jumped up for multiplemeters on the cliffs, and then jumpedoff the cliff, the spider risked losingits hold and falling on its back if ittried following or attacking him. Thecontent is on NovelDrama.Org! Readthe latest chapter there!
Also, a cliff was the essence of the earth element. With his Elemental Synchronicity, he might not be able to merge with it ormake it move in an attack, but he could do lots of other things. Gravis looked back again and saw the spider gaining ground. Itwas pretty fast.
Gravis reached the cliff and could seeno cave. 'Tch,' Gravis spat anddecided to go for plan B. He ouijumped to the cliff ahd state
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Gravis quickly reached the top of the cliff, stood up, and looked down at the spider. Realizing that it couldn't reach him, it startedcontemplating.
Should it climb and leave the basin for its meal, or should it give up?