Unceasing thunder accompanied roaring flames, raging through the depths of the Forbidden Forest like heavenly lightning and earthly fire.
Had the sky not remained clear, anyone who heard it might have thought an unprecedented lightning storm had broken out.
The commotion, comparable to a saturation bombardment of rockets, shattered the peace of the entire Forbidden Forest. Countless creatures living within it raised their heads, turning puzzled, curious, malicious, or astonished gazes toward the disturbance.
Of course, Zhang Xiao, who was struggling to drive the spiders back, knew nothing of this. The stack of talisman scripts in his hand, as thick as a bundle of "100,000" in cash, was shrinking at a visible rate.
There were too many spiders! They were XXXXX-class fantastic beasts, yet they reproduced like ordinary spiders. That was practically cheating!
Could it be that these Acromantulas, whose individual strength wasn't all that impressive and whose only real asset was their venom, had made it into the Dangerous Fantastic Beasts Register purely because of their reproductive ability?
These pony-sized spiders were covered in thick black hair, giving them extraordinary resistance to flames and ordinary spells. Wasn't more fur supposed to mean greater vulnerability to fire?
The flames had little effect on the spiders, but the continuous fiery explosions eventually dried out plenty of dead branches and fallen leaves, setting patch after patch alight.
The spiders' strange, nauseating clicking grew increasingly frantic. Their resistance was indeed formidable, but under the artillery-like bombardment of Thunder Talismans and Fire Talismans, their defenses finally broke.
Small patches of flame and spider corpses lay everywhere. Panting heavily, Zhang Xiao reached into his Heaven and Earth Bag, and his heart sank slightly. He was running low on talismans.
After flinging out another few talismans to force the spiders back temporarily, Zhang Xiao drew his