With all of my light blades at the ready, I then activated my morphing armor and conjured a light shield before hopping on it acting like it was a floating platform.
"What..." Wisteria mumbled, staring at me doing these multiple light shows in front of her. She can't comprehend what I just said.
I bet you what's going on in her mind right now is "Kill it? The Cave Guardian? This worm lady might be crazy!" Hehe, you'll see soon honey.
"Stay here for now, okay?" I said to Wisteria before flying away from her to finally settle things with this motherfucker.
With Lux still fighting the spider like a maniac, I soon joined the battlefield.
"Lux! Need a hand!?" I exclaimed at my baby boy before firing one of my blades at the arachnid. It strikes one of its legs that was about to smack Lux. I'm sure he can phase through it but I wanna show off a little bit.
The light blade, in contrast to my expectations, didn't slice through the spider's leg. It only disoriented the spider's blow before getting flicked away.
Tough exoskeleton, huh?
Hearing my voice, Lux shifted his blue dots at me who was right above him. Seeing me fighting with him, his whole body glowed like a lighthouse.
Such a cutie pie!
Diverting both of our gazes to face the same enemy, we then turned serious.
Fuck, we're so anime!
Learning from my previous unsuccessful hit, I looked for any visible softer spots the spider might have. But without giving me any time to think, the asshole suddenly spurted its thick web and controlled it to seize me.
Not this time, bitch!
Seeing its puny attack, I made a huge light blade and sliced through it. The light blade, which I made especially thin and extra sharp, slashed through it with ease.
So you wanna play surprises, huh? Then how about this for a surprise?!
With excited thoughts in my head, I conjured thick ropes of pure light with hooks for their ends and wrapped them onto the spider's eight hairy legs before planting them on the ground to make the ridiculously giant asshole stay in place.
I then produced an extra thick and big light shield that was big enough to be called a wall and smashed it at the spider's face. The impact made a booming sound as the spider stumbled at its feet pathetically.
Of course, I would not settle for a single hit so I used the same shield to whack and smash the spider on different sides.
If you won't let us crash you through the walls then let us crash the walls onto you!
*BOOM!* *BOOM!* *BOOGSH!!*
I must admit, using this huge shield is taking a bit of a toll on me 'cause I can really feel its heaviness but I can't really let that hinder me when I'm having too much fun!
Even Lux didn't have to do shit anymore and just floated there looking at the spider in shock as I beat its ass without mercy.
"SCREEC—!"
"Shut up." I abruptly said after making a huge light orb appear inside the spider's mouth when I saw it open for a scream, gagging it.
I was about to expand it to finally deliver the final blow to the poor beaten spider when it suddenly clenched its jaws before utterly destroying the orb with its bite.
It then swiped its huge body in a flash, tearing some of the ropes it was bound to, and used its abdomen to hit the huge light shield, making it fly to me in an attempt to crush me.
HOLY SHIT!
Of course, this caught me off guard. But thankfully, I jumped out of the way and landed on another light shield after panicking and making one.
With the shield's rapid trajectory and this whole place being a bit cramped, it reached the cave walls in seconds. The whole place shook as if a miniature earthquake joined our fight.
What the fuck!? It hasn't been a minute since I joined in! I almost died there! If that thing would've hit me I'm immediately toasted! You fucking spider! Just die already!
*FWOOM!*
NOW WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING?!
Snapping my head to the spider in response to that weird noise, I can visibly see it getting larger than before. Its whole structure seemed to be growing rapidly. Its exoskeleton snapped and shattered at its sudden transformation
"MOTHERFUCKER! HOW IS THIS SHIT GETTING BIGGER ALL OF SUDD— NOW WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT?!" I exclaimed the moment I saw the spider's new appearance.
It now had a few dark tattoo-like marks running from its legs up to its abdomen. Its eight legs even grew spikes that looked really fucking sharp. And in front of its face, right above its eighth set of eyes sat a jet-black crystal, oozing with black smoke and a dark aura. Sprouting from the same crystal were four dark tentacles acting like whips that moved as if they were alive. And at the end of these whips were dark scythes.
*Ding!*
[Warning! The Giant Carrier Spider has commenced its species' unique ability: Rapid Growth! It has basically evolved into a known spider category in its growth tree called the [Shadow Arachnid]! A creature who focuses on offense, defense, and dark magic! Its overall power is now doubled.]
IN THE NAME OF OUR LOVING GODS! I AM SO FUCKED! AND IS THAT DARK MAGIC?!!?! I WAS SLIGHTLY CONFIDENT EARLIER BUT NOW WHAT?! SHIT!!!!
Without even leaving me some room to think or even panic a little more, the spider's four new weapons lunged at me with pure malice.
NO!!!!!
Acting quickly, I controlled four of the light blades I made earlier to block this sudden unexpected attack. Thankfully, my light blades pushed through, albeit with a struggle since it appeared that these whips were slightly stronger. In this position, we remained in a stalemate, testing both our strengths. However, it seems like this motherfucker had other plans in mind.
Remaining consistent with being the master of surprises, the spider sprouted four more from its headwear like a fucking pussy. Seeing this, I panicked and made two of the blades that were blocking the whip scythes grow bigger and bigger and made them fly toward the spider.
The light blades, if I can still call them that at this point, with their sizes, which were more than half the size of the spider and also due to the fact that they were scraping the sides of the walls, flew a bit slower. But it was fine because they knocked down the new blades the spider fired at me. To make it even more effective, I controlled the ropes the spider ripped off to grow thicker and tied up the freak once again.
Soon enough the two gigantic cutters reached the spider. I was hoping that it would hit the spider and would get crushed or injure it badly enough but it seemed that the spider had another plan to execute.
Seeing that it was tied up with thicker ropes than before and that the blades were drawing nearer by the millisecond, the spider shot its infamous freaky web to stop them since its whips were too thin to do anything on both the ropes and the blades. And holy shit his new web is thick! Of course, I wasn't letting it do as it pleased.
In an instant, I suddenly made my two gigantic blades explode into countless miniature C-shaped blades before making them spin and fly to the spider.
Like a swarm of a thousand bugs, the blades avoided and slipped from the giant web's warm welcoming embrace. However, before my attacks could even reach it, the spider spun its whips like helicopter blades and parried them all.
Some of my blades pierced through the walls of the cave but there were some that were flying dangerously closer to us! And due to its quick acceleration from the spider's hit, I can't control them properly! Doing what I could at the moment, I made all of my blades use their current momentum and made all of them curve their path and fly off to the wall, burying them in place.
"AAH!" A child's voice screamed amidst the chaos. Turning my head to the noise, I found Wisteria being protected and healed by Lux. She seemed to have been hit!
Fuck!
*WHIP!*
Snapping my attention to the spider, I noticed it stopped its spinning show and created two more whips-scythes before lunging them at me. And just like that, the spider altered the battle's outcome in its favor once more.
SHIT! HOW THE FUCK!?
"AAARGGGHHH!!!" I screamed, staring at the incoming whips-scythes, and controlled my blades that I just planted on the wall to basically meet the incoming whips-scythes on the side and cut them up.
As if they have set off a booby trap, a mirage of blades from left and right flew to both of the whips, ripping them to shreds in mere seconds. But I was not stopping there, I focused as hard as I possibly could to make the same blades turn around and fly to the spider in the blink of an eye.
In a flash, without even giving the spider some time to react, multiple of my attacks already landed on it. Most of them got destroyed or flicked away due to the durability of the spider's new skin though. Fuck, are you telling me that this fuckers skin is harder than the cave walls right now?!
Compared to my enemy, my small puny little attacks were nothing. But still, a number of them managed to pierce through the spider's defense by aiming at the gaps in its exoskeleton where the joints were.
But alas, considering their measurements, they didn't do shit.
So let's change that!
Like the cheating freak that I was, I immediately expanded the blades that I could see piercing the spider's joints. Like plants under a time-lapse, my blades grew rapidly by the second.
"SCREECH!!!!!!" The spider shrieked in pain at my smart move. If the battlefield was all about creativity, I've long won tenfold. As if proving me right, three of its legs which got pierced by my blades soon got torn apart. Black blood oozed like a waterfall from its gaping wound.
FUCK YEAH! I KNEW I HAD IT IN ME! I'M FUCKING STRONG AND FUCKING SMART! TAKE THAT YOU STUPID BITCH ASS SPIDER!
However, as if the Gods were playing pranks with me, the spider, instead of collapsing, vibrated like the biggest rose toy. The ground shook once again and I could feel the overwhelming tension in the air.
"What the fuck...?" I mumbled when I saw the spider quivering. Not in fear but some sort of reaction to something. Then, all of its whips wildly spiraled across the whole cave. Multiple sounds of impact were to be heard. Shit, I bet this fucking party is audible everywhere in the forest.
"WOAH!" I exclaimed when one of the whips-scythes almost touched me. Its whips came close multiple times and were very much very deadly. Thankfully, my armor, which I made extra tougher when I saw the spider's new shenanigans, was there to protect me. Although, I could not say the same about my new friend down there.
Flipping my head to look for Wisteria, I found her not too far from where I was floating from. She kept on jumping and flying away from all of the debris that was hurled at her. And Lux, who long ago flew away after seeing me girlboss this whole fight, kept on shielding Wisteria from harm and healing her if she was hurt. Now, my baby sure is the best at everything—
Cutting me off from further showering my son with love were the sounds of all the whips spinning and gathering towards the center of the dark crystal. They gathered together until they ended up looking like they were encasing something.
"Fuck, this is looking like bad news. I need to wrap this up quickly." I mumbled to myself before controlling the same blades that ripped some of the spider's legs off to try and stab the spider in the abdomen.
*FWOOM!*
And just as I expected, something within this whip capsule is now breaking free. Just like a baby that's visibly kicking its mother's tummy from her womb, I could see what seemed to be a hand sticking out from the gaps of the whip-case.
The bitch ass fucker of a spider, without even letting me plan a gender reveal party for whatever that thing is, unleashed its new form for the world to see.
*Ding!*
[WARNING! Due to the intensity of the battle, an unknown energy has awakened within the Shadow Arachnid! It has reached a turning point and unexpectedly transformed into the fabled [Dark Arachne], a boss-type monster!]
Oh!
Time to go, I guess! Haha!
AS IF!
THIS MOTHERFUCKER WILL DIE AND I WILL EAT IT!
Ignoring the fact that I would die, I stared at this hideous creature in front of me with pure determination.
The exact creature that I wanna kill right now is no doubt still the spider I know and I hate. Only this time, instead of tentacles with knives sprouting from its crystal, a beautiful naked woman with long dark hair was to be seen. She had no legs for what replaced it was the spider's grotesque face and huge body. What's worse is that the three legs that have once been ripped have stopped bleeding. Now connected to them though was some sort of dark hazy solid thing. Must be a dark magic version of a prosthetic. Neat.
Opening her closed eyes, the spider-woman then turned her head to me. There I saw it, the most monster-like thing I have ever seen. The white parts of her eyes were visibly black and her pupils were crimson red. The same color as this eight-eyed fiend she was connected with. She tried to approach me, I don't know why but she failed to do so since the ropes I made were still tied to its multiple feet.
"AAAARRRGGHHH!!!" With her eyes now glued to me, the woman screamed in anger and proceeded to initiate her attack. And her "attack" was not what I was expecting at all. Her hair suddenly floated up and separated into eight different sections before curving at the end, forming the all-familiar scythes.
"What in the octopus-themed freakshow is— OH SHIT!" I mumbled before screaming when I saw the woman extend her hair in a blink of an eye to slash me.
It was so fast! What the fuck?! Its speed increased significantly! I can't even follow it with my eyes for goodness sake!
Thankfully though, Lux, my all-time knight in shining armor generated a light shield about my size in front of me. However, Lux's shield wasn't any tougher so it was only a first layer of protection, softening the previously life-ending blow.
*Ding!*
[-17 HP!]
With the slash dampened and Lux's shield shattered, I was sent flying the moment the attack reached me with a huge gaping wound. Seeing me getting slammed directly to the wall and falling short after, Lux and Wisteria rushed to aid me.
"Elaira!" Wisteria voiced out, buzzing my way with Lux, eyes full of worry. "You can't beat it! The spider must've been infected with Daedris! N-Now it's been claimed by the bad things...!" She cried out to me, visibly terrified.
Daedris? The fuck is that? Wait, no! It's not the time for questions. I still need to fight.
"SCREEECH!" The spider screamed the moment it saw me fall. Fucking bitch. YOU CAN'T KILL ME THAT EASILY YOU EIGHT-LEGGED DEMON!
Thankfully though, I wasn't drained of all of my HP so I can still heal it up to full bars in no time. Hah, I need to finish this up. Quick. "Don't you two worry your pretty heads. I'm okay. I can patch myself up." I assured my two worried cuties while patting both of their heads.
Pushing them gently to my side and activating my light magic before directing it to my wound.
[+1 Hp, +1 HP, +1 Hp...]
Now, allow me to return the favor to you, you overgrown freak!
Manipulating the binding ropes the Arachne was in, I did what I have been doing ever since earlier to have an advantage in this fight. Altering measurements.
Making my ropes thicker than before, I made sure to wrap them up even tighter.
"SCREEECH!!!" Both of its heads screamed after my move. But I wasn't done. Oh, I'm about to get really petty after this bitch injured me almost to death. She will pay, I'll make sure of that. With an obnoxious shriek, The spider used its blade-hairs to cut through my ropes in an attempt to escape. However, the quicker she slashed, the quicker they were to regenerate. Forming an endless loop of cutting.
Not letting go of my control on the ropes, I made a slight adjustment to them. If this fucker thinks that she can escape by just that then she's fucking wrong.
Making sure that I can feel every single one of my ropes, I then smiled and proceeded to sprout spikes on them. Like a vine full of thorns, my new ropes were now doing significant damage. Greeting the Arachne with more pain than she's ever felt before.
"SCREEEE!!!" It yelped, feeling every single spike pierce through her five still un-prosthetic hard legs. She kept on squirming and slashing at my ropes with more anger than before as insane amounts of blood kept on pouring from the pierced sections of her giant legs. Sadly for her, I wasn't done yet.
Creating another platform to stand on, I then proceeded to float up to see the effect of my work of art I then made the spikes themselves sprout their own baby spikes. Only this time, the baby spikes were very thin, yet extremely tough and sharp, making them pierce out of the spider's legs.
Now, it'll stay in place even more! Cute, right?!
Well, the spider-lady didn't seem to share the same sentiments though with how she was acting.
Due to my newly inflicted pain on her, the Arachne did the only thing it could do at the moment. And that was to cut off her own five functional legs.
With a quick slice, the Arachne detached her legs from the base themselves, causing her even greater pain. Great decision, to be honest. 'Cause I was planning on adding more baby spikes on the baby spikes!
After her successful operation, the Arachne huffed and panted from the immense pain with both of her heads down. Out of nowhere, the human head lifted her head and glared at me. Oh, she's angry.
With a grin, she immediately stopped the bleeding and proceeded to make five new prosthetics with dark magic. But out of nowhere, she seemed to have realized something. She then looked down on her new eight legs before looking back at me with a huge grin on her face.
What the fuck is she grinning at?
And I soon found out. In contrast to what I was expecting, this bitch wasn't as stupid as I thought. Because this hideous overgrown tarantula suddenly made a morphing armor, wrapping every inch of her, just like mine from the same dark hazy solid material her prosthetics were made before rushing to me.
Of course, she's still stupid.
Controlling my ropes to retract their spikes, I made them let go of the abandoned legs and wrap themselves to her once more. Only this time, to make her not slice another body part off, I made sure to wrap them not to her legs but to the gap between her abdomen and whatever that thing her legs and head are connected to. I also wrapped both of her heads' necks, choking her. Now she surely knows how it feels to be bound.
She then screeched again after learning that I had her tied up once more. Knowing that she couldn't do shit anymore, she controlled her hair to slash me. However, I created a huge shield in front of them before making it bend like soft silk to wrap her hair. I then made it extend up to her human head, wrapping it too, which resulted in her grabbing and scratching her new headwear angrily.
Now she can't do shit with her hair too.
Oh, how one-sided this whole battle has become with the help of my wits. Hoho! How has the tables turned once more, bitch! Now, you shall die!
With those thoughts running through my proud head, I then made my ropes sprout their spikes, ending this whole battle.
Or so I hoped.
"Huh?" I mumbled, noticing that my spikes weren't piercing through its dark armor. It only made clacking sounds as I attempted to do it multiple times.
Now, with her spider head looking at me blankly, I soon felt like she realized my inability to penetrate her. And then, she began to smile.
Fuck.
Out of nowhere, this bitch suddenly released her freaky web which was covered in the dark armor thingy. And I could see it clearly. It was glowing with poison under its dark protection.
Soon, it flew to me in an instant, coming to seize and poison me. Oh and I knew with how much poison it had, I would die instantly.
"NO!!!" I screamed before making another soft shield to wrap up the incoming web of death. Thankfully, I was able to wrap it but it looks like poisoning me wasn't the spider's plan at all!
With my shield expanding to seize the web, the armor the web was wearing suddenly sprouted a thick string on its side, avoiding my soft shield and tying me up instead.
"SHIT!" I exclaimed, seeing that the spider had now officially taken hold of me. I then immediately tried to extend the same soft shield to wrap this new problem from the web it was connected to. But before I could even do that, the thick string detached itself from the web before tying me up.
Now, I could feel this thing tightening. And I knew that in less than seconds, I would be crushed since these things seemed to be tougher than my light magic so I can't just expand my armor to rip it off of me!
"Elaira!" Wisteria shouted, making me turn my head at her. Seeing her scared face, I noticed her hand pointing in front of me.
Shifting my attention, I could see what she was concerned about. The shield that's wrapping the armor-cover web is on the brink of being ripped by the same thing that's giving me a killer hug.
Fuck! What do I do?! I can't die now! If I die, Wisteria would also die without armor! Lux might survive but—
And then right then and there, an idea hit me.
"LUX! GO INSIDE THE SPIDER! NOW!" I screamed at Lux who immediately followed my command. Fuck, I gotta teach this kid later not to trust people this easily but not right now!
In less than a few seconds, Lux was in front of the spider's face. He looked at it for a moment before dashing through it.
Seeing him successfully enter the spider, I proceeded with my idea without skipping a beat.
Sensing Lux's morphing armor with my eyes closed, I immediately detached it from him and formed an orb out of it before making it expand rapidly inside the spider, causing it to shriek. It shook intensely as dark blood gushed out from both of its mouth and its eyes popped out before it got split in two by a huge light orb. A few seconds later, my control over the huge orb weakened alongside me, making it flicker and disappear, leaving Lux to float right above the spider's carcass.
"Who's dead now, bitch!" I screamed seeing the dead spider after getting ripped apart from the inside and dying along with the dark rope that almost crushed me to death.
"I'm tired..." I mumbled as I descended the platform made out of the light that I was standing on before jumping off of it. I was so dizzy after that fight to the point that I almost fainted and faceplanted onto the floor if Wisteria didn't catch me on time.
"You... killed her." She said in disbelief, staring at me who was basically also dying here.
"Told you so," I answered her with a sly smile. Although I knew I almost certainly died, I needed to show a brave face to a child.
Turning my head after seeing that Lux had finally flown to us, I looked at him and saw his worried eyes staring at mine, flashing his lights like an ambulance. "I'm fine, Lux. And... great job, you two," I whispered before fainting in Wisteria's arms.
*Ding!*
[The user has killed their first boss-type monster!]
[The user's title: [The First] is now in effect. The user has received +1000 EXP!]
[The user has leveled up!]
*Ding!*
[The user has successfully survived their first night and completed the Quest: [Survive the Giant Carrier Spider's attack]!]
[Proceeding with the first part of the Story Quest: [Heal the World] which is [The Fairies and the Traitor]!]