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"....Callie?" Adym muttered.

"Callie, what are you doing!?" he exclaimed.

He then paused for a moment, as things processed through his mind. Possibilities, plans, everything.

And then he froze.

"...wait..." he mumbled.

"You're gonna try to CLIMB a leg!?" he yelled at her.

The body towered over her... but she saw that it could easily get down close towards her.

And it looked like it was doing just that.

It lowered its head, and she saw its fangs open up... moments before an arrow embedded itself under one of its eyes.

It recoiled and screeched again, as Callie saw it was Adym that let the arrow fly.

"Under it!" he said.

"It can't reach you when you're under it!" he informed her.

"And it won't want to get its weakened underbelly near you!"

Adym was silent, before sighing heavily.

"I'm sorry!" he apologised.

"I forgot that a spider was the guardian!" he went on.

He then jumped out of the way of another leg stomping down, before the creature let out another screech.

"Oh boy..." he muttered.

"It's angry now." he said, shaking his head slightly, and backing away from it.

"Eke popped a shoulder out of joint." Ryker replied.

"So I popped it back in." he said.

"Needless to say, it hurt him." he mumbled further.

"And yeah, back already." he continued.

"I got shooed out, saying I needed to spend more time with you." he told her, before pausing.

"...can't say I disagree."

Adym barely had time to register that Callie had just swore using terms from this world, before he needed to dodge the oncoming leg.

He leapt out of the way, barely avoiding the attack... and as he flew threw the air, he notched another arrow in his bow, and let it fly towards the leg that had come down where he was.

This time, it connected, and dug into the limb.

When it did, the creature let out a horrifying screech... but it didn't seem like it was in immense pain.

Yes, the arrow had hurt, but the damage was probably minimal.

Adym froze when he noticed the shadow above them.

"...oh." he muttered.

"Oh. Oh, dear." he said.

"Callie! RUN!" he yelled, before whirling around and readying an arrow in his bow. And before him was the most colossal spider that Callie had ever seen. It looked like a weird hybrid of a tarantula, and an orb-weaver.

Adym let the arrow fly, but the spider was quick, and knocked it away with one of its long legs.

"...crap." Adym muttered.

"......right..." Adym responded as he followed.

"...white... sticky..." he mumbled.

'...what IS this stuff?' he wondered.

'...the hell?' he asked further.

"Callie, be careful." he then said.

"We don't know what's going on. We could be ambushed." he warned.

"Because of the corruption, I can't sense anything."

Adym closed his eyes, concentrated, and then seemed to almost be knocked back by... something.

"Ngh." he grunted, nearly falling over.

"I can't get a read." he said.

"The corruption here is clouding my 'vision'." he told her.

"I have no idea which path to take." he admitted.

"...and I don't know if splitting up is a good idea." he went on.

"I mean, if I had to choose out of nowhere, I say... left." he then said.

"And no, I have NO reason for choosing that... except the corruption seems to be denser down that way." he added at the end.

".......that I have no clue about." Adym muttered.

"See, the shrine sometimes has a mind of its own, so to speak." he told her.

"Mist or fog will show up and cause people to go in circles." he continued.

He then paused, closed his eyes, and concentrated.

"But my senses say... we're 45 minutes away." he said.

"If we experience no interruptions, anyway."

Adym opened his mouth to say something... and then stopped.

He was silent for a moment.

"Ah... I..." he stammered.

"I've... forgotten..." he admitted sheepishly.

He then thought for a moment, seemingly concentrating hard, before snapping his fingers.

"I remember SOMETHING, though!" he exclaimed.

"It's venomous."

"......." Adym was silent, before looking at her.

"You're right." he said.

"You're absolutely right." he agreed.

He then took a deep breath, held it for a moment, and exhaled.

"Let's go." he told her.

"It's now, or later. And we don't have the luxury of waiting until later." he finished, before marching forward.

As he did, something sensed that he was there... that the both of them were there... and that something started to stir ever-so-slightly.

"Careful." he then said to her.

"We don't know what to expect. Be ever vigilant."

"....nervous." Adym replied.

"Concerned." he went on.

He then paused for a moment, and sighed heavily.

"All right, that's a massive understatement." he admitted.

"I'm terrified." he told her.

"This... this is my home. This shrine is a place that I've been connected to since birth." he continued.

"To see it... feel it... be sullied by this corruption is... infuriating, and saddening." he went on.

"But... can I really do anything?" he asked. "Or was what I said back there just... baseless bravado?"

Ryker just laughed.

"He didn't like that." he said.

"Anyway, ciao." he finished, before leaving and heading back outdoors.

"Right then." he muttered, before allowing his other self to form demonic wings on his back, which slowly elevated him towards the roof of the house.

"Okay." Adym responded.

He then looked at their new guide.

"Guess we're going right to the shrine." he told them.

"The sooner we go to solve this issue, the better." he reasoned.

"..." he was then silent, before looking at them again.

"I promise." he said.

"We WILL solve this." he vowed.

"We WILL bring life back to this forest, and the city."