415 The Nest

"T-Thrud? What are you doing here? Wait, where am I?"

[Þrúðr Level: 99]

The red dragon appearing as her humanoid form casually strolled towards the human who was hovering in mid air.

Forcing his eyes away from her, Asai quickly took in his current surroundings and predicament. Frozen in time, in the middle of a free fall from one massively large hole above, down into the current spacious cavern that was filled with hundreds of smaller holes like swiss-cheese. What mattered to him wasn't the fact that he was falling, whilst Robin was tightly clasped to his chest. what mattered was the massive amounts of webbing that covered the cavern. The cocoons and the hundreds of egg sacks down below.

Having found no spiders around, or in sight. He shifted his gaze back towards Thrud, who appeared dressed as if she were a Viking, albeit showing too much skin.

"I believe you already know, without me having to tell you right? That you shouldn't have come here. Just as the oceans is secured by my sister. These borders are cared for by my cousin." Thrud blinked a few times, reading his thoughts.

"Ah, no. I don't mean these insects that piss and shit all over their own homes. I'm talking about the rock-serpent, that's my cousin.

And no, I can't get you out of here. You walked in here on your own two feet, you're old enough to walk back out."

"Thrud, any assistance would be great if I'm being honest with you."

Thrud continued to walk in mid-air, as if there was a floor just under her. Approaching Asai who remained conscious, whilst Robin was down and out.

"Hmmm~ I'm not supposed to intervene so much, if you were perhaps within one of the realms or dimensions then I could. But, since we're here, I can only help you by giving you advice."

"Thank you Thrud..."

"Your half-elf there, she passed out as she took the brunt of the force. Before I resume time again, I recommend kissing her and giving her as much of your saliva as possible to trigger [Healthy]. That should wake her up.

Anyhow, I only came down here to see who exactly was trespassing."

The red dragon turned, as her gloriously red hair appeared to be on fire. "Ah! I heard you stumbled into my brother's dungeon. How was it? Was it fun?" 

"YES. Yes. It was fun. It was a great experience." "Although he pranked my party, made them kill each other and now they're emotionally and mentally scarred for life..."

Her eyes glistened in crimson. "I see..."

Within a second, she vanished as gravity resumed its pull upon the two. Dragging them down and towards the egg sacks. Asai did as advised, throwing his tongue into Robin's mouth, tackling her tongue and praying he would make it in time. Within the 3 second freefall, Robin regained consciousness and instinctively re-engaged her ability to fly, just barely pausing before crushing into the ground. Hovering there, she glanced around to figure our their situation. 

Chills ran down her spine as she imagined the creepy insects.

"Good morning Sunshine. How was your nap?" Asai joyfully kissed her upon the forehead. "Thank goddess for Robin ♡"

"Asai, what should we do? All the tunnels look the same to me."

"Enter stealth, I'm going to try something." Robin nodded as they both utilized [Hide] and [Disappear]

Now hidden from view, Asai casted [Summon Bird]

Cotton, appeared chirping and tweeting. Happy that his owner hadn't forgotten about him. Kissing the man upon his hand before jumping over to kiss Robin upon the cheeks. Asai plucked him by the neck, before locking his arm back like a baseball-player would.

Cotton only now, did he inspect his surroundings. Horror filled his eyes as he understood his fate.

"FUCK YOUUUUU MASTEEEEEEER-"

The little white furball flapped its wings as hard as it could, yet it couldn't fly. Helplessly flung into a tunnel and landing upon the webbing. A large spider bigger than Asai instantly emerged out of hiding and wrapped Cotton up into a cocoon.

[Sparassidae: Lvl 80]

Asai recast [Summon Bird]

Pulling the white furball out of death's scythe and back upon his palm. Literally pissing himself, Cotton shivered in fright as he thanked his master for not being as bad as he thought.

"AAAAAAAAH Master! I knew you weren't so- W-wait! Wait! LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING, LET ME-"

Cotton was flung into another tunnel. Once again being caught and pounced upon by a hunting spider. This process repeated for a few dozen more times until Asai gave up. Asai scratched his ear, as Cotton had been tweeting and chirping too loudly. Unable to understand the bird, as he didn't have the necessary [Tamer] skill, Asai ignored the little bird's feelings. Placing him back upon Robin's head, he mentally apologised to Thrud and her cousin.

"King Caronia? An army of spiders, do you want in?"

In response to his question, Asai's mindscape was slammed with the cries and screams of a thousand battle-harden warriors. Who were now screaming, shrieking and trying to hide away from Asai's consciousness as they pissed themselves.

"..."

"Sorry Lad, we don't do so well with those creepy-crawlies..."

...

"I don't think I have a choice. I'm going to have to fuck this place up, by burning it down to the ground..."

Stacks of highly-flammable wood, fabrics and a large amount of charcoal fell from his [Inventory] as he scattered the objects all over. In another hand, a lit-torch appeared.

"We won't die from carbon dioxide poisoning right? I mean, technically I have [Immunity] and Robin has enough mana to last her months, to protect her lungs." Seeing the flame upon the torch flicker as a breeze entered the cavern. Asai's decision was solidified, as he believed the tunnels had enough oxygen supply to last.

"Robin, use your [Divinity] to protect your lungs. I'm going to burn this shithole down." 

Out of curiosity, he funnelled his [Divinity] into the torch and the flame, empowering it. Cheating the system as he recognised the supposed weapon as a [Knife Throw]

Asai grinned, as he threw the flame down.

..

Wondering as to what the sudden heat was, a spider peeked out of its hiding place. Making eye contact with the human who was flying in Robin's embrace. Tilting its head in confusion, it saw the human's mouth move.

"Sayonara motherfuckers."