Crack, crack-crack!
Something like spreading frost crept over Aiga's body. When it stopped, the Otherkind commander had become a stone statue.
And in the next instant-
Bang!
An immense force from the void crushed the statue.
It all happened far too quickly.
Qin Ran had only just thought of stopping it when Aiga became a pile of rubble.
System notifications kept ringing out.
Qin Ran paid them no heed.
All his attention was on the tiny spider rejoicing before him.
Yes, rejoicing.
There were no words or sounds, and Qin Ran certainly could not read a spider's expressions, but that faint emotion reached him deep in his heart.
"This?!"
Qin Ran stared in surprise at the tiny spider crouched on its web, making devouring motions. Then a sense of satisfaction from a full stomach reached his heart.
It confirmed that he was not hallucinating.
"Is the remnant soul recovering?"
Qin Ran ventured a guess.
He had long suspected that equipment could contain remnant souls.
What he had not anticipated was that those remnant souls could recover through "devouring."
Instinctively, Qin Ran glanced at the three "great items," whose radiance had already faded, leaving them old and decayed.
Rust and pits covered all three "great items." Had Qin Ran not witnessed their power just moments earlier, he would probably have taken them for three pieces of junk.
Clearly, this recovery did not come without a cost.
After calmly analyzing what had happened before him, Qin Ran clutched his chest.
Heartache!
An agonizing pain that tore through him with every breath began spreading through Qin Ran's chest.
The miser had lost three "great items"!
At the thought that they had been at least three legendary-tier items, Qin Ran actually needed the support of [Words of Arrogance] to remain standing.
But the tiny