If there is any place for us to get in trouble here on the second floor, then there is no place better for it than the Trap Room. Just imagine it: were brimming with confidence, thinking that everything is going to be fine as long as we can one-shot everything with Durandal and avoid the attacks coming our way and then BAM and were getting jumped by so many enemies that all our advantages can just go fuck themselves. That is also why I think that being wary of it is not a bad thing to do at all.
[In the first place, stumbling upon the Trap Room is already a pretty rare occurance. Its that kind of luck that you just dont see everyday.] [Can you really call that being lucky though?] [Well, I guess normally you would call that unlucky, but since youre here, master, then we will be able to take care of all the monsters in no time! We might get surrounded if were not careful, but isnt that why we worked so hard on obtaining the Monk Job for ourselves? So that we could use Healing Skills in the hour of need? That way, we will fight lots of monsters, waste them with one or two attacks and obtain a lot of their Drop Items. Thats why I said we are being lucky.] [Y-Yeah.]
I know what she wa trying to say, but I still find that idea to be rather strange, but of course Im not going to say that out loud.
Going beyond the would-be Trap Room, we happened upon another Needlewood-Green Caterpillar pair. Without even thinking about it, I charged at the Needlewood and slashed it with Durandal. Now that one nuisance is taken care of, I can focus on supporting Roxanne by attacking the Green Caterpillar from the back if the need for that arises. For now though, I can just stay on the sidelines and watch how its going to turn out.
As expected, Roxanne was avoiding Green Caterpillars attempts at harming her without much difficulty. Whats more, she does so by only tilting her body ever so slightly to the sides, dodging the attacks at the last possible moment without making any wasteful or unnecessary movements. After witnessing so many of her fights, I developed an absolute trust in her ability to avoid attacks, and I am confident that she can handle every normal attack thrown her way, probably as much as she must be. When the Green Caterpillar Roxanne was fighting missed its Rush attack and briefly stopped moving, that was a cue for me to whack it with Durandal from the side, so I guess that makes it another time where I have basically defeated all of the enemies by myself, and that makes me feel kinda bad about myself. But just a little bit.
The next group Roxanne guided us towards consisted of two Green Caterpillars. As per the usual routine, I ran up to the nearest enemy and promptly dispatched it with one strike. But just as I was about to turn around to how Roxanne was doing
[Look out, master! Somethings coming!]
She shouted a warning towards me.
Looking closely at the second Green Caterpillar, it had an orange magic circle glowing under its body. I was too far to interrupt it in time, so it had all the time it needed to finish casting whatever it was that it was trying to cast, and when the circle disappeared, it opened its ugly mouth wide and spat out something.
Its fine, dont beat yourself up over it. There was nothing you could do about it, and besides, its also my fault for letting my guard down around them too much, so it is as much my L as it is yours. One saving grace here is that as long as you defeat the monster that use the Skill, then the threads disappear. If it wasnt for that, then I guess you can say that we would have been in a pretty sticky situation.
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Also, if we just watch the Green caterpillars more closely from now on, we should be able to easily avoid their attacks and stop them from casting that Skill.
But the one who got caught in it was just me. Roxanne managed to avoid it without any difficulties.
So from now on, lets defeat the Green Caterpillars every time we happen upon one, okay?
Yes, no objections here!
Green Caterpillar can use the Skill that makes them spit sticky threads that seal the movements of whomever it touches. Still, weve been around the second floor for quite a while now and that was the first time I saw one of them actually use that Skill, so it has to mean that they do not use it all that often. If we just focus on dealing with them first. The only potential problem can happen once they start appearing I large numbers, like, for instance, in yes, thats right, you guessed it, the Trap Room like the one on the first floor. If an entire rooms worth of them were to use their sticky threads at all time, we definitely wouldnt be able to dodge them all or kill each and every one that used them.
And then there is also the other web attack that will slow you down when it hits you. My bigger concern with it is that if we get hit with enough of those, we might end up becoming so slow that the fight might be grinded into a complete halt, and we will be opened for more thread attacks that will slow us down even more, Durandals HP Absorption included.
That, Ill have you know, would suck some serious scrotum.