"Oh, still breathing? Tough little thing."
Mo Xie raised an eyebrow in mild surprise when he saw that the Agate-Head Spider still had a breath left in it. He was about to deliver the finishing blow.
"Wait."
Just then, Yu Shishi interrupted him from beside him. Suppressing her anger toward the Agate-Head Spider, she asked,
"Um... could you let me finish it off myself?"
"Of course!"
Mo Xie paused, then shrugged indifferently and nodded in agreement.
With his permission, Yu Shishi's face filled with excitement, and she nodded gratefully.
At last, she could avenge the children she had poured countless days and nights into raising. She had waited so very long for this day.
"Thank you!"
As she spoke, hatred flashed through Yu Shishi's beautiful eyes. She swept both hands outward, and countless green moths flew out from hidden corners of the forest.
At the sight of the dying Agate-Head Spider, they hurled themselves at it in a frenzy, as though driven by a blood feud.
They swarmed around it, instantly enveloping its mangled body. Then, wave after wave, they unleashed sharp blades of green light that slashed hard into its ruined flesh.
The Agate-Head Spider was already on the brink of death and could no longer even scream. Normally, its armored hide would have kept these moths from so much as scratching it. More importantly, any moth that dared venture within three hundred meters would have been caught in its webs, with not a single one escaping.
Now, however, burns and lightning wounds covered the Agate-Head Spider's body, which had been crushed to a pulp. Its heads could barely spit out any silk.
The three stood a short distance away, watching the moths attack as one and furiously slice the Agate-Head Spider to pieces. Dark red blood splashed over