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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: FusionX
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‘Now that I’m seeing it in person, it’s no joke.’
Seeing spiders the size of my knees swarming from all directions in droves, it felt like insects were crawling all over my body, giving me a ticklish sensation.
The knight commanders seemed to feel similarly, as the range of electricity, ice, and flames rising from their bodies widened even further.
“We’ll take care of those things, so don’t worry and run, Delta.”
Lizé lightly pushed me.
Taking that action as a signal, the baby spiders swarmed towards me like a flock of sheep near a shepherd as I approached the Spider Queen.
“How dare you!”
Of course, they were all swept away by ice and flames without being able to lay a single finger on me.
It was an extremely delicate power control, sweeping away a wide enough range to sufficiently secure the space for me to run, yet not letting me get swept away as well.
Since each of the knight commanders had a means of wide-area attack, the handling was precise.
Just by swinging her greatsword around, the baby spiders were popping and exploding, and due to the lightning wrapped around the blade, the actual attack range was much larger.
Lizé was the same.
The baby spiders couldn’t even approach, let alone attack, as they were slowed down and frozen solid by the thick frost fog and ice field around her.
Erica was needless to say.
Even though she was just wearing flames all over her body and swinging her weapon around, the flames naturally spread and burned all the baby spiders to ashes.
“Did you come to be eaten by me?”
Arachnae, who had summoned the baby spiders and briefly retreated towards the wall, smiled with her eyes as I approached, regaining her composure and speaking in a somewhat alluring voice.
“No, I came to kill you.”
“Kill? You? Me?”
A giggling laughter came in response.
I calmly took my stance.
Anyway, there was plenty of time.
The knight commanders would finish off all the baby spiders before my buff ran out and come to my aid.
“Can you even do that?”
“Why do you think I can’t?”
“There’s a reason right here.”
With a squelch, her slender, long fingers grabbed her breasts and gently kneaded them.
Then, with her fingers, she slightly stimulated the pink protrusions at the tips of her breasts.
Coy moans and seductive gestures were added.
The movements were so natural that it seemed like she had done it quite a lot until now.
No, it wasn’t just that it seemed like she had done it a lot, but she must have actually done it a lot.
After all, Arachnae was a boss that lured humans and used them as nourishment.
“You’re greatly mistaken about something. My initial reaction wasn’t because I was distracted by your breasts.”
“Really? Then shall I ask your body directly?”
Perhaps having regained some composure while conversing with me, the Spider Queen’s face showed a much more captivating smile than before as she took her hands off her breasts.
Although she was set up to be a monster that seduced and devoured people, it was the first time I had experienced the player actually being seduced.
There was no way to have a conversation with the boss during a boss battle, right?
Unless it was the other party unilaterally chattering away.
“If you can do that, then go ahead and try.”
I was the first to move.
I charged towards Arachnae while glancing at the floor, avoiding the areas covered in a deep gray color, and at the same time, keeping an eye on the movements of her arms and legs.
The left foreleg of the spider part was raised.
It was an attack coated with deadly poison.
Just as Lizé’s attacks accumulated freezing even when parried, Arachnae’s leg attacks also accumulated poison damage regardless of whether they were parried or defended against.
So it was correct to dodge with a roll.
I rolled to avoid the descending foreleg and dug into her side, swinging my sword.
A faint cut appeared where the red blade grazed and passed.
“Kyaah!”
A strangely seductive moan erupted.
If the attack she had received from the knight commanders earlier had a clear feeling of pain, now it felt more like she was allowing the attack out of courtesy since I had come this far.
Or she was still trying to seduce me.
“Really, it hurts.”
Arachnae spoke in a lascivious voice, twisting her body and bringing her fingers close to her mouth.
Then, she stuck out her tongue, let saliva drip onto her fingers, and rubbed the spot where the wound was left.
It was a very relaxed action.
Compared to the knight commanders who had wiped out over 40% of her HP with just three attacks, she probably thought my attacks were sufficiently tolerable.
‘Let’s see how long that thought lasts.’
I narrowed the distance again.
The Spider Queen reached out her arms towards me.
It was a grabbing attack.
I quickly rolled back a couple of times to retreat.
Arachnae’s arms slashed through the air, and I took advantage of that opening to swing my sword.
This time, a red line was etched on her white and smooth skin.
The Spider Queen, who had been touching the sword mark left on her forearm for a moment, looked at me with twitching eyes as if trying to suppress her distorting expression.
“You shouldn’t resist. If you keep doing that, I’ll punish you?”
“I told you. If you can do that, then go ahead and try. What have you been doing, just talking since earlier?”
As if those words were the decisive blow, Arachnae’s expression finally changed to a ferocious one, just like when she was facing the knight commanders.
It seemed she had given up on wearing a mask.
The exchange continued afterward, but rather than an exchange, it was more like my one-sided toying with her.
The number of red lines appearing on the Spider Queen’s upper body gradually increased.
“I absolutely won’t let you die peacefully—Ugh!”
Arachnae, who had been glaring at me with a furious expression, was hit directly by a blue dagger flying into her side and let out a dying sound.
“I’ll join in, Delta! You held out well!”
The dagger returned in a trajectory that almost defied the laws of physics and settled in Lizé’s hand.
The baby spiders that had been rushing towards the knight commanders were all taken care of.
The corpses of the baby spiders, electrocuted, frozen by the cold, and reduced to ashes by the flames, were strewn across the floor.
“Aaaah! My cute children!”
Seeing that sight, Arachnae screamed almost like a shriek.
There was not a trace of composure to be found.
“You call them your cute children, yet you send them into battle?”
“She was probably trying to raise them to be strong. It’s just that the opponent was too strong for them to endure, so they died.”
“…Now that I think about it, Erica, you seem quiet, but you actually say what needs to be said.”
“If you’re trying to say I’m similar to my sister in that regard, I won’t let it slide, Claudia.”
Erica and Claudia exchanged weird conversations as they followed behind Lizé.
As expected of sisters, Erica also had a side that didn’t hold back on what she had to say.
Seeing Arachnae turn her head towards Lizé, I quickly retreated.
I didn’t want the aggro to jump and give me a headache.
Although there was still quite a bit of time left on the Blood-Stained Sword’s buff, even if the buff ran out, I could replenish my health with potions and use it again.
Fortunately, in the Silver Dawn Knights route, I could obtain low-grade potions through Iris to a reasonable extent.
By the way, there were also potions that regenerated usage infinitely when rested, even if the recovery amount was small.
I didn’t obtain them because they were useless in the Darkest Light Mod, where anything would one-shot you if hit.
“Aaaaargh!”
A heart-wrenching scream echoed through the boss room.
While I was briefly lost in thought, the knight commanders were unilaterally pushing Arachnae back.
The number of wounds on her body had noticeably increased.
“How dare you, how dare you, how dare you, how dare you, how dare you!”
Arachnae staggered and retreated.
The fact that she said that line meant her health had dropped below 30%.
I took out two potions from the pouch on my waist and chugged them down.
Since they were low-grade, they couldn’t fully restore my health, but it was better than nothing.
I stabbed the sword deep into my stomach to absorb the blood and pulled it out again.
‘Come to think of it, why don’t I feel any pain?’
Probably because the action was what it was, when I first tried this special ability, I hesitated for a long time before stabbing myself, but strangely, I didn’t feel any pain at all.
Even the wound automatically healed.
That was the reason why I could use it now as if inputting a command, without any concern.
Honestly, if I really had to endure the pain while stabbing my stomach, I would have had a lot of trouble.
It was unclear whether it was only an exception for the Blood-Stained Sword or if it applied to all types of self-harm buffs.
“Delta! Now it’s your turn—Ugh?!”
Erica, who was about to shout towards me, was abruptly pulled away before she could finish her sentence.
Arachnae had grabbed Erica.
Her body was lifted high into the air.
‘Was the field still remaining?!’
I hurriedly checked the Spider Queen’s lower body.
The flames that had been surging on the floor finally disappeared.
Calculating back from the duration of the flame field, it was clear that Erica had attacked right after the Spider Queen’s health dropped below 30%.
Due to that enormous damage, the pattern was canceled, and the summoning was delayed by a beat.
And as if that wasn’t bad enough, Arachnae had the misfortune of using the grabbing pattern.
‘I thought there was no way the timing would be that messed up!’
To recreate this situation, Arachnae’s health had to be reduced below 30% right before the attack landed, the attack had to deal a huge enough damage to cancel the pattern, the attack judgment had to remain for a while even after that damage was dealt, and Arachnae, whose summoning pattern was canceled, had to use the grabbing attack.
With four conditions attached, it was difficult to aim for and attempt from the beginning.
Even if the conditions related to damage could be met since they were knight commanders, the attack timing was truly close to impossible to match.
So I thought there was no way, but I never imagined that the impossible would actually happen.
“Everyone, come out! My children!”
Arachnae’s voice echoed loudly, and soon after, countless sounds of baby spiders tearing through egg shells and coming out were heard.
Lizé and Claudia, who had been rushing to rescue Erica, abruptly stopped their movements as if they had been overloaded.
Their gazes alternated between me and Erica.
“This annoying thing!”
Arachnae tore off the iron helmet as if ripping apart paper and even forcefully snatched away the Japanese sword in Erica’s hand, throwing it aside.
Erica also struggled desperately, but no matter how much of a knight commander she was, she couldn’t overpower a boss-level monster with strength alone.
Her armor crumpled like paper.
“Delta! Stick close to me for now! Hurry!”
Lizé pulled me in and unleashed a frosty storm.
The baby spiders approaching me were swept away at once.
Even so, Lizé’s gaze was constantly directed towards Erica.
“This is a bit… dangerous!”
Lightning struck around Claudia.
Over a dozen baby spiders died in a single lightning strike, but more than twenty baby spiders filled their place.
The green liquid sticking to the silver armor gradually increased.
I wanted to believe that it wouldn’t melt away Claudia and Lizé’s armor.
“I’ll suck you dry without leaving a single drop of blood!”
Arachnae, baring her fangs, pressed her face close to Erica.
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Thx for chapter