Assimilate All Talents

Chapter 277: The Pit

He recognized the voice. ’Is that Rex!? What is he still doing here?’

He turned to the source of the voice and searched for him but was unable to find him. As he was searching, the Bliss Spider appeared behind him while he was distracted and slammed him into the ground with its rear.

BOOM!

A crater formed where he crashed, and though injured, he forced himself to get back up and jumped out before the spider could attack again.

Rex’s voice lingered in his ears again, but this time it was slightly more distorted and carried a mocking tone. "Help me... plan the party!"

It was then that he realized he had been tricked.

Keeping an eye on the creature, he thought to himself, ’It’s cunning. It could control what I heard the whole time and only waited until now to trick me.’

He was foolish to think it wouldn’t strategize against him and had been too focused on stalling.

’But still, it appeared too quickly behind me... how?’

Sol checked its tethers again and realized that a few had already recovered much faster than he expected. In addition to that, they were slightly more colorful, which he guessed was due to their recovery.

’Its recovery sped up the time it took to regain its disabled skills. But when it noticed it had access to them again, it waited and didn’t reveal it until now...’

"Sorry to disappoint, but I don’t plan on dying—and especially not while hallucinating. Torben is sending the Chosen Slayer here right now. The one who’s in trouble is you, not me."

A loud laugh came from the PAL.

"Oh yeah? Then why am I still alive? I don’t think it’s as easy as you say it is."

While the Bliss Spider and Sol conversed, they never stopped fighting. Gas orbs and bliss slashes were sent his way as he dodged them either by diving underground or turning into shadows. Sol sent his own attacks, and the moment skills went off their cooldown, he immediately used them. Once duochrome went off cooldown, he combined the purple and orange hands to create an amplified gravity zone around the spider, slightly slowing its movements further.

The effects on the spider were minimal, but with so many other attacks raining down on it, it was like trying to swim upstream. Sadly, in this case, fighting against the current wasn’t a very difficult task for the Bliss Spider.

Sol dodged another bliss slash that turned the house behind him into a large cake, but when he landed on the ground nearby, he went right through it as if he were using [Burrow]. But there was one big problem, he hadn’t used [Burrow].

’The floor was fake!’

Unknowingly, he landed straight into a pit full of the bliss gas. The pit was one of the countless ones created from the aftermath of their battle and was inconspicuously disguised by the spider when Sol wasn’t paying attention. It was actually during their conversation that the Bliss Spider secretly moved the gas to conceal a few pits in the area.

Unlike before, where he was able to fall out of the gas thanks to gravity, he only sank deeper with no way out.

The last thing Sol could hear as he sank into the pit of gas was the taunting laughter coming from the PAL.