Random Skills: Exploring Dungeons - Chapter 6
Chapter 6: The Final Hunt
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
The bone-chilling wind of the huge forest howled and the golden bridge in the sky shone.
Whether it was the lack of sun or the prolonged cycle of day and night, Kane didn’t know, but after resting, he realized that time seemed to be frozen here. The sky outside was unchanged from when he entered the dungeon.
However, this was his first time exploring a dungeon after all, and he had entered by accident. Perhaps all dungeons did not have any changes in day and night.
However, when he thought about how the changes in day and night were not his focus today, and how clearing the dungeon was the main topic, he did not dwell on it.
With a snap of his fingers, all the spider silk outside the tree hole turned to ashes.
Kane gathered his gear and stood by the tree hole, looking into the distance. He took his first step toward the future.
In the silent, shadowy grove of giant trees, a shadow appeared and disappeared in midair. Kane was using the spider silk to swing quickly toward the leader at the pass.
There were too many restrictions on such movements outside the dungeon. Only here, in a huge forest with giant trees that were a hundred meters tall, could he fly freely.
Soon he saw the huge dead tree from yesterday. He came to the spot where he squatted previously and took a deep breath to relax.
Kane began to cast strands of spider silk between the trees to lay dense webs. The silk reflected a metallic sheen. It had been converted to steel using his material conversion skill.
Soon the deadwood was surrounded by steel cobwebs. Kane waited for the only prey to enter.
Slowly, he took out three arrows from his quiver and lit them one by one. He opened his eagle eyes and aimed at the deadwood. He nocked his bow and shot the arrows one after another.
The three fire arrows flew towards the target in a straight line, followed by two balls of burning spider silk.
With the help of the spider silk, the scattered fire cores on the deadwood spread quickly like a raging fire.
Kane stood on the thick branch of a great tree, alert and waiting for the huge monster in the deadwood to awaken.
The fire was spreading from the middle of the deadwood. Perhaps it was because of the deadwood itself that the fire spread extremely quickly. In just 10 minutes, the entire dead tree was burning.
A huge fire erupted into the sky along the hundred-foot tree. A wave of heat surged forward. The dark, gloomy air of the forest was driven outward. Nothing could enter the forest.
The leader of the dead tree finally woke up to the incredible heat.
Dense golden light suddenly condensed around the deadwood surrounded by flames. The golden light floated and gradually formed a ring.
The golden ring spun quickly, and the bang of the explosion and the soaring fire suddenly disappeared. Only the residual heat around them and the carbonized dead wood of the epidermis proved their existence.
The carbon-black roots of the dead tree wiggled. A crack opened down the middle like a curtain, and a huge dark shape emerged.
What kind of monster is this? Kane wondered. It was more than eight meters tall and had a body that didn’t match its height.
Its lower body was a mass of huge rotten root-like tentacles. The wiggling roots enabled the monster to move.
Its upper body was covered in dark green tumors, and four root-like tentacles dragged over the ground.
Dark green juice flowed all over him, giving off a stench that even Kane could smell from a distance.
Kane nocked his bow and released an arrow.
A fiery arrow shot from the distance and buried itself in the monster’s head.
The accompanying flames were instantly extinguished by the monster’s juice. The bare arrows did not affect it at all.
Seeing this, Kane knew the flames had no effect on the creature, but he was prepared for these problems.
Quickly, he used spider silk to move around the monster. As he moved, he surrounded it with the hardened spider silk.
These steel spider silk, coupled with the steel spider webs that had been set up around it earlier, could trap it like a spider hunting insects.
A strand of spider silk was easy to break. What about a whole body of spider silk? Presumably not that easy.
The monster seemed to have discovered the steel silk that was swinging around it. Its bloated lower body exploded with such power that it shot out like a cannonball.
He crashed straight through a few strands of spider silk blocking its way, then flew into the larger web. Kane had long since swung himself away with the spider silk.
Although the monster had a speed that did not match its size, it was still a step too slow.
Without showing much intelligence, it flew into the web. Like the other monsters in this forest, it only had eyes for living creatures like Kane.
It ignored the spider silk wrapped around its body and struggled towards the figure it had just seen.
Its huge force broke the spider silk around, and some of the thick branches tied by the spider silk were also torn off.
Its four thick tentacles swung through the air toward Kane, but they missed. Instead, they scattered the surrounding trees.
Several sharp wooden branches suddenly flew from the dusty, leafy field. Kane had found an opportunity to shoot them with silk strings.
They stabbed fiercely into the monster’s body. At the end of these wooden branches, there were a few spider silk threads tied to the surrounding trees.
It was as if the monster had slammed into it itself. These sharp wooden branches were embedded in its body.
As the wooden branches sank in, the monster’s juice spewed out from its back like a faucet opening a floodgate.
In this way, Kane circled the monster, dodging its vine-swinging attacks from time to time. It could afford to make countless mistakes but if Kane made one, he would be dead meat.
At Kane’s deliberate baiting, the monster kept charging toward the spider web.
As its body got entangled in more and more spider silk, it could no longer fly straight. Two of its tentacles that acted as whips were firmly tied to its body.
The monster was no longer as dangerous as it had been when it first appeared. Kane found an opportunity to fly to its side.
He began to spray spider silk to encircle the monster and the huge tree beside it. The monster was tied to the tree by more and more spider silk.
In its frantic struggle, it got wrapped in steel spider silk against the giant wood.
Kane crouched on a nearby tree, breathing heavily. The steel cocoon had consumed too much of his magic and stamina.
He stared quietly at the squirming steel cocoon and calculated the time he would need to recover his strength.
In a moment, Kane shot spider silk at the canopy of a huge tree about 80 meters tall. He leaped upward with all his might, using his strength to make a 100-meter leap from the ground.
He turned to the spider silk cocoon below and shook his wrist hard.
“Ugly freak, try the feast I specially prepared for you.”
What was left of the magic poured out madly.
Three to four meters of spider silk shot out. The moment they appeared, they were transformed into long steel spears by his material changing skill. They were densely arranged like a hundred-meter river that rushed down the cliff.
He had an unstoppable momentum.
“Armed as 10,000 killing arrows.”
“Pa!”
With a snap of his fingers, the spider silk wrapped around the monster lost its metallic color and disintegrated.
As soon as the monster regained its freedom, it was drowned by a waterfall of steel spears falling from the sky before it could even move.
Under the huge impact, its juice squirted upwards with the clouds of dust.
Its ugly body was nailed to the ground by the dense steel spears.
