"All the better if you don't come out. Once you're burned to death, I'll go in and pick up the spoils."
Zhao Er stood at the cave entrance with his Iron Halberds in hand, watching the spiders crawl out in dense swarms. He remained completely unmoved and even added more firewood.
Soon, a roasted aroma wafted out...
"Huh, that actually smells pretty good!"
Smelling it, Zhao Er couldn't help licking his lips.
"Click, click, click..."
Just then, a noise distinctly different from the earlier faint rustling came from inside the cave, and a shadow appeared amid the smoke.
"Finally coming out?"
At the sound, Zhao Er tightened his grip on his Iron Halberds, continuously pouring the blood-energy force surging from his body into them.
"Hiss~~"
A mass of pitch-black liquid sprayed out of the cave, covering the fire. The moment it touched the firewood, the fiercely burning flames dimmed, and poisonous smoke rose and spread in every direction.
"Click, click, click~~"
As the poisonous smoke spread, a spider the size of a goat scuttled out of it.
"Now!!"
This was the moment Zhao Er had been waiting for.
"Heavy Halberd!!"
The instant he saw the goat-sized spider, Zhao Er leaped from the ground without hesitation, bringing down his Iron Halberds with all the power he had already gathered.
"Splurch!!!"
Both halberds fell. Unlike the Blackwater Strange Serpent and the Golden-Backed Heavenly Dragon, this spider had no formidable defenses to break through. Zhao Er's long-prepared Heavy Halberd strike smashed straight through its back, and he landed atop it.
"Hiss!!!"
As Zhao Er's Heavy Halberd strike fell, his two halberds split open the spider's back, exposing the multicolored slime inside. The enormous spider let out a series of hisses, then spat a stream of white silk from its mouth.
"Blood Pierce!!"
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