The white light was once again replaced with the dark surroundings of....
Not ruins.
Not this time.
It was simply dark, almost foggy and almost like the night. You almost see, but you can`t make out anything in the vicinity and makes you try to see your hands, just to see a blob in front of you.
Unless of course, you were hunting in the ruins and almost living in the night forest for a living.
[Welcome back Challenger Voro Vane]
[Floor 1]
[Objective : Reach the end of the Hollow]
[The Tower of ???? wishes you luck]
And additionally, you have a bright blue window blinding you.
"Cool. The Hollow. Why do I have a feeling its not hollow at all" Saying with both a smirk and a tired face made it sound weird, but the important part was.
It sounded. And quite loudly might one say.
And he waited.
The blue window went away.
And he waited.
Till his eyes started to see somewhat of the general area and walls around him.
Only then, when the silence started to bore him, he went ahead into the rocky crevices of what he described as "rocky long hole"
Minute in, he could now bravely assume that the color of the hole was gray.
5 Minutes in, his assumption turned out wrong, it was dark gray in fact.
10 Minutes in, his mind showed him that the stone was in fact, neither gray nor dark gray, but purple.
Until. Finally, something happened.
*Sniff sniff* "Ah....Smells like shit" A green ( probably green) pool on the ground reeked in the stone hole
[Predator LVL 1 has been activated]
Blood. Green, but clearly, blood.
And quite dark green.
Actually, now that Voro looked at it again, it was very distinct from the hole`s floor, since the ground was a greyish-orange color.
The predator now stood in a full-blown cave, with 3-4 meters of space above him, walls or sides of the cave giving him space, but not enough for comfort.
Everything was clear now. In the dark cave, filled with stalagmites and loose stones, there was a small pool of greenish blood.
"Lets see...how do I use this thing"
Voro touched the blood....nothing.
He said a few commands....nothing.
Looked around for more ....nothing.
"I ... I don`t wanna do this....bluearg" as he put the finger near his mouth and touched his tongue
[Hunter`s trail LVL 1 has been activated]
[Tracking ?????]
The next bit of green blood was "revealed" to him, a few meters forward.
"Huh. " Voro got up, and did the only possible thing in this straight stone corridor "Useful"
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The next hour has been spent doing a total of 3 things
Number one - walking forward. Nothing too exciting, but at least the view of the cave was changing, from narrow, to slightly more narrow, to maybe a very rare - big room with a surprise.
Number two - spiders. Crushing them or chasing them down was "fun". Or at least interesting.
And of course, number three and the surprise in the bigger places - big spiders.
Well, Huge actually. Enormous. Definitely above average.
Around 13 centimeters.
But there was a lot of them, and that made it interesting.
"And a one, *stabs* and a two *stabs* and a three *stomps *"
Now, this might be a problem for an average man, 30 x 12-14 centimeters IS a lot.
But Voro....he just crushed and stabbed and killed and killed.
Until the cave turned from dark orange to dark green.
[Blood Wine Recovery LVL 2 has been activated]
[Regained a portion of your stamina]
"BLUERGH disgusting" Vane`s instinct forced him to lick his knife for some reason, and well, it was green. Now its not and the owner wants to leave it here.
But anyways, forward again. With a feeling of an empty stomach while also not feeling hungry, he kept moving forward. And he did while being quite confused about one simple matter.
He saw a few bodies from the Tower while the FBAM held him in a cage with a very nice view. They were not in a state from mere spiders. Not even all of them at once could crush a person into a pulp.
So surely, there is something else in here....right?
Not for the next hour for Voro.
Just little spiders. And medium spiders.
Until finally, after all this time, he looked at something that could be the end of the "Hollow". Some form of light was coming from the tunnel, maybe a crack in the ceiling that reached the surface. Maybe. Only maybe.
Voro came closer, to the very large opening in the cave, with pools of water and plants on the sides, which were in fact slightly illuminated.
But he didnt go in. There was a very familiar feeling here. The place was clearly divided into cave corridor, and a big cave room.
"God dammit" He clenched his knives and assumed a sprinting position "And I thought this one would be different"
3...2...1 [Dash LVL 3]
Sprint forward with maximum speed, leaving dust in the air and jumping straight into the middle of the room.
And of course, to his absolute shock and surprise.
CRASH
A giant spider, black and with very shiny red eyes, dropped down behind him, destroying the rocks and beautiful stalagmites. With the unknown light source, Voro could see the fangs, hair, metallic almost legs....
"There you are fat ..holy shit that is a big " abdomen. That particular spider seemed to have enough web in his backside to cover the entire room with just webs.
Thankfully, it didnt, it just tried to get up on all of its legs.
Voro shrugged. Why wait?
Another dash, 8 stabs and the spider was now blind and bleeding out.
The boss spider just threw a tantrum, it tried to get up, failed, tried again, but failed AGAIN.
Vane just....stood there, watching from the side.
Until it stopped.
"Hmph. " He shrugged and went to the other side...until he didn`t.
There were some more pressing issues then getting out of the Tower right now. Only thing that will happen if he leaves now, is drugs, and back into the cage.
"Hmmmmmm" Voro had to think, and he did for a long while.
Of course to kill the time, he started to cut the big spider, check the web, check the plants around him etc. You know, typical bored man activities.
All while he thought and thought.
Until the stomach actually started annoying him and he just crossed onto the other cave hall, which immediately, spawned the white flash and transported him back to FBAM.