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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: FusionX
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“You look like food and came to me willingly, how can I repay this favor? I don’t have anything to offer in return.”
Arachnae supported her chest with her right arm and rested her chin on the back of her right hand with her left elbow raised, looking down at us.
Due to her posture, her large breasts, which didn’t have a single thread covering them, were even more emphasized.
I didn’t particularly want to think about the pink protrusions visible between her green hair.
‘…Was there an update?’
I blankly froze and pondered in my mind.
When I had installed the NPC retouching mod before, the bosses’ appearances hadn’t been touched.
After completing the first playthrough, I couldn’t bear the dissonance between the voice and appearance, so I deleted it.
After that, the Darkest Light Mod came out, and I was too busy diving into it to pay attention to anything else.
So what I remembered was only up to the initial release version.
It seemed that while I was immersed in the Darkest Light Mod, the NPC retouching mod had also gone through quite a few updates.
‘Yeah. It would be strange if it didn’t.’
Even the Darkest Light Mod had released various patches along with minor bug fixes until the announcement of the final update, so how could the appearance modification mod not have been updated?
“Delta.”
Upon hearing Lizé’s chillingly cold voice right next to me, I hurriedly stopped thinking and came to my senses.
When I turned my head, I saw Lizé literally spewing ice and cold air around her armor, looking at me blankly.
I couldn’t see her expression due to her helmet, but it was even more spine-chilling because her expression wasn’t visible.
“Where are you looking?”
The moment I heard her asking where I was looking, I realized why Lizé was reacting this way.
As soon as I looked at the human-shaped upper body, I froze blankly and became lost in thought, so she mistook it as me being distracted by those bare breasts.
In fact, I was surprised that she wasn’t covered with an exoskeleton like in my memory but was completely naked, but anyway, from the outside, it was a situation that could easily lead to misunderstandings.
“……”
I had to clear up the misunderstanding, but I was at a loss for words, not knowing where to start.
Should I first explain why I specifically froze while looking at her chest area?
‘If I keep my mouth shut like this, the misunderstanding will only deepen, so I need to say somethingㅡ’
“Delta.”
Lizé called me once more.
I gave up on making excuses and obediently waited for her next words.
At the moment, no answer came to mind.
However, what came out of Lizé’s mouth was completely beyond my expectations.
“If you want to see bare breasts that much, I’ll show you mine later. So turn your eyes away. Got it?”
Upon hearing those words, Erica and I were both startled and raised our heads simultaneously.
Claudia was looking at us with an expression that seemed to be as expected, although it was hidden behind her helmet.
I could only blankly freeze again for a different reason.
I thought my ears were playing tricks on me just now.
Show me what?
“Uh, sister. What did you just…?”
“Quiet, Erica. We need to focus.”
Erica tried to ask back in a trembling voice, but Lizé cut her off immediately.
If she had spoken in her usual playful tone, I could have brushed it off, but her voice was quite serious, so it seemed I couldn’t just casually let it slide.
‘After defeating that thing, the first thing I need to do is clear up Lizé’s misunderstanding.’
Otherwise, I might wake up in the same bed the next morning.
Both of us naked.
“Ahh, I see.”
Perhaps hearing our conversation, the Spider Queen deliberately emphasized her breasts and giggled.
The lumps of fat similar in size to her head changed shape according to the movement of her fingers.
This time, I quickly averted my eyes.
One misunderstanding was enough.
“That man in the middle must be very important to you, huh? Alright. I’ll suck him dry first. Very slowly. While listening to his screams until he’s on the verge of death.”
A green tongue stuck out from between her green lips, licked around her mouth, and went back in.
“That won’t happen.”
Claudia slammed her greatsword into the ground with a bang.
Yellow lightning swirled nearby.
Not only the greatsword but also various parts of Claudia’s body were wrapped in lightning.
A roaring thunder sound reverberated, and the entire greatsword was covered in lightning, constantly emitting sparks.
“You can’t lay a finger on our esteemed new member. Do you think I’ll let you do that?”
Just standing near her made my skin tingle a little.
It felt like all the hair on my body was standing on end.
Lizé and Erica also stepped forward.
Cold air and flames engulfed the surrounding space, creating a fog of extreme low temperature and a haze of extreme high temperature.
“That reaction makes me even more curious. When you’re helplessly held captive and have to listen to that man screaming, I wonder what kind of beautiful expressions you’ll make.”
Arachnae gave me a smile with her eyes.
I calmly accepted that smile and stepped back a little.
Not too close, but not too far away either.
It was according to the plan we had set up in advance.
Since we confirmed through the Rock Centipede that the boss’s aggro would jump to the one who received the attack, the initial strategy was to leave it to the knight commanders while I stayed far away.
And when the pattern of summoning baby spiders occurred, I would step in and fight Arachnae, while the knight commanders would focus on dealing with the baby spiders.
It would be an unimaginable strategy in Brightest Darkness 4, which was a completely single-player game, but it was perfectly possible for us now.
“Now, as a reward for coming all the way here, I’ll suck you dry without leaving a single drop of blood. Come here, my cuties.”
The Spider Queen, who had uttered the final line of the boss room entrance cutscene, spread her arms wide, and taking that as a signal, the three knight commanders rushed in at once.
The first to initiate the attack was, of course, Lizé.
Approaching the Spider Queen’s side in an instant, Lizé swung her twin daggers towards her right rear.
The daggers, covered in ice, grazed and passed through her body several times.
Then, avoiding the hind legs stomping on the ground, she tried to rush in once more but abruptly stopped her movement.
There were gray spider webs spread under her feet.
“It’s on spider webs. It must be hard to move, right?”
Arachnae laughed and raised her hind legs.
Right after Lizé lowered her body, sharp claws narrowly grazed the shoulder part of her armor.
Green liquid dripped onto the silver armor.
Taking advantage of that opening, Claudia charged in.
Holding the lightning-covered greatsword with both hands, she twisted her body counterclockwise and swung it down as if smashing it from above.
A boom that seemed to shake the entire valley echoed.
Lightning spread out in a circle, centered on the spot where the greatsword had been smashed down.
The yellow flash filled the boss room.
The attack didn’t stop there.
Claudia seemed to pause for a moment, then pulled out the greatsword and raised it upward.
This time, the greatsword was swung from below, pointing the tip of the blade towards the ceiling before falling backward.
Perhaps to avoid twisting her posture, she let go of her left hand from the handle and supported it only with her right hand.
Claudia took that brief moment to turn her body and switch her front and back.
The booming sound echoed once again.
The lightning that struck a moment later directly hit Arachnae’s body.
“Kyaaaaaaah!”
A bright yellow flash flickered, and a shrill scream erupted from her mouth.
‘I roughly know what kind of technique that is.’
Just like the other knight commanders, Claudia was also using the skills she had used in boss battles.
The attack just now was also one of the boss battle patterns.
Due to the size of the greatsword and the force of swinging it, combined with the lightning enchantment, Claudia was a boss whose destructive power was unrivaled.
Instead, there were many openings, so once you avoided it, each attack became a moment of vulnerability, but it was impossible for that huge spider body to make such swift movements.
“You wretched thing!”
Arachnae, who had taken Claudia’s attack head-on, staggered and retreated.
Of course, even after taking a direct hit, the only injuries she had were faint sword marks.
Now it was Erica’s turn.
Raising her right foot halfway up and holding the sword in her right hand against her left side, she stomped her right foot forward strongly and swung it horizontally.
The blade cut through the Spider Queen’s body.
Following the trajectory of the swung sword, a wave of flames surged.
Like a tsunami rushing onto land, the wave of fire swept through the entire fan-shaped area in front of it.
“Kyaaaaaaah!”
An even more agonizing scream erupted.
Flames rose from Arachnae’s body, which had been engulfed in the flame field from beginning to end.
It meant she had been inflicted with one of the status ailments, burn.
When inflicted with burn, the target receives damage over time proportional to the caster’s attack power for 15 seconds, and while the burn persists, they cannot recover combat fatigue at all.
For the Spider Queen, who wasn’t a humanoid boss, the option of not being able to recover combat fatigue had little meaning, but the continuous damage proportional to the caster’s attack power would be quite painful.
After all, the caster was Erica.
“Eeeeek!”
Arachnae panted and sprayed green bodily fluids around by flipping her belly.
The knight commanders, who had been informed in advance that it was poison, quickly retreated.
The once-relaxed expression when Lizé first charged in was nowhere to be found.
Her face was distorted like a demon.
“You should have quietly become nourishment for our children!”
‘Huh? That pattern is already coming out?’
What Arachnae had just spat out was the line that came right before summoning the baby spiders.
In other words, it also meant that the boss’s health had already been reduced by 40%.
The attacks she had taken were only Lizé’s combo, a fully charged attack with a lightning-enchanted greatsword, and a full hit of the flame fieldㅡ
‘It’s about time for it to come out.’
Except for Lizé’s combo, the other two were attacks that guaranteed death even in vanilla if taken as a direct hit.
Considering the difference in specs between the two bosses, it made sense.
Moreover, the Spider Queen was a biological enemy, so she took additional damage from fire and lightning.
The elemental advantage was overwhelmingly in our favor, so there was no need to look further.
The situation was unfolding more easily than I thought.
“My children! Awaken!”
Arachnae shouted at the top of her lungs.
As if responding to the call, the sound of egg shells tearing and cracking began to come from all directions.
The knight commanders gathered beside me.
“Now it begins, Delta?”
“Yes. Please do as I told you. I’ll deal with that gigantic one.”
Drawing the blood-stained sword, I stabbed it into my stomach and sucked in the blood.
After confirming that the blade had turned red to the limit, I pulled out the sword.
An ominous red glow swirled around the blade.
Before long, the baby spiders born from the eggs began to pour out.
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