The Cultivated Soul-Devouring Spider

Light and shadow intertwined in the desolate land before them.

Before long, the barren land gradually disappeared, and the land became open and flat.

A giant egg-shaped building lay across Lister's front, just as Killing Intent Wave.

The silver-gray exterior is smooth and flat, blocking out the sunlight overhead.

The rustling sound of the wind blowing through the weeds has also disappeared.

Although Roland's true strength is still unclear, he has demonstrated his various abilities as a light-elemental ability user to the fullest extent.

As he approached, a beam of azure light enveloped the two of them.

In the blink of an eye, they were teleported into the building.

"Notification: You have entered a restricted energy zone. Within this area, recovery speed is -100%, and you cannot utilize the energy or elements within the space."

"Squeak~ Hiss~!"

A sharp, piercing roar echoed continuously within the giant egg.

As if sensing someone had entered, the roars grew even more frantic.

"Hiss~ Zzz~!"

The increasingly frenzied roars came again.

This roar was not only heart-wrenching in sound, but it also pierced directly into the heart and reached the depths of the soul, driving people to frantic agitation and even madness.

"Attacked: You have been affected by Soul-Devouring Roar. Since this attack penetrates directly into the soul, the Robust Soul effect has taken effect, and you are now immune."

As expected, this roar was no ordinary roar; it could penetrate directly into the soul and cause real damage.

Fortunately, my soul level was high enough that I couldn't break through his defenses.

"Tap-tap-tap..."

As we continued into the building, the interior of the giant egg-shaped structure became somewhat dim.

The ground beneath my feet was wet, and the deeper I stepped, the more liquid there was.

Upon closer inspection, it doesn't seem like ordinary puddles; rather, it appears to be a crucial element in the building's energy-saving mechanism.

The two walked deeper and deeper underground, and a series of huge prisons came into view.

Initially, the prison cells were mostly empty, but as you went further in, various strange beasts and life forms began to appear.

Most of them were already dead, with no obvious wounds on their bodies.

Judging from Lister's observation, he was likely attacked in the soul by the roars of the life form at the very center, and slowly tortured to death.

"Arrive."

Roland stopped at the end of the prison.

The largest prison cell doesn't house particularly large living beings.

The upper body is no different from a human's, the face is that of a woman, and the long hair falls naturally down to the waves of her chest.

Her features were exquisite, especially her pair of peach blossom eyes, which inexplicably shifted, looking at Lister with a pitiful expression, as if pleading for help. Her roar had also come to an abrupt halt.

However, its lower body was somewhat strange, as if it had just gotten up, with an unknown liquid constantly dripping from its huge spider abdomen onto the ground.

Another strange pattern appeared in the center of the spider's abdomen, and it contracted and expanded with each breath.

Eight barbed limbs plunged deep into the ground through the liquid beneath their feet.

It made a teeth-grinding scraping sound as it moved across the ground.

Unfortunately, this prison was specially designed; the deep marks left on the ground by the eight arthropods after they walked around were automatically repaired in a short time.

"This is the target of this mission, the Soul-Devouring Spider."

"Reconnaissance of enemy and friendly forces is underway... Reconnaissance results have been obtained..."

[Target: Soul-Devouring Spider (Child)]

[Level: Lv161]

[Health Points: 295209/295209]

[Strength:173411/173411]

[Attributes: Strength: 161, Stamina: 161, Intelligence: 161, Agility: 161]

[Skill: Soul-Splitting Spider Swarm (S-rank) LV155: Releases a swarm of spiders in front of the user. The spiders self-destruct, dealing 15332~15993 points of poison damage. After the enemy is hit by the poison repeatedly, 31.8% of this damage will be converted into true damage.]

Soul-Devouring Roar (Rank A) LV153: Emits a deep, soul-piercing roar, dealing continuous damage of 1342~1399 points to living beings within a certain range. (Note: 9.71% of this damage is true damage).

Spider Nest Resonance (Passive, No Rank): When a skill hits an enemy, it immediately applies a mark and has a chance to spawn a small Soul Spider. Upon the death of the parasitized life form, its soul energy will be absorbed by the parasitized Soul Spider and returned to the mother.

[Overall Rating: A]

"The offspring has a level 17 rank? And it's an A-rank combat power?"

"Colonel Roland, this doesn't match the description in your mission, does it?"

Lister's expression turned serious; he hadn't expected the mission to be so difficult in reality.

If the offspring has this level of combat power, the mother body is definitely Overlord Tier force, with a rank no lower than 17, and possibly even 18.

The difficulty of this extermination mission is probably no less than the last federal conscription mission.

"Oh! Major Lister, you don't need to worry about that."

"This Soul-Devouring Spider's offspring was specially trained by me. In this operation, its combat strength was consistent with what was given in the mission description, with an average combat strength of around level 13."

"As for the mother body, it is indeed Rank 17 and possesses Overlord Tier combat power."

As Roland spoke, he looked with considerable pride at the Soul-Devouring Spiders inside the prison.

"Nourish?"

Lister immediately became alert and looked at the child-body soul spider again.

In the next instant, the Soul-Devouring Spider slammed into the dark pillar of the prison.

Their upper bodies were pressed incredibly close, and the look in their eyes as they gazed at Lister grew increasingly pitiful.

Her proud, snow-white, rounded breasts were completely exposed to the air, with no hair to cover them.

Upon seeing his lower body, Lister felt no desire for appreciation whatsoever; he estimated that only those beings with peculiar fetishes in the Galactic Federation would be interested.

Its calm gaze quietly observed, ignoring the Soul-Devouring Spirit Spider's attempts to seduce it.

When her gaze met Roland's again, the way he looked at her as if she were a plaything immediately enraged him.

"Hiss~ Sizzle~!"

Another violent roar erupted.

The sound did not come from its mouth, but from the undulations of its enormous spider abdomen.

Only now did Lister truly see things clearly.

The bizarre markings on the abdomen of this Soul-Devouring Spider were actually a human face.

As it roared, the spider's female face Twist grotesquely, appearing both eerie and frantic.

"That's right, I did train them."

Faced with the rampage of the Soul-Devouring Spiders, Roland's smile widened, as if the violent roars were a pleasure to him.

This also provided an explanation for the questions that had been lingering in Lister's mind.

"Not just her, the Soul-Devouring Spiders outside were also cultivated by us."

"Why?"

"Due to the characteristics of Zerg civilization, after the death of the mother, a new mother will be reborn in the remaining offspring within a certain range."

"And the stronger the power, the greater the likelihood of its emergence."

Lister was familiar with the characteristics of the Zerg Roland described, but he was learning about the probability of the offspring being reborn for the first time.

If the mother being wiped out this time was only level 17, then the probability that this specially cultivated offspring will become the mother again later is close to 100%.

"So you planned this entire mission from beginning to end?"

"That's right!"

"But it's not me, it's us."