Chapter 635 – 635. Sinkhole (7)
The two swordsmen sprinted towards the huge female spider located in the center of the open space.
There was no hesitation in Eun-hyeon and Riod’s sprint, which pinpointed the location of the female spider in the dark anthill.
Its speed is threatening enough to send a danger signal to the female spider’s instincts.
Kyririk!
It wasn’t long before he laughed at the two swordsmen who rushed to attack him fearlessly.
The female spider instinctively sensed danger in the rage.
He quickly created a web and shot it at the two swordsmen.
The sprayed mass of spider webs quickly flew towards Eunhyeon and Riod.
The spider’s web contains an enormous amount of acid that melts everything it touches, including the gastric juice secreted from the female spider’s body.
It is certain that the moment they touch the web, it will melt all of their gear, as well as all their bones and flesh.
Even though the spider web projectiles were flying, Eunhyeon and Riod did not slow down their speed.
Instead of lowering it, it actually increased the speed even more.
Kirik!
The female spider laughed at them inwardly.
He licked his lips with his tongue as long and thin as a snake, thinking that in a little while his prey would increase even more.
However, things did not go so well for the female spider, who was in the predator’s shoes.
“Don’t stop.”
“I get it.”
Liode nodded slightly at Eun-hyeon’s brief instruction, but did not say much.
Even when he saw the existence of the projectile flying vaguely from the torch in his dark vision, Riod did not slow down his charge towards the giant female spider.
The reason was simple.
It was because Eun-hyeon told her not to stop.
That meant that the female spider’s gastric juice-filled webs flying toward them from the front posed no threat.
The question of how or why is not important.
It was because that part was none other than Eun-hyeon’s problem.
[Eunhyeon’s Unique Ability]
[Time Acceleration]
In addition to strengthening the body using magical powers, Eunhyeon’s speed using the power of the goddess increased even more.
The moment the projectile of the spider’s web flying ahead of Rio de approached right in front of Eun-hyeon’s nose, Eun-hyeon activated her goddess’ armor imprinted in her soul.
[God’s Arms]
[Aegis]
The shield of the goddess given by Minerva appeared in front of Eunhyeon to defend her webs.
Cheeik!
The spider webs blocked by the Aegis emitted smoke.
Kirik!?
At the sight, the female spider reacted with considerable bewilderment.
From the spider’s point of view, the barrier of the translucent mirror seemed to block its web.
It was the first embarrassing situation for a spider.
There were prey that had evaded her web so far, but none that she had blocked from the front.
Even the means are bizarre and unknown.
Riod didn’t miss the agitation of the female spider, who hesitated for a very short moment.
She quickly dug into the spider’s right side and swung her sword at the foremost of the eight legs on her right.
‘Quietly and quickly.’
It was not a slash that made the best use of Riod’s specialty, releasing the sword created by infusing enormous magical energy.
The greatest advantage of Riod’s technique is its power and wide attack range, comparable to high-digit magic.
However, if you exert your full power here, there may be a situation where the ceiling and ground collapse again.
That’s why Riod was currently in a situation where he couldn’t use his special skills and power to the fullest.
However, a man named Leo Olivion, who was the leader of Artia’s knights, was not a weak human being to the extent that he could barely stop at this level of restriction.
I risked my life to fight monsters stronger than this, and in that experience, there was always a situation full of unreasonable conditions for Riod, Eunhyeon, and other team members.
So, in this situation, Riod fulfilled his role faithfully.
Neither more nor less, as long as he exerted his strength exactly as the situation required, the rest always made up for what his comrades lacked.
In this situation, Riod was not fighting alone.
He has no doubt that he will win because he has a reliable colleague named Eun-hyeon who is stronger than him.
Kirik!
After confirming Riod’s approach, the female spider swung her left arm and parried Riod’s sword strike.
Caang!
Riod’s body collided with the female spider’s claws and was pushed back.
Riod immediately corrected his stance and regained his broken balance as he was pushed away.
If it had been a little faster, Leod’s sharp sword blade could have completely cut off one of the female spider’s legs, but despite her huge body, the female spider’s movements were very fast.
‘Doesn’t care.’
Riod didn’t regret it at all even though his own blow didn’t work.
The female spider, who fended off her own sword strike, was able to save one of her legs, but the female spider side was not intact either.
The tip of the female spider’s arm, the part of her long, sharp fingernail that collided head-on with her Riod’s sword trembled.
She couldn’t fully absorb the shock and went into a state of rigidity.
It was a very short moment, less than one second, but creating this moment was Riod’s real goal.
If it was Eun-hyeon, there was no way she would miss this brief moment when the female spider was in a state of rigidity.
[Siete Swordsmanship]
[Beheading of white flowers]
In the dark field of view, a silvery white sword that clearly exudes a presence.
Instead of the normally blue sword made with magical power, the sword made with divine power cut through the clean island.
It wasn’t until a few seconds after that silvery flash that the female spider realized that one of her right forelimbs wasn’t listening to her.
Kirik!?
At the moment when all her nerves were focused on Rio de’s approach and attack, Eun-hyeon, who neatly blocked her own spider webs, quickly moved to her opposite leg and amputated one of her legs.
In an instant, one of her right legs was severed and the unbalanced female spider fell forward little by little.
Finally, the moment when the upper body of a female spider in the form of a human woman collided with the ground and collapsed.
Even one of her left legs, which she had managed to protect, was brutally cut off by Riod’s sword strike.
The female spider felt her two swordsmen creeping towards her head little by little as they stomped on her own body.
The two blades radiating a dull blue white silver sword and the one blade clad in a blue sword drew closer and closer.
It is the instinctive threat that “Death” Is getting closer.
Kyaaaaagh!
As her survival instincts set off alarm bells, the female spider let out a shrill, thin scream.
It made Eunhyeon and Riod in the anthill momentarily fall into a state of rigidity with a deafening noise, an unpleasant reverberation of the vocal chords that seemed to scratch the air.
“Kuh… !?”
The aftermath of the noise was the entire inside of this wide anthill, and Cha Han-seong and Delia, who were far away, frowned at the deafening noise and covered their ears.
However, this noise was not made to put them in a state of rigidity.
The first to notice the change was Eunhyeon, who was aware of the surrounding situation through sensing.
There are dozens of other burrows leading to this anthill.
Eun-hyeon, who confirmed that dozens of spiders had flocked to the burrows that were also connected to the ceiling, realized that the female spider was gathering her baby spiders to one place to protect herself.
Eun-hyeon quickly completed the judgment in her head.
“Leod!”
She pointed her finger at Cha Han-seong and Delia, who began to be surrounded by little spiders that were approaching little by little.
“I will.”
Recognizing Eun-hyeon’s intention to put the finishing touches on himself and prioritize the safety of the members, Riod moved away from the female spider’s fallen body.
“Take it.”
Eunhyun took out a jewel from her bosom and threw it at Riod.
If you infuse her magical energy, the jewel set to automatically activate the barrier will block the baby spiders from entering.
After receiving the jewel, Riod entrusted the handling of the female spider to Eun-hyeon and ran straight to Cha Han-seong and Delia.
Kirik!
The female spider, who had fallen forward, summoned the baby spiders with a scream, and at the same time gave a shock to the eardrum, buying a little time to prepare her posture.
Eun-hyeon tried to decapitate the female spider before she fully stood up.
The sharp claws of the female spider, which instinctively defended the vital point, blocked the blade of the blue moon.
Eventually, baby spiders emerged from dozens of ant burrows located on the ceiling and sprayed her webs at Eun-hyeon.
The spider webs sprayed from the baby spiders’ mouths were incomparable to the acid-filled webs shot by the female spiders, but as they piled up, they could cause physical damage as well as slow down their movements.
Eunhyun was worried.
‘The jewel barrier and the Aegis.’
It wasn’t very difficult to fend off the webs launched by dozens of baby spiders, but the problem was the means.
Gem amplification, which requires the consumption of a limited number of jewels, or Aegis, which requires the consumption of divine power, should be prioritized.
It took less than 0.1 second for Eun-hyeon, who had accelerated her thinking power to the limit with the power of the goddess, to weigh the two methods and choose one.
[God’s Arms]
[Aegis]
Eun-hyeon placed the summoned Aegis on top to block and maintain all the spider webs spraying from the baby spiders in the ant nest on the ceiling.
The reason for choosing Aegis is simple.
This is because the jewels that activate jewel amplification cannot be obtained in this anthill, and she wanted to save them in case of an unexpected situation in order to help Rio de and the others.
Even the activation of the Aegis consumes a huge amount of divine power, so it’s not a power that can be used very often, but in an emergency, he could have asked for help from Belldandi and drew up the divine power as soon as possible.
If it’s Belldandy who doesn’t hesitate to help Eun-hyeon, he’s rather happy with it.
Key, Kirik!
The female spider was taken aback when the attack of the baby spiders she had summoned was again blocked by a mysterious translucent barrier and did no damage.
A large body that exceeds the size of a human.
The outer skin boasted solid defense.
Overwhelmingly large numbers.
The acidity of gastric juices that dissolves all equipment, bones and flesh.
The superior elements of the female spider, which had unilaterally trampled on and manipulated its prey until now, were of no use to the silver-haired human man in front of her eyes.
The feeling of a monster who has always been a predator, feeling for the first time in front of an opponent superior to itself.
It was the fear that a prey feels in front of a predator.
Eunhyun moved.
Even though she knew she was moving, the female spider couldn’t move.
The emotion of fear, which is felt for the first time in life, stimulates and atrophies the monster’s survival instinct, making it harden.
When you don’t even realize that you’ve been feeling those feelings for a human smaller than yourself.
Squeak
Eun-hyeon, who moved rapidly leaving behind an afterimage by activating the metamorphosis, reached the back of the female spider’s neck.
A silvery flash cut the female spider’s throat.
The female spider’s neck, which had been hardened in fear, fell to the floor in vain, and at the same time, Eun-hyun, who landed on the floor, stared at the monster’s corpse as if she didn’t like something.
Belldandy asked if Eunhyeon was bothered by that appearance.
[Hey. Is there anything that bothers you?]
“… This monster. What the hell could it have been?”
This question Eunhyeon has is not only about the female spider she herself decapitated.
The existence of the human locusts that entered the sinkhole and encountered from the beginning was also very annoying.
A question about monsters that do not have a human form while retaining a human appearance.
Are these truly magical beasts created naturally?
That couldn’t be the case, Eunhyeon was convinced.
She did not harbor the arrogant notion that she knew everything about this continent.
The world is still full of unknowns.
However, I couldn’t help but be very concerned about the existence of monsters I hadn’t seen even once while wandering this continent for at least nearly 400 years.
“In the deepest part of this anthill… What will it be?”
