The juvenile red sickle spider already had a large hole in its abdomen, caused by Hopper's left front foot. It had no room to dodge Hopper's killing move.
Hopper's activated the skill 'Leg of Percing' and stabbed the juvenile red sickle spider's head with his sharp right front foot.
As the juvenile red sickle spider completely lost its life force, the upper jaw that was biting Hopper gradually loosened.
"Phew, it's over!"
Lying on the ground, Hopper panted as he pulled out the spiked forefoot from the body of the juvenile red sickle spider.
Then, he stood up and used his two middle and lower legs to touch his slightly swollen torso and back respectively.
There was a reason that Hopper took the risk of being cut in half was to engage in close combat with the juvenile red sickle spider.
The purpose was to use his hard body to restrain the other party's sharpest upper jaw, making it unable to move freely!
Especially after discovering that the spider silk he shot out would be cut in half by the juvenile red sickle spider, Hopper was even more certain in his heart that this was the best countermeasure at that time.
Facts proved that he was right.
When they saw that Hopper chose to fight head-on, the juvenile red sickle spider did not hesitate. It opened its sharp scythe-like upper jaw and bit Hopper.
Just as Hopper expected, after he flipped backward, he successfully used his body to restrict the opponent's strongest attack, the scythe-like upper jaw.
When the spider tried to bite Hopper's torso with its scythe-like upper jaw, what awaited it was Hopper's two 'Legs of Piercing'!
Seeing that the red sickle spider was no longer moving, Hopper used his eight small eyes to scan the surroundings.
After confirming that there were no other juvenile spiders around, he lowered his head and began to eat the juvenile red sickle spider's corpse.
[Absorbing the Anzor spider adult. Obtained special 'sharp blade'. +1 strengthening points.]
"As expected, this red sickle spider is also an adult stage."
"Moreover, it should have reached the second stage earlier than the blue juvenile spider. Otherwise, it wouldn't have been so efficient when hunting the juvenile spider."
"However, there shouldn't be many juvenile spiders like them that have reached 'adult'. After all, there are still so many eggs that haven't been broken."
"As for the 'sharp blade' characteristic I just acquired, it should be related to its upper jaw of the sickle."
"If I continue eating, perhaps my upper jaw will become as sharp."
Thinking of this, Hopper chose to eat and absorb the two scythe-like upper jaws of the juvenile red sickle spider first.
[Absorbing the 'Anzor spider adult'. Strengthening points +1.]
[Absorbing the 'Anzor spider adult'. Strengthening points +1.]
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As the upper jaw of the red sickle spider was slowly devoured, the accumulated energy in Hopper's body began to flow towards his mouthpart.
[By consuming Anzor spider adult's upper jaw, you have learned the black-iron rank skill 'Enhanced Claw'.]
[Enhanced Claw skill level: level 1. Would you like to use up strengthening points to upgrade this skill?]
"Is the enhanced part the claw this time? Looks like I don't have to rely on acid to eat anymore."
After seeing the notification on the screen before him, Hopper did not hesitate.
He chose to use enhanced points to upgrade the passive skill enhanced claw.
This was because the claw beside the mouthpart was a sharp weapon used by spiders to hunt their prey. The poison gland in Hopper's mouth that secreted acid was in the claw.
After the spider caught the prey, they injected the acid into the prey through the chelicerae. After the acid corroded the prey, it was easier for the upper and lower jaws to crush and absorb the food.
Whether it was the eggshell, the purple-legged young spider, or the blue spider's corpse that Hopper had previously chewed up, he had relied on the acid secreted by the poison gland in his mouth to corrode and then eat.
This was because his upper and lower jaws and chelicerae were no different from an ordinary young spider.
If there was no acid corrosion, he would be unable to eat the corpses of the purple-legged and blue-legged baby spiders.
This was also the reason why Hopper had chosen to first absorb the upper jaws of the red sickle spider after obtaining the characteristic 'sharp blade'.
If his upper and lower jaws or pincer claws could become like the red sickle spider, then his feeding speed would be at least doubled in the future!
[Enhanced Claw have been upgraded to level 2 and obtained the characteristics of the Anzor Spider adult, 'hard' and 'sharp blade'.]
Just like how the villi obtained the characteristics of 'tenacity' and 'hard 'after being strengthened, Hopper chose to consume strengthening points to upgrade his 'Enhanced Claw'.
His pincer claws also obtained the characteristics of 'hard' and 'sharp blade'.
The energy that rushed towards Hopper's mouthpart began to heat up after reaching his claws.
Hopper was also used to being transformed by his mythical-level talent.
As the glowing claws began to cool down, Hopper found that his claws had also turned into a red blade that gleamed with cold light.
Although his claws were more like two daggers than the upper jaw of the red sickle spider, Hopper felt that these two daggers were enough. After all, he already had two spiked front legs.
If his claws were strengthened like a scythe, his head would be too big, and it would be difficult for him to move.
The sickle spider on the ground, which he had stabbed to death, was the best example.
Seeing that his claws had been strengthened, Hopper controlled his poison glands and temporarily stopped secreting acid.
He tried to bite the red sickle spider's body with his claws.
With a few cracking sounds, the red sickle spider's body was torn into pieces.
"It's much sharper than I thought!"
Hopper looked at the broken body in front of him with joy and continued to eat and absorb.
After a while, the juvenile red sickle spider's body was swallowed by Hopper.
Two unexpected notifications lit up on the screen.
['Anzor baby spider' absorption complete. Your strength, vitality, spirit, and agility have increased by 0.02.]
[Do you wish to use the special effect 'sharp blade' to consume strengthening points and learn the black-iron skill 'Throat-slicing Bite'?]