World Seed

"THUMP! THUMP!" The sound in the distance grew louder.

The bodies of the dead piled up in front of the defensive line allowed the spiders to crawl over their fallen brethren and be level with the goblin"s heads. Aerwyn noticed this fact too late and he felt the connection of a goblin be cut from him.

"Pull back! Don"t let the bodies build up!"

The goblins complied and began taking a step back whenever they had the chance to in between the fighting. Aerwyn watched on as a spider began climbing on the wall of the cave, followed by more and more until the entrance of the cave was filled with nothing but spiders. They were crawling over each other like a wave, desperately trying to make a feast out of Aerywn and his undead.

"THUMP! THUMP!" The ground now shook with each and every sound.

Another two goblins were cut off from him in rapid succession as the flood of carapace and fangs crashed upon them. The tide of enemies was getting closer to Aerwyn by the second and they poured over his undead from every direction. Never in his wildest dreams did he imagine there would be so many enemies working together down here.

He thought back to the inferno he created in the forest but he was worried that if he used it, he wouldn"t have enough souls to keep himself alive. A spider jumped down from the cave wall aiming right for Aerwyn and Teek quickly jumped up, stabbing it. He had to do something now. He didn"t know if they were venomous but if they were, he wasn"t immune like his undead, he would die.

"Teek protect me!" Aerwyn ordered as he closed his eyes and dropped his staff. His clothes burned to ash as he bathed his entire body in purple flames. He tried to push the flames out but he couldn"t quite get it to expand off his body. Three more goblins died while he was attempting the move, only adding more urgency and stress to the situation.

Aerwyn entered the darkness and he could see the flames being propped up by the smoky black tendrils like they were in the forest. Focusing his mind he imagined the flames pouring out of him but the darkness seemed hesitant, which in turn worried Aerwyn.

Whatever the darkness was, it clearly knew his power better than he did and if it didn"t want to act then that probably meant he shouldn"t be doing this. Taking a minute to think, he decided to carry on and imagined the flames pouring out from his soul once again.

"THUMP! THUMP!" The ground was now quaking.

"KILL AS MANY AS YOU CAN! QUICKLY! I CANT BRING THEM ALL BACK!" Aerwyn opened his eyes and screamed as the wild inferno spread out around him. His voice sounded much like Rorik"s as it pa.s.sed through the flames, becoming distorted and eerie sounding in the process.

The undead instantly broke into a frenzy leaving all sense of defense behind as they slashed and stabbed any spider they could find inside the purple inferno. The pain of resurrection was getting worse with each purple soul that left his chest. The flames seemed to be aware of his precarious situation and didn"t spread further than a couple meters outside the cave.

Looking outside he realized he could see and not just due to the dim light his flames made. He could see the whole cave as if he was outside in the middle of the day. The spiders in the cavern kept their distance from the flames but also seemed to be wary about something behind them. It was only then he remembered the thumping sound in the distance as he felt the ground shaking beneath him.

"THUMP! THUMP!"

Aerwyn turned his gaze to the source of the sounds and his eyes were met with a monstrosity that made his face pale. It was a gigantic spider with a sleek black carapace that was nearly five meters tall and eight meters wide. It had lime green patterns that appeared to produce dim green light as if those areas were phosph.o.r.escent.

The ma.s.sive creature"s legs were shaped like fangs that extended pa.s.sed its joints. It had two large black eyes that were surrounded by six tiny ones in a crescent shape along with meter long fangs. It made no attempt to watch were it stepped as it barreled its way through countless cat sized spiders, impaling any unfortunate enough to be in its way.

Aerwyn flames began to recede back towards him. His undead did the best they could, killing as many spiders as possible but he still ended up using too much of his soul and it appeared he couldn"t keep his inferno going any longer. Whether it was good luck or bad, the spiders outside the cave began to flee and make way for the giant monstrosity.

"REFORM THE LINE!" Aerwyn cried out.

The giant spider dove into the front line sending the goblins cras.h.i.+ng back. Four goblins died instantly on impact, those that could still stand attempted to pierce the spiders thick carapace with their spears. Velk swung his axe at the spiders leg but was flicked away and sent tumbling.

It was slightly wider than the cave and was forced to squeeze in as best as it could, leaving very little room for either side to maneuver. The spiders eight eyes locked on to Aerwyn as it impaled another goblin and began hastily crawling towards him. Three more goblins died in the creatures mad dash towards Aerwyn.

"Bon, Teek, Rin and Ren get back."

"KWEEEEEEE!" Rin and Ren howled in defiance as Teek looked on with a helpless expression.

"Master...i-" Bon tried to reason with Aerwyn.

"NOW!" Aerwyn cried out ending all debate on the matter.

Aerwyn grabbed his staff and readied himself as the four undead fell back nearly twenty meters. They wouldn"t be any help against this thing and on the small chance he lived, he didn"t want them to have died for nothing. The spider reached him and raised its giant leg in an awkward, cramped motion ready to strike but the creature seemed to lose its balance.

It fell for a moment and when it stood back up Aerwyn could see part of its rear leg had broken off. He looked closer and saw Velk chopping another leg as if it were one of the many trees he had cut down the past few weeks. The spider motioned to attack Aerwyn once again but seemed to be hit with a wave of pain as Velk"s cracked another one of its armored legs.

It struggled before successfully turning to attack Velk behind it. Aerwyn couldn"t possibly let this opportunity go to waste so he charged and stabbed his spearhead into the creatures immense abdomen. The spearhead barely made it ten centimeters in before coming to a stop sending recoil down the spear that made it seem as if he had stabbed a steel wall.

The spider kicked its rear leg out, hitting Aerwyn and sending him cras.h.i.+ng into the cave wall. Dazed and b.l.o.o.d.y he stood up and charged once more, thrusting his staff as fast as he could. He stabbed the same spot again and again until it finally pierced through. The spider made a sound akin to a cry and quickly spun around to find the source of the pain, crus.h.i.+ng another goblin in the process.

The staff was stuck in its abdomen and Aerwyn was hanging on for dear life as the spider spun around in circles. Aerwyn and the staff were smashed against the cave walls as the spider wildy attempted to remove the staff from its body. This wound clearly wasn"t enough to kill it so Aerwyn summoned up flames on his right hand and began charging a flame lance. The purple flames snaked up the staff reaching the tip and forcing the spider to cry out in pain as the flame lance formed inside its body.

"BOOM!"

The spiders body cracked and exploded outwards sending vile goo flying in all directions. Aerwyn was propelled like a rocket into the cave wall breaking his ribs from the impact. In pain and fighting to stay conscious, he called out to Bon who came running over in a hurry.
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"Have the... the spiders... get souls... the rest... defend... pour... potion... hurry..." Bon grabbed a potion from his satchel and poured the contents into Aerwyn"s open mouth. By the time the vial was empty the spiders soul had just entered Aerwyn"s chest and he already knew he was going to be stuck in the darkness once more.