Nightmare Despair

Chapter 128 Blind Spider
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bang.

A heavy alloy object slammed onto the stone floor with a loud clang.

It was so heavy that it barely trembled twice when it landed on the ground.

"Pooh!"

Following closely behind, Zhou Kai, who had thrown the giant sword out of the water first, also reached out a hand to grab the stone slab on the shore, and his whole body suddenly sprang out of the lake.

After getting ashore, Zhou Kai removed the Nightmare Goggles.

It wasn't that the eyepiece was malfunctioning, but rather that the Nightmare Eyepiece was simply unnecessary here.

Zhou Kai looked around in surprise and found that this place was much brighter than his shelter.

……

The cell where Zhou Kai is currently located is one of the rows of cells separated by wooden bars.

Looking out through the railing, there is a blazing brazier every three to five meters, providing light to the surrounding area.

Quite bright.

The wooden railings of the water dungeon were so rotten they were unrecognizable.

With a gentle nudge of his shoulder, Zhou Kai shattered the railing into pieces, which scattered across the ground with a clatter.

Zhou Kai carried his sword to the brazier and glanced at it, only to find that there was no fuel in the brazier at all, and the ball of flame was abnormally floating and burning in the air.

Upon seeing this, Zhou Kai's first reaction was that the flames were probably somewhat mystical, and he immediately had the idea of ​​taking them back to the shelter.

However, as soon as he picked up the copper basin, the flame went out immediately.

Zhou Kai tried several times, with the same result each time.

"It goes out as soon as you move it slightly?"

He was usually a thief who never left empty-handed, but this time he couldn't take what he wanted, which made Zhou Kai's smile less than amusing.

Oh well, let's keep exploring; maybe there's something even better ahead.

Zhou Kai calculated the time as he walked.

Regardless of what he gains next, he must leave the water dungeon within twenty minutes and return to the shelter as soon as possible to deal with the blood tide.

The dungeon has a U-shaped structure, and although it is large in area, its layout is not complicated.

Not long after walking, Zhou Kai arrived at the end of the water dungeon and saw a familiar place from his memory.

On the right is the cell where his character, Acso, was imprisoned; on the left is the place where Jeff and the man whose name he never learned until his death were located.

As Zhou Kai walked along, he noticed brown stains everywhere, traces left by blood that had turned brown due to not being cleaned in time.

"I don't know how many people were killed in total by the seven sacrifices plus the earlier ones."

Zhou Kai shook his head, and couldn't help but think of the willow man again.

It now seems that what drives the Willow People is probably not just the harmless secondary spirit at the core of the nightmare; that burning wicker body has undoubtedly taken the lives of countless outside settlers.

They stopped in front of each building again and again... really, they just wanted to go home and visit...

At the first corner of the U-shaped dungeon, there was a spiral staircase leading upwards. Zhou Kai tried climbing up to take a look.

It turned out that the trapdoor was blocked by a heavy object, so heavy that it couldn't be pushed open by force alone.

However, it can be opened by force.

However, Zhou Kai does not intend to do that today.

Hearing the heavy footsteps coming from several meters away through the bricks and stones, Zhou Kai held his breath and left the spiral staircase area as silently as possible.

There wasn't enough time this time to allow him to explore freely, and judging from the footsteps, they seemed to be coming from the warhorses ridden by heavily armored knights.

If they rush in rashly, even if they lose their lives, they will most likely not gain anything... After all, Zhou Kai's current strength is far inferior to that of the heavily armored knights.

"No rush, consider this a reconnaissance trip."

After descending the spiral staircase, Zhou Kai headed towards the remaining three corridors of the dungeon. He refused to believe that he had risked his life to explore such a vast area only to find it empty-handed, having gained nothing. If he were to return empty-handed, he might as well have continued hunting in the inner area.

Just as Zhou Kai was thinking this, he arrived at the second corner, where the surrounding light seemed slightly off.

It seemed that the other corridor was completely plunged into darkness.

Zhou Kai paused subconsciously before stepping inside.

It was this meal that gave Zhou Kai enough time to react to the sudden attack coming his way.

Swish!
A carapace blade, reflecting the arc of flame, suddenly shot out from the darkness, aiming precisely for Zhou Kai's neck!

Zhou Kai felt a chill run down his spine, his sense of crisis instantly reaching its peak.

The strike was so fast that Zhou Kai had almost no chance to dodge it, and there was absolutely no time to raise his sword to defend.

"I didn't expect to use it so soon."

Zhou Kai's mind raced, and he immediately shouted, "Protect them!"

The fragment of the shield swelled up in the light, and just as the blade reached Zhou Kai's chin, it slammed into him with a thud.

The chitinous blade was deflected by the broken shield and pierced into the ceiling above.

The stone ceiling was like butter to it, easily sliced ​​through, and rubble fell down in a flurry.

Zhou Kai, shield in hand and sword in hand, retreated hastily, secretly alarmed by what he saw.

That's incredibly sharp.

If it weren't for the broken shield blocking him just now, he probably would have been beheaded for the first time in the nightmare.

chi chi...

The sound of acid corroding rang out, accompanied by the crisp sound of feet piercing the ground, and the attacker's full appearance came into Zhou Kai's view.

This thing resembled a hybrid of a mantis and a spider. As it crawled on eight legs, two pairs of gleaming, blade-like limbs extended from its front, their length comparable to Zhou Kai's Dragon-Slaying Sword.

However, what attracted Zhou Kai's attention at first glance was not the knife-like limbs, but... a small mound of Jingguan (a type of ancient Chinese statue) carried on the spider's back.

A terrifying blood tower composed of dozens of human heads stood high on the spider's back. The top few heads were intact, except for their wide-open, blood-filled eye sockets.

Even though his eye sockets were empty, Zhou Kai felt angry and crazed gazes shooting from those bloody holes.

The skulls below the Jingguan gradually dissolved, becoming more and more broken as they went down, until the very bottom they even turned into pale skulls the size of fists, covered in viscous, putrid liquid.

Meanwhile, the viscous acid was dripping onto the ground, corroding pits and craters.

"Not easy to deal with... but worth a try."

After a brief standoff, Zhou Kai's keen sense of danger gradually subsided.

The threat posed by these blind spiders is less than that of heavily armored knights.

Zhou Kai felt that the broken shield was difficult to control, so he held the Dragon Slayer Sword horizontally in front of his chest with both hands.

The oil lamp hanging on his lower back flickered with a faint light of life, ready to unleash its strongest restorative effect at any moment.

Violent! ! !
The blind spider simultaneously spewed poisonous smoke and a sharp hiss from its mouthparts, its eight legs suddenly piercing the ground before it burst forward in the next instant.

On Zhou Kai's side, one hand, covered by a gauntlet, still emitted a faint white light, while the other hand was shrouded in smoky blackness.

Falcon Striker, Buzzard Claw Technique, the physical attributes granted by the second-tier markings, Soraka's swordsmanship skills, and the Strong Hand trait... all these forces are combined into one.

The instant the chariot phantom appeared, he charged out with a speed completely surpassing that of the blind spider.

"Victory... Charge!"

Zhou Kai remained hidden behind the sword, his mind completely focused on the blade.

The giant steel sword, weighing over 100 kilograms, possessed a terrifying power equivalent to 20 tons when propelled by the full strength of a second-realm martial artist.

The sword struck down as if Mount Tai were pressing down on you.

(End of this chapter)