After Haikesi extracted the elixir from the spider's internal organs, the group rushed to the second hiding place in the woods. This time, they searched for a long time without success. Finally, the Troll found the traces left by the target on the mountain wall at the end of the forest.
"It must have climbed up the cliff. I suspect it's a Green-tailed Spider. These spiders aren't very venomous, but they're excellent climbers and web weavers." Haikesi pulled a white silk thread, about the thickness of a little finger, from a crack in the rock.
Unas took it and examined it. The spider silk, about the thickness of a little finger, was made up of countless finer fibers, making it extremely tough and sticky. His first thought was about people's livelihood, "Can this be used to weave clothes?"
"Yes, half of the material in this robe I'm wearing is spider silk. If you'd like some too, I can collect some and weave one for you."
Unexpectedly, this guy also had tailoring skills. Unas glanced at the wrinkled robe he was wearing. Whether it looked good or not, at least it was wearable clothing. "The stronghold is short of winter clothes. I was wondering if we could..."
"It's difficult. A single web-weaving spider's silk sac can only weave a few inches of cloth. Unless you breed a batch specifically for spinning silk, I have a way to tame them, as long as an adult gives the order..."
"Farming? If I remember correctly, spiders are carnivores. We can't even feed ourselves, where would we get food to feed them?" Unas directly rejected the Troll's suggestion. "If it takes a hundred silk sacs to make one garment, it's simple, we'll just kill a hundred spiders."
"Swarms of spiders are not easy to deal with," Haikesi quickly reminded the Warden, who seemed a little smug after killing a lone green Thorn Spider. "Besides, not all spiders have silk sacs. Most Poison Spiders in the Canyon don't rely on webs to hunt, like the green Thorn Spider we just saw."
"Whether they're easy to deal with or not, my goal is to wipe them all out. Not only that, I'll eat their flesh, extract their silk, and turn them all into my experience," Unas was getting a little cocky. He turned to look at Nightmoon, "That beast climbed up the mountain wall and is probably hiding in some crevice. It's up to you, Miss Nightmoon."
Seeing the female Elf nod, Unas continued to give orders, "The rest of you, take cover. We'll surround it together once Nightmoon lures it down. The final blow must be left to me."
Unas buffed his subordinates, and the group dispersed and retreated into the forest, pairing up to guard each direction. Only Nightmoon remained, facing the almost vertical mountain wall. The female Elf swiftly attached hooks to her toes and steel claws to her hands. Her body lunged forward like a charging cheetah, leaping like a cannonball onto the three-story-high mountain wall. After a few more leaps, she disappeared behind a protruding mountainside.
The crowd below waited for a short while before the Elf reappeared from behind the mountain. This time, instead of leaping across the mountainside, she fell headfirst, as if flying down the mountainside, with a white sphere under her arm.
At the same time, everyone heard a piercing roar, and the next moment a pale blue Giant Spiders appeared on the mountain wall. This one was more than twice the size of the previous one, and its eight slender, sharp legs moved rapidly. Its speed in pursuit on the mountain wall was even faster than Nightmoon's free fall.
In the high-speed chase, a white silk thread suddenly shot from the Giant Spiders's mouth towards Nightmoon. The female Elf, as if she had eyes in the back of her head, subtly changed her position by tapping her steel claws against the mountainside, narrowly dodging the attack.
After falling to the ground for a few more seconds, Nightmoon estimated the distance in her mind, curled up into a ball, did a somersault in mid-air, and pushed off the mountain wall with her long and slender legs, launching herself out and traversing a long distance to land on the tip of a tall coniferous pine tree.
The prey suddenly took flight, Giant Spiders abruptly stopped on the cliff face. A thick, white silk thread, almost half an arm's width thick, shot out, reaching the top of the pine tree and forming a zipline connecting the spider and the tree in mid-air.
The Green Tail Giant Spiders's eight long legs bounced forcefully against the mountain wall, and its entire body flew like a swing towards the base of the pine tree.
An opportunity! Unas immediately drew his shotgun and gave the order, "Fire!"
Most of the ranged attacks were aimed at the large, exposed targets in the air, except for Amber and Perella, whose arrows went a little too far off course, their target being the silk threads ensnaring the spiders.
The taut spider silk snapped with a whoosh, and the Giant Spiders lost its footing in mid-air. It tried to shoot silk again to find a place to hang on, but its rolling body only made it entangle itself. It could only curl up into a ball, crash into a tree, and then tumble to the ground.
"They're truly intelligent, "Unas thought to himself, then ordered, "Keep firing!"
As soon as the spider landed, it ate back the silk that had wrapped around its body. Several arrows were stuck in its back, and there were several bullet holes in its side. The blood flowing from the wounds stained it from light blue to dark green, but these injuries did not render it unable to move. Facing the crowd that surrounded it, it circled around as if searching for a way to break through.
The team surrounded the spider from all sides and fired another round, but the Giant Spiders used this time to weave a semi-transparent cocoon around its body, blocking half of the bullets and arrows, while the white cocoon continued to thicken.
The Dwarf brothers roared in unison, raised their Warhammers, and charged toward the white cocoon. They were tasked with the role of tanks, and since ranged attacks were not very effective, they had to engage in close combat first.
As they rushed to the white cocoon, ready to smash it to pieces, the cocoon opened a crack on its own, and two strands of white silk shot out rapidly. Bate dodged, but Baer's thigh was tightly stuck. The spider silk suddenly tightened, and the Dwarf was pulled to the ground, dragged face up to the Giant Spiders's mouthparts.
Bate rushed to his brother and pinned Baer down, but he was immediately entangled in the spider silk that followed. The two brothers began a tug-of-war with the Giant Spiders, and for a moment they were evenly matched.
New spider silk kept shooting out and binding the two men's hands and feet. It was only a matter of time before the Dwarf brothers were bound like helpless dumplings and dragged into the white cocoon.
Of course, the others wouldn't stand idly by and watch this happen. Unas drew his Firekiss and, without saying a word, unleashed a Flame Slash. The white cocoon was an immovable target, and the Fireball exploded with a bang, not only blasting a hole in the cocoon but also igniting its edges. The Dwarf brothers, who were nearby, were also slightly impacted.
This attack sounded the charge, and everyone except the Troll Priest Charge towards the white cocoon. The Giant Spiders, almost at its end, roared and unleashed its full power, spraying a web at everyone who rushed towards it.
Two fools who couldn't dodge in time got entangled, and the people around them had to go to rescue their groupmates. Marcus, that old fox, ran to rescue the Dwarf brothers, and in the end, only Unas was left rushing to the white cocoon.
Unas, fearing further complications, extravagantly activated his Divine Shield and, using the speed of his charge, plunged the crystal sword, imbued with Holy Light and flame, deep into the white cocoon.
As he felt the sword pierce his body, he immediately activated the energy in his Fire Ring. The Firekiss amplified this energy and channeled it into the Giant Spiders's body, instantly burning its contents to ashes.
Unas shook his head. What a shameful waste. It seems the Trolls won't be able to extract the original liquid.