*CHICHICHICHICHI*
The spider, having woken up from the sleep, shook its giant body. It must've sensed our presence as it started to descend from its 'home' on the ceiling, crawling down on the wall, swiftly and rapidly moving its legs.
*Drip*
*Shaawwsh*
It had a size of about 20 feet. Eyes, dozens upon dozens. Its huge fury mandibles dripped with viscous saliva or some acid that even melted the stony ground with that 'shawwshing' sound upon contact. Its black abdomen were marked with red stripes. Eight giant legs, with innumerable sensory hairs, moved with absurd rapidity.
*shawwwshhhhh*
*shawwashhh*
It's on the ground now. It inched closer and closer, using its long legs to push down on the ground.....but curiously slow...
*Grrrr*
Fena growled at it as she moved forward, towards it.
That Spider... I expected it to react just as those Arachnes did. Charging furiously on sight. But it's the opposite of that. It is oddly mindful of something. It is wary of something. Fena.
It remembers the previous battle between them?
Even though we are present here too, to that spider we're just some fodders.
I whisper in Rina's ears something, so as to not disturb the reunion between the 'fated enemies' with our 'conversation'.
I also approached the Spider, to get it under my range.
*Ba-thump* * Ba-thump*
Even though all its killing intent is directed towards Fena, its pressure still penetrates my being.
'Where is the soul stone... don't tell me it's inside its body?'
'If it isn't where I can aim, then...'
'... I will have to shoot it with my skill at its most vulnerable place. Its head... but then we'll have to survive till it disintegrates. And judging from its size... it will take hours to disintegrate completely. No way we can survive that long.'
*Ba-thump* * Ba-thump**Ba-thump* * Ba-thump*
With each step, my heartbeat raced. I calmed my wayward breathing and moved further ahead. In my peripheral, I saw the old gate's debris move. Rina is already at it, huh.
Fena and the spider slowly reduced the distance to a suitable metres away and then charged at each other with their top speeds.
The Spider's mandibles opened and spat an acid ball on Fena. Fena avoided it by dodging sideways. and leapt at it.
*Splash*
*swaaahhssshhhh*
It wasn't even a moment and the ground above which its acid fell, melted and a noxious smell fumed from it.
The spider sidestepped and dodged Fena's claws and shot webs at Fena in an attempt to put distance and to trap her, but Fena burned the webs with her breath, she retreated back. Taking a deep long breath she exhaled her fire breath. But the flames could only burn the webs sheet that was woven by the spider a moment before she even fired.
That fucking shit, it already knows all of Fena's skills!
Fena leapt at it again and it hoped further right to avoid it.
......Perfect.
"RINA!!! Now!!"
At that instant, Rina dropped the debris on the spider. The spider was too close to avoid, got crushed.
That Spider. It is way too wary of Fena. From the beginning, it was calculating each of her moves and reacting accordingly. It got so absorbed in her that it didn't even notice the giant boulder floating above the area. I had told Rina to make sure to drop it when it expects the least but surprisingly the opportunity didn't took much time to show itself, heh.
I bolted towards it, but it quickly got out from the rubble, scattering the debris in all directions. Thrashing its long legs in a fit of rage. But it didn't suffered any injury, not even a scratch on its black exoskeleton.
I did expect it to survive that, but there is not even a scratch on it.
The spider's hind legs stabbed into the ground behind it and its front legs along with its upper body rose up in the air, its joints bent at an angle.
"KHHHEEECCCCHHHHH"
??!!
"Ughhhh.."
*Ba-thump* * Ba-thump**Ba-thump* * Ba-thump*
'Damn it. The pressure!!'
That ear-deafening screech of its, is it some skill? It's inducing fear in my body! An artificial fear, or is it... a primal instinct of the weak? Whatever it was, it made me slouch down and cover my ears in terror. It is telling us who the predator is. It's telling us who we enraged, the Boss of this Area.
'So, we just angered it, huh.'
After screeching, it glared directly at Rina, she flinched, it charged straight towards her, to kill the one who dared annoyed it. But Fena blocked it from going further close to her.
'It can even analyse that it was Rina? Cunning bastard!'
But...right now... it just showed me its weakness.
Yes, I finally saw it, the soul stone. When it rose to screech, it was on its stomach, but it downwards. There is no way for me to get down of its body. It would just crush me if I foolishly tried to do any stunts, not to forget those acid spits. I don't think it will just end in pain if it splashed on me.
What do I do?
Wait till it shows its stomach again? But I doubt it will do so soon, it must have a massive weight. I noticed multiple times, it tries to avoid hopping and all the air movements. Even when it was descending from the wall, it crawled with its legs instead of using its webs, quite unlike what normal spiders do. It rose just once till now, and that too to intimidate. And the same tricks don't work on it, the bastard is too cunning for that, it has already marked Rina as a threat.
Waiting for an opportunity is not possible too. Fena, Yelo, and Bron will soon reach limits, not to forget Yelo and Bron tire out quickly....we don't have the manpower needed to stall for time. We have to create that opportunity.
Same trick won't work..... the same trick?
"Yelo, Bron, help Fena!" I yelled at the Cheetahs. They charged towards the spider in order to do what they are best at. Distracting and buying time. Obviously, Fena still has to take the most attacks but it will lessen the burden on her if only a bit.
I called Rina, she used her psychokinesis to fly straight to me.
.
.
"....It could be dangerous, but... you're right. We can't stall for long. Fena might last a while longer, but Chiyo and Chika's stamina won't last much."
"It will work, that creature, it's intelligent, I'd say equal to or more than humans .....*exhale* Relax, I need to be at least that close for my skill to work, besides, if it fails, you can always pull me away, right."
"..... Understood."
While I was filling in Rina, a constant back and forth was going among the beasts and a monster.
The spider attacked relentlessly with the piercing tips of its leg, and the Cheetahs avoided those attacks by hair's breadth. The spider's attacks, even though they are too fast for the cheetahs to handle, were holding up, partly due to their own agility and partly because Rina was redirecting some of its attacks.
Left. Right. Right. Front. Left. Left. Right. Back. Right. Left. Left. Right. Right. Left. Left. Right. Right. Left. Back. Left. Right. Right. Front. Left. Left. Right. Back. Right. Left. Left. Right. Right. Left. Left. Right. Right. Left. Back.
It attacked in all directions with its long piercing legs and acids. Yelo dodged, simultaneously, Bron and Fena slash with their claws. But it pivoted around and swiftly crawled away, it distanced itself. It's analysing Yelo and Bron, the new enemies, which it didn't expect, to be on par with its incredible speed.
Yelo, Bron and Fena retreat back to me, to take a breath, they huffed, the spider glared, didn't charge, an unspoken peace, a moment of silence dawned in this bleak arena.