Divinity

--- [Victor’s perspective]

We’ve been slowly making our way deeper and deeper into the dungeon.

We’ve still only encountered the same giant spiders.

Is that the only type of monster in here?

It almost seems like the dungeon was misevaluated.

Me and Lexa are able to deal with the spiders just fine.

Two D-rank hunters are clearing a 2-man C-rank dungeon by themselves…

Something is wrong.

It shouldn’t be this easy…

“Am I going crazy or is this cave getting bigger and bigger?” – Lexa

“Hmm, I think you’re right. The ceiling is getting higher, and the walls are getting further apart. It’s not by much, so it’s hard to notice, but it is slowly getting bigger the further in we get.” – Leo

Another spider comes crawling at us from around the corner.

“I got this one.” – Lexa

She creates a large spear, and impales the spider with it.

We walk around the corner that the spider came from, and…

“What the-?” – Lexa

“!!” – Victor

It’s an absolutely gargantuan room, filled to the brim with spiders!

This is nothing like what we’ve seen so far.

There were only ever a couple spiders at once, but this time there are…

Who knows how many!

Millions?

Billions?

…

Trillions???

I have no idea; all I know is that there are too many to count.

They’re still the same kind of spider that we’ve been seeing all this time.

Did they all come from here?

“Get back.” – Leo

“Let us handle this, this is too much for you guys.” – Seth

“It’s fine, we can help!” – Lexa

“No. You can take on a few of them, but this… This is way too much. It seems this dungeon isn’t rated as a C-rank dungeon because of particularly strong monsters… It’s due to the insane number of enemies.” – Leo

“We can protect you from a few strong monsters, but this? If just a fraction of them gets past us… Just stay back, okay?!” – Seth

“Okay…” – Lexa

“You too Vic. Stay back!” – Leo

“…” – Victor

We both back off.

He’s right though…

We could take on a couple just fine, but there are way too many of them…

Leo and Seth moves in.

The spiders notice them, and they all starts charging towards us.

They run further into the large room; distancing themselves from us even more.

Countless webs are being shot at them, but Leo burns it all up with his fire.

Seth raises his hand high into the air, then slams it down towards the ground.

As he does that, a sea of thunderbolts rain down from the sky, electrocuting thousands of them.

He reaches both his hands forwards, and lightning is shot out from his palms.

The electricity travels between the spiders, instantly frying them.

The fire that Leo used as a torch grows bigger and bigger.

It becomes a fireball, tens of meters wide.

He launches the fireball towards them, burning a giant hole in the sea of spiders.

The fire burns through everything; not even smoke remains.

It’s known as the fire that incinerates all…

Despite their continued assault of attacks, their numbers have barely been reduced at all.

If someone had asked me if there were more spiders now, or when we first got here, I wouldn’t be able to answer…

There’s just too many of them…

Leo creates another wall of fire, and just like before, he pushes it through the room.

But due to the sheer magnitude of spiders, the wall fades away before it’s able to even make a dent to their numbers…

I wouldn’t be able to help them even if I tried…

The difference between the level of strong C-rank hunter like them, and a D-rank hunter like me, is clearer than the difference between night and day.

Even though it looks hopeless, they continue their barrage of attacks.

Seth makes it rain thunderbolts yet again.

This time it’s even more than last time.

It’s so loud!

I’m covering my ears, but it still feels like my eardrums could explode at any moment.

Giant swarms of spiders are ripped apart by the sound alone.

Leo shoots out countless tiny fireballs all over the place.

They’re nowhere near as hot as the big one he used before; the spiders are still moving even after getting hit.

But since they don’t instantly vaporize their targets, that means there is something left to spread it.

All spiders near the ones he hit ignite.

It quickly spreads to the ones close to them too, and in just a moment, a sea of fire emerges.

It’s so bright!

It feels like looking directly at the sun.

No…

It’s even brighter!

I quickly close my eyes, but they still sting.

All my senses are getting overloaded by their attacks; they’re blindingly bright, and deafeningly loud.

I couldn’t help them even if I tried; not even because of how many enemies there are, but because I can’t see or hear what’s going on!

They’re unbelievable…

They might even be close to the level of B-rank hunters!

After a little while, the fire dies down, and the lightning stops.

Did they do it…?

I open my eyes again, and peek inside.

…!

They did it!

There’s not a single living spider left.

The room is full of bits and pieces of charred spider corpses, ash, and webs.

Leo and Seth are both breathing heavily.

Continually making large attacks like that drains a lot of stamina.

We run up to them.

“You did it!!” – Lexa

“Y…” – Leo

He takes a few deep breaths.

“Yeah…” – Leo

Seth lays down and spreads his arms and legs.

“Ahhh… Man that was exhausting…” – Seth

“Yeah…” – Leo

Leo sits down.

They take a few more deep breaths before saying anything.

They’re both drenched in sweat.

It’s probably from the combination of extreme heat produced by their abilities, and the intense fight they just had.

Their opponents weren’t hard to kill, there were just so many of them that they had to continually use their abilities at max output for a relatively long time.

Leo points to the end of the room.

There is a giant closed door.

“That’s probably where the boss is.” – Leo

“Let’s take a little break before entering…” – Seth

“Yeah…” – Leo