“So what you’re saying is that the spiders will only attack those who touch the treasures?” asked Gerald.
Watching as Old Flint nodded, Gerald and his party were instantly shocked. To think that the spiders would actually select their prey…
Meanwhile, Lech and his remaining team members were being swallowed alive by the gigantic spiders! It was truly a gruesome sight…
Staring at Gerald—who was still standing by the door—the pitiful Lech who was getting devoured could only plead, “B-brother Crawford…! Please, save us…!”
“H-Help! Please…!” screamed the other agonized members of Lech’s team as well.
Even so, there was nothing that Gerald could do. All of them had taken the cursed treasures due to their immense greed. In other words, they had brought all this upon themselves.
With that in mind, Gerald could only watch helplessly as they continued screaming and getting eaten…
Lech himself was torn clean in half before being tossed right into the abyss…
As for the rest of his team members, they were completely swallowed up by the smaller spiders, and all that was left of them now were puddles of blood…
It had barely even taken minutes for Lech and his group to be completely taken out…
Regardless, now that Lech and his men had been dealt with, the giant spiders then turned to eye Gerald and his party.
Though Gerald and his party vigilantly stared back at them, in the end, the spiders never made a move on them. Instead, they simply returned into the abyss under the stone bridge along with the smaller spiders…
This was naturally a pleasant surprise for Gerald and his group. To think that the spiders would actually leave them be! With their worst fears now over, they could all finally take breaths of relief…
Ray himself—who had earlier been anxious out of his mind—couldn’t help but sit on the ground, finally able to catch his breath now that the danger had passed.
After a while, the still jittery Ray then turned to face Gerald and Old Flint before saying, “That was way too nerve-wracking, Gerald! Thankfully you warned us about not touching the treasure, Old Flint! Otherwise, we would’ve surely suffered the same fate!”
After nodding in agreement, Gerald and Old Flint then began heading over to where Lech’s teammates had died… Even from afar, all the treasure they had been carrying could be seen lying in piles on the ground…
As they got closer, Gerald’s nose couldn’t help but twitch, prompting favonovel.com to ask, “…Do you smell that?”
Smelling the same light scent that Gerald was, Old Flint then explained, “…This is sandalwood incense. The vampires must have used this to lure the spiders! It appears that this is how the ‘curse’ operates!”
Feeling enlightened, Gerald then replied, “So what you’re saying is that the smell—that had originated from the treasure—ended up transferring onto Lech and his men after they touched them?
And that the spiders only attack those who have the smell lingering around them? If that’s the case, everything makes sense now!”
As it turned out, the ‘curse’ was merely an overstatement. In the end, it was an explainable phenomenon that simply required a little more investigation…
Shaking his head, Old Flint then sighed before saying, “Still, they only have themselves to blame… Had they not been greedy enough to touch the treasure, the spiders wouldn’t have attacked them in the first place!”
As the saying went, you reap what you sow…
Whatever the case was, Gerald wasn’t interested in thinking any further about it anymore. Some things and people were simply destined to be ruined.
While favonovel.com wanted to say that Lech was simply unlucky, it was honestly not that much of a surprise that favonovel.com ended up dying this way…
