"Tarvitz!"
Lucius blurted out the cry, without a trace of his usual mockery for once.
Seeing Tarvitz driven back after trading a head-on blow with the monster, his casual disregard for danger instantly gave way to a more urgent battle lust and an instinct to protect his brother-in-arms.
Without the slightest hesitation, before Tarvitz had fully regained his footing, Lucius seized the instant when the Giant Spider Xenos shifted its stance after the blow and surged forward like a purple-and-gold thunderbolt!
The Force Field of his Power Sword whined even more shrilly than Tarvitz's. Rather than meeting the creature head-on with a downward chop, he drove his blade upward at a cunning angle, targeting the lower abdomen exposed as the monster reared to pounce, where the carapace joints appeared somewhat more intricate!
"Rrrip!!"
This time, the blade bit into tough biological tissue with a muffled, teeth-grating sound of tearing!
Lucius's sword tip wedged precisely into a gap in the carapace, sinking almost half a foot deep!
Dark green bodily fluid, thick as glue and reeking of powerful acid and decay, blasted from the wound like a high-pressure water Gun, spraying straight at Lucius's head and body!
With his wealth of combat experience, Lucius had anticipated the counterattack the instant his blade entered the creature.
He tightened his core sharply and spun backward to one side, his entire body moving with an agility and speed that seemed to defy inertia!
The searing, highly corrosive acid splashed past the edges of his ornate armor and hissed against the ground, instantly eating smoking black pits into the dark red sand and stone.
A few drops he failed to avoid spattered his pauldron, immediately leaving charred corrosion marks.
Yet an injury that would have crippled any ordinary creature seemed only to enrage the terrifying