Chapter 9

Holding the Green Peak Staff in his hand, Zhao Feng's eyes became incredibly calm, and the usual lazy demeanor, which seemed to show a lack of concern for anything, instantly vanished!

The more dangerous the moment, the calmer he became. This was the experience Zhao Feng had gained from countless battles in the past, exchanging countless bullet marks for it!

The Black Shell Spiders were an active attacking type of monster. As soon as they spawned, they all surged towards Zhao Feng's direction.

What left Zhao Feng speechless was that he originally thought the passage was only 5 meters wide, and at most, only 10 spiders could fit in a row, so he only had to face the first 10. However, the spiders could climb walls!

Indeed, spiders can climb walls, a simple common sense, but he had forgotten it! As a result, the next moment, he was completely surrounded by spiders!

All around him, in front, behind, to the left, to the right, above, and below! A full three-dimensional, all-around encirclement!

The danger coefficient skyrocketed several times! No wonder even the game experts would fall here!

Of course, that was just for others. Zhao Feng himself still had a certain possibility of breaking through! He had the Master-level basic staff technique, with a 250% bonus!

His attack power far exceeded that of other beings at the same level!

More than twenty spiders simultaneously extended their two long legs towards him. Zhao Feng's nerves were taut, his sense of danger heightened to the maximum. Using the powerful Butterfly Steps, he quickly moved among the dozens of spider legs, avoiding the attacks while his long staff created layers of staff shadows!

Countless "bangs" echoed continuously in the damp passage.

If someone were here at this moment, they would surely be amazed by Zhao Feng's strength!

Although it was just a basic staff technique, Zhao Feng's long staff seemed to have eyes, always striking the exact center of the spiders' foreheads with pinpoint accuracy!

With his attack power exceeding 3000, any spider hit would immediately fall to the ground, instantly killed!

Suddenly, a series of system prompts appeared in his mind, distracting him. He immediately issued a command in his mind to turn off the system prompts, allowing him to focus entirely on the crisis at hand.

At this moment, Zhao Feng's brain was like a supercomputer. All the attacks around him were clearly in his mind, the speed and angle of each spider leg's attack were crystal clear!

He quickly dodged those he could with the Butterfly Steps. For those too dense to dodge, he directly used the Green Peak Staff to smash the spider legs!

Under the powerful attack, not only did the spider heads explode, but the spider legs also shattered! This allowed Zhao Feng to avoid many dangers.

The spiders seemed endless. After more than ten minutes, Zhao Feng had powerfully killed over a hundred, but there were still many spiders surrounding him.

At this moment, Zhao Feng's brain was working at full speed. He didn't even have time to look at what the spiders dropped after they died, let alone pay attention to how they respawned.

Block! Block! Block!

Kill! Kill! Kill!

The entire passage was covered with countless spiders. Under Zhao Feng's super explosive power, the afterimages of his movements filled the entire passage, and the countless staff shadows formed a huge sphere, protecting him from all sides!

Whether it was the spider's body or its claws, as soon as they approached the staff shadow, they instantly exploded!

Zhao Feng frantically wielded his long staff, cycling through the twelve basic staff techniques countless times, only knowing to strike relentlessly!

Fortunately, he was using techniques, not skills. Techniques had no cooldown, while skills did. Otherwise, he would have been overwhelmed by the spiders in just a few strikes!

Time passed, and Zhao Feng suddenly felt his vision clear. The spiders that had filled his sight were gone, and his frantically moving long staff suddenly lost its target.

Is it finally over?

Zhao Feng stood with his staff, scanning the passage filled with spider corpses. Just as he was about to take a deep breath to relax, the ground suddenly shook violently and urgently!

The next moment, the spider corpses were respawned, leaving a trail of shimmering silver coins on the ground. At the bottom of the passage, another spider appeared!

This spider looked like the Black Shell Spiders that had just respawned, but it was much larger! As tall as an adult cow!

It had two nearly 30-centimeter-long mandibles next to its mouth, and its eight long legs were nearly 2 meters long, covered with sharp spines!

A truly ferocious monster!

Seeing the spider, Zhao Feng instinctively cast a Spirit Sense, but the result was a series of question marks!

He was currently level 10, and his Spirit Sense could directly detect up to level 20, indicating that this ferocious spider was over level 30!

Wait a moment! Something's not right!

It was only at this moment that Zhao Feng realized he had killed countless Black Shell Spiders in the passage but had not leveled up at all!

Although killing monsters beyond level 10 would grant experience, killing a level 15 monster at level 10 would still grant a lot of experience!

The number of Black Shell Spiders, though unknown, was definitely over 100! Even if the experience was minimal, it should have been enough to level up once!

The situation was strange, but Zhao Feng had no time to figure out the problem. The huge Black Shell Spider was already rapidly crawling towards him!

Its massive size, movement speed several times faster than the previous spiders, and a level that even the Spirit Sense couldn't detect, all clearly indicated that this spider was a BOSS!

A BOSS fight!

If it were a normal situation, Zhao Feng would have been very excited, but at this moment, his face was serious!

Techniques had no cooldown, but the intense battle had consumed too much energy, making even the usually strong him feel dizzy!

"No, I must end this quickly!"

Zhao Feng made this decision in his mind.

This Hell Mode dungeon was truly not for humans. The countless spiders had already driven him mad, and now there was a super-strong BOSS!

It was simply not giving him a chance to live!

Most importantly, no one had ever cleared this Hell Mode dungeon. He didn't know if there would be more tricks after this BOSS. He had to end the battle as soon as possible, or he feared that his low mental state might trigger the game pod's automatic protection system, forcibly logging him out and causing the mission to fail!

"Hisss"

Just as Zhao Feng made his decision, the Black Shell Spider BOSS's attack arrived!

It wasn't the spider legs with their deadly venom, but spider silk!

Black spider silk flew out from its huge mouth, aiming directly at Zhao Feng's face!

The BOSS was indeed different, having a new attack!

Facing an unknown attack, Zhao Feng dared not resist lightly! He even dared not use the Green Peak Staff to block!

In reality, spider silk is very sticky. If his staff were to get stuck, he would be in real trouble!

He sidestepped, avoiding the spider silk, and his staff shot out, aiming directly at the BOSS's head!

Zhao Feng's movements were fast. Previously, few of the ordinary Black Shell Spiders could dodge his strikes, but this BOSS dodged!

At the critical moment, it raised one of its long legs to block its head, clashing with the staff!

What surprised Zhao Feng was that the leg, covered with spines, did not break but only showed a slight crack!

"Hisss"

Zhao Feng drew a sharp breath.

His attack power was 3200, yet it only caused a crack! How high was the spider's defense?

Definitely no less than 3000!

He had guessed the BOSS would be strong, but he hadn't expected it to be this strong!

Zhao Feng was amazed by the spider's defense, and the spider was enraged by the crack in its leg!

Yes, enraged! Zhao Feng could see the anger in its huge eyes, which made him draw another sharp breath!

Seeing intelligence in the village chief had already surprised him, but he hadn't expected to see it in a monster!

With intelligence, it could think and make very high-level judgments. Traditional methods like pulling hate and attacking weaknesses would be much less effective!

No wonder it used its long legs to block his staff at the first opportunity!

While marveling at the power of the game, Zhao Feng kept retreating.

His previous attack had brought him too close to the spider. It immediately swung four of its long legs to attack, even spitting out more spider silk, forcing Zhao Feng to temporarily retreat!

As Zhao Feng retreated, the spider BOSS rapidly advanced, constantly closing in on him! Four of its long legs steadily maintained its rapid movement, while the other four continuously waved, like a martial arts expert, blocking all of Zhao Feng's escape routes, forcing him to keep retreating!

Behind Zhao Feng was not the entrance to the Cloud Demon Cave, but a wall!

The dungeon had only an entrance, no exit!

There were only two ways to leave the dungeon: death or successful completion!

From this, it was clear that the BOSS not only had intelligence but was also quite smart!

By blocking Zhao Feng's escape to the sides and forcing him against the wall, when he had nowhere to retreat, he would be unable to avoid the spider silk attack!

That would be the moment of Zhao Feng's demise!

The spider BOSS could think of such a situation, and the battle-experienced Zhao Feng also knew, but he had his own plan!

The passage was not long, and both sides moved quickly. In just two breaths, Zhao Feng's back was already against the wall, with no place to retreat. At this moment, the spider BOSS was only 3 meters away!

At this moment, the spider BOSS's four long legs continuously waved, blocking Zhao Feng's space to dodge, while its mouth opened again, spitting out black spider silk as thick as an adult's thumb, aiming directly at Zhao Feng's face!

This was the moment!

As the spider BOSS opened its mouth, Zhao Feng also moved!

His staff struck again!

But this time, he didn't aim at the spider BOSS, but at the top of his head!

Above his head, a basin-sized rock was embedded in the soil!

The Green Peak Staff struck the part of the rock exposed from the soil. The next moment, the rock, under the immense impact, flew out from the ceiling, heading straight for the spider BOSS's face!

The rock appeared too suddenly, and the spider BOSS had no time to react, only managing to block with one of its long legs!

Although the rock was hard, the spider BOSS clearly had more confidence in its leg!

Unfortunately, the next moment, a dramatic scene unfolded!

As the rock and the spider leg collided, there was a crisp "snap," and the leg broke into two pieces!

At this moment, the spider silk spewed from the spider's mouth had only traveled halfway!

This was the moment he had been waiting for!

Zhao Feng's eyes showed surprise.

Without even looking at the incoming spider silk, his body suddenly lunged forward, the Green Peak Staff raised high and swung down!

The spider BOSS instinctively tried to block with the front left leg, but it was only a half leg! By the time it extended another leg, it was too late!

The Green Peak Staff struck the spider BOSS's head heavily!

The head did not explode as expected, but Zhao Feng was not surprised. The staff had no time to move, and he had already dodged the spider silk. His body, now in front of the spider BOSS, suddenly kicked the spider's head with great force!

Without the Green Peak Staff or the basic staff technique, this kick's attack power was much weaker, less than half of the previous strike!

But what must not be overlooked is that Zhao Feng was now level 10, with a base attack of 1000!

Without any weapon or technique, a simple kick had an attack power of 1000!

The next moment did not disappoint Zhao Feng!

After a solid strike with the staff and a powerful kick, the damage of 4000, especially to a weak point like the head, caused the spider's head to explode as he had expected!

The huge spider corpse fell with a thud!

Just before the spider fell, its two right attacking legs were only a few centimeters from Zhao Feng's body!

A moment of life and death!

If Zhao Feng had used his thigh to attack instead of wasting a little time to use the Green Peak Staff again, he would be the one dead now!

But "if" is just "if." Such a scenario would never happen to Zhao Feng!

Because from the initial retreat to the final attack, everything was within Zhao Feng's battle rhythm! Even the sudden break of the spider leg was part of his plan!

The rock attack was not random but precisely calculated! It was to lure the spider BOSS to instinctively use the leg with the crack caused by the Green Peak Staff to block!