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Chapter 139: Devoured
Chapter 139: Devoured
Chapter 139: Devoured
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
The temperature of the Spider Monster’s Purple Heavenly Fire was extremely high. Even the rocks would burn when touched by the flames. The Twin-headed Ogre had accidentally brushed past the Heavenly Fire, and had his moustache, eyebrows, and hair almost completely burned off by a stray ember. Now that the Medusa leader was pinned down by the Spider Monster, what would happen to her if she suffered the full brunt of the Heavenly Fire attack?
In that instant, seeing the heavily injured Medusa leader, then looking at the ferocious Spider Monster and the faint flicker of the Purple Heavenly Fire, the group lost their color in shock. Some gave their best effort and threw out their harpoons; some raised the heavy crossbows and fired a few rounds, but unfortunately the countless Giant Crab Spiders and Twin-headed Horse Spiders blocked the attacks for the Spider Monster, swarming around it.
No one believed they would be able to save the Medusa leader, and they all closed their eyes to avoid the ghastly scene. At that moment, the Heavenly Fox Yuna and Yang Ling took action once again!
A silver glint flashed past, and the Spider Monster once again was paralyzed by the Heavenly Fox Yuna’s Petrifying Spell, unable to release the Purple Heavenly Fire brewing in its mouth. Yang Ling teleported right in front of the creature without a trace, and stabbed his dagger down toward its head. Then he picked up the Medusa leader and retreated.
An opportunity like this does not come twice!
Seeing the Spider Monster paralyzed once again, the group did not waste their chance.
The barbarians and Dogmen who had gotten into formation gave their best in their attacks, their poison coated harpoons and catapults raining down onto the Giant Crab Spiders and Twin-headed Horse Spiders, clearing off a large area of them in one go!
Under the command of the Gnome Elder, the Gnome Spellcasters joined hands and cast a shield barrier, protecting the group from the poisonous attacks of the Giant Crab Spider. The Spellcasters, including Goode and the Fox Elder, released walls of raging fire, incinerating the spider horde!
The Twin-headed Ogre Braska roared and smashed down on the Spider Monster’s head before retreating quickly, narrowly avoiding the Giant Crab Spiders. The Ox Chief let out a powerful impact wave, slicing the Spider Monster in its soft belly like a sharp blade, inflicting a wound a meter long...
In that instant, even the Spider Monster suffered from the heavy attacks, its body covered in blood, its intestines oozing out. The ordinary Giant Crab Spiders and Twin-headed Horse Spiders fared worse. Of all of its injuries, the head injury inflicted by Yang Ling’s blade was the most serious. Fresh blood flowed everywhere. In fact, even its white brain matter was seeping out of the wound!
Roar...
In its intense pain, the Spider Monster trembled and recovered its ability to move. Its furious roars reverberated around the hall, each roar louder than the last. The roars attacked the souls of group directly like a tide!
The people trembled, feeling as if their brains had been hit by hammers. Some felt dizzy, their vision blurred; some had difficulty breathing, as if they were suffocating, a formless hand tightly clasped around their necks; some even bled from the mouth, slumping to the ground.
Yang Ling felt that something was off the moment the Spider Monster lifted its head. He covered his ears and tried his best to circulate the protective Wizard Power in his body. Even so, he still felt his blood churn in his body and a buzz in his head, as if he had smashed his head into a brick wall. Luckily, he had advanced to the level of Earth Wizard in time, and his mental energy had greatly improved. Otherwise, one of those soundwaves would have been enough to turn him into an idiot.
The greater the mental energy, the more sensitive one was to a Soul Attack, and the Heavenly Fox Yuna was no exception. Even though she had tried her best to defend herself against the howls of the Spider Monster, she still bled from her mouth, her mental energy and Magical Energy exhausted.
The group suffered from the heavy impact, but the Spider Monster was not too well off either!
Under the white fog’s corrosion, its mental energy and Magical Energy had decreased drastically. Summoning the huge wave of Giant Crab Spiders and Twin-headed Horse Spiders had further depleted a third of its remaining energies.
The Soul Attacks the Spider Monster released with its deafening howls continued to deplete its remaining mental energy, rendering it yet more susceptible to the surrounding fog. Blisters grew continuously all over its body, exploding and then regrowing, then exploding... It was losing its Blood Essence in waves!
The lower its mental energy, the more susceptible it was to the white fog. In the blink of an eye, the Spider Monster had become covered in fresh blood. Under the corrosion of the white fog, its white bones were even exposed in some parts of its body, making it look exceptionally fearsome!
“Hehehe, die, die!”
Perhaps it was unleashing its bestial qualities, or perhaps it had now lost its mind after being stabbed in the head by Yang Ling. This time, the heavily injured Spider Monster did not bother retreating. Instead, it chose to advance, darting forward with a roar in an attempt to finish off the group in one fell swoop.
Skitter, skitter, skitter...
Under the command of the Spider Monster, the Giant Crab Spiders launched their poisonous attacks, even in the face of the raging flames and arrows raining down all around them, totally unafraid of death. They attacked the gnome Spellcasters’ protective barrier, tearing apart the Beastmen that had not made it into the barrier in time.
If the Giant Crab Spiders were a high pressured water gun, then the Twin-headed Horse Spiders were like bulldozers! Under the Spider Monster’s command, they rabidly crashed into the protective barrier in front of them, as if a bull was battering it down!
The protective barrier creaked incessantly under the attacks of the Giant Crab Spiders and Twin-headed Horse Spiders, as if it were going to crumble at any moment. But under the effortful counterattack of the group, the spiders also paid a heavy price, their numbers dropping steadily as they fell one wave after the next.
Roar...
The Spider Monster disregarded the group’s harpoons and catapults, charging fiercely, and it rammed into the protective barrier, once, twice... It unleashed all the power it had in its body. The protective barrier shook. Even the ground trembled.
Facing the crazed Spider Monster, Yang Ling was silent, quietly waiting for the final killing blow. Even though the Spider Monster looked extremely ferocious, it was in reality on its last leg. It might not be able to hold its own under the thick white fog for too much longer, even if Yang Ling did not attack it himself!
Soon after, the protective barrier scattered under the Spider Monster’s heavy attacks. But, without waiting for it to charge over, Yang Ling appeared in front of it, fast as lightning.
“Hehehe, die!”
Just as Yang Ling was about to use an attack he had used before, the Spider Monster, who had adopted a charging posture, suddenly opened its mouth and bit down onto Yang Ling’s left shoulder, and lifted him off the ground. It then retreated, fast as the wind. The rest of the Giant Crab Spiders and Twin-headed Horse Spiders defended its back, blocking the Twin-headed Ogre and Goode who were prepared to reinforce Yang Ling.
The Spider Monster was gleeful after having successfully bitten Yang Ling. If it devoured Yang Ling’s memories, it would be able to directly obtain the secrets of the Ancient Wizard. It believed its intuition. Even if Yang Ling was not a true Ancient Wizard, he would definitely contain the training method of an Ancient Wizard; otherwise, there was no way that his body would contain that mysterious ripple. In order to obtain the secrets of the Ancient Wizard, it was willing to pay any price!
I fell into a trap?
Yang Ling watched the Spider Monster retreating rapidly, its bloodthirsty red eyes rolling. He swallowed with difficulty. The Spider Monster had immense strength, and Yang Ling could not free himself in that instant no matter what he tried! Seeing the other party’s sharp teeth and large, exposed throat, Yang Ling came up with an idea that made use of his circumstances.
After retreating back to a corner where the white fog was thinner, the Spider Monster did not hesitate any longer. It was prepared to tear Yang Ling in two and then swallow him. Since it had become this half human half monster Spider Monster thanks to the curse of the Orc Soul Priests, it had gradually gained a few strange abilities. One of those included swallowing the memories of its prey.
Opening its mouth wide, the Spider Monster prepared to tear Yang Ling in two. Instead, it felt a pain in its chin, exactly where Yang Ling’s dagger had just found purchase. Yang Ling kicked, and the Monster found itself swallowing Yang Ling whole!
The Spider Monster was about the size of a truck, the insides of its body filled with red organs and fresh blood. Of course, it also had a considerable amount of coursing digestive fluids. Scanning his surroundings, Yang Ling could see limbs that had not yet been digested completely. There were the claws of Giant Crab Spiders, the limbs of the Twin-headed Horse Spiders... It was incredibly disgusting.
Yang Ling tried his best to pulse the Wizard Power in his body, his body releasing a dull red glow to protect himself against the digestive fluids in the Spider Monster’s belly. Grounding himself, he summoned his army of Horned Bee Beasts, instructing them to tear the place apart as they wished!
The Horned Bee Beast horde stung the Spider Monster’s organs, ripping into its body with wild abandon. They tore open its digestive tract, wrenched open its stomach, swallowed its heart...
Roar...
The Spider Monster rolled around in intense pain, slamming itself into walls like a headless fly in an attempt to squeeze Yang Ling and the Horned Bee Beasts out. Unfortunately, it was all for naught!
The Horned Bee Beasts continued their attacks, and the Spider Monster trembled in pain. It felt like a million ants were devouring its soul. Every inch of its skin and every single one of its nerves radiated with waves of intense pain. Every muscle in its body convulsed uncontrollably!
The Horned Bee Beasts caused such intense pain, as they tore the Spider Monster’s insides apart, but the Spider Monster only experienced life and death pain when Yang Ling summoned the spider army!
The Horned Bee Beasts tore apart a piece of flesh at a time, each mouthful like a needle sting. But the Tarantulas took a bite at the flesh, then pulled on it, then took another bite for extra measure!
With the Horned Bee Beasts and spider army tearing it apart, the powerful Spider Monster collapsed soon after. It broke down completely!
No one could tolerate that intense pain. Even a mutated spider could not bear the cruel torture of being sliced apart by a million blades all at once.
In just an hour, the Summoner of Beast Blood Abbas, that had been unthinkably powerful a few thousand years ago, the Abbas that had once massacred cities across tens of thousand of miles, the expert from the Church whose name would bring fear to all enemies, laid motionless on the ground, completely dead.
After killing off the remaining Giant Crab Spiders and Twin-headed Horse Spiders, and looking on the Spider Monster that had died brutally, they thought back to Yang Ling who had sacrificed himself, and the group cried. The forest elves that had rushed over after receiving the news had tears covering their faces, kneeling on the ground helplessly.
Without Yang Ling’s help in the past, their tribe would have long ago been felled by Ymir. Without Yang Ling’s generosity, their tribe would have no way of surviving the slow, harsh winter. The elves did not know how to break this cruel news to Sofia when she returned from the altar of the Goddess of Nature.
Reeling helplessly, the Heavenly Fox Yuna slumped to the ground. But just as she began to cry, she began to feel a familiar, friendly ripple come from inside the Spider Monster’s still, broken body!