<h4>Chapter 500 Mini-Boss on Floor 20</h4>


    Elsewhere in Eathen Keep, Jack found himself in a small passageway but it wasn’t natural. On earlier floors, Jack had noticed that some creatures had created new burrows and passages to the floors above and below the usual level they were found on. He learned that first hand, nearly walking headfirst into a nest of Earthen Centipedes between the ninth and tenth floors.


    Albeit narrowly, Jack had avoided alerting those centipedes but took that knowledge along with him. It led Jack to wonder if he could do the same thing. And now that he was about to enter the twentieth floor, Jack felt better in attempting such an experiment.


    Jackbined Phoro’s and Dragov’s bloodlines as he tunneled through the ground with unrivaled speed.


    His experiment proved sessful as he broke through to the twentieth floor without any issue. However, the rubble would easily attract the mini-boss on the twentieth floor.


    His invisibility was never lost, not even while he tunneled. Though the sounds of falling rubble warned the upants of the twentieth floor, Jack crept along the ceiling instead of following the rubble to the ground below.


    Silky strands of spider webs filled most of the twentieth floor. Some of the rubble got entangled in the webs, alerting all spiders of the entire floor.


    Careful with each step, the hero calmly avoided the spider webs. He didn’t mind if he took longer than usual as Jack had already saved time by tunneling through the eighteenth and neenth floors entirely.


    If anything followed his tunnel down, Jack didn’t care. His digging speed was ridiculous and he would be long gone before anything could reach him. And if something found the tunnel in the future, it would only let any curious creature get attacked by whatever was on the next level.


    He kept the same mentality going into the twentieth floor, only he was more cautious due to the spiders’ ability to sense him via a single misstep on a strand of web. Also, Jack wanted to see the mini-boss up close and personal.


    The Skulker Tarant was known for lovingplete darkness and its use of smaller spiders to swarm its prey. Of course, anything under five meters tall counted as smallerpared to the ten-meter Skulker Tarant. It was also known for having a terrifying, slow-acting venom, which Jack was determined to get no matter what.


    Since he entered irregrly, it took Jack almost half an hour to creep through thebyrinth of spider webs. After that, he finally found the mini-boss’s burrow.


    A twenty-meter wide crater was dug out of the ground with webbing lining the entirety of the crater and even making a somewhat of a shade over the top of the crater. Jack never would’ve found it or recognized anything in the dark floor if not for Dragov’s bloodline. It was thebination of Dragov’s eyes and Phoro’s that Jack could peer deeper into the darkness and see the silhouette of the Skulker Tarant, only it wasn’t ten meters tall... it was almost fifteen meters tall!


    Keeping his breathing under control, Jack pondered the situation.


    His travels of the twentieth floor revealed the overwhelming amount of spiders, as well as the many carcasses of spiders. This led Jack to assume that the spiders had turned cannibalistic long ago. That would also exin why the lead Skulker Tarant had grown sorge while the nextrgest of the younger Skulker Tarants weren’t even five meters in width, let alone in height.


    Also, there were far more webs than he had ever seen in-game, especially around the mini-boss. But that also gave Jack an idea. After another moment of thought and nning, Jack acted on his impromptu n.


    While overlooking the giant nest that the mini-boss had made itself, Jack exchanged Dragov’s bloodline for Bowzer’s, creating a flying me body. Before the Skulker Tarant could do anything, Jack hurled his ck-white mes into the nest of the tarant, grateful for the level boost he had gained for no effort on his part.


    A low, droning hiss sounded from deep within the crater. That giant silhouette finally moved and rushed to the surface of its nest. However, it found traveling across the webs to be nearly impossible.


    Unlike most videogames, the spider webs didn’t burn well, rather, they caught fire aggressively for a few moments before beginning to melt. That was exactly what Jack was wanting.


    The melting web was entirely unusable and the countless threads of web were fusing together as a makeshift cage around the giant Skulker Tarant. Also, the intense heat of those mes let them keep burning, albeit small in height. This trapped the mini-boss within its own nest and kept it from escaping anywhere. Should it attempt to force its way past the melting, burning webs, the ck-white me was even burning the ground around the crater.


    Jack rushed into the nest of the hissing tarant. His wind des and me body allowed him to carve past the melting web with ease. In seconds, Jack found himself at the side of the tarant’s giant head. While it was hissing and attempting to break free, Jack carved into the tarant’s face, just below it’s lower eyes.


    Hisses filled the vast space while Jack mutted the tarant’s face over and over again. At lv. 87, the Skulker Tarant was quite a foe. But Jack didn’t care for killing it. All he wanted was the venom nd above the base of the tarant’s fangs.


    The moment Jack carved through the face and felt some numbing fluid touch him, Jack momentarily dropped his me body and retrieved arge, empty bottle. In a couple of seconds, Jack had filled the bottle with the oozing venom. He hastily sealed the bottle and resumed his me body while retreating.


    A minuteter, the Skulker Tarant broke free from the trap made of its own burning web. However, it couldn’t find anything apart from burning webs and charred spider bits.


    Jack had already fled for the next floor and the giant tarant would never have any hope of entering the human-sized hole that Jack created amidst a see of burning, melting webs.