You know?
I still had that smile on my face; that smile of happiness.
A wind blew past my head, but I stood there motionless, staring blankly at the massive mantis that was just a carcass a second ago.
In my left ear I hear,
"Bruh"
In my right ear, a ringing sound, almost like a flashbang grenade exploding right in front of me.
One second passed...
Two seconds passed...
Ten seconds passed...
One minute passed...
Five minutes passed...
The silence lasted for a while.
I can see the mantis itself looking at me confusedly, unsure whether it should attack or not.
Suddenly, I hear a sound. I jump in shock, surprised by this sound, as it was neither the mantis or [FMC].
I look to my shoulder and I see Momo lying there, seemingly just awaking from her long nap, yawn loudly (but very cutely) in my ear.
SCREEEEEEEEEECH!
Now that, was the mantis.
"Bad time to wake up, don't you think Momo?"
"Uhm....Wh...what happened?" Momo says while rubbing her eyes.
"You kind of just agroed the mantis over there, you see?"
I point towards the flying insect, or rather in the direction of it, since I couldn't actually see where it was. Momo followed my finger and caught a small glimpse of it,
"Oh."
That's it?! That's all you have to say?!
"I'm sure you can kill it!"
Momo gives me something that looks like a thumbs up with a big smile on her face, and disappears somewhere-----probably into the system. Speaking of the system, I got more info on the mantis.
I look around me, and all I see are poisonous plants staring at me menacingly, about to strike.
The environment is my friend, huh? Very believable.
Then it comes.
I feel the wind to my left leg disperse, and instantly jump. I look down and see a whip-like tendril slice the air beneath my feet.
I guess the fight's starting.
"Oh come on, I can't see anything anymore!" I hear [FMC] complain.
"Too bad! Well focus up, lets kill this thing fast."
First priority: Analyze the environment.
I create a web beneath my feet and [FMC] connects it using her bullet. I launch myself into the air, and finally see the wide landscape of the now plant-covered cavern.
"Create a hang-glider!"
"I'm on it!"
As I am in the air, [FMC] is already setting up the hang-glider about 30 feet below me. Right as I get close to the anchor points of the hang-glider, I hear,
"Its done!"
And I instantly shoot a bullet and connect the hang-glider, grabbing onto it, and gliding above all the poisonous plants. As I am gliding, I notice that four reddish plants, which don't seem to be doing anything, extend from the flower all the way to the ceiling. I deduce that these four plants must be some sort of special plants the mantis relies on.
Right as I was about to turn, I here a whoosh sound and see the mantis fly above me. I make a sudden right turn, trying to avoid the slash coming from the mantis but it was too late. The mantis cut through the paraglider and I started free-falling, about to land in the middle of those venomous plants. I shoot another web, trying to catch my fall, but the bullets suddenly disappeared.
What the?!
Before I could understand what happened, I fell to the ground, landing on my side and rolling in the dirt.
"Ouch....Hey! The bullets stopped working! What's happening on your side [FMC]?"
"I have no idea! I can't shoot anything either!"
This is bad...
I try to hide in some flowers, but their tendrils keep slapping at me, forcing me to run around and dodge based off pure reaction time. I frantically scroll threw my menu, until I finally see a message in my inventory,
How am I suppose to play now?! And a whole 10 minutes?!
"Umm [MC], I seem to have a recipe grid here? or something?"
"Wait what does the recipe say?"
I try to communicate to [FMC] while dodging all these attacks, but my stamina was running quite low.
"It says I can use some sort of flower to create a 'charm' which makes copies of the user"
The Flower of Disguise!
"Here, take this!"
I send the Flower of Disguise to her(don't ask me how, it just worked), and she quickly produced a charm out of it.
After I receive the charm, I try using it, but nothing happens. The mantis is getting closer and closer, it's even slicing up its own plants to get clear vision on me! I am chased until I reach the wall of the cavern, trapped by the mantis. I have already ran for so long, and used up so much stamina. I collapse, laying on the ground waiting for the mantis to kill me.
It was a good fight, mantis.
I raise my hand towards the mantis and sit there, wondering if I would even respawn in this world. Even the mantis seems to be pitying me, as it looks at me with eyes full of what seemed like tears. I then see a shine, and a blade comes right at my throat as I wait for impact.
But I don't feel anything.
I gingerly open my eyes, to see what happened. I was somehow near the other wall, opposite to the mantis. I look down on my hands, and squeeze them into fists, wondering if this was real. I then look at my inventory, and see that my charm is on a long cooldown. Did the charm....?
I didn't have time to think, as I heard a shaking sound resounding in the opposite side of the cave. The mantis sliced through one of the large red plants(since I was no longer there) and caused the ceiling above the plant to cave in a little, dropping debris from the sky.
Allllllllllll Skill.
I rise up, and prepare for the fight to continue.
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