After a while, as the party kept walking, they found the little fox that Zeke sealed for first when entering in the Treasure Cove. However, she was trying to struggle from a cobweb.

The first one to react was Luka, who had a surprised face. "Is that a monster's trap…? Why would it catch a fellow monster?"

Alice gave out a reply. "Not all monsters consider each other allies. Like you hu… Us, like us, they fight each other sometimes, even if they take it to a new level… Especially the insect type monsters, they'll make almost anything to feed. That Kitsune was stupid."

After insulting the fox, she disappeared. And on her place, the owner of the cobwebs appeared, jumping from the ceiling.

[Notification(1)]

It was a giant black widow, but instead of a spider head, there was a little girl with long hair. "Oh dear… Another stupid catch appeared, and we have 2 of them! I'll wring your semen out…"

Zeke narrowed his eyes and tested his Monsterpedia.

[Spider Girl: An insect-based monster from the spider family. Primarily living in caves, they create giant webs to catch prey. An exceptionally cruel predator, they eat man and monster alike.]

There was much more than that, but Zeke ignored it since it described only the method they use to take semen and eat their prey… Unfortunately, Zeke's Energy Container was empty now, so he needed to drain energy once again.

"Alright, at my 3, let's split." Zeke whispered to Luka, who nodded.

"1… 2…"

The Spider Girl licked her lips and jumped at the two.

"3!" Zeke and Luka pushed each other, dodging the giant spider. Both of them pressed their feet on their own walls and jumped back at the Spider Girl, who was surprised at the sudden turn of events.

She seemed to have small reactions since she was hit from both Zeke's Demon Decapitation and Luka's attack on her back.

With a scratch on her neck and a numb feeling on her back, the Spider Girl slapped away both Zeke and Luka with two of her 8 spider legs. However, Luka landed on his feet, not losing balance at all, while Zeke grasped one of her legs and held her.

Zeke threw Angel Halo at Luka and yelled. "Use this!"

Luka caught Angel Halo and nodded, now that he was in a fight, he couldn't care less about how the blade looks like and dashed towards the Spider Girl.

She wanted to shoot webs at Luka, but she was interrupted when Zeke used his other hand to grasp her neck, and use Energy Drain on her. The Spider Girl could feel her power slowly weakening, while Luka was already too close to her.

He took a deep breath and gave out a war-cry, stunning the Spider Girl for a moment, before he cleaved downwards. The slash cut from the Spider Girl's shoulder to the line between her human body and her spider body.

Shocked, the Spider Girl opened her mouth. "I… Impossible…"

As soon as she got sealed into a tiny spider, her cobwebs also vanished with her, freeing the little fox. However, she only hissed at Luka and Zeke before running away.

"Tch, ungrateful prick…" Zeke murmured while Luka gave him back Angel Halo. He grasped it and sheathed it inside a sheath that he took back in Enrika.

Alice approached them again and said. "...You finished? You really like doing pointless things, huh?"

"Hey, as long as they give me Bonus Points, then I'm not going to complain. You can say that there is always a bigger fish out in the sea." Zeke replied back while opening his quest list, and gaining 3 Bonus Points from a easy-ranked Quest.

He placed those 3 points in Dexterity and then he closed both his quest screen and profile.

Now that the path was clear from cobwebs, Zeke, Alice and Luka walked forth…

Later, they reached a particular point. In front of them, there was a lone chest sitting in the middle of a small room.

"Oh, a treasure chest!" Luka was excited and approached it, while Zeke and Alice stood on their places.

""It's a trap.""

Luka stopped and looked at them. "Huh? Really? It doesn't seem connected to any wire…"

Zeke facepalmed and sighed. He already looked at the treasure chest with his Monsterpedia and repeated what he found out.

"Mimic: A monster that hides in a treasure chest, it appears to be a part of the Ghost family. Their body is composed of the chest and their digestive juices contained inside. When an adventurer opens the chest, the Mimic will drag them inside and slam the lid shut, bathing them in digestive juices."

Luka quickly backed away from the treasure chest and went behind Zeke. Alice looked at him in surprise and commented. "I didn't know you knew so much about monsters."

"I recently received my own Monsterpedia together with the title of Monster Hunter from defeating 10 monsters, so I can get some informations by looking at monsters… About that."

Zeke glanced at Alice in curiosity and tried to use Monsterpedia on her, as soon as he did that, he felt his mind going haywire and a sharp pain assaulted his brain. Holding his head with both of his hands, he shouted. "FUCK!"

"Zeke?!" Luka yelled in surprise when he saw Zeke's conditions, however, he just took deep breaths. "Ugh… I-It's nothing… I just did something I should have not done…"

Alice held a smug look on her face, knowing that Zeke just tried to analyze her. Soon, Zeke's mind was fully stabilized, and calmed down. "Let's… Let's just go, I think we are nearby."

Luka and Alice nodded, before they followed after him. The party went across a couple of corners, and they finally reached another particular place, which was a rusty door. Zeke knew that at the other side of the door there is the bell, but it seems he came here too late, since there is already a centaur-kitsune-human hybrid guarding the door, even if she was sleeping.

Zeke used Monsterpedia on the 7 tailed kitsune, and received the data.

[A senior member of the Kitsune race and fiercely loyal to it's Queen, Tamamo. Though she can eat anything, she prefers semen above anything else. Using all seven of her tails, she holds down the male as she forces him to ejaculate. In addition, she is able to turn her tails into semen-sucking tentacles, sucking in the male's penis and using them to milk the man.]

Well, this time he found something interesting. She can transform her tails?

Anyway… "Luka, you need to go."

"Wha-?!"

"This is getting dangerous… Pass me Pumpkin and leave from the cave, there shouldn't be other monsters if you take the same road we went through." Zeke whispered to Luka, but he noticed that the kitsune's ears twitched and she opened her eyes, looking directly on the corner where they were hiding.

"But I can he-"

"No, you will be currently only an hindrance without a weapon. You can't use Pumpkin because I am its current owner and I also need Angel Halo for close-quarters combat. Just leave this to me before you will be victim of a cave-in."

Luka remained silent, before he passed Pumpkin to Zeke. "Please come out safely…"

"Whoever is hiding, come out!" The seven tailed kitsune called out. Zeke just nodded and took a deep breath. He grasped Pumpkin, tightened his belt and stepped forward, revealing himself to the kitsune.

"Seems I got caught…" Zeke mused out, holding Pumpkin in its Long Barrel mode in his left hand as if it was a simple handgun and Angel Halo in his right hand.

The kitsune lightly smiled and said. "It seems we got a challenger. If you wish to pass by here, you must defeat me, Nanabi."

Zeke tilted his head at left, letting out a cracking sound, then he placed Angel Halo's handle on his mouth and held Pumpkin with both of his hands, aiming it at Nanabi.

She stood on her feet and replied to his gesture. "Very well… I'll show you the power of Tamamo's aide!"

It was a fight of endurance now. If Zeke can drain her enough, and gain the double of his stats, then he will have a chance to win due to their stats approaching each other.

If he gets too injured, he will be unable to move and fucked, metaphorically and literally.

As much as he wanted to use Sun Authority: Leo, to summon a Celestial Spirit, that is the strongest ace he has, which he doesn't want to reveal for any reason until he faces the big boss herself, Ilias.

[Notification(1)]

Zeke glanced at it and opened the Quest list for a moment, and read the quest on it.

[Survive(Hard): Self-explanatory. Reward: 15 Bonus Points]

So Nanabi is worth 5 easy monsters or 3 medium monsters? Reasonable enough. At least he had a proper reason to win the fight.

[STATUS UPDATE]

Name: Zeke Conquest

Age: 15 years old

Sex: Male

Race: Human

Title: Hero, Monster Hunter.

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Strength: 50 (Max: 100)

Endurance: 40 (Max: 80)

Constitution: 42 (Max: 84)

Dexterity: 46 (Max: 92)

Magic: 1 (Max: 2)

Bonus Stats: 0

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Skills: Sun Authority: Leo, Energy Drain(Minor), Monsterpedia.