Faced with Saine's utterly unsporting retreat, the Black-Bellied Spider Leader, which had been hiding in the temple and had successfully contacted the Spider Goddess, gradually receiving a wisp of divine power, grew anxious.
The Spider Goddess was generous and never stingy about bestowing power upon her followers. Otherwise, she would never have successfully developed believers in the Wizard World.
Influenced by the Wizard World's mages and their pursuit of Truth, not only knights but also many magical beasts, subhumans, sea folk, and Homeland Beings simply did not believe that gods existed in this world.
So-called gods were merely lifeforms that had evolved to a higher level.
With divine power reinforcing it, translucent energy bands dotted with white spots appeared across the Black-Bellied Spider Leader's body and abdomen.
Those energy bands were tightly connected to the temple, and the source of power involved seemed to have some connection to Faith Power.
As long as it remained within this temple, and as long as the energy bands on its body were not severed, it could maintain strength elevated to the Demigod-level, with nearly inexhaustible energy within its body.
This was the Goddess's gift, the favor it had received as the person in charge of this pasture of faith.
Put plainly, this Faith Power was the strength gathered through the devout prayers of millions of beings in Balas City over many years.
Saine had once studied divine power, and even now, his laboratory still contained the gorilla mother and daughter whose divine power had run dry.
Thus, when the Black-Bellied Spider Leader dragged its energy bands out of the Main Temple, Saine quickly recognized its condition.
A Black-Bellied Spider Leader whose strength had surged to the Demigod-level and whose reserve energy was inexhaustible was not something Saine could handle alone at present.
Saine