Spider Queen Arachnainera – 6
“… … .”
I carefully opened my closed eyes. Judging by the fact that I was still alive and not dead, the plan seemed to work. Or they die without feeling any pain and are in the afterlife.
Soon, the pressure that had been gripping my arms as if they were going to crush them weakened, and I fell and hit the floor with my butt. My butt was throbbing, so it wasn’t the afterlife.
I raised my head. Right in front of me was the gaping spider’s mouth. I raised my head more. I saw the Arachnainera, eyes closed and mouth open, twitching and convulsing all over.
The four pairs of spider legs on the lower body swayed wildly, and the human arms drooped down. A little bit of consciousness remained, but it seemed that there was no room for action.
In contrast, I was very well.
The plan was a success.
‘It was close.’
At the last moment, when lightning was about to fall on my head, I reflexively closed my eyes.
If the arachnainera hadn’t gone to the brink of devouring me, if there had been even a little bit more of a gap between the two of us, I would have been struck by lightning.
It’s an act I committed after calculating all those details in my own way, but I thought that there might be something wrong because I was calculating it in my head while breathing, so that kind of reaction came out naturally.
It was a method that I came up with on the spot after seeing the direction of Claudia, Lise, and Arachnainera from the beginning. Time was running out and there was no time to verify the calculations.
‘Is this the power of a full-charge thunderstorm?’
I looked around. All the baby spiders that were filling the area were electrocuted and scattered on the floor without a single exception, and those who survived could not approach because of the aftermath of the lightning strike.
What Claudia had just used was a technique called ‘Swirling Storm of Lightning’.
An attack that raises the greatsword to the sky and concentrates on it, then strikes it to explode a circular shockwave centered on itself and spreads a huge amount of lightning by laying a floor covering a wide area nearby.
As you can infer from what I said to fly as hard as possible, the range and attack power vary depending on the amount of time you focus your mind. If he concentrated to the end, he could have covered the entire boss room like he is now.
It’s not a skill that comes out of vanilla, of course, it was added in a della mod. If you don’t break it with a weapon with high rigidity, it was a pattern that will spread the floor over the entire boss room.
The reason why I didn’t use that from the beginning is because it’s impossible to distinguish between peers.
Rize and Erika each have their own way to survive, but I can’t do that. If you hit that thing, you’ll get caught up in it and die with it.
Wasn’t that the reason why I induced Arachnainera’s catching pattern in the first place? Instead of me, you should be hit with thunderbolts and shockwaves.
“Mr. Delta!”
Erica, who had come to my side before I knew it, grabbed me and stepped back in an instant. The distance between the Spider Queen and me widened.
I turned around to check Erica’s figure. Although he was short of breath and had numerous minor cuts all over his body, he did not appear to be seriously injured.
In contrast, the armor was completely finished. The helmet had already been torn off, and the upper half of the body was barely covered with only the shoulders, and the lower half of the body was only left below the thighs. It was embarrassing to even call it armor.
“Erika, are you okay? Are you hurt anywhere?”
“That’s what I’m going to say!”
Erica yelled and grabbed me by the shoulder and pressed her face closer. Red eyes filled with all sorts of complex emotions came right in front of me.
“Are you really crazy? Who would do something so reckless!”
“It’s okay because we both lived. don’t be too hot Then you wouldn’t even know you were hurt. Pick down later.”
“Now that doesn’t matter!”
“If that’s not important, then what’s important?”
“… … .”
At my rebuttal, Erica fell silent as if speechless.
okay. No matter what crazy plan I put into practice, no matter what nonsense I did, the result was that the Arachninera was neutralized and both of us survived.
Nothing was as important as that.
“… … This is what I said before, Mr. Delta. Death while subjugating monsters is something that can happen to us knights at any time. If I had to, I was willing to make a sacrifice—”
His voice softened slightly, as if he had nothing to say.
“Isn’t it me?”
“yes?”
Erica made a blank face for an instant.
“I don’t know about you, Erica, but not about me.”
I released the gripped shoulder. Erica, who had approached to the point of being burdensome, pushed her body back a little and stood up.
Sacrifice, that sounded very funny.
It’s not even in a hopeless crisis situation that can’t be overcome, at best, one of the knights of the Silver Dawn Knights sacrifices himself to this early-mid-mid boss. Do you think I’ll leave it like that?
And even if such a crisis situation hits me, I will somehow find a solution on my line.
‘They must survive unconditionally.’
The captains of the Knights of the Silver Dawn will never betray the protagonist unless the player strikes the head first. In Brunet 4, there were no allies as strong as these four.
It means that you can trust it unconditionally in any situation. Can you let those allies die?
“… … Mr. Delta. what is that-”
“Erika! delta! it’s okay?!”
Erica muttered something with a blank expression on her face, but it was soon covered by Rize’s booming voice. Rize, who ran with a very urgent look, stopped right in front of me.
“then. Look, are you fine? Did you keep your promise again?”
I intentionally exaggeratedly spread my arms and laughed. Rize looked at me quietly. I couldn’t see his expression because of the helmet, but it probably wasn’t a very good expression.
“okay. More details later. Are you Erica? it’s okay? Are you hurt anywhere?”
“yes? oh, that’s right Yes. I’m fine too, sister. There are no injuries anywhere.”
After Rize asked if she was okay, Erika, who came to her senses in a hurry, nodded her head. Why is he talking gibberish by himself?
“Kyaaah!”
A shrieking sound could be heard from far away. It was a familiar voice.
Screams emanated from Arachnainera. Suddenly, Claudia approached and started beating Arachnainera with her greatsword.
Every time the greatsword was swung, his legs were cut off, his stomach ripped open, and his upper body shattered. Seeing that, Rize and Erika also grabbed their weapons again as if they had come to their senses.
“Yes. It was still there.”
“I’ll take care of it right away, so Delta, don’t think about moving recklessly and stick by my side.”
After the thunderbolt died down, the baby spiders began to flock in groups, but before they could do anything, they were swept away by Rize and Erica’s attack.
Erica, in particular, created a huge flame as if she were taking revenge on what had happened to her. The spiderlings touched by the flames turned to ashes without a squeak.
It didn’t take long for the number of living figures in the cave to decrease to five.
“Kheuk. Heck. mandible… … .”
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Most of the Arachnainera’s body had been torn off, leaving only the upper half of a human, crawling across the floor in tears and green bodily fluids, trying to escape.
“Where?”
“Kyaaah!”
Phew, Claudia thrust the greatsword into his stomach. Messy fingers scraped the floor desperately. It was futile.
“Whoa, it’s barely over.”
Claudia let out a short sigh and threw away the poison-stained armor. Fortunately, there seemed to be no such thing as that green liquid melting the armor.
Erica didn’t even have the armor to throw off. Even the barely remaining parts had long since fallen off.
At least Rize kept the original shape of her armor, but it was meaningless since there were more green than silver. Changgrang and Rize untied the poison-stained armor.
A sweaty white sleeveless shirt and dolphin pants the color of her own hair were exposed.
“Come to think of it, Delta.”
Claudia, who was flapping her sleeveless chest and blowing air into it, came next to me. I turned my head to see what was going on.
“I didn’t have time to ask because the situation was urgent earlier.”
Perhaps it was because he had some time to spare, but a smirk appeared on his lips again. what are you trying to say
“How did you know I could use a lightning storm?”
‘Ah, was it this way?’
I wondered if it was because of the momentary use of short words, but when I thought about it, Claudia was absolutely not the type to find fault with me for using short words in the same situation as before.
Rather, if you praised me for being able to survive because of me, I would have praised you.
“I heard from Rize.”
“okay? Wow, did you just tell me all of this?”
Rize, huh? It was a response, but after seeing my gaze, he quietly shut his mouth as if he had convinced himself. Instead, I didn’t forget to convey the words, one more debt, with my mouth wide open.
“It hurts, it hurts, it hurts… … Whoops.”
Arachnainera, with a greatsword stuck in her belly, was in a helpless state, shedding tears and repeating the words of pain.
If someone who does not know the situation in front sees it, it would be a situation where a mortally wounded, peerless beauty is naked and crying in pain as a greatsword is stuck in her belly, so the spider queen may feel sorry for her.
However, since we all know that this is a monster, and since Erika barely passed the risk of being killed by this guy, the feeling of pity was absurd.
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Moreover, it is a monster that has already killed hundreds of people. Those corpses are all over the boss room. That, too, was just a strategy to somehow buy sympathy.
‘I can leave it to you to take care of it.’
After confirming that the knight commanders raised their weapons and approached Arachnainera, I turned around and headed deeper into the boss room.
It is blocked by a spider web during the boss fight, but to the place you can enter after the spider queen is defeated.
Even when Rize, Erica, and Claudia saw me moving alone, they didn’t show any reaction. Maybe you’re thinking that you’re going to do something again.
I entered a cave lined with corpses that had been sucked by Arachnainera.
‘eww.’
As soon as I entered, I was greeted with a dry, twisted human corpse, and I frowned. Even though his face was parched, the expression of pain was still vivid.
ㅡaaa!
‘Uh, surprise.’
As I was walking inside, I heard a scream coming from behind me and I shrank in surprise. It seemed that the subjugation was over.
I passed by a place where a wall covered in spider webs should have blocked the way, and went inside. When I finally entered the innermost dead end, I saw what I was looking for.
‘found.’
I think mc can use regression as excuse why he know so much