I Reincarnated into a Game Filled with Mods – Chapter 58

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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: FusionX
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“……”

I cautiously opened my closed eyes.

Judging from the fact that I was still alive and not dead, it seemed my plan had worked.

Either that, or I had died without even feeling any pain and arrived in the afterlife.

Soon after, the pressure that had been crushing both of my arms as if it would shatter them weakened, and I fell down, landing on my buttocks with a thud.

Since my butt was aching, it wasn’t the afterlife for now.

I raised my head.

Right in front of me was the spider’s wide open mouth.

I raised my head further.

I saw Arachnae with her eyes rolled back and mouth open, convulsing all over her body.

The four pairs of spider legs on her lower body were flailing about randomly, and her human arms hung limply downward.

It seemed she had a bit of consciousness left but was unable to take any action.

In contrast, I was perfectly fine.

The plan had succeeded.

‘That was close.’

At the last moment when lightning was about to strike above my head, I reflexively closed my eyes.

If Arachnae hadn’t been about to devour me and there had been even a slight gap between us, I would have definitely been struck by lightning.

Although I had calculated all these details to some extent before taking action, I had to hastily do mental math in my head, so there could have been mistakes, leading me to react that way.

From the beginning, I had come up with the method on the spot, looking at the positions of Claudia, Lizé, and Arachnae.

There was no time to verify the calculations due to the urgency.

‘Is this the power of a fully charged Lightning Storm?’

I looked around.

The baby spiders that had been filling the area nearby were all electrocuted and scattered on the floor without a single exception, and the survivors couldn’t even approach due to the lingering effects of the lightning.

The technique Claudia had just used was called “Raging Storm of Lightning.”

It was an attack where she raised her greatsword towards the sky and concentrated her mind, then struck it down, creating a circular shockwave centered around herself and scattering a tremendous amount of lightning over a wide area.

As you can infer from my words telling her to do it as strongly as possible, the range and attack power varied depending on the time spent concentrating.

If concentrated to the fullest, it could cover the entire boss room like now.

It certainly wasn’t a technique from the vanilla version, but one added in the Darkest Light Mod.

It was a ridiculous pattern where if the stun wasn’t interrupted with a high stagger weapon, the entire boss room would be covered in lightning.

The reason she didn’t use it from the beginning was because it couldn’t distinguish between friend and foe.

Lizé and Erica each had a way to survive, but I didn’t.

If she had recklessly used it, I would have been caught up in it and died along with them.

That was the very reason I had induced Arachnae’s grabbing pattern in the first place.

So that she would take the lightning and shockwave instead of me.

“Mr. Delta!”

Erica, who had approached me at some point, lifted me up and quickly retreated.

The distance between the Spider Queen and me greatly widened.

I turned my body to check on Erica’s condition.

Although her breathing was quite heavy and she had countless small wounds all over her body, there didn’t seem to be any major injuries.

In exchange, her armor was completely ruined.

Her helmet had been torn off long ago, her chest plate was barely hanging on at the shoulder level, and her lower body piece only remained below the thighs.

It was embarrassing to even call it armor.

“Erica, are you okay? Are you hurt anywhere?”

“That’s what I should be asking!”

Erica shouted and grabbed my shoulders, bringing her face close to mine.

Her scarlet eyes filled with all sorts of complex emotions approached right in front of me.

“Are you crazy? Who would do such a reckless thing?!”

“We both survived, so it’s fine. Don’t get so worked up. You might not notice your injuries if you do that. You’ll suddenly collapse later.”

“That’s not the important thing right now!”

“If that’s not important, then what is?”

“……”

At my retort, Erica closed her mouth as if at a loss for words.

That’s right.

No matter what kind of insane plan I executed or what kind of nonsensical act I pulled off, the result was that Arachnae had been
incapacitated and both of us had survived.

Nothing was more important than that.

“…As I told you before, Mr. Delta, dying while fighting monsters is something that can happen to us knights at any time. If it had to be that way, I was prepared to gladly sacrificeㅡ”

Her voice had softened slightly as if she had nothing to say herself.

“But I’m not, right?”

“What?”

Erica had a momentarily dazed expression.

“It might be for you, Erica, but not for me.”

I freed my seized shoulders.

Pushing back Erica’s body that had approached to an overwhelming degree, I stood up from my spot.

Sacrifice, what a ridiculous thing to say.

It wasn’t even a desperate crisis situation that was absolutely impossible to overcome, and yet one of the knight commanders of the Silver Dawn Knights was going to sacrifice herself against a mere early-to-mid game boss.

Did she think I would just stand by and watch that happen?

And even if such a crisis situation were to come crashing down, I would find a way to resolve it on my end no matter what.

‘I have to keep them alive no matter what.’

As long as the player doesn’t betray them first, the knight commanders of the Silver Dawn Knights never betray the protagonist.

There were no allies as reliable as these four in Brightest Darkness 4.

It meant they could be trusted unconditionally in any situation.

How could I possibly leave such allies to die?

“…Mr. Delta. What do you meanㅡ”

“Erica! Delta! Are you okay?!”

Erica muttered something with a dazed and stiff expression, but it was soon drowned out by Lizé’s booming voice.

Lizé, who had run over in a very urgent manner, stopped right in front of us.

“Of course. Look, I’m perfectly fine, right? Didn’t I keep my promise this time too?”

I deliberately smiled with an exaggerated gesture, spreading my arms wide.

Lizé stared at me quietly.

Although her expression wasn’t visible due to her helmet, it probably wasn’t a very pleasant one.

“Yeah. Let’s save the detailed talk for later. Erica, what about you? Are you okay? Are you hurt anywhere?”

“Huh? Ah, yes, yes, that’s right. Yes, I’m also perfectly fine, sis. Not a single injury.”

Only after Lizé asked if she was okay did Erica come to her senses in a fluster and repeatedly nodded her head.

Why was she stammering to herself?

“Kyaaaaaargh!”

A piercing scream was heard from a distance.

It was a familiar voice.

The scream was coming from Arachnae.

Claudia, who had approached her at some point, had started beating Arachnae with her greatsword.

With each swing of the greatsword, legs were severed, the abdomen was torn, and the carapace was shattered.

Seeing that, Lizé and Erica also seemed to come to their senses and gripped their weapons again.

“That’s right. That thing was still left.”

“We’ll deal with it quickly, so Delta, don’t move around recklessly and stay close to me.”

As the lightning field subsided, the baby spiders started swarming in groups, but before they could do anything, they were swept away by Lizé and Erica’s attacks.

Erica, in particular, raised tremendous flames as if venting her anger for what had been done to her.

The baby spiders that were touched by the flames turned into piles of ashes without a sound.

It didn’t take long for the number of moving figures in the cave to be reduced to five.

“Cough. Hack. Haa……”

Arachnae, with most of her body torn off and only her human upper body remaining, was trying to crawl away on the floor, shedding tears and green bodily fluids, looking utterly powerless.

“Where do you think you’re going?”

“Kyaaaaaargh!”

Thud, Claudia thrust her greatsword into Arachnae’s lower abdomen.

Her mangled fingers desperately scratched the floor.

It was a futile act.

“Phew, it’s finally over.”

Claudia let out a short sigh and threw away her armor that was covered in deadly poison.

Fortunately, it seemed that the green liquid didn’t melt her armor.

Erica didn’t even have any armor left to throw away.

The parts that had barely remained had long since fallen off.

At least Lizé still had the original shape of her armor, but there was more green than silver, so it was meaningless.

With a clang, Lizé also took off her armor that was covered in deadly poison.

Her sweat-soaked white sleeveless top and dolphin shorts in the color of her hair were revealed.

“Come to think of it, Delta.”

Claudia, who had been flapping the chest part of her sleeveless top to let air in, approached me.

I turned my head, wondering what was going on.

“I didn’t have time to ask earlier because the situation was urgent.”

Perhaps because she had some leisure now, that mischievous smile appeared on her lips again.

What was she trying to say?

“How did you know I could use Lightning Storm?”

‘Ah, so that’s what it was about.’

For a moment, I thought it was because of my sudden use of informal speech, but upon careful consideration, Claudia definitely wasn’t the type to pick on me for using informal speech in a situation like earlier.

Rather, if I had helped her survive, she would have praised me.

“I heard about it from Lizé.”

“Really? Wow, she just told you everything?”

Lizé had a puzzled reaction, but seeing my gaze, she quietly closed her mouth as if understanding on her own.

However, she didn’t forget to mouth the words “add one more debt” to me.

“It hurts, it hurts, it hurts… Ugh.”

Arachnae, with the greatsword still stuck in her abdomen, was repeating only the words “it hurts” while shedding tears in a state of utter helplessness.

If someone who didn’t know the previous situation saw this, it would be a situation where a peerless beauty was naked with a greatsword stuck in her abdomen, sobbing that it hurt, so they might feel pity for the Spider Queen.

However, we knew that this was a monster, and Erica had narrowly escaped death at the hands of this creature, so feeling compassion was out of the question.

Moreover, it was a monster that had already killed hundreds of people.

Their corpses were scattered throughout the boss room.

Even that was just a strategy to try to gain sympathy somehow.

‘I can leave the cleanup to them.’

Seeing the knight commanders raising their weapons and approaching Arachnae, I turned my body alone and headed deeper into the boss room.

To a place that was blocked by spider webs during the boss fight but could be entered once the Spider Queen was defeated.

Lizé, Erica, and Claudia didn’t show any particular reaction even when they saw me moving alone.

They probably thought I would go and do something again as usual.

I entered the cave where the corpses of people who had been sucked dry to death by Arachnae were lined up.

‘Ugh.’

As soon as I entered, I frowned at the sight of a human corpse that greeted me, completely dried up and twisted.

Despite the shriveled and distorted face, their expression of agony was still vivid.

-Aaaaaaargh!

‘Whoa, that startled me.’

Walking further inside, I was startled by a scream coming from behind and instinctively flinched.

It seemed the extermination had ended.

Passing through a place that should have been blocked by a wall covered in spider webs, I continued going deeper.

Finally entering the deepest dead end, I saw what I wanted.

‘Found it.’

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