They continued on for a bit, and once again a spider attacked them. This time a small one. Or rather...two small ones, as another one suddenly jumped down from the ceiling! One managed to bite Alakai right away as he was fending off the one that had come from the ceiling. "Ugh disgusting things! Leave us alone already!" Alakai exclaimed as he pummelled them both a few times. They dropped pretty quickly since these were just smaller ones. These spiders were relatively easy in the game, even if they were level 17. And in most mmorpg's you could handle enemies of 2 to even 4 levels higher. You were, however, given penalties. Right now it was -5% damage, evasion and hit chance. Still manageable. Kali was mostly here to make things go faster and to be sure he didn't die. As he didn't want to take that chance. Though he didn't mind helping her out a little either. People that were friendly like her deserved more than a fighting chance in a world like this, in his opinion. So they could keep the ones intent on harm at bay. As that would most likely become a reality soon enough.

"Let's see..." He mused at her question. "In the game I ran through this place in 20 minutes tops at level 18, without a party and only one short break. Judging by how it was still light outside when we arrived here, I think we can conclude that the game's 2 hour day cycle has been scaled up. So that would take us...about 5 hours. So we'll be able to exit again well before the sun goes down. Actually, I plan to stay around this area until tomorrow, grinding quests, and if those don't exist, grinding monsters instead. I aim to get to level 18 by tomorrow, then head back to the starting town and buy better equipment. I should have some items to sell or use by then as well. So...ah...you're free to join me if you want. Not just to be my pocket healer of course! I mean, it's nice to have a healer in this world, and things would go a lot faster for me. I can't deny that my top priority is to get myself stronger right now, but I don't mind doing that together with someone. And since...you know, we already partied together and such." Now he felt awkward. Being confident was easy when it was an avatar on screen. Now that he was here himself though...

"Anyway, think about it. Let's continue for the time being. It'll be hard work, but the pay off will be worth it." The hardest part of the dungeon was yet to come. Here, spiders weren't that frequent yet. But the population would slowly increase until 3 or 4 small spiders at every corner would be normal. Not to mention the miniboss at the end. Luckily there were only 8 large spiders on the way there, mostly separate from each other.

(How about we skip ahead just a bit? Like, say, half-way, and jump in again at the fight just before they arrive at a safe area.)