"No one would have to know if you just torched all of these things right?" opal asked with her best puppy dog eyes. leon chuckled as he skewered the dog sized spider with his spear killing it instantly. "i won't waste such valuable creatures just because they look like something from a horror movie , not even a good one either because what sort of ambush predator just blatantly walks up to their prey. if i didn't know that the animals on this island simply have never had contact with people i would be insulted." he said honestly
"Well lets see what nifty properties this particular specimen has in store for us shall we?" leon said before he started to dismantle the spiders corpse and test each type of fluid and tissue he found in the process. by the end of the process he had a dark expression since his test had told him that the only thing the spiders were good for were their large silk sacs as their poison was a standard hemotoxic substance that many of the other plants and animals on the island had in spades. opal had a smug face when she saw how irritated he looked at the results.
"So valuable creatures huh?" she asked mockingly. leon huffed "i had assumed that since they are the apex predator of the island that they were special in some manner , but i admit i was mistaken in this regard so feel free to kill as many as you like." he said with a noticeable edge in his voice. opal laughed and patted him on the shoulder "don't get your panties in a twist over some worthless bugs leon , i was actually starting to think you weren't real from all the crazy stuff you are capable of , gods know i have had weirder trips before." she said with a laugh.
Leon shook his head at her before grinning "should i take that as a personal challenge?" he asked calmly. opal shivered "nope , absolutely not , i'll definitely go insane if you start breaking my sense of reality any further." she said seriously. leon shrugged "a pity , enough joking around , do you need my help to commit genocide on these spiders or do you think you can handle it?" he asked casually. opal rolled her shoulders and drew her weapon " i think i can handle some over sized bugs." she said confidently before immediately getting stuck to the webs on the ground.
She quickly coated her shoes in a shield in order to unstick herself and not get stuck again. "you didn't see that!" she exclaimed embarrassed at her mess up. ' i give her five maybe ten minutes tops before she forgets to maintain her aura shield and gets stuck again.' leon thought with a smirk before carefully using his hell fire to burn away the webs around him without damaging the plants underneath them. this was a great exercise in precision with his magic that allowed him to increase his magic stat slightly faster than the rest.
About seven minutes into this clearing exercise leon heard opal curse loudly in the distance between the sounds of her slaughtering the spiders in waves as the swarmed her. ' it would seem they are not the apex predators because of uniqueness but because of their numbers , how boring.' he thought before ignoring the commotion opal was causing to continue clearing the webs away. opal didn't slow down on her slaughter since the spiders were very weak but their sheer numbers had caused her to stop making forward progress.
To the point in fact that leon had managed to catch up with her despite the clearing exercise making him move forward very slowly. "hmm , sure you don't want me to tag in and take out the majority of them?" he asked after reaching her position. "i haven't even broke a sweat yet but they keep showing up faster than i can kill the little bastards , i'm rather pissed about it to be honest. also don't think i haven't noticed you taking whatever that red energy is from all these things i've killed." she said pointedly without stopping her slaughter at all.
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