The soul doll, transformed into a demonic puppet, moved quickly.
When Evelynn transformed it, she had clearly used her own demonic form as a template. The soul doll itself wasn't exactly attractive—in fact, it was downright ugly—but after Evelynn's modifications, it looked like an adorably ugly big-headed doll. Its round, chubby shape even made it kind of cute.
However, its clumsy appearance didn't mean it was clumsy in practice. Quite the opposite: the demonic puppet moved quickly and could hide in the shadows just like Evelynn. Guided by Karya, it nimbly avoided the web traps Vile Maw had left outside its lair and soon slipped into the spider's nest.
Karya had Vile Maw's indiscriminate cruelty to thank for this. To prevent anyone from stealing its food, after the spider's treasure had attracted enough people, Vile Maw had unhesitatingly turned all its offspring into food. So, inside the vast spider's nest, there wasn't a single living creature on guard.
All Vile Maw could rely on were the invisible strands of webbing that would alert it the instant anyone touched them.
Under normal circumstances, any animal that entered the spider's nest would be detected by the web traps. Vile Maw would then rush back as quickly as possible, hoping to trap and kill the intruder inside the lair.
But neither Evelynn's demonic puppet nor Karya, who was controlling it, was anything close to normal. Karya could see the faint currents of magic flowing through the web traps, while the demonic puppet was small and agile. Together, they made the traps far less of a threat.
The last time Karya explored the spider's nest, he was discovered mainly because, although he could see the web traps, avoiding them completely had been far too difficult. One careless move had triggered a trap, forcing him