Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
The giant Demon King Spider seemed to have been informed by the smaller spiders and once again discovered Ethan's position.
It immediately strode forward on its massive legs, charging straight toward Ethan.
"Come on!"
Ethan glanced at the distance between himself and the giant Demon King Spider.
Without hesitation, he yanked off his invisibility cloak, revealing himself. The moment countless Demon King Spiders spotted him, they surged toward him all at once.
"Great Fireball, Split!"
Ethan casually threw out a barrage of Great Fireballs.
Each Great Fireball split into four by the end, and combined with how densely packed the spiders were, almost every fireball hit a Demon King Spider.
Some even struck two or three at the same time. The effect was off the charts.
But, even so, the Demon King Spiders kept pouring toward Ethan without end.
Calling them fearless in the face of death wouldn't be an exaggeration.
And just then…
Crack!
The giant Demon King Spider seemed to notice something.
It suddenly stopped, its eight glowing red eyes fixed on Ethan as it carefully observed him.
"Did it notice?"
Ethan frowned, 'This giant Demon King Spider is that smart?'
'It can sense something's off from this far away?'
'But if I launch my attack now…'
'The distance is a bit too far.'
There was a high chance he wouldn't be able to kill it. And if it caught on to his trump card, luring it again later would be much harder.
"I need to think of a way to bait it over."
Ethan glanced at the smaller Demon King Spiders behind him. He deliberately took a few steps back, continuing to cast fireballs as he retreated. But he switched from the split Great Fireball to a level 1 Great Fireball, a single fireball.
He kept throwing fireballs while backing away, putting on an act of being exhausted.
But even though Ethan was trying to look weak, the giant Demon King Spider still stood in place. Its eight eyes flickered from time to time, as if it were thinking.
'Looks like, the bait still isn't enough.'
Ethan hadn't expected this giant Demon King Spider to have such high intelligence, and its sense of danger was also extremely sharp.
'Could this be the survival instinct of monsters above F rank?'
'The higher the rank, the stronger their ability to predict danger and control the battle.'
'So…'
'It would rather watch its offspring die than take risks itself.'
"Looks like I need to give it a bit more motivation."
While continuing to throw level 1 fireballs, Ethan occasionally glanced behind him. When he saw a small Demon King Spider sneaking up from behind, ready to ambush him, he pretended not to notice and directly stepped on one of its long legs.
Then he spun around and smashed a punch straight into the spider's head.
He crushed its head flat in one blow.
But all of this, happened in a flash. After killing a dog-sized Demon King Spider, Ethan didn't continue retreating or fighting. Instead, he grabbed the flattened head of the spider and started swinging it wildly in his hand.
As he swung the corpse, he screamed loudly, "Ah!"
"Let go! It hurts!"
"Damn it, let go of my hand, ahhh!"
While screaming, Ethan pretended to be furious, even ignoring his own safety. He raised his staff high and shouted, "Ah! Great Fire Rain!"
In an instant, a storm of fire rained down from the sky, igniting countless spider webs and killing all kinds of small Demon King Spiders.
The giant Demon King Spider also thought that Ethan, having been injured, flew into a rage and unleashed the Great Fire Rain.
At this moment, it finally couldn't hold back. It took the bait.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
The giant Demon King Spider rushed toward Ethan once more.
Ethan quickly pretended to panic and kept retreating.
'Keep coming!'
"Finally in the trap!"
With the Great Fire Rain lighting up the entire sky and casting shadows of all the Demon King Spiders, in that instant, Ethan looked toward a stone statue not far from him. A talisman was stuck to it, and two black gems were embedded in it, looking just like a pair of eyes.
And at this moment, the giant Demon King Spider had just entered the Shadow Guard's attack range.
'Now!'
"Shadow Guard, move!"
Ethan shouted.
The small statue instantly turned into a long, long black shadow.
Or maybe calling it a black line would be more accurate. Following Ethan's command, that black line shot out like a blade, extending straight through the giant Demon King Spider's abdomen.
The giant Demon King Spider seemed to sense the terror of this shadow.
All eight of its legs moved at once as it immediately turned to flee, trying to escape this horrifying place.
But the moment it turned, the giant Demon King Spider suddenly split apart for no reason at all. Half of its body went left, the other half went right, separating rapidly.
Only after both halves had each moved several steps—
THUD!
The giant Demon King Spider finally lost its balance and crashed to the ground.
Even in death, it never understood how it had been killed. A flash of intense confusion flickered through its eight eyes before the light faded, turning into a lifeless gray.
The smaller Demon King Spiders also seemed to realize the death of their mother.
They immediately scattered in all directions, fleeing in panic.
"Heh!"
Only then did Ethan walk over to the Shadow Guard statue, directly storing it back into his tail ring. Luckily, Nostradamus hadn't noticed that he had turned the Shadow Guard gems given by the Genie into a stone lion statue.
Back then, Ethan had traded Sun Worms with the Genie for two Shadow Guard gems, saying he planned to make two stone statues to place at the entrance, to keep out intruders and protect the residents.
At the level of existence like the Genie, something as ordinary as a Shadow Guard wasn't worth much.
So it casually handed them over to Ethan.
And just now, when Ethan was testing the Soft and Hardening techniques in the Land of the Living Dead, he had thought of making two lion statues out of clay to place at the entrance of the manor, embedding the Shadow Guard eyes into them as guardian beasts.
But his craftsmanship was too poor, and the stone lions he made were honestly kind of ugly.
On top of that, there were residents waiting for his return at the manor gate, so he didn't have the nerve to put them out. He had kept the lion statue stored in his tail ring all this time.
He planned to remake better-looking ones later before taking them out.
But unexpectedly, after coming to the Mist Forest, he ran into this kind of Demon King Spider that wouldn't take damage from anything. So when Ethan saw the stone lion in his tail ring, he immediately thought of a plan.
That was to embed the Shadow Guard eyes into the stone lion, then stick a command talisman onto it.
Then place it along the path the giant Demon King Spider would definitely pass through, and finally cover the statue with the invisibility cloak to hide its existence.
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