My Necromancer Class

Walking through the forest dungeon, Jay and his party were sneak-attacked three more times, though the spiders were quickly dealt with.

The ethereal spiders were having a bad day. Each of them dealt no damage to the undead, since their main attack was poison.

The spider's fangs were made of chitin, a material similar to finger nails - it was no match for the silt wolf bones they were trying to pierce down on; It was like using a straw to stab someone.

Since Jay was level seven in a level one dungeon, it was effortless to him - like a walk in the park. Though this park was gloomy, eerily quiet and had no leaves. He was feeling increasingly relaxed as he casually walked through the dungeon, giving him time to think.

It won't always be this easy… Jay's smile was slowly replaced with a stern look. If someone finds out about my class, I'll be hunted down to the ends of the earth... they would fear me if they knew.

That's right, this isn't meant to be enjoyable. I'm trying to survive… I'm going to survive. He clenched his jaw as he nodded to himself.

He held up his sword, rubbing his finger along the blade as he looked at the cobalt-blue sheen.

... I suppose the nobles should fear me. Treat me as a hostile, and I will happily become your enemy. His eyes became intense as he glanced around the empty trees.

I better finish this dungeon and return before the others find out I'm gone.

Jay had his skeletons pick up the pace to a jogging speed. He only had about ten minutes left before he had to leave. If he was going to make it back in time, he had to rush the last part of the dungeon. After all, he was silently meditating next to the others to recover his energy.

Because of their reckless abandon, jogging through the dungeon, two more ethereal spiders took advantage of Jay's seemingly foolish strategy and pounced.

However, with a snap of Jay's fingers, the skeletons went into action and pounced right back. The ether spiders were dispatched in an instant as they lunged their swords. Green goo blobbed out as they pierced their thorax through to the other side.

The skeletons seemed to develop an efficient technique, Jay thought, seeing them use the spiders' own jumps against them.

The mass of silk inside Red's rib cage was getting thicker as they continued, and Jay wondered what he would do with it. He tried to put it in his inventory, but apparently it didn't count as a monster drop.

He could only guess at this point.

Perhaps ether silk and ghost silk are different. The spiders produce one, while the other is a monster drop, which counts as a reward for killing it.

He scratched his chin.

I guess being able to store enemies' skills in my inventory wouldn't make any sense, he thought, imagining if he could store a fireball or some other magical attack.

"Oh well," he shrugged, wiping more ether silk off his body and adding it to the ball. "I'll just leave it there for now."

As Jay jogged onwards, the path came to a massive white wall. Blue was the first to push through, but was stopped by the sheer amount of silk.

Must be real thick. Jay paused for a moment, scratching his head.

Probably the boss area? I didn't think it would be too deep in a level one dungeon.

He had Blue slash its sword at the wall while Jay put his hand out, pushing his skeleton forward from behind.

The sword easily sliced through the silk, but Jay was puzzled by something.

Why isn't the silk invisible…?

This question stayed on his mind as he entered a large clearing covered in silk and cocoons - some of which had hatched, leaving only a yellowish shell behind; they were the size of pumpkins.

Jay looked at the structure of the room. There was a column of silk in the middle, probably covering a stone pillar or large rock, which supported the massive dome of silk over the clearing. Not much light got through the silk dome, turning this nest into what seemed more like a dark, cavernous cave.

The roof was higher than the trees outside could hope to reach, while the pillar turned out to be one of four other pillars, creating an incredibly large, dark area.

Based on the curvature of the outside wall, Jay had a decent estimate of the size of the massive silk dome.

The whole of the adventurer association could probably fit in here five times over…

Walking into the darkness, the silk hindered their steps once more.

Death-walker's Sentry was warning Jay constantly now. He held it up in defense as he gazed into the nest.

Red eyes greeted them from the darkness - hundreds of them, perhaps even thousands - Jay wasn't sure, but he sure would not stick around counting them all.

This… This can't be a level one dungeon… Jay's jaw dropped.

He launched an unstable tooth spell in the middle of the sea of red eyes so he could try to grasp the number of spiders here. The spell exploded with a flash, and that's when Jay saw something that made his whole body tense up.

He exhaled from the shock of what he saw.

A massive white spider the size of the Snake raven inn was lying there, yet it was lifeless on the ground. Smaller ether spiders - smaller compared to the queen anyway, were covering it.

Ripped open, the massive spider's abdomen had covered many of them in green slime, its innards spilled across the dungeon. Lines of green were everywhere - the trails caused by spiders grabbing chunks of flesh and hauling them off for themselves.

They were eating it. From the inside.

Jay was motionless for a moment, then the darkness returned.

"Fuck… no.. no. Nooo thanks." Jay whispered to himself as he stepped backwards.

Death-walker's Sentry was still going crazy as it was squeezing his wrist without end.

Since he just launched an unstable tooth spell at the whole nest, many red eyes were charging over. These spiders, in particular, would always respond with unyielding aggression if something attacked them.

"Fuuuuck!"

Jay couldn't deal with hundreds of spiders, so turning back to the slit he made in the wall, he knew his only choice was to leave - not just this dome, but the whole dungeon.

First, he had to get out of the aggression range of all the spiders. It wouldn't be that hard as long as they did not cover him in web.

If an emergency demanded it, he could always sacrifice his skeletons. This dungeon had proved them to be effective against the spiders, seemingly impervious to them - however, if enough spiders were present, they could be held down indefinitely and pulled apart with enough cooperation by the spiders.

Turning back towards the entrance, two spiders were already working to seal up the hole he created. The light was quickly getting dim as more and more wraps of silk coated the gap in the wall.

"Shit," he back ran over - as fast as he could run with his legs covered in web. Blue covered the rear of the party while Jay had Red and Lamp rush forwards at them.

Jay wasn't sure if the spiders were doing this to trap him in, or because of some other instinct, but he knew he needed to get out while he still could; time was of the essence as the mass of red eyes was getting closer - their own webs did not hinder the spiders at all.