Punk's train of thought was soon disrupted by the gruff voice of the leading soul hovering on the forehead of the dark-green spider.
"Ha ha ha, See? See? See? This is the power given to us by the supreme goddess Ti Xiaer. Even we worthless lambs can wield the official-level strength under the grace of our great goddess."
The soul at the head of the spider started to laugh wildly, and the souls floating inside the spider also began to laugh with it. Their sharp voices were as harsh as scraping a blackboard with an iron piece.
"Strength? It's ridiculous. How long can you hold on? Three minutes or five minutes?"
Faced with the bragging of what seemed to be the leader's soul among these believers, Punk mercilessly mocked. In his view, these poor vugs were not just ignorant but also incredibly foolish.
This method of creating magical beasts by fusion was essentially a kind of instant biological alchemy. Although Punk didn't know what technique these guys used to merge into one body without the help of a powerful official-level magician, they probably couldn't overcome the significant drawback of this rapid alchemy—its short duration.
It was true that the spider beast formed by their fusion had the power of official level, but this power was obtained by burning the souls of these more than 50 believers. And at most, in five minutes, the souls of these crazy believers would be completely burned out, and when that happened, he didn't even have to do anything himself because the dark green spider that had lost its power wouldn't be able to maintain its incompatible forcibly fused body, and it would become a puddle of disgusting rotten flesh again.
"Damned mortal, you dare to question the salvation of the great and supreme goddess Ti Xiaer. You have to pay for your sins."
Hearing Punk's ridicule, all the souls on the dark-green spider's body suddenly became ferocious, and a fierce killing intent flashed across the spider's eight eyes. Its big flashing blood-red eyes looked terrifying in the gloomy cave.
While the strength of this dark green spider magic beast wasn't exceptional, Punk still didn't dare to be careless.
Considering the tricky situation in front of him, Punk felt cautious. The enemy boss appeared to have anticipated his arrival, but maybe the predicted information was unclear, or perhaps the opponent was occupied with some other important matter that couldn't be abandoned midway.
Whatever the reason might be, the fact was that the enemy didn't set a trap to ambush him. Instead, they chose to let the unstable believers and the phantom spider outside confront him first.
Regardless of whether the enemy had already found out about him or not, it was a clear fact that the other party knew more about him than he knew about them. So, in such a situation, no matter how careless the enemy was, they would definitely pay more attention to the cave passage. Therefore, Punk didn't think for a second that just because he used a silent domain, his concealment was foolproof.
Moreover, Punk feared that the enemy's strength also reached the official level. So once the other side rushed over and united with this dark green spider to deal with him, then the situation would become really dangerous.
"I have to finish this fight quickly."
A cold light flashed in Punk's eyes, and the azure blue magical brilliance spun rapidly in his pupils. Although when dealing with such a time-sensitive opponent, the easiest method was to just delay for a few minutes, but now Punk didn't dare to do so.
Punk quickly blessed himself with an Advanced swiftness spell, and he already had the Official level mage armor on his body. So now, with the defense of the Advanced mage armor and his robe, and with the maneuverability of the Advanced swiftness spell, his safety, at least in front of the spider beast, could be guaranteed.
Just as Punk released the swiftness spell, the dark green spider had also completed its attack.
A green liquid ball hung in front of the spider's fangs. This ball, made from a thick, concentrated solution, seemed small but emitted a scary and destructive vibe.
You've committed a grave wrongdoing, accept the punishment of Goddess Ti Xiaer!"
As soon as these words came from the soul of the believer's leader, at the same time, the thick ball formed by the dark green spider transformed into a green light and shot toward Punk.
"You idiot!"
Facing the attack of the dark green spider, Punk gave it such a disdainful evaluation, not because the attack power of the sticky sphere was not strong, but because the leader's soul actually said a long string of dialogue before the attack. Obviously, such brain-dead behavior made it extremely easy for him to avoid the attack of the dark green spider.
Already aware of the opponent's incoming attack, it was impossible for Punk to be hit by it.
Under the effect of the advanced swiftness, the friction that Punk received from air and ground was greatly reduced, so just by gently tapping his toes, he traveled a long distance like an advanced form of ice skating.
The viscous green sphere fell on the empty ground without even touching the corner of Punk's clothes.
Upon hitting the ground, the green ball exploded, splashing a significant amount of acid solution onto the rocky ground. The ground corroded instantly, producing a continuous sizzling sound and creating a large pit. A substantial amount of white smoke rose from the pit.
Seeing the attack power of the dark green sphere, Punk's expression became more serious. He really didn't expect that this seemingly insignificant ball had such corrosive strength. The most troublesome thing was that the liquid acid obviously contained a strong poisonous property, and it also didn't seem like any regular poison but one of those difficult to deal with magical toxins. Once it entered one's body, it would definitely make them feel an extreme headache.
"Ha ha ha ha, see? The power given by goddess Ti Xiaer can not be blocked by small heresies."
Seeing that his attack had such colossal power, the leader of the believers who just experienced official level strength for the first time yelled loudly in excitement, and the outer shell of the dark green spider trembled from the weird laughter of the souls inside.
At this time, all of them became utterly addicted to the false power and couldn't extricate themselves. Perhaps because of it, from beginning to now, the leading soul never thought of sending any signal out of the "silent domain" to ask the so-called "lord" inside for support; in other words, he became highly arrogant just after testing a little bit of power and believed that he did not need any assistance to deal with a minor heretic such as Punk.
"You really think I can't do anything about you?"
Upon hearing the arrogant laughter of the dark green spider, Punk expressed his disdain with a cold tone.
"What, you..."
Just when the dark green spider was about to use another long-range attack to let this heresy in front of him feel the power of Goddess Ti Xiaer, suddenly a powerful aura appeared and locked into its head.
Although the leader of the believers was crazy and also drowning in the feeling of strength, he still had not lost all his IQ. So feeling the sudden sense of danger in his heart, he thought that Punk's mental power had locked onto him, and If he continued attacking without evading, a powerful spell would soon fall on him.
"Ah, ah, ah! No... damn heresy!"
The leader's soul urgently halted the attack he was about to unleash and let out a loud roar. The pain from the forcefully stopped attack's backlash twisted his soul into a ball on the forehead of the dark-green spider.
But despite the pain, sensing the oncoming danger, all the believers' souls started to burn more strongly, causing black smoke to emerge from the spider's body. The leader of the believers, who was controlling the spider, had already planned to avoid this attack with all his might.
"Once a fool, always a fool! Don't you think you have forgotten something?"
Punk sneered and looked at the hideous-looking soul of the leader.
Hearing Punk's cold ridicule, the leader of the believers suddenly remembered an existence that he had ignored from the beginning. Through the soul floating inside the dark green spider, he saw a tall figure running towards them soundlessly.
The thick soles of its feet pressed down hard on the dirty ground. Its claws, wrapped in blood-red abyssal energy, gave off a strong intent to kill. It had strange purple-black eyes and skin sewn together like clothes; all these features were enough to show the identity of the approaching figure—No. 1!