"Quick! Quick! Quick! Fall back!"
Ethan shouted frantically. With eyes as big as moons and a body that could easily crush trees, he seriously doubted whether the bit of fire on the White Eagle could withstand the Demon King Spider's attack.
"Shriek!"
The White Eagle let out a sharp cry and immediately turned around, preparing to fly back.
Seeing this, Bird One instantly understood its intent. She didn't hesitate any longer and quickly threw down the compressed devices she was holding with her feet.
And Ethan naturally coordinated with her, directing the White Eagle to spit toward the compressors.
In its fire-transformed state, even the White Eagle's saliva had turned into flames.
So… what it spat out now wasn't ordinary saliva.
It was molten lava.
Pfft!
At the very moment the White Eagle turned back with Bird One, the giant Demon King Spider clearly had no intention of letting them leave. It shot a stream of spider silk toward the White Eagle.
That silk was even more outrageous than a waterfall. From a distance, it looked like a volcanic eruption.
Ethan didn't even need the White Eagle's vision to see it. Standing far outside the Mist Forest, he could clearly witness just how terrifying that giant spider's silk attack was.
"Wind arrows, fire at the silk and force it back!"
"Now!"
Ethan had already ordered the residents to prepare wind arrows in advance.
The original plan was to wait until Bird One dropped the bombs, then use wind to fuel the flames and make the fire in the Mist Forest burn even stronger.
But now… there was no time to worry about anything else. He immediately ordered the residents to cover the White Eagle and Bird One.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Countless arrows shot out at once.
Those wind arrows formed tornadoes in midair, perfectly intercepting behind the White Eagle and Bird One. They instantly twisted the giant spider's silk into a mass.
After all, spider silk was light. No matter how massive it looked, it was still light.
BOOM!
And just as the tornadoes swept up the silk, the compressed gunpowder devices Bird One had dropped finally hit the ground. Ignited by the White Eagle's spit, hundreds of charges exploded all at once.
The giant Demon King Spider happened to pass right through the drop zone at that moment.
BANG!
The massive spider was directly flipped over by the shockwave of the explosion.
Not just the giant spider, trees and smaller Demon King Spiders nearby were also blasted into the air.
"Now's the chance, keep firing!"
Seeing the perfect timing, Ethan immediately ordered the residents to continue shooting wind arrows.
Countless wind arrows formed countless tornadoes, rapidly spreading the fire caused by the explosion.
Of course, Ethan also seized the moment to cast several waves of Great Fire Rain.
Wind fed the flames, and the flames strengthened the wind.
Very quickly… the fire surged deep into the Mist Forest.
Countless smaller Demon King Spiders were driven by the flames to scatter in all directions. But with the entire forest turning into a sea of fire, they had nowhere left to hide.
In the end, they could only flee toward the outer edge of the forest.
And naturally, Ethan would strike while they were weak.
"Fire!"
While ordering the residents to shoot, Ethan himself kept casting level-two Great Fireballs.
These smaller Demon King Spiders, once they lost the forest's cover, became weaker than chickens. Combined with their large bodies and soft exoskeletons, they were basically giant targets.
In an instant, under Ethan's attacks, nearly a hundred spiders were killed.
As for those that slipped through, the White Eagle, Bird One, and others attacked from the air with stones and whatever else they could grab, killing many more.
"EEEE!"
The giant Demon King Spider seemed to sense that Ethan was slaughtering its offspring.
It let out a piercing scream from within the Mist Forest. The sound was like feedback from a massive speaker, so harsh that everyone had to cover their ears.
Even so, quite a few residents under Ethan had their ears bleed from the shock.
"This giant Demon King Spider isn't dead?"
Ethan was shocked. He immediately directed the White Eagle, "Fly up and keep an eye on it for me."
"Shriek!"
The White Eagle cried out again and soared back into the sky.
Through Eagle Eye, Ethan could now see that the giant Demon King Spider had only suffered superficial damage from the explosion. Not even a single leg had been blown off.
After finishing its scream, it suddenly opened its mouth and sprayed a green liquid toward the surrounding flames.
Where the liquid landed, it made a "sizzle" sound.
At the same time, black smoke rose up, along with a foul stench like chemical agents.
But under that green liquid, the flames were quickly extinguished.
Then, enraged, the giant Demon King Spider charged rapidly toward the outer edge of the Mist Forest.
Ethan's eyes narrowed at once.
This Demon King Spider was coming to settle the score with them.
If he had known it would be this troublesome, he would have brought the two archmages along. After returning to the manor earlier, Nostradamus had said he was tired, too old to keep running around, and told Ethan to train on his own.
Ethan hadn't wanted that, but Nostradamus said, ("Didn't I promise you before? If you could personally take down those dark creatures, I'd build you a formation to enhance your residents' strength.")
("Since you won, now it's time for me to fulfill that promise!")
Since Nostradamus had put it that way, Ethan had no choice but to agree.
Then he wanted to bring the Genie Sylas along, but Nostradamus pulled Sylas aside and said the formation required its help, refusing to let it go with Ethan.
Now it seemed, Nostradamus had done it on purpose.
He deliberately kept the Genie from helping, forcing Ethan to deal with these monsters himself and improve his combat ability.
"Hah!"
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