A Brain Is a Good Thing

Faced with the sudden appearance of a Behind-the-Scenes BOSS, Roy's first thought should have been to run for his life.

Yet for some reason, when Roy looked at Spider Queen's ugly appearance, the first thought that came to mind was...

Damn Wang Dachuizi, if my future wife looks like this, I'll eat shit and kill myself!

At the thought that his tastes might make him a Single Demon in the future, Roy was overcome with sorrow. Then he turned and ran!

He had to run. Just looking at Spider Queen's Body Size, Roy knew she was beyond anything he could handle right now. If those Spider Demons surrounded him too, he would truly be trapped!

That was fucking underhanded! You're a Mature Stage demon, yet not only did you come here to be neighbors with an Minor Demon like me, you even used a clone trick!?

Seeing Roy flee, Spider Queen was not angered. Instead, she Let Out a Burst of wild laughter.

Because that was exactly what she wanted. As a demon who had Hunted Thousands of Prey, she knew very well how to make a prey's soul more delicious.

Terror, fear, pain—if those emotions could be maintained, then after the prey died, its soul's quality and flavor might both be elevated!

This Little Demon before her was undoubtedly a Lesser Little Demon. Though he looked rather strange, and she could not tell what demon bloodline he possessed, Spider Queen did not care in the slightest. In fact, among the thousands of prey she had captured, at least thirty percent had been Lesser Little Demons like him. Unlike beastlike Demonic Creatures, these intelligent Little Demons were the most likely to produce High-Quality Souls.

All she had to do was pressure them until they felt terror and fear!

So, when she saw Roy running away, she was in no hurry at all. She moved her limbs and followed him at an unhurried pace.

"Give up. You can't escape! You dared to steal from me, Alanya. Your only fate is to become food in my belly!"

"I'll bite off your tail, tear off your head, and shred your body!"

"You'll howl in agony and beg me to kill you quickly!"

As she chased Roy, Spider Queen Alanya kept roaring incessantly in strange-sounding Demonic Language, telling the fleeing Roy ahead of the miserable death awaiting him, trying to increase the fear in his heart.

Along with her words, Alanya used her tank-like body to crash through the trees along the way, sending them down with thunderous booms and creating an unstoppable Aura.

Like a cat toying with a mouse, she pursued and played with Roy. Even the Spider Demons she had ordered to gather did not completely block Roy's escape route. Instead, they drove him onward like hunting hounds driving prey.

However, she did not know that Roy, who was running away, was not nearly as panicked as she imagined.

The first step of the Body Modification Plan succeeding had not made him completely overconfident. He knew one tail was not enough to make him invincible. So when he had planned to wipe out the Spider Demons, although he had not anticipated a Behind-the-Scenes BOSS like Spider Queen, he had considered what to do if he were surrounded.

Therefore, when he discovered the unexpected enemy Spider Queen Alanya, Roy immediately decided to carry out his planned backup strategy.

He began fleeing along the route he had taken before, weaving through gaps between webs. Those webs no longer had Spider Demons guarding them. As long as he was careful not to touch them and get stuck, there would be no problem.

Spider Queen Alanya's unhurried pace actually made Roy quite happy. Of course, he could tell she was toying with him, but the more she did so, the happier he became.

After passing through the Spider Demon Territory and reaching a place where he Could Not See webs covering the ground, Roy no longer needed to weave around them. He fixed his eyes on the Southwest Direction and sprinted all the way.

Spider Queen Alanya had not yet noticed anything wrong. She thought this Little Demon was simply fleeing for his life in blind panic.

However, after one chased and the other fled through the forest, Alanya immediately realized something was wrong. The direction this Little Demon was running in seemed to be toward the Lava River!?

That was right! The direction Roy chose was where the Lava River was. When he had entered this underground world from the Hatching Grounds, Roy had looked down upon that river from above, so naturally he remembered its location. There had originally been many dangers on the way from his cave to the Lava River, but while being hunted down, Roy could no longer worry about such things.

The moment she realized Roy's intentions, Alanya was filled with Wrath.

She did not know what Roy could do by running to the Lava River. What truly angered her was that she realized Roy did not seem to be feeling the fear she had expected.

That feeling was terrible. Her eager anticipation had come to nothing...

"Surround him! Kill him!"

In her Wrath, Alanya no longer intended to play games. Her Soul Fragments were still on this Little Demon. If she truly let him escape, Alanya would regret it to death.

Upon receiving the order, the Spider Demons immediately sped up and closed in on Roy from behind.

Roy noticed the Spider Demons closing in and leaping at him. He watched for the right moment and swung his tail, sending them flying back. His Steel-hard tail, swung with great force, Seriously Injured any Spider Demon it struck. For a time, the Spider Demons found it difficult to approach him.

After all, this was no longer their territory. Without webs, the Spider Demons had no good way to stop Roy from advancing. Roy also constantly changed direction. The Spider Demons' eight Spider Legs posed no obstacle when moving forward or backward, but they were much worse at moving sideways. They were spiders, not crabs...

Alanya also realized that failing to have the Spider Demons surround this Little Demon from the start had been a huge mistake. Now he was becoming difficult to catch, so she simply joined the pursuit herself.

With no trees in the forest blocking her now, Alanya could increase her speed. Moving her limbs, she trampled several Spider Demons blocking the way to death and caught up from behind.

"Die, you damned bastard!"

Alanya roared at Roy, but Roy's response was a bullet!

Twisting his body while running, Roy fired directly at Alanya. Her enormous body meant he did not even need to aim. The bullet struck Alanya directly in the belly.

The bullet failed to pierce her body, but it made her abdomen recoil, and her steps could not help but pause.

It hurt! That damned Little Demon had apparently fired something at her, and it hurt terribly!

Alanya roared and thundered forward at speed once more. Yet after only two steps, two more loud bangs rang out, and her body was hit again.

Delaying Alanya's steps like this, Roy finally caught sight of the Lava River before long.

After firing the gun empty with several bangs, Roy began running along the bank of the Lava River.

"Ha ha, you despicable Little Bug, do you intend to jump into the river!?" Seeing this, Alanya could not help laughing. "Even demons can barely survive in such lava. Unless you possess Flame Demon blood, jumping in will only mean death!"

Tch, she sure talks a lot! Roy inwardly sneered at Alanya, then his eyes suddenly lit up.

What flowed through this Lava River was magma. But magma was really just melted stone, so as it flowed, it carried rocks that had not melted or had formed after cooling. Those rocks had no foundation and often drifted with the magma's current.

And now, Roy saw one!

Calculating the distance, Roy suddenly changed direction while running. At the riverbank, he Pushed Off the Ground fiercely and leaped toward the floating rock.

Then Roy landed easily on top of it.

Under his weight, the rock sank slightly. But beneath Roy's nervous gaze, it was not swallowed by the magma. Instead, it slowly rose again.

Alanya, who had chased him to the riverbank, was immediately Stunned by what she saw!

Damn it, how could this Little Demon be so smart!?