The Human-faced Spider Matriarch, Kuriana, had once been a female scholar persecuted by Witchers.
The ruthless Witchers had dismembered the renowned scholar, installing her head—with its complete consciousness and soul intact—onto a sinister, grotesque giant man-eating spider in an attempt to create a war weapon for the Dark World comparable to the descending angels of Orora's Middle Earth.
He had succeeded, though one could also say he had failed.
What he had succeeded in creating was a brand-new war weapon that truly possessed astonishing potential and had already met most of his envisioned requirements.
What he had failed to account for was that this weapon had escaped his control and had even killed its creator. Relying on the knowledge originating from the scholar within its soul and its entirely new body, a brand-new race created by the Witchers had thus been born.
Compared with the other races, this highly promising race, which had inherited part of the scholars' consciousness and habits, was undoubtedly more frightening in Reilo's eyes. That was why he had secretly planted Dream Owl as a restraint, preventing them from reproducing and expanding without limit until one day they threatened humanity.
After all, in Reilo's view, although human scholars possessed relatively powerful advantages, their weakness was ordinary humanity. From the perspective of biological evolution, ordinary humans could never possibly be a match for these cruel and grotesque Human-faced Spiders.
Until this moment.
Kuriana saw those eyes.
He seemed like a supreme god, looking down at and judging her. It was a cruelty, arrogance, and disdain far more violent than that of the scholars, as though the wanton killing and plundering of a higher, superior life-form against a lower, inferior life-form all depended on a single thought of mercy.
But then.
The other party seemed to have discovered