"The ships still need two minutes to get here, and with a monster like this around, we might not be able to get back through the portals aboard them safely. So... we're each on our own!"
Balot issued his final instruction in the regional public channel as his body continued to fall.
He holstered the large-caliber silver-white revolver at his waist, drew the two-handed greatsword from his back, and landed heavily on one of the Spider Mother Remnant's legs. He unleashed a Silver Moon Arc Slash, hacking several abnormal limbs protruding from the Spider Mother's surface to pieces, blue fire searing their severed ends.
They were not hard to cut through.
These abnormal limbs showed no traits stronger than they had possessed in life.
The problem was that there were far too many of them!
And then.
Balot felt something wrong beneath his feet. By the time he noticed, they had already merged into the Spider Mother's surface.
Had Yang Yi been there, he would have noticed something no one else could see.
Countless tiny spiders were busily moving in and out of this Spider Mother Remnant's surface. This was what truly made it special.
The moment Balot touched the Spider Mother Remnant's body, these tiny limb spiders began working, directly connecting his feet to its interior.
Chaotic, intensely aggressive consciousnesses immediately invaded Balot's Sea of Consciousness, almost instantly emptying his sanity and worsening his Ghoul Transformation as it rapidly spread toward the right half of his body.
But at that same moment, he desperately severed both his feet with a swing of his sword. Then a silver spear thrust beneath his clothing at an odd, tricky angle, piercing through and lifting him up. It was Wang Chong, who had rushed over to help.
He was sitting on Haken's carriage,