Karya was a well-traveled man.
He recognized Vile Maw's posture very clearly—so he strongly suspected that the cunning giant spider was trying to lull him into a false sense of security.
Without the slightest hesitation, Karya channeled his magic. Countless golden grains of sand flowed out of his pocket dimension, transforming into two enormous hands that closed around Vile Maw and held it in their palms.
Then the hands didn't close immediately. Instead, their fingers faced one another, forming a cage.
The next moment, their surfaces began to glow gold. As magic flowed through them, the gold shone brilliantly even in the dim spider lair. The dazzling light even roused Vile Maw from its painful memories.
Sensing something was wrong, Vile Maw stretched out its legs and tried to break the hands apart.
But it was already too late.
While Vile Maw was still struggling like a beast caught in a trap, strands of golden light began to come alive.
Vile Maw's sharp limbs easily pierced the hands, but the strands of gold nimbly evaded every one of its attacks, continuing to spread, weave, and join together at an unhurried pace...
Until at last they formed a complete and complex Magic Circuit across the backs of the hands.
And that wasn't the end of it.
Once the Magic Circuit had closed and stabilized, the hands themselves began to change.
The areas on the backs of the hands bearing the Magic Circuit rose and dipped according to some inherent pattern, turning the circuit from a flat design into a three-dimensional one. As this happened, Karya increased his magical output.
Then the "living" magic surged across the backs of the hands like little rivers. Like powerful tendons, it completely suppressed Vile Maw's resistance within their grasp.
The giant spider was panicking now.