"Demon King Spider! Come on!"
Ethan held his wand, wore a mage's hat on his head, and had an invisibility cloak draped over his back.
Right now, he could probably be said to be in his strongest mode.
Ever since coming to this mist world, Ethan believed he hadn't slacked off. From the beginning, when he would feel fear and shrink back even against an ordinary lightning leopard, to now, he could already face a giant Demon King Spider head-on.
This was a good chance to test everything he had learned during this time, as well as all his combat experience.
Monsters that were too weak were simply not worth a hit.
And monsters that were too strong… he wasn't stupid enough to go throw his life away.
But something like this in front of him, relying on physical attacks and spraying some kind of fluid, was the best opportunity to test his own combat ability.
BOOM!
The giant Demon King Spider finally forced its way out of the Mist Forest with its powerful body.
And Ethan finally got a direct look at just how giant it really was. Its size was at least as tall as a ten-story building, and each of its legs was more than ten meters long.
Even each of the eyes on its head was probably bigger than Ethan himself.
"Great Fireball, Compressed Fireball!"
Ethan immediately swung his wand and shot a fireball straight at one of the spider's eyes.
However, when the giant Demon King Spider saw the fireball shooting toward it, it didn't even bother to dodge.
Bang!
The moment he saw that, Ethan knew something was wrong.
Sure enough, the giant Demon King Spider merely closed its eye at the instant the fireball struck. Its eyelid alone easily blocked the attack.
The fireball exploded on the eyelid, but it only left some faint scorch marks, seemingly dealing no real damage at all.
"That strong?"
Ethan was stunned on the spot.
The strength of this giant Demon King Spider, or rather, its magic resistance, was far more terrifying than he had imagined.
"Should I just bring out the cursed doll?"
But… just as Ethan was about to take out the cursed doll from his tail ring, he realized that the small coffin he used to store the cursed doll was gone?
'What the hell?'
'I clearly remember…'
'Damn it!'
'It has to be Nostradamus. He always says I rely too much on external items.'
'So he must have confiscated the cursed doll on purpose, just to force me to fight the Demon King Spider himself. That guy definitely planned everything.'
"Ahhh!"
Ethan nearly lost it.
With the Great Fireball proving ineffective, he could only hurriedly run behind a nearby rock.
Now he could only hope that the giant Demon King Spider couldn't see through the invisibility cloak's concealment. Fortunately, it didn't seem to have the sharp sense of smell or hearing that some other monsters had.
Spiders relied more on vibrations in their webs to detect and capture prey.
And the Demon King Spider was clearly the same.
Pfft! Pfft!
The giant Demon King Spider noticed that the human who had just attacked it had mysteriously disappeared.
It was furious. It immediately opened its mouthparts and sprayed a large amount of spider silk in all directions. In the blink of an eye, Ethan realized that dozens of crisscrossing strands of silk had appeared around the rock he was hiding behind.
"Damn it! How am I supposed to get out now?"
Peeking his head out from behind the rock, Ethan glanced at the Demon King Spider not far away, which had its rear facing him.
He quickly used a skill—
"Soften!"
This move had been a trump card against various monsters before.
However… when Ethan's Soften landed on the giant Demon King Spider, it only caused a layer of its skin to peel off.
"Shedding… skin?"
'Damn!'
Ethan was completely dumbfounded.
Who would've thought a spider would have an extra outer layer? Skills like Soften or Harden probably only affected its outer shell.
At best, they might just speed up its molting process. If he really wanted to rely on those two spells to deal with it, he'd probably need at least archmage-level power.
'This thing's magic resistance is just too strong.'
'What now?'
"If magic attacks don't work, then I'll switch to physical attacks!"
Ethan directly took out his enchanted dragon bow. He had once used it to blow apart a red dragon's rear with a single shot. Maybe he could replicate that feat.
Whoosh!
Taking advantage of the Demon King Spider not noticing him, Ethan immediately shot an arrow toward its rear.
The fire arrow streaked forward with a faint red glow, heading straight for the spider's massive rear opening. It was just about to succeed, but just as the arrow got close—
Pfft!
The giant Demon King Spider instantly shot out silk, knocking Ethan's fire arrow out of the air.
As expected, that move failed too.
Ethan hadn't expected this giant spider to be even harder to deal with than he thought.
After those two failed attacks, the giant Demon King Spider quickly pinpointed Ethan's hiding place through the direction of the attacks and the vibrations in the silk. It emitted a strange frequency, immediately summoning the smaller Demon King Spiders.
In the blink of an eye, Ethan was surrounded by a large swarm of smaller spiders.
Pfft! Pfft! Pfft!
Although the smaller Demon King Spiders couldn't see where Ethan was, under the command of the giant spider, they began spraying silk all around him. Very quickly, the area around Ethan was wrapped into a giant cocoon.
And the smaller spiders kept closing in, occasionally firing strands of silk toward him.
Ethan hurriedly dodged.
But as the silk grew denser, he was inevitably hit several times when he couldn't avoid it in time.
"Damn it!"
At that moment, one thread pulling meant the whole thing moved.
The instant a strand of silk stuck to Ethan, almost all the Demon King Spiders detected his position at once.
Tzzz! Tzzz! Tzzz!
The swarm of smaller spiders let out strange noises together.
After hearing their signals, the giant Demon King Spider immediately turned and charged straight toward Ethan's location.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
"Shit"
Only then did Ethan realize that those smaller spiders weren't trying to attack him, they were trying to force him to reveal himself.
Now that his hiding place had been exposed, there was no point in staying hidden any longer.
He directly swung his wand.
"Great Fireball, Split!"
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
Countless fireballs rained down onto the smaller Demon King Spiders, hitting one after another with perfect accuracy.
After all, there were so many spiders.
As for Fire Rain, Ethan didn't dare use it recklessly.
After all, he was currently trapped within a web formation. If the flames ignited the silk and burned back onto him, that would be a disaster.
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