¨That is incredible brave and foolish at the same time Felix¨ My entire body is shaking.
Huh? Oh she woke me up… well I wanted to talk to her anyways.
¨I don’t believe I experienced any monster more confident than you Felix¨
Wait… she looks at me with all of her eyes so I guess she want to make sure I listen properly?
¨Listen well, young Felix… I know we had a deal and that is why you are still alive, but why would you blindly trust me like this? I am a spider and you are a rat. It is very unnatural for you to behave this way. I was even expecting you to not care about our deal at all¨
I still am not sure what is her point? Is she planning to eat me in the future or what? If that was the case wouldn’t she want exactly me trusting her blindly?
It is weird she seems genuinely distressed by my honest trust towards her.
¨Please Felix. I don’t know why you are so carefree, but treasure your life. Make absolutely sure every time you are sleeping guarded as much as you can. Hide or fight however you wish but win at all costs. For what matters only is you survive. Monster die and are born every second in the dungeon, I know that too well¨
Hm… she is so nice. I don’t know why but I think she wouldn’t break any deals. She might be a huge spider that is so insanely times bigger than me, but who cares.
Looking at her gigantic body is just astonishing. She told me she lived more than thousand years and looking at how big she is I would believe her. Still huge size means nothing when it comes to mentality.
I know that too well. Being a former human in a monster body changed nothing except my diet. I am still imperfect, overconfident and way too curious as I was when I was a dude. Well to be fair I changed mentally as well. I am sure I got many times smarter than I used to be. But overall my persona stayed the same.
I bet if she dared me into something suicidal I might just do it… haha don’t even go there Felix just no.
¨Candace… do you want to be friends? ¨ I asked her out of blue.
¨Because I know I want to be friends with you and friends trust each other. I also know that if none of us start trusting first then we can never be friends. Someone always have to start. Might just be me. You have a lot more to lose than I do right? ¨ I don’t doubt for a second that she understood what I meant by losing a lot more. She has children and I don’t after all.
¨Felix…¨ She was at loss of words. The pause wasn’t only for dramatic purpose this time. She just doesn’t know what to say. I cannot tell what is it that makes her so hesitant nor even start the conversation in the first place, but I am sure she will answer me shortly.
¨Felix. That is… I don’t know what friends are. Could you tell me the meaning of word friends? ¨
Wow… that’s sad. But I guess with a family of thousands, maybe one doesn’t need any friends.
Now, how would I best explain the term friends to a monster? Hm… I could go on and say some cliché things and all that but I think the most appropriate would be to just say.
¨Friends are family. They are beings that have no biological ties but decide to form a family like relationship anyways¨
Very confident in my explanation I then continued.
¨Also Candace. I am not foolish, maybe overconfident but not foolish. I know too well you need something from me and that’s why I did this. There is no other place in the dungeon more safe for me right now than in your presence¨
I think I really do trust her just a tiny bit more than I should, but it is more like I am just not scared of her. Not that she would need to know.
¨Also there is a lot of questions I need to ask you¨ I really need answers to many things. Well maybe I don’t really need them but it is killing me that I just don’t know.
¨Alright Felix. I will accept you into my family but that means you will never kill any spider ever again¨ I swear to god I can feel her wrath.
She probably knows I killed a spider before. Don’t know how but she does.
¨That was a bit complicated but basically it was self defense. I wasn’t hunting spiders he almost killed me¨ It is true after all. Well but adding the part where I betrayed his trust would be unwise so I didn’t.
¨Very well. We are friends now and my family is your family. Don’t betray my trust or I will make you pay. Now ask your questions, I have things to do¨
Okay so where would I even begin. Lets start with something I already think I know but want to make sure anyways.
¨Candace do you know what status is? ¨ She was genuinely perplexed. I don’t think she does.
¨What a silly thing to ask. There are only two meaning to that word. Either a social standing or state of something¨ Hm… that’s very specific haha.
¨Okay. I am sorry for asking stupid question but can you see your status of your body whenever you want? ¨
¨No. Only humans can¨ Oh wow. Okay… well I expected as much but then that’s even better than I thought. That means all monsters have to figure all of the quirks themselves and have to remember everything.
¨How do you know humans can do that Candace? ¨ She seems really pissed when I talk about them but I am too curious.
¨Because they know how this world works¨ Haha of course they do. Humans are greedy for information as always.
¨How are you so certain that’s how it is? ¨ I know for a fact she is really pissed now just because of this small talk. She used one of her legs to smash into ground with such force I had to protect my body with mana. Glad I did. The force of the impact of her single leg was insane. It was way worse than the fire blast the mega elemental was doin. It felt like a mini nuke. Also it started a huge earthquake for few seconds. My mana protected body I knew I took none damage and also weirdly didn’t even get affected by the force of the shockwave. It felt like a breeze. I really love how many uses mana has. I think I will try to experience with a lot more later when I am alone somewhere. I want to do proper magic at some point.
Also the Candace is surprised but seems calmer now.
¨I am sorry Felix. I just… I hate humans. I didn’t mean to hurt you¨
¨It is alright it didn’t hurt that bad. I made sure to protect myself properly¨
¨I see I am glad that is the case. Humans are our natural enemy. They will hunt us down everywhere¨
Hm… seems she had some experience with them already. Oh well. I don’t want to push her so much. Time for the other important question.
¨Alright Candace I am sorry no more talk about the Humans. I was just thinking you could answer me something important. When I evolved at first it was very fast and then I had to do twice as much to evolve again. Is it always like that? ¨
¨Yes that is how it works. I am myself currently very close to be able to evolve again¨ She seems proud and happy. It kinda looks cute.
¨Okay thank you. I don’t think I will ask anything else. I will just go to the floor fifteen as fast as possible right now. Have a nice day and see you soon¨
She really was in hurry she didn’t even bother to reply and disappeared.
Oh well time for me to go deeper.
Oh well time for me to go deeper
Kinky
@Asveses
glad he has a friend now :)
@AliacHui Everyone needs a friend..
Waifu found yes
@StarEis yeeee..... totaly...
Would have asked what business she has. Though I guess there isn’t much to do in a dungeon besides fight so maybe a dumb question (makes one wonder what use MC has? Is it she needs him to go into a smaller space and doesn’t want to risk her kids on pointless death?). Especially since she is close to another evolution.
@Ediav42 that is very close on point. In general the entire floor is too small for her to navigate. Thats like the case for a lot of floors except the very deep ones where the space get truly ridiculous. We are talking floors that are literally combined oceans on the earth big etc. and it only gets bigger and bigger the deeper you go. Some of them completely underwater too.
Thx for the chap.
Why didn't you make him ask if his erase presence skill work while he sleep ?
@Stonelight he said he wasnt even going to use it because wasnt sure if he can in sleep. Also i dont think he would wanna sleep so soon again. It would be nearly impossible for him to fell asleep right after waking up. He had trouble even before where he literally wanted to sleep insanely much. Dont worry eventually he will know how it works completely.
@Wulfos no no just ask the question ? Like the spider Candace lived for how many years ? Maybe she know if that work while alseep ? Her own spider can almost be invisible so maybe she know more on the skill than the MC lol.
@Stonelight fair point. I think Felix just know it is not the same. Because he is technically very visible. Just no one can perceive him. Oh well. Anyways as i said he will know eventually how it works entirelly.
There is some inconsistency that bugs me. The Rose girl said she could fight few floors down, but the fire ely seems too op for noob humans to deal with, second floor you can burn the webs and have easy pass if you don't suffocate sure. But the second floor is problematic, the thing is that she said the camuflage spider should not be found before floor 10 and here they were en masse on floor 2. And supposedly this dungeon is the most known by humans soo..
Also the text itself needs some smoothing language wise (sentences structures are messed up in some places)
But all in all I love the humor here and the story is progressing rather smoothly.
Thanks for the chapter and keep it up!
@Rodinges You are vastly underestimating Rose. What she said was annihilate everything. Which means kill everything in one hit. The spider was not supposed to be that up and quite franky she would annihilate him in one hit aswell but got ambushed and she still survived the web atack. Humans in general are glass cannons except few classes but have the option for op equipment. Plus rose was first time in the dungeon and she is already this strong and she is a newbie... why is that ? People are already very strong when they enter dungeon. They wouldnt get any chance to survive without being so. Unless they paid alot of money they cannot even enter the dungeon. And fire elementals are super easy to kill if you have any attack that uses mana. Felix is ret*rded and doesnt realize that people at most meet the two fused elementals and probably never saw mega elemental. It would be easy for humans to make a fused elemental but nearly impossible for them to make mega elemental and they are not natural at all which is hinted on in the story as well. On a the smoothing language issue... i believe you but i would need to invest alot of time into learning about this. I am not even sure what you mean but i think i know. It might be a problem but i dont think i can fix it easily. Sorry you have to deal with that. I will try to get better. Thanks for the comment and have a nice day.
PS: Rose skill blade wave deals about 5k-10k+ damage depending on how big the target is. So yeah. Literally super heated knife through butter and btw we are talking about jack of all trades class there. Humans are op in this world.
@Wulfos Thank you for such a thorough answear :) I didn't quite expect it. It surely cleared some of my doubts ;) As for the grammar, it does not bother me much since the story covers for it quite well, just thought it would elevate this title a little. Now I fully understand your point. I look forward for both yours and Felix's progress! :)
@Rodinges thanks for your kind words.