Arachnomancer

After they finish their break they start heading somewhere. A little bit of tailing leads us back to their base. It is much larger than before with dozens of larger tents set up. However, it is mostly empty. I"m guessing that they may have either found what they were looking for or they have given up.

I notice a drow that is giving orders to a patrol before they head out. Abducting an officer may be a problem. They would have more information but, who knows if I can communicate in a meaningful way with them.

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We managed to sneak into the base. I"ve tested the effectiveness of our stealth a few times. It is suprising effective. Only a unusually alert drow had thought that she had noticed something but, she shook her head and went on with her duties. Spider"s stealth and the untraceable perk are probably playing a huge role. Otherwise stealth would be a ridiculous skill in general.

Eventually we make our way to a tent full of beds with sleeping drow. This might be the best area to wait. Trying to kidnap one while they are sleeping would be trouble. Especially when there are others sleeping everwhere.

Waiting for one to wake up to relieve themselves would be the best opportunity. They would probably walk a good distance from the camp.... That is if drow are hygienic in general..... I don"t have to wait for long as a female drow who"s eyes are covered with cloth wakes up and walks out.

Blind. Can she see or..... Magic? Best explanation for something strange. It may be best to pa.s.s this one up. You"d think that blind people are less perceptive but that is not technically true. They have to sharpen all their other senses to make up for the loss of their sight. In this world of magic and abilities, it could be that she acquired special perceptive skills as well.

As she walks past us, she glances in our direction. c.r.a.p. She noticed something. Luckily, she didn"t raise any alarms and is just heading in our direction looking confused.

"Set, can you incapacitate her?" Gin

"Yeah, she just needs to get a bit closer." Set

I hope she isn"t an important figure.....As she gets closer, Set detaches herself and gets ready to pounce.

*Swooosh

Set jumped at her face and starts going down her throat..... Ughhhh.... The drow struggles a bit and pa.s.ses out. Set jumps back to me and clings around my neck.

"Filthy creature~. Master she didn"t come out to relieve herself. It was to clean off." Set

Yeah.... I"d rather not know. Now to get her back to the nest. Fortunately we are in a dark area of the base. We have to be careful with her as we cant make her enter stealth. Picking her up I smell a weird odor.....

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We managed to get her out. Evading some of the patrols without stealthing was hard. It was about time that the guards were exchanging shifts so, I was able to get away through one of the holes in the perimeter. After that it was smooth sailing.

After returning to the base she was cleaned up and wrapped by Kess" webs. I don"t think she would have the muscle strength to rip those up. I made she to gag her too in case she has some weird abilities..... I think I"m turning into a pervert.....

I left Kess to watch her as I look at her gear. Surprisingly, she had a rare ring. Had. After taking it off, it broke into hundreds off pieces. It seems that some pieces of equipment have protective measures on them. Everything else is uncommon so I had the spiderlings move them to the treasury.

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After waiting awhile she regained consciousness and makes a m.u.f.fled yelp. I took her blindfold off ealier and now I can see that she isn"t blind. She stares at me with a weird expression. Then she looks around and sees Kess, Set, and Xelu who has been asleep the whole time. She starts tearing up... I remove the gag.

"svelllon insa verskal!?!?" drow captive

"I can"t understand a thing that you are saying." Gin

"Common? You are human..... You should let me go if you want to live." drow captive

"Can you say anything more stereotypical? Anyways, you should realize your current situation. I hate to be the evil guy here but, you are not getting out of here. Realistically, if I let you go, only trouble would follow. Your friends have been searching for a while and still haven"t noticed this nest. Most likely they won"t be able to get you out of here even if they knew this place existed." Gin

"What?... So I....." drow captive

"What you can tell me will determine your treatment. Who are you?" Gin

"... I am one of the leaders of the drow. Sigrid." Sigrid

"How did you know I was hiding in the drow base?" Gin

"I have..... Special abilities that allows me to glimpse into.... the future?" Sigrid

"You don"t know the full extent of your own ability, huh? Anyways, what is your group doing here?" Gin

"There has been sightings of spiders and abominations in this area. We were sent out to see if that monster"s children are still around. Most of our scouts are checking her nest out. I can see we were entirely wrong now....." Sigrid

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After asking more questions I got a lot of useful information. It seems that the drow are afraid that some of the arachne queen"s children may be alive. They are apparently incredibly powerful. Their scouts haven"t been able to find anything in the surroundings of the nest so they have gone into the nest to see. The two other leaders, Fellia and Felix, left Sigrid behind to watch over the base as they explore the nest.

Sigrid used that time to "please herself" with the slaves that were brought along. The structure of drow society is a bit weird. It is best described as a religious matriarchy. At the very top are the religious figures. The arch-priests. After that is the royal families of the drow, then the lesser religious figures. After that is the n.o.bles, commoners, and slaves.

Drow usually worship three different beings. Snakes, spiders, and crows. The settlement these drow are from used to worship spiders and had the arachne queen as a "protector". However, they were dissatisfied with giving sacrifices so they poisoned the protector"s "mate". The protector went crazy, killed her children and, ate her husband.

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After getting a good amount of information from Sigrid, I am left with a problem. What to do with her.