allendalepharm Chapter 35 The Blazing Battle Axe and the Ghost-Faced Spider
Chapter 35 The Blazing Battle Axe and the Ghost-Faced Spider
"High perception can indeed save your life, but your brain's reaction speed has to keep up."
Jiang Ming didn't linger on the topic. He walked to the goblin warrior's corpse with its fingers severed, bent down, and picked up the fire axe.
The axe felt heavy in my hand, and the steel-forged handle had a bone-chilling coldness. Although there were some chips on the blade, it still exuded a fierce and bloody aura.
A notification popped up instantly on the pale blue panel on the retina.
[Fire axe] + [Unextinguished glowing embers] = [? ? ?]
Jiang Ming raised an eyebrow.
This campfire is used by goblins to roast "two-legged creatures," and the charcoal underneath is burning brightly with an extremely high core temperature.
Without any hesitation, he plunged the blade of the fire axe directly into the center of the glowing embers.
"Old Jiang, what are you doing?" Wang Yang was taken aback. "You still have the leisure to smelt iron at a time like this?"
"I'll get you a new guy."
Jiang Ming placed his palm lightly on the end of the axe handle.
[Crafting], start!
A glimmer of light flashed in the fire, and the originally orange-red flames suddenly shot up half a meter high, as if forcibly sucked into the axe by some force.
A few seconds later, Jiang Ming lifted it up with one hand.
He pulled a battle axe, which was entirely black except for the dark red, lava-like patterns flowing along its blade, from the fire.
【Blazing Battle Axe (Green - Excellent Weapon)】
[Attribute: Attack Power +9, with the special effect "Burning" (deals continuous fire damage upon hitting the target and has a chance to ignite flammable materials).]
[Note: A man's romance is about being big, thick, and fiery.]
"then."
Jiang Ming tossed it casually.
Wang Yang hurriedly threw away the short-handled axe with its blade chipped and caught the big thing with both hands.
The moment I held it, a warmth spread from my palm throughout my body, and the faint heat emanating from the axe blade repelled the surrounding chill.
"Holy crap..."
Wang Yang stroked the dark red patterns on the axe, his chubby face instantly turning red, as if he had seen a stunning beauty. "Godfather! This thing is awesome! +9 attack power? My broken axe only has +6!"
"Don't just focus on having fun."
Jiang Ming turned around and looked at the "Jingguan" (a mound of corpses) next to the bonfire.
A dozen or so pale human bones were piled up haphazardly, and the student ID on top was blackened by smoke. The girl with a ponytail in the photo was smiling sweetly.
Zhong Chengyu stood in front of the pile of bones, the wooden stick in his hand trembling.
It was both physically nauseous and psychologically devastating.
"That's... Liu Yu from Class 3." Zhong Chengyu's voice sounded like it was being squeezed out from between his teeth. "Last week in PE class, I even helped her pick up the badminton shuttlecock."
Li Bin's fingers, which were pushing up his glasses, froze in mid-air, his face even more pale than when he was killing the monster.
"Should we... bury them?" one of Zhong Chengyu's roommates asked, his eyes filled with reluctance.
"No tools, no time, no physical strength."
Jiang Ming's voice was as cold as ice, instantly extinguishing any extra sympathy these people might have had. "Digging a pit will consume the calories of at least two loaves of bread, and the stench of a rotting corpse will attract wild animals from 500 meters away."
"So we're just going to watch them get eaten?" Zhong Chengyu suddenly turned his head, his eyes bloodshot.
"Burn it."
Jiang Ming picked up a few pieces of tattered clothing, still stained with blood, from the ground and threw them into the fire. "Dust to dust, ashes to ashes. This is the cleanest way to deal with it right now."
Zhong Chengyu opened his mouth as if to refute, but in the end he said nothing.
He and his two roommates silently stepped forward, enduring the nauseating smell of burning flesh, and used goblin templates to push the scattered bones and limbs into the blazing campfire.
The flames devoured the smiley face on the student ID.
Thick black smoke billowed up.
"Walk."
Jiang Ming didn't glance at it again, turning to face the denser forest shrouded in mist. "This smoke might attract even fiercer beasts. If you don't want to become another pile of bones, get moving."
The six-person team set off again.
This time, the atmosphere in the team changed.
If before it was just to "come and see," now, a resentful energy called "becoming stronger" is beginning to grow in everyone.
Wang Yang carried the Blazing Battle Axe at the front, each step causing the soil to collapse.
Li Bin gripped the golf club tightly, his once scholarly eyes now filled with only vigilance.
As you walk through this woodland, the vegetation begins to look strange.
The once normal bushes were gradually replaced by a grayish-white vine covered in sticky sap, and a faint, sweet-smelling fishy smell filled the air.
"stop."
Jiang Ming suddenly raised his left hand, and a black iron round shield protected his chest.
The perception score of 8 sent shivers down his spine, a sensation of being watched by some cold-blooded creature creeping up his back to the back of his head.
"What's wrong?" Li Bin immediately leaned against a big tree and cautiously scanned his surroundings.
"It's too quiet."
Jiang Ming stared at the dense canopy above his head. "There wasn't even a sound of insects chirping."
Before he could finish speaking...
"hiss--!"
A grayish-white shadow shot out from the tree canopy like a cannonball, moving so fast that it left a trail of afterimages in the air.
"Above the head!"
Jiang Ming roared and instinctively slid to the right, his long sword flashing upwards.
"clang!"
The sound of metal clashing rang out.
Jiang Ming felt a jolt in his hand, as if the black iron longsword had struck a steel plate.
The shadow landed, its eight bristly legs piercing deep into the soil, and a grotesque face pattern on its abdomen looked particularly ferocious in the dim light.
【Ghost-faced Spider (Lv.5)】
[Danger Level: High]
[Characteristics: Highly venomous, capable of web-spitting, and possesses a hard carapace.]
This is a giant spider, as big as a millstone!
"ah!!!"
A scream came from the back of the line.
One of Zhong Chengyu's roommates was stuck to a tree trunk by a ball of white spider web. The web was highly corrosive and had been sprayed out by the Ghost-faced Spider the moment it landed.
"Don't move!"
Li Bin shouted and swung his golf club in an attempt to help pry open the spider web, but the web was so tough that he couldn't break it.
"Hiss!"
The masked spider gave them no chance to rescue him. With a sudden burst of power from its eight legs, it charged towards the most conspicuous fat man in the group like an out-of-control tank.
"Fuck your grandpa!"
Wang Yang roared and advanced instead of retreating.
With a whooshing sound and a scorching heat wave, the blazing battle axe in his hand slammed down fiercely towards the spider's head.
"Bang!"
The spider nimbly dodged to the side, the axe blade striking the edge of its hard carapace, sending sparks flying and leaving a charred mark.
Although its defenses weren't breached, the accompanying high temperature caused the beast to let out a piercing scream, and its movements became noticeably more erratic.
"Old Zhong! Keep it up!"
Jiang Ming seized the opportunity and charged out like a cheetah.
Zhong Chengyu gritted his teeth, raised the iron shield, and slammed it hard into the spider's side.
"Bang!"
The immense impact sent Zhong Chengyu flying backward, denting a large section of the shield's surface. However, it also successfully threw the Ghost-Faced Spider off balance, revealing the soft, grayish-white hairs on its abdomen.
It's now!
A cold glint flashed in Jiang Ming's eyes.
He did not use the usual probing thrusts.
Instead, he decisively charged forward, holding his shield in a defensive stance near his heart with his left hand, and gripping the black iron longsword in reverse with his right hand. Using the momentum of the charge, he precisely pierced the gap between the Demon Spider's carapace and head!