Kyle ran back into the tunnel, and the scaly Spitters immediately started firing after him.
Most of the shots hit the walls, but one of them hit his back.
Kyle immediately let himself fall forward and rolled on the ground several times, extinguishing the flames.
This… strange maneuver also led to more fireballs missing him as they flew past him.
He quickly scrambled back on his feet again, but his back was hurting.
He had no idea how much damage the fireball did, but he could feel that it did something.
Luckily, the tunnel wasn’t completely straight, and the scaly Spitters couldn’t hit him anymore after a bit of running.
Then, Kyle saw a wall.
For a moment, he despaired.
‘Oh, right! Hole!’ he remembered.
He had jumped down a bunch of holes on his way here.
As he reached the wall, he jumped upward with all of his power.
‘Oh, fuck!’ he thought as he saw the rapidly approaching ceiling.
BANG!
He kicked the wall beside him, throwing him into the tunnel at the top of the hole.
BANG!
But he still hit his head on the ceiling and rolled on the ground a bit.
Luckily, his body could withstand this abuse.
After he stopped rolling, he quickly ran back to the entrance of the hole and looked down.
He heard the distant scrambling of claws, and just a single second later, he saw the first scaly Spitters stopping at the bottom of the hole.
They immediately spotted him and jumped onto the wall.
Their claws scrambled on the walls, but these walls were much harder than normal ones.
Their claws couldn’t find any hold on the walls, and they fell back down.
When Kyle saw that, he grinned.
“Can’t climb this wall, huh?!” he shouted.
One of the scaly Spitters jumped upward with all of its power, stopping just five meters before the edge of the hole.
When Kyle saw the scaly Spitter jump, he had become nervous, but when he saw it falling just short, he grinned again.
But then, the scaly Spitter kicked one of the walls, extending its jump.
Kyle’s eyes widened once again as the scaly Spitter shot right at him.
“No!” Kyle shouted, slamming his hammer into the scaly Spitter.
BANG!
The scaly Spitter hit the wall of the tunnel with a ton of force.
Then, it started to fall down again, completely limp.
It was dead.
Getting hit by such a gigantic and heavy hammer was devastating to many things, scaly Spitters included.
At that point, Kyle got an idea.
He stepped back from the edge and pointed his hammer forward before pulling it back and holding it like a baseball bat.
“I’ll give you guys a load of freedom!” he shouted as he waited.
The next moment, he heard the sounds of kicking feet coming closer.
He could tell that the scaly Spitters were climbing the hole by kicking from one wall to the other repeatedly.
Kyle’s eyes widened in focus.
The first scaly Spitter jumped up.
Kyle swung.
“And he hits it!” Kyle shouted as his hammer hit the scaly Spitter’s torso.
He put his left hand over his eyes as if he was watching a marvelous home run.
Naturally, the scaly Spitter’s body just hit the wall and fell down.
He readied his hammer again, and the next scaly Spitter appeared.
BOOOOOM!
Kyle’s hammer hit it, killing it as well.
“WHOOOOOO!” he shouted. “Who is this player?! Two home runs in a row!”
But then, the next one arrived way too quickly.
Due to his posturing, Kyle hadn’t managed to ready his hammer yet.
The scaly Spitter’s mouth was already burning with a readied fireball.
“No!” Kyle shouted as the butt of his hammer hit the lower jaw of the scaly Spitter.
The scaly Spitter’s head angled upwards, and its mouth closed.
BOOOOM!
Kyle’s eyes widened in surprise as the scaly Spitter’s mouth exploded, its force throwing the scaly Spitter back into the hole.
Kyle found the image quite funny since it looked like a jet engine had appeared in the scaly Spitter’s mouth, rapidly moving it into the hole.
He didn’t hear the sound of feet jumping from wall to wall yet, and he took advantage of this opportunity.
‘Lunch break!’ Kyle thought as he grabbed some of the Basic Mage Stone he carried in his pocket.
Basic Mage Stone quickly turned to dust when properly mined, and eating a mouthful of sand was awkward.
Because of that, Kyle just snorted the blue dust.
A burst of energy went through his body, and his eyes turned red.
When the sound of scrambling feet returned, Kyle readied his hammer again.
‘Keep me in, coach! I can still perform! I’m not doping!’ he thought.
BANG!
“WHOOOO!” Kyle shouted, killing another scaly Spitter.
But then, two additional ones appeared below the flying body of the first one.
Both of them opened their mouths and jumped at him.
BANG!
Kyle kicked one of them away with his foot, but the other one landed on his body.
It immediately bit into his neck.
CRK!
But Kyle had quickly pulled the hammer’s hilt between the scaly Spitter and his neck.
The scaly Spitter crunched down on the massive hilt, but it couldn’t do anything to it.
However, its scaly feet kept scratching Kyle as it tried to move forward.
These scratches enraged Kyle.
‘Oh, you wanna eat me?!’ he thought.
He aggressively grabbed the scaly Spitter and easily threw it against the wall beside him.
Then, he roughly grabbed its head and shoulder, keeping them in place.
Finally, he bit into its neck.
Blood exploded into Kyle’s face as he tore a huge chunk out of its neck.
By now, it was more than clear that Kyle’s body was significantly stronger than the scaly Spitters’ bodies.
When he tasted the blood, Kyle gained another burst of energy and tore the scaly Spitter apart.
Its head was torn off its body.
The head rolled into the tunnel while the body fell back into the hole.
With bloodshot eyes, Kyle looked at the hole.
‘Playtime’s over! No more silly Kyle!’
He pulled his hammer forward…
And jumped down the hole.