Unas led the Trolls and his royal guard to drag the frozen Overlord Spider to a forest five kilometers away.
Rosebayne appeared shortly after, looking quite well after a night's rest.
On the way here, Unas had already described the Beautiful Spider to his guards. At this moment, several young men stared wide-eyed at the half-human, half-spider Rosebayne, taking a few steps back in disbelief and gripping their weapons tightly.
Unas shouted a few times to calm the soldiers down. He hadn't brought the Beautiful Spider back to Blue Rock Pass precisely because he was afraid of causing unnecessary commotion, and now it seemed that this approach was necessary.
Rosebayne ignored the soldiers, expressionless, and went straight to the Overlord Spider, which was bound hand and foot in chains.
In reality, her heart was far from as calm as it appeared. Feelings of inferiority and anger welled up inside her. Yes, she was now a monster, and beneath her were no longer long, fair legs, but an ugly spider!
The guardian of the Overlord Spider was a Blood Elf water mage who added freezing air every few hours to keep the Overlord Spider in a state of paralysis, but just in case, he also added iron chains.
"Our army has captured a total of three Overlord Spiders. This one is relatively intact, and it should be able to recover its fighting strength quickly after being captured." Unas gestured for them to proceed.
Rosebayne approached the Overlord Spider as usual, saying, "I'll need your help, sir."
She first subdued the Overlord Spider with the spiritual support of Paladin. Compared to before, her spiritual power has increased considerably, but she is still not confident in subduing the king of spiders on her own.
Unas nodded, gently climbed onto the Beautiful Spider's hairy back, and pressed his hands against her Temples.
Their mental frequencies gradually aligned. Unas noticed that Rosebayne's emotions were very unstable, and after a brief observation, he realized she had been through some kind of trauma. He quickly reassured her, "We will definitely defeat the Purple-robed Person and find a way to restore your body."
This only made Rosebayne more agitated. Her biggest dream now was to go back to the past and hope that her current experience was just a nightmare.
Unas hadn't expected his words of comfort to backfire. He said in a commanding tone, "Don't think about anything else right now. Subduing the Overlord Spider is the only thing you need to focus on."
The master-servant contract gave him absolute control over the Beautiful Spider, and she immediately suppressed her emotions and focused on subduing the Overlord Spider.
Compared to their first collaboration, both of them have become much stronger. Rosebayne has grown rapidly in the days of subduing the spider, and her mental strength is twice what it was before. As for Unas, he is now more than ten levels higher than before, and his energy attribute has also increased significantly, reaching 143 (+14), which is no less than the mental strength of a mid-level mage.
The Overlord Spider's will to resist seemed to be frozen by the Blue Dragon's breath. This subjugation went surprisingly smoothly. A quarter of an hour later, Rosebayne had gained a powerful Overlord Spider subordinate.
Now we just have to wait for this beast to thaw; I believe it will soon regain its fighting strength.
"Do you still have the strength? I can go and drag the other two more seriously injured Overlord Spiders over as well."
Unas had thought subduing them would be difficult, and only intended to deal with one today. Since it was so easy, he might as well finish them off together.
Given Rosebayne's current mental strength limit, subduing five ordinary spiders a day is already her limit, but with Unas's support, she might be able to take down the three-headed Overlord Spider in one fell swoop.
Seeing the Beautiful Spider nod, Unas let out a roar and, together with his men, mounted their horses and galloped towards Blue Rock Pass.
Three days passed in a flash, and nothing major happened. The Spider Forest was unusually calm, as if the army hunting in the Canyon didn't exist. The Purple-robed Person showed no intention of launching a preemptive strike.
The Druids and rangers searched almost the entire Swamp, but still couldn't find any trace of the Seven-Headed Lizard. Even when Unas led several elite teams to wreak havoc, piling up the corpses of the Three-Headed Lizards and giant crocodiles, they still couldn't provoke the Swamp Lord out.
His entire body shone with golden light, sweeping away fatigue and injuries. Unas's only gain had arrived: the battle at Blue Rock Pass, plus the many spiders, lizards, and giant crocodiles he had personally killed in the past few days, totaling over a hundred, had brought his experience to the point where he was about to level up.
Having just severed the three heads of a lizard in front of him, he finally reached level 43, with +4 to Strength, +1 to Agility, +5 to Constitution, and +2 to Stamina. His skill points were then used on Sacred Shield.
Sacred Shield Lv2: Protects the target with a layer of Holy Light, absorbing a small amount of damage.
The skill description remained unchanged. Unas activated the shield, and a pale golden light shield instantly enveloped his entire body, seemingly without any apparent change.
The advantages of the Sacred Shield are low cost, no cooldown, and it can be broken and reactivated almost instantly. It can also absorb some damage, and the permanent light and shadow effects are quite impressive.
However, as the battle progressed, it became increasingly ineffective, almost becoming a useless skill. Unas upgraded it in the hope of reducing some of the damage.
They picked up the lizard heads from the ground and placed them on a pile of skulls. These past few days, they had been hunting lizards in the Swamp, chopping off their heads and piling them up into many small mounds of skulls, intending to provoke the Swamp Lord.
But no matter how many lizard offspring died, the grumpy Seven-Headed Lizard never appeared again, leading the rangers to speculate that the monster might have escaped into the Forest.
It was severely injured and so large that it couldn't have left no trace of its movements. Unas guessed that perhaps the Purple-robed Person had erased its tracks.
As the sun began to set, it was time to call back to camp. Unas sheathed his weapons and called out, "Brothers and sisters, take your spoils and head back to camp!"
The so-called spoils were the headless carcasses of a giant crocodile and a lizard. Crocodile meat was quite delicious and popular in the army, while lizard meat was highly poisonous and difficult to disinfect, so it was given to Rosebayne.
After the Beautiful Spider subdued the three-headed Overlord Spider, her mental power increased again, and in the past few days she has recruited more than ten Giant Spiders in the Canyon.
She has a special sensitivity to spiders, and can find them quickly no matter how well they hide. Many Giant Spiders are scattered in this vast valley between Blue Rock Pass and the Forest. With the Three-Headed Overlord Spider there, any other spider can only submit to Rosebayne's will.
It's easy to imagine that the small spider Legion will gradually expand like a snowball, which will require a lot of food, and lizard meat will be perfect to avoid waste.
Nightmoon Moon rode closer and asked in a low voice, "What are your plans for tomorrow, sir? Will you continue hunting lizards?"
"Is there a problem?" Unas knew that the Night Elves were anxious and dissatisfied with his "leisurely" attitude these past few days.
"If you don't make any new moves, Captain Silver Shadow will be taking us on a solo adventure." The "we" she was referring to were, of course, the Night Elves.
"Call all your compatriots; come to Dragon Mound tonight to discuss this."