Facing Earth Dragon Araba, Kumoko once again experienced the hardships of battle. Completely unlike her previous enemies, Araba possessed not only immense strength, but also highly developed intelligence.
As someone with human-level intelligence, Kumoko had always taken pride in her own intellect. Before her... these native monsters had limited intelligence and were often outwitted by her.
How many times had she defeated the strong while weak, using strategy against superior foes and fighting enemies above her level? It was not merely because of some of her bug-like abilities; the most important reason was that she was smarter than them.
But when facing this Araba, she held no great advantage in terms of intelligence at all.
While evading attacks, Kumoko constructed magic to counterattack Araba. Yet very quickly, she suddenly realized... Araba, who had not been especially skilled at aerial combat, now had aerial mobility no worse than hers.
"How could this be?!"
Barely dodging Araba's attack, Kumoko nearly got killed outright. Her HP had dropped by almost a third.
Appraisal-sama!
Carefully landing on the wall overhead, Kumoko hurriedly appraised Araba's skills and immediately understood why it had suddenly improved so much.
Earth Dragon Araba's skill points had instantly decreased by over ten thousand, but its only weakness had been completely remedied! The air had been Kumoko's sole advantage just moments ago, but now... even that one advantage was gone!
Damn it!
This guy was seriously crafty. He was already this powerful, yet he had still kept tens of thousands of skill points in reserve for emergencies! The key was that he had the means to stockpile skill points like that, unlike Kumoko... her skill points had never even exceeded four digits! Aaaaah!
"Ahhh! I'm going to die, die, die!"
Although it had spent a great many skill points, it had