Chapter 3: The Fight with the Giant Spider
At first, I tried to convince her that we should assemble a party first before confronting the monster.
If there is really a giant spider out there, the best course of action is to flee. I´m not a super hero, neither do I have some kind of abnormal knowledge in an ancient martial arts… well, not an abnormal amount, but just a little bit about swordsmanship.
The problem is: We are in the deeper part of the dungeon, and the only way up is through the spider´s nest. The little girl here fell off a cliff near the entrance, and ended up here.
-"So, what is your name?" I ask while following her through the tunnel.
-"I-Im Roxana." She stutters. "A-and yours?"
Should I tell her my real name? Well, I don´t see any problem with it.
-"I´m Reynauld. Nice to meet you."
The small run we had before made my body warm up, so I removed my windbreaker. However, my head was still kinda icy because of the wind, so I wrapped the windbreaker around my face, to protect it.
-"Tell me, Roxana, how old are you?"
-"I´m 14."
I imagined myself when I was 14 years old. Yep, I wouldn´t defeat any kinda of monster, and I still think I can´t defeat it.
-"What is your plan to defeat this monster? I don´t think you have the strength to wield this spear in my hand..."
-"I-I know I don´t have the strength. My father was the lumberjack of the village, he was one of the strongest in my hometown! I planned to defeat the spider with magic but..."
-"But?"
She stops and gives me a weird look, probably because I look awfully weird with this windbreaker in my head.
-"What are you looking at? My face is ice cold! Aren´t you feeling cold too?"
-"You are a vampire. You must be able to easily defeat the spider with your strength, even without magic!"
She is speaking nonsense's again.
-"Look, girl, I´m not a vampire. I don´t have any kind of superhuman strength neither do I know any spells or magic. If you are counting on me to defeat this monster, know that I will probably die in the fight if I do so."
-"Y-you are not fooling me! You are as pale as snow and I saw your fangs earlier when you stumbled upon me!"
Pale like snow? Fangs?
I look at the slimy rock walls. The slime thing actually reflects the light coming from Roxana fingers, working as a mirror, so I find a flat part of it and look at myself.
The image is a bit blurred and distorted, and I can only see the skin of my hands and face, but they actually look more white than normal, despite the red tone.
It must be because of the cold.
I toss aside the spear, unwraps the shirt and search for the fangs with my left hand.
I sense something different, but my hand is too cold to feel anything.
When I look at my hand after finishing the search, however, she was actually covered in blood.
-"This can´t be."
-"I-if you wanna make me believe in you, you better show me your status first! And r-remember that you promised not to kill me!"
Status? What is she talking about? I was not sure if this was a dream or not, but now that my hand is injured… I´m feeling a small pain. I´m in the "real" world, for sure.
-"How do I show my status?"
-"A-are you making f-fun of me? Even children know how to see their status!"
-"Let´s strike a deal then, you show me your status, and I show you my status."
She pauses for a minute and gives me another weird look.
-"I-it´s a deal then."
She closes her eyes and, in a few second, a white screen appears before her.
Like a little tablet, she grabs it and give it to me without delay.
Surprised, I began reading her status.
~*~
_______Roxana della Trieste_______
Birthday: 09/10/254 (The 5th age of this world)
Age: 14
Class: Peasant
Race: Human
Master: Reynauld
#Skills# #Spells#
Home chores 2 Luminous 1
Cooking 2
Fighting 1
Magic 1
~*~
Alongside this information, her status screen would go on and on. There was even an abilities tab, and an attributes tab, but most of the details was covered by black bar, like it was censored or something.
Did she censored it on purpose, or do I need to discover it to properly see it? Like, she has other spells, but on the screen only one is not censored.
I need to know.
-"What are your other spells?"
-"I´m not going to tell all of them, but I know how to cast a Fireball."
The moment she said that, her status screen was updated, showing Fireball 1 below Luminous 1.
I gave her status back.
Now I need to figure it out how to open my status.
I close my eyes.
She probably concentrated or spoke some magic word like "Status!" in her mind.
I start to think about my status screen.
An image starts to appear, but it´s not clear yet, like some kind of cloud was distorting the light.
"Status!" I say to myself.
The image becomes clear.
~*~
_______Reynauld_______
Birthday: 05/04/250 (The 5th age of this world)
Age: 18
Class: Peasant
Race: Human
#Skills#
Swordsmanship 2
Fighting 2
…
#Effects# #Diseases# #Attributes#
Fangs 2 Vampirism (1%) Evaluating...
Albino Skin 1
~*~
The same black bars covering the status screen of Roxana were covering mine. There were even some "Evaluating" spots on the screen. It seems that, if I don´t know, it won´t appear on the status.
-"Why are you taking so long? Let me see yours." She asked.
It seems that it´s true that I´m a vampire.
Can I hide some informations from the status screen?
"Hide, Race." I say in my mind.
I open my eyes.
It didn´t work. My race stills shows up as human in the tablet.
I give it to her, and she says astonished:
-"I knew it! You are a vampire!"
She gives me back the tablet.
It seems that I can´t fake my status… or I don´t know how to do it yet.
Anyway, I will have to trust her.
After this long conversation, we finally reach the end of the tunnel.
An expansive room, covered in slime and webs.
Hanging on the walls were eggs the size of my hand, skeletons, weapons, armors and various other items.
-"I will stay with the spear, you stay with the sword. You don´t have the strength to wield neither, but the sword is less heavy. I will distract the spider. Prepare yourself to land a critical hit with that fireball of ours."
-"Y-yes! I will also make the room brighter." She stand still for a second, lifts her right hand, and cast the spell. "Luminous!"
A small ball of light comes out of her hand and goes flying all the way to the middle of the room. The light is weak, but sufficient to cover everything.
It reveals a lot of small spiders, who run away from the light, entering the various tunnels around here en mass.
-"Lets go!" I shout, running towards the center of the room.
-"The exit is that tunnel there!" She points to a tunnel leading upwards.
Some medium sized spiders, reaching the height of my knee, tried to attack us in the way.
Their strategy was poor though, they jumped right in front of us every time, so it wasn´t difficult to immediately put the iron spear between me and them, making them fall on the spear.
Some of them didn´t die even when impaled, so Roxana usually gave the finishing blow to their heads right after the impalement despite fearing them.
She started to get a look of vengeance in her eyes.
The spiders were very weak. Their bodies couldn't´t handle the sharpness of the iron, giving them profound injuries whenever they met him.
None of them produced webs, apparently.
Reaching the middle of the room, I was starting to gain hope that we would not encounter the giant spider Roxana so talked about, and leave this place without further conflict.
I watched and read about these isekai situations in anime and novels but… I don´t have any kind of op powers, at least not yet.
Thinking about it, this vampirism thing is called a disease in the status screen… maybe I was even nerfed?
When we were almost near the exit tunnel, a rock covered in slime suddenly moved, revealing a spider as tall as myself.
The spider blocked the way to the exit like she knew it we were coming for that tunnel.
We stopped. Roxana positioned himself right behind me.
The spider had six eyes in her head. They were all looking at me, I could my reflection in them.
Now that I think of it, why would I think we could face such a monster? A lot of adventurers perished, their skeletons are all over this place.
This spider must not only be giant… but intelligent.
Suddenly, Roxana charged by my side directly into the spider, launching fireballs with her hand.
The spider jumped to the right, while Roxana stumbled upon a rock on the floor.
Tall, bulky and strong, the spider had nothing to fear from my spear. She charged in with all her might, going for Roxana.
I advanced, looking to intercept her, and gave her an upward blow that was blocked by one of her legs.
She stopped for a moment. Her leg didn´t had the force to push me off. The iron was slightly cutting the armor of her leg, so I continued to put even more force on it.
I can´t defeat her. She is too bulky to receive a fatal blow from my spear. I would had to deal more blows to her before I am capable of killing her.
Roxana is the one that can do it. Her fireball spell is the key for winning this battle.
-"Roxana, are you alright? Please, answer me!"
The spider disengaged, and jumped away from me.
Roxana didn´t respond. I looked at her for a moment, she was still in the ground. Maybe she hit her head or something? It´s taking too long, I can´t look after her.
I approached the spider, holding firmly the spear.
The light from Roxana´s spell was starting to fade off, but the fireball didn´t disappear. Instead, it seemed like the slimes on the wall were burning, propagating the fire.
This is it! The spider is covered in slime! If I managed to pick up some of the burning slime with the tip of my spear, the game is over for her! However…
The spider was standing still, awaiting.
If I leave the way open, she is going to get Roxana. If I stand here, she will deliver a crucial attack. I can feel it!
Besides, lucky me, the fire is starting to get to the exit tunnel. If I don´t act quickly, your exit will be blocked and we will be consumed by the fire.
TSK, I have only one option! The fire is spreading too quickly! I will have to leave the way to Roxana open!
The moment I step in the direction of the fire, the spider jumps right besides me.
WHAT DO I DO? Should I hit her now? No, she will block the blow again! There is no other option, I must move on! Despite she being faster than me, now there is no way back!
UGH!
The moment the tip of my spear touches the fire, the spider lands on Roxana.
There is one way, one way only! I must throw the spear with all my might, with all the strength I can possibly gather, and that´s it!
I put my right all the way through my shoulder, the tip almost burning my face.
-ZuuuuM!
It hits the main body of the spider, setting all of her on fire almost immediately.
-"!AGAAAAAGH!" She let´s out an inaudible scream and jumps away from Roxana, into one of the tunnels.
My right arm feels like it was almost going with the spear, the muscles burning for energy.
Without thinking, I run towards Roxana and picks her up with my arms.
Her head was bleeding, she fell directly into a stone.
There is no time for first aid. I won´t stop running until I see the entrance of this cave.
With both of us in burning clothes, I managed to escape the dungeon.
CREATORS' THOUGHTS 
KnightOfCB
KnightOfCB This chapter had more emotion into it, mainly because of the battle.
One thing that spice´s up any story is emotion! At least, that´s what I think.
Fear, joy, anger... if you had any of these or more while reading, then my goal was partially fullfilled.
Also, in the earlier versions of this chapter in my mind, Roxana would die. I changed my mind afterwards, because if I killed her, there would be no characters to introduce the MC to the world.
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