Free Web NovelChapter 8: The witches coven
Levon took a deep breath and stepped straight into the deep hole before him.
Instantly he began falling; minutes passed, yet nothing happened — he didn’t hit any ground.
’How deep is this hole, for crying out loud?’
Levon thought, gripping his sword tightly, not ready for any surprises.
Soon he finally hit the floor with a hard thud, though it didn’t hurt as much as it should have.
Maybe the system had designed it to be less painful, or maybe it was the adrenaline coursing through his body.
Levon stood up and stretched for a moment before looking ahead.
The place looked dim, like barely enough light was penetrating from above.
He tried moving forward when he suddenly heard a clicking sound, as though someone had just flipped a switch.
Immediately Levon dove to the floor, sensing the danger.
He heard about ten arrows strike the wall behind him simultaneously.
*’Wow, that was close,’* Levon said with a sigh.
He quickly scrolled through his storage space from the ground, ingesting one of the predator crystals as soon as he found it.
Immediately the world around him sharpened as his vision enhanced — that’s when he saw it.
He was in a large room with square block tiles that stretched all the way to a large wooden door.
But that wasn’t all; there were creatures everywhere: goblins, trolls, and floating trolls.
Levon honestly couldn’t understand how the trolls were hovering above the ground.
And the tile he had stepped on was slightly sunken into the floor, just a little more depressed compared to the rest.
This was definitely a system of booby traps. freewebnøvel.com
Levon was still puzzled — why were the creatures moving freely without triggering anything? Why was it only him setting them off?
Each predator crystal had only eight active minutes, and obviously there were no cooldowns.
Levon immediately looked down at the network of tiles, and right away the booby-trapped ones were marked out for him.
Though only for a few seconds — he would have to glance away and look back again to reactivate it.
Levon leaped onto the first safe tile.
His teeth clenched.
[Congratulations, you have entered the first phase of the witches’ coven. Enter the city in 6 minutes or you will fail.]
Levon was stunned by the system message.
But there was no time to think it through. The message was clear: he either made it in six minutes or he died.
The creatures had already sensed his presence and were now heading toward him.
But their attacks were too slow with the predator crystal active; he could read through them flawlessly.
He quickly glanced at the tiles and jumped to the very next safe one.
His sword slashed straight at the goblin there.
[Congratulations, you have just killed a level 3 goblin (+45 exp).]
But as soon as the goblin dropped to the ground, the rest of the goblins — as though personally offended — charged after Levon with full force.
Levon was momentarily taken aback; he had assumed these creatures felt nothing for one another, so why were they suddenly flaring up?
A red bear lunged into him from behind, sending him crashing onto an unsafe tile. Levon heard the familiar sound from earlier and knew he was in serious trouble.
He quickly jumped to the next safe square, using his enhanced vision to guide him.
But as fate would have it, he didn’t move in time, and the large boulder that swung down immediately knocked the sword clean out of his hand — the same mechanism that had nearly smashed him into a pulp.
Levon watched as his sword skidded across several tiles.
*’There goes my sword for the second damn time,’* Levon thought as he stood up.
The bear was still on the same tile that had triggered the mechanism, and unluckily for it, the moving boulder had struck it directly.
It still lay there struggling to get back up.
Surely a creature that size couldn’t be killed instantly by a boulder, but it was enough to keep it grounded for a few minutes.
Levon saw his chance; he had approximately 3 minutes left. All he needed to do was retrieve his sword and make it to the door in time.
Looking around the area where he had been thrown, Levon spotted a problem: there were barely any safe squares nearby.
Immediately a plan began forming in his mind — he would have to use the bear to propel himself as far ahead as possible.
But before he could put that plan into action, two large goblins landed right on his tile.
Levon was caught off guard by their sudden appearance.
They looked enormous, as though they had undergone some kind of divine mutation, because their size was clearly off.
Levon quickly drew his goblin axe from his system space.
*Swishhh.*
Levon shifted slightly to the right, avoiding the first goblin’s strike, then used the momentum to drive his axe straight into the face of the second goblin, which never saw it coming.
He could read every single move it made. The second goblin lunged forward, ready to shove Levon into the next trap, but Levon was too sharp for that; he quickly sidestepped its path and cracked it right at the back of the head, sending it crashing down onto the tile beside them.
[Congratulations, you have killed one mutated goblin, level 3 (+40).]
Levon took a deep breath. He didn’t have much time left — just over two minutes to finish this. He needed that sword now more than ever.
But the second goblin wasn’t dead; it scrambled back to its feet. Levon had to deal with it — it was standing just one tile ahead of him, and the bear, already back on its feet, didn’t look particularly strong as it simply collapsed back down again. freёwebnovel.com
Levon quickly clenched his fist, adrenaline rushing through his body.
The goblin roared from the very next tile, furious and ready to tear the flesh from Levon’s skin the first chance it got.
