As the fight between the four combatants there ensued, the priestess who provoked Ragna earlier is just standing there in her position as she silently looked at the battle with dead eyes.
From behind the priestess's back, a spider comes out as it crawls into her shoulders and looks at the fight. After the spider crawls into the priestess's shoulders, it begins to crawl into her head and then bites it, making the priestess gets hurt as the mysterious spider's eyes shine pink as well as the priestess.
" Yes, I will do your bidding.... " the priestess says as she then uses her gift to attack Ragna who is still fighting the Battle Maiden as she hit his back.
" Grrrhhhhh!!!!!!! " Ragna growls after getting damaged and gets furious that he has been hit by the provoking priestess's thunder again.
"( Dammit, I hate Thunder element!!!!! )" Ragna curses his own weakness against any Thunder element for he knows that each time he gets hit by Thunder then his Divine Curse inside him will get stronger for Thunder it's the main source of her/it's power.
"( That priestess!!!! )" Ragna growls while dodging the Battle Maiden's attacks and leaps towards the priestess.
" You!!!!!!! "
" I've had enough of you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! " Ragna angrily yells at the priestess and then uses his Air Element abilities he gets after unlocking the
"( An Air Element Gift User!!!!!? )" the Battle Maiden thinks to herself for she never thought there will be an Air Element Gift User among the Hunters.
"( I thought the Air Element Gifts are no longer given by the gods? )" Battle Maiden asks herself for this and remembers what kind of attacks Ragna uses earlier while fighting the priestess, Luna back earlier.
While the battle Maiden thinks about it, Ragna then wastes no time attacking the priestess not only because of his anger but also because during his fight, both Twelve and 69 tell him that they sensed something wrong happening to the priestess as if she provokes Ragna, not from her own will.
"( Grrhhhh!!!!! even though it is not of her own will, but she has to pay to say some s**t regarding my family!!!!!! )"
"( Even if she's a Divine Priestess!!!! )" Ragna says while swinging his blade.
"( Suit yourself.... )" both Twelve and 69 say as Ragna slashes the priestess's body in front of everyone.
As it happened, everyone was shocked, from the Battle Maiden, Inquisitor Kara, A Rank Hunter Ignis and others who see it from afar just gasped for they never thought Ragna would do such a thing.
Amongst the crowd, Adrian and Flolial watch the scene seriously as the two show an angry faces.
" What....the...hell.....? "
" Who....is.....that....guy...? " Adrian looks at Ragna with an angry face as he clenched his fists.
As Ragna slashes the priestess, her body then drops to the ground, and from the priestess's very body, come out hundreds of spiders which makes Ragna and the others who see it shocked.
" Kyahhh!!!! what are those!!!!? " they screamingly ask as the scary but little spiders appear.
< Name: Legion Infesting Spiders (LVL.40) >
< These spiders are known to infest a host in order to control their mind, they were all spawned from a Deviant. >
"( Filthy creatures!!! )" Ragna thinks as he prepares his sword.
< Aether Slash, Horizontal >
Ragna then quickly slashes all of them and in return gains a lot of EXP which resulted in.
< Congratulations, You Leveled UP >
< You are now Level 61 >
After Ragna slashes all of them, the whole people went silent after seeing that scene which makes them stutter as they didn't get what happened.
" What just happened? "
" How can spiders come out from that priestess? "
" I had no idea....., "
" Why does it happen? is the priestess infested with those monsters from earlier? "
During the Hunters conversation, Ragna just looked away for he had a bad prediction on where the conversation goes and knows well that those people gathered right now will blame him for publically killing the priestess.
"( Oh here comes the blame.... )" Ragna negatively thought to himself and expects the worst that will come to him.
But to his negative prediction, the result was otherwise as one of the Hunters says.
" I don't know what happened, but... " said one of the Hunters.
" He saved us!!!!!! " the Hunter shouts and after he shouts, the other Hunters who see that scene happily shout for Ragna as they deemed it a Hero.
" Yeah, he saved us!!!!!!!!!!!!! "
" If he didn't kill the priestess then we will all be infested with those spiders!!!!! "
" Thank you, you unknown Hunter!!!! " the people there approached Ragna which made him feel awkward for he never received such gratitude before.
"( This is different..... )" he says while looking at both Twelve and 69 on his left as they then say the word.
"( We told you!!!! suit yourself..... )" they said as Ragna was then get carried by the other Hunters leaving the Battle Maiden, Inquisitor Kara, and Hunter Ignis as they bring Ragna to the camp to celebrate.
" Hey by the way, can we ask your name? " ask one of the Hunters to Ragna, Ragna thinks for a bit and tells them his name and was met in silence while the people still carry him on top.
" Wait, you're Ragna Kent the Bait!!!!!? " ask one of the Hunters as he tells the others that he used to pay Ragna to help him lure out the monster in the Dungeon which Ragna then says that he's been promoted into a Hunter in just recent months, even though he is still an E Rank.
"( Oh, what am I saying? I shouldn't tell them that, they'll be disappointed!!!! )" Ragna quickly regrets his identity revelation for he fears the Hunters would be angry that they would be saved from doom by an E Rank.
Ragna waits for his ridicule, but instead of ridicule, he instead was given high praise as the Hunters seemed don't mind that as it doesn't change the fact that he saved them from those scary spiders, and then the Hunters also bragged that with his current capabilities, Ragna should've been a B Rank or an A Rank for that matter.
" Oh really..., I didn't know.... "
"( This is unexpected, usually if I do things in front of others, I usually get blamed by those people who knows me as an Ungifted back then always blamed me for every misfortune that occurred at the time. )" Ragna thought to himself.
As Ragna was carried away, the people who've been left behind like the Battle Maiden, Inquisitor Kara, Hunter Ignis, Adrian, and Flolial then decide to follow Ragna while still processing what happened, especially Adrian.
"( Grhh..., it seems today I will have a loose end to my plans... )" he states while seeing Ragna.
"( Ragna....Kent...., huh!!!!! )"
"( E Rank..... )" he says to himself while Inquisitor Kara still looks at him with her Gift Eyes as she had her curiosity at him for no reason while still dragging Hunter Ignis along her as she still chained him with her ability.
" Hey let me go!!!!!! " Ignis angrily shouts to the Inquisitor as he can't get free with his own power.
.......
( Meanwhile. )
" It seems my minions had been decapitated.... "
" Is it by the Battle Maiden...? " said a woman in an unknown place.
" No..., it didn't feel like that. "
" If the Battle Maiden was the one who killed them, then what I sense before their deaths through our 'connection' must be felt like a burning light. "
" But instead, the last feeling I felt was a vicious and blackest form of power that I haven't felt since.... "
" No..., it can't be..... "