The Overlord Spider's remaining claws twitched weakly, its entire body convulsing, indicating it had suffered severe injuries. Unas dared not relax; he quickly moved to the Giant Spiders's head and began hacking at its neck.
The armor here is several times tougher than at the joints, but cutting off the Giant Spiders's head should be enough to kill it completely. It would just take another eight hundred or a thousand sword strikes, and Unas still has plenty of energy.
Just as he was hacking away, the Nightmoon above him suddenly gave a warning. Unas immediately sensed a gust of wind coming from behind him. Without looking, he lay down and rolled off the spider's back. A bundle of white silk threads was sticking to the spot where he had been standing.
A silver dart fired by Nightmoon pointed him to the enemy's location. Unas Charge with his sword, swiftly leaping across a dense thicket of grass, only to catch a glimpse of a blue afterimage. Judging from the white spider silk attack, it seemed to be Green-tailed Spider that the elite squad had hunted before.
Just as he was hesitating whether to give chase, a startled cry came from behind him. He rushed back and was both shocked and furious at the scene before him.
The Beautiful Spider reappeared, her half-human, half-spider body standing on the back of the heavily injured Overlord Spider. At her feet, Haikesi was tightly bound by a black web, and the towering Troll could only curl up motionless.
With one of the Beautiful Spider's sharp legs pressed against the Troll's throat, there was no doubt that she could end Haikesi's life with a single, gentle stab.
Unas was momentarily at a loss when he heard a sound overhead. Nightmoon jumped back to his side from a tree trunk.
"Quickly, give me the antidote!" The female Elf had barely finished speaking when she stumbled and fell to the ground.
Unas quickly embraced her, only to see that the leather armor on Nightmoon's right arm had been cut in three places. The wounds were not deep, only slightly red, but the poison was so potent? He immediately cast Cleanse on the wounds.
"There's another spider, you little..." Nightmoon started to say, but her lips went numb, and she couldn't utter another word.
Unas looked up and around, but saw nothing. There seemed to be movement behind him; perhaps the Green Tail that had been chased away had returned?
The situation was quite unfavorable. Unas was tense all over, constantly casting Cleanse on Nightmoon. At this moment, the Beautiful Spider who had been watching him expressionlessly finally spoke, her voice as charming as a young girl's, "You don't need to worry, this Night Elf is only poisoned with paralyzing toxins, it's not fatal, and it will naturally subside in three days."
Paralyzing toxins are still toxins, Unas refused to believe they couldn't be cured. As he continued casting the spell, he asked, "What are you? What do you want?"
The question was quite impolite, but the Beautiful Spider was not angered. She calmly replied, "I am nothing. As you can see, I am a monster that is half-human and half-spider."
Interesting, she actually calls herself a monster. Demons usually don't call themselves demons. Does this mean she's acknowledging herself as a villain?
"I don't want to be your enemy either. What I want," she pointed to her feet, "Is just this dying Overlord Spider."
"You've been following us since last night?" Unas recalled what happened last night; it turned out her target had always been the Overlord Spider.
The Beautiful Spider did not deny it. "I don't know what method you used to control a dead Overlord Spider, but I only need a living one. Give it to me, and your Troll companion will return to you safely."
"Companion? Do you really think I would consider a lowly Troll a companion? Hah!" Unas laughed loudly, blatantly devaluing the hostage, thinking to himself, "Anyway, I have Resurrection; even if he dies, I can bring him back to life." "I don't care about his life or death. If you want to kill him, do it now. I won't let you, a monster, have the Overlord Spider. Haikesi, release your bite!"
Although the Troll knew that the Warden was just bluffing the enemy, he couldn't help but wonder if this was the Warden's true intention. With this in mind, when he suddenly heard Unas call his name, he still subconsciously obeyed the order.
The Puppet Spider suddenly released its gripping mandibles, and the Overlord Spider head had been suffocated in its mouth for most of the day, instantly escaped. The black behemoth, with a limp leg and most of its internal organs burned, mustered its last strength and whirled around, instantly throwing the Beauty Spider and the Troll off its back to the ground.
The Troll trapped in the net curled up and rolled a long way like a ball. Unas immediately picked up Nightmoon and ran towards him.
The Beauty Spider regained its balance in mid-air, landed, and with a light leap, quickly flew away. However, she was a relatively large target, and as the Overlord Spider pounced on her, the black spikes in its mouthparts shot out.
A girlish scream assaulted her eardrums. The attack pierced a bloody hole in the Beautiful Spider's abdomen, causing her to slow down and continue her erratic escape.
The Overlord Spider tried to pounce again, but a smaller brown spider appeared out of nowhere and blocked its way. At the same time, a Green Tail emerged from the grass behind where Unas had been standing and shot out three strands of white silk to attack the Overlord Spider.
The Overlord Spider didn't dodge or flinch as the white spider silk wrapped around its body, completely unconcerned. Although it was severely injured and its fighting strength was greatly reduced, it didn't take the two creatures in front of it seriously; they could be used as food while it recovered.
Unas found the Troll, quickly cut through the spider web to rescue him, and without even comforting him, laid Nightmoon flat on the grass and asked, "Do you have a way to remove the paralyzing poison? The Cleanse doesn't seem to be very effective."
Haikesi nodded, took a small vial of Potions from his bag and poured it into Nightmoon's mouth. Unas continued to cast Cleanse, and with both methods working together, the female Elf was able to stand up on her own in no time.
Unas looked at the female Elf moving her limbs and asked, "How are you? Can you still fight?"
"No problem."
The three of them crept back to the spider's battlefield, only to find the battle already over. The small brown spider had been torn in two, its internal organs completely devoured, leaving only an empty shell. The Overlord Spider and the Green-tailed Spider were nowhere to be seen, while the Puppet Spider lay quietly in place.
Nightmoon pointed to the fragments of the corpse on the ground and said, "This little brown spider seems to be able to become invisible. I was careless and got hurt by it."
The Troll observed the marks on the ground and analyzed the battle. "The Overlord Spider must have won. It ate the Invisible Spider directly and then dragged away the Green Tail Spider's corpse, probably intending to store it as food."
Unas nodded in agreement, and the Troll continued, "My lord, spiders are very vengeful creatures. We've inflicted a great loss on this Overlord Spider, and once it recovers, it will definitely seek revenge, potentially jeopardizing the safety of our stronghold. We absolutely cannot let it go now."
Unas certainly didn't want to let it go. Killing a boss-level monster like the Overlord Spider would at least level him up twice, but the experience he was about to gain was ruined by the Beauty Spider. He couldn't let that half-human, half-spider monster go either.