Garami noticed the leading tortoise's attempts of an attack from the moment it started to accelerate. Not to mention the nature of the attack. She had already witnessed the power of the jaws that the tortoises had on Floor 9, on the very day she was reborn. And she was no longer any newborn either.
Right before the leading tortoise could close its mouth on Garami, the latter produces massive amounts of dark aura. So much that the tortoise had to withdraw its head away from it.
True to its status as a guardian spawned by a Dungeon, the tortoise's instinct regarding danger was excellent. The dark aura would have decreased its stats by quite the amount if it had touched the tortoise, not to mention any potential status ailments. However, that was also the leading tortoise's downfall.
Garami was never counting on the [Aura of Darkness] to affect the tortoise. Instead, she withdrew a certain something from her [Spatial Storage]. By using [Thread Control] and [Throwing], Garami launched her secret weapon towards the leading tortoise's face.
*Splat!*
A wet sound was heard when the secret weapon landed... glued itself, on the tortoise's face. It was a ginormous mass of sticky webs. So many and so sticky webs, that it had turned into a single clump of glue-like substance. A failure work of Garami's when she practiced her birdlime traps.
The webs were stuck in the tortoise's mouth, suffocating it as Garami used [Thread Control] to spread the thread clump to cover the tortoise's eyes and mouth, efficiently blindfolding and gagging it. It would be a matter of time before it would die from asphyxiation.
Moving her attention away from the gagged tortoise, Garami started to think of her next move regarding the remaining two tortoises.
One of the two didn't waste any time in trying to take over for its fallen brethren, but Garami used [Thread Control] through the thread she still held to drag the head of the first tortoise towards the attacking one, making the two of them collide into each other.
Not wasting any time, Garami withdrew more sticky web mass to glue the two tortoises onto each other and to the ground. Garami then made some distance from the two tortoises, efficiently neutralizing both of them for the moment. Then, all that remained was-
*Bang!*
Suddenly, Garami was sent flying in the air. The landing accounted, Garami's HP had been reduced by three quarters. A few of her spider legs were also crushed from the landing. It is safe to say that the little demon was facing the direst situation of her life till now.
Not understanding what had happened, Garami looked over the corridor after the source of the surprise attack. Then she saw the third tortoise, who hadn't come any closer after seeing the first one being gagged.
The third tortoise had used its head and picked up massive rocks with its mouth. Then, mimicking a catapult, the tortoise threw the rock towards Garami.
The plan was good, but the aim was horrible. Even when tortoise nr.3 had attempted to squash Garami with the rock, it had only managed to nick it instead after it had trapped both of the tortoise's allies. Still, a nick was all the tortoise needed to send Garami to the brink of death.
The tortoise threw another rock, but Garami threw a new thread and used [Thread Control] to drag her battered body to safety behind one of the boulders at her side.
The tortoise understood its stones wouldn't reach Garami behind the boulder. However, it also knew that the demon was seriously wounded. Wounded to the point that the tortoise was thinking it had overestimated it. But then it saw the literal mess its two companions were in and decided to take some caution.
The tortoise didn't even consider saving its two companions. After all, if those two couldn't do anything with the web-mass, what could it do? A sound, but heartless, decision. Especially when considering that the first tortoise was soon to die from the lack of oxygen.
Ignoring the pleas of help from the other tortoises, the third one closed in on the boulder that Garami was hiding behind. In its mouth, the tortoise held a large rock, both to be used as an attack in case Garami was going to escape with its threads again, or as a guard, in case she was going to gag the tortoise as she did with the first one.
The turtle rounded the corner and found... nothing? Bewildered, the tortoise started to look around for Garami, thinking it may have managed to escape somehow. It was right then that the first tortoise finally succumbed to the lack of oxygen, giving Garami the EXP needed for an increase in her level... which also came with a full recovery of her Life Stats, included with a repair of her broken legs.
Garami jumped out of the shadows of the boulder where she had hidden with her skills and landed on top of the tortoise's shell. The tortoise noticed Garami, but not before the latter had started to wrap the former with newly produced threads.
The tortoise's mouth holding the rock was sealed off, removing the tortoise's greatest weapon. The tortoise retaliated by using its flexible neck to smash its head towards Garami, who barely escaped this time as well. However, the tortoise's head was now stuck to its shell, courtesies from the web mass that Garami had left behind on top of the shell.
Not missing this chance, Garami glued the legs of the tortoise before using a thread and [Thread Control] to reach the unguarded neck of the tortoise and bit down with her [Poison Fang] while also using the [Aura of Darkness].
It took a little while, but in the end, the tortoise was finally killed. And the only creature left standing, and not glued down, was Garami.
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SYSTEM MESSAGE:
Level has increased. Reached Lv.7
You have earned 0.2 Skill Points
Due to "Champion of Alvatria", an additional 0.2 Skill Points were earned.
Acquired title: [Pinch Breaker]
Acquired skill: [Battle Continuation Lv.1]
Booyah! Another tortoise goes down!
After winning the fight with that rock-thrower, I finished off the last tortoise that was trapped with the gagged one from the start. Good thing it died when it did, or else I wouldn't have gotten two level-ups then. To think that you can recover lost limbs just by increasing your level... or is it a demon thing?
I got titles to boot! What do I have right now? I've gotten so much in such a short time, I don't know myself.
Name:Garami
Race:Reha Zera | Gender: Female
Level:7
Karma Value:-94
Skills:39
Skill Points:8.0
HP: 58/58MP: 66/66SP: 60/60
STR: 74VIT: 53MAG: 60
RES: 78SPD: 89DEX: 97
INT: 120LUC: 150
Skill List:
Ability Skills:[Health Increase (Small) Lv.2] NEW [MP Auto-Recovery Lv.5] UP1 [Strength Increase (Small) Lv.20] UP3 [Vitality Increase (Small) Lv.9] UP2
Magic Skills:[Darkness Magic Lv.1]
Active Skills:[Aura of Darkness Lv.11] UP1 [Heresy Modification Lv.2] UP1 [Stealth Lv.12] UP1 [Silence Lv.5] UP2 [Camouflage Lv.13] [Intimidation Lv.1] NEW [Thread Control Lv.11] UP3 [Cutting Thread Lv.7] UP1 [Spatial Storage Lv.1]
Passive Skills:[Threadsmanship Lv.20] UP2 [Throwing Lv.10] UP2 [Aiming Lv.3] NEW [Evasion Lv.2] NEW [Climbing Lv.6] [Concentration Lv.5] NEW [Battle Continuation Lv.1] NEW [Darkness Reinforcement Lv.17] UP1 [Debuff Reinforcement Lv.8] [Vital Point Knowledge Lv.2] NEW [Parallel Thinking Lv.7] NEW [Auto-Mapping Lv.5] [Language Adaption]
Resistance Skills:[Darkness Resistance Lv.5] UP1 [Poison Resistance Lv.9] UP2 [Heretic Resistance Lv.5] UP3 [Heretic Immunity Lv.2] UP1
Perception Skills:[Night Vision Lv.18] [Danger Sense Lv.22] UP2 [Identification Lv.24] UP2 [Discern Lv.13] UP3 [Magic Sight Lv.21] UP1
Elements:[Darkness Element Lv.15] UP2
Monster Skills:[Poison Bite Lv.11] UP3 [Spider Thread Lv.24] UP2
Woohoo! Now, this is a status page! But damn, still 3 points short on the DEX. Just one more racial level, Garami. Just one measly level more. Don't fall for the temptation of buying [Dexterity Increase (Small)] when it's probably possible to earn it with some easy title like the rest of them.
But man, am I glad that most of these are passives. I would never remember to use them all the time. And don't point out that [Parallel Thinking] has a higher level than [Concentration] despite me getting them at the same time, and [Concentration]'s an easier skill to level-up...
And yes, I was looking for a skill related to weaving to help my threads, but I found nothing! Must be some requirements I've yet to fulfill...
Now then, what about these tortoises? I've already stored the last guy, but these two are stuck in my failed birdlime web. Even [Spider Thread] can't remove this stickiness! Maybe I should make a fuse with a new thread to lead the fire to the goop? But then I would have charred tortoise for my next dinner. I'll rather stick to rats if that's the case.
Hmm? I picked up on something down the corridor. The path leading to Floor 1. And these guys... are bad news. [Magic Sight]'s going bananas.
I gave up on the glued tortoises and went into hiding. Then I saw the new guys that came... knights?