(Drake POV)

We descended through the stairs towards floor 2 as we were immediately greeted by a massive swarm of the same spiders we fought before. The moment we stepped into the second floor, we were greeted by another swarm of spiders right midway through the stairs, the annoying spiders crawled upwards, hissing, and roaring back at us, but we were mostly unfazed by their intimidation at this point.

We quickly began to massacre them as we had done before. It wasn ’t so hard, and I used my magic to swiftly freeze them to death, it was surprising to see that such monsters were so weak to ice. Despite living in a continent were more than half of it is covered in snow and icescapes.

This time we were even more merciless, swift, precise, and efficient, I unleashed a larger part of my Unique Skill: Winter Magic, showing off the might of it as everything around me that wasn ’t my allies froze, only for everyone else to quickly confirm the kills by slaying them with their weapons, fists, or claws… or even bodies.

In less than an hour, second floor was cleared as we quickly gathered the corpses in my Inventory and I even decided to gather the spiderweb I found, finding it was a very good silk that could be used for high quality magic-conducting fabric.

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After that little looting, we move further into floor 3, where we were greeted with something interesting, mutations. There were mutated evolutions of the spiders now, some were bigger than others, although their bodies were different. Some had a lot of metallic spikes with venom on them, others had crab-like claws, some even had sharp scorpion stingers, and a few others even had wings, indeed, flying spiders, what a horror that I would only find in my deepest nightmares.

These mutations still were within the Rank 3 spectrum, and were not hard to kill either, but were mostly a spectacle to the eyes to see how they had advanced and mutated. If these horrors were to crawl outside the dungeon and then expand, many villages and sects would fall before their numbers and incredibly fast ability to reproduce, coupled with their bloodthirsty and cold demeanors, the ability to absorb mana (which we had been being constantly drained since we entered), and more…