Chapter 633
Bear-san Fights the King Spider Part 1
Back inside the village, I saw a spider lying near the entrance, in a miserable state.
“Huh, it looks like it was half-eaten by something…” (Yuna)
Cannibalism?
“We’re lucky. If it hadn’t been for the dead spiders, the villagers would have been eaten.” (Deborane)
There was a risk of that, so I used my detection skills to confirm its location from the moment the King Spider had fled into the village.
But so far, no reaction that I considered to be the King Spider had approached people. I said “seems” because the reaction of the detection skill treated the detected icon as a normal giant spider, so there was no distinction between them. I have said this many times before; it would really be nice to distinguish between monsters of different strengths.
“Well then, I’m off to fight the King Spider.” (Yuna)
“Don’t die so easily.” (Deborane)
I was surprised at the unexpected words coming out of Deborane’s mouth.
“Are you worried about me?” (Yuna)
“If you die, who will take care of the King Spider? Go fight for me. If you die, at least take the King Spider down with you.” (Deborane)
Deborane decided on his own how I would die and headed to the village chief’s house with Lanz.
I could not tell if he was worried about me or not.
I shudder at the thought of Deborane saying, “I’m not worried about you, but be careful,” turning him into a tsundere.
Stop imagining weird things. My psyche was damaged.
I made my way with Swaying Bear and Hugging Bear to the King Spider.
“There it is.” (Yuna)
It was eating a spider that had been lying near a house.
I could hear the crunching noises.
Ugh, it’s disgusting.
The least I could do was look behind it and not see its mouth as it eats.
And that was also a chance to take it down.
Sorry for the unexpected attack, but I have to attack from behind. I have no sense of justice, such as waiting for the spider to finish its meal or moving to the front and attacking it after it notices me. Leave that kind of role to the heroes of justice.
My motto would be to defeat the enemy when I could.
I gathered magic power in my hand and shot a bear wind magic towards the King Spider who was eating, and when I thought the King Spider had stopped moving, it moved to the side and dodged.
Did it have eyes behind its back!?
Some spiders have more than one eye. This spider had four.
I did not know if it could see me, feel my magic, or sense my presence, but it seemed like surprise attacks were ineffective.
The King Spider avoided my attack and watched us while ticking its mouth.
I felt like I was being observed, which made me feel uncomfortable.
Since it did not move, I moved my arm to attack again, and the moment I moved my arm, the King Spider moved.
Was it reading me?
I released wind magic, but it moved so fast that I couldn’t hit it.
The King Spider moved from side to side, and its movements were erratic, making it impossible to focus on the target. It could also stop and change direction in an instant.
It was like dealing with a flying c.o.c.kroach. No, there aren’t any c.o.c.kroaches in my house. Not that I would tell anyone, but I’ll deny it.
The King Spider jumps slightly, and at the same time, it spat and weaved threads.
And in multiple places.
King Spider’s eight legs, stomach, and mouth all emit threads simultaneously.
The threads spread out like a net.
There was nowhere to escape. I could avoid it if it were just me, but Swaying Bear and Hugging Bear were nearby.
In my mind, I thought of tearing it apart with the wind or burning it with fire, but I quickly dismissed the idea.
I quickly built a wall of earth to block the spider’s threads.
That was close.
If I had not blocked the web spit with attack magic, I would have attempted to cut the threads and destroyed the house or burned it down as collateral damage.
If the houses were destroyed, the people in the house would have been in trouble.
With relief on my face, I found that the clay walls were melting down.
It started melting from where the spider threads were attached.
That spider’s threads didn’t just have a numbing effect.
If numbing threads or fire-starting threads like this were stretched in the forest, it would be challenging to defeat the King Spider. Even if the threads were cut, they would remain, and if the threads were burned in the forest, the fire might spread to the trees and cause a lot of trouble.
The idea of fighting the King Spider in the village would be tricky, but it might be better than fighting in the forest.
Beyond the wall of melted earth, the King Spider was observing me, perched on the wall of a house.
Its eyeb.a.l.l.s twitched.
I wondered if it looked at me or Swaying Bear and Hugging Bear.
Swaying Bear quickly dodged backwards.
The King Spider ignores me and heads for the Swaying Bear.
“Swaying Bear!” (Yuna)
Swaying Bear backed away to prepare for the attack.
Swaying Bear and the King Spider started fighting after closing in on each other. Swaying Bear fired wind magic from his claw, but it didn’t hit anything, and the King Spider spit out threads as it chased Swaying Bear down.
Swaying Bear and the King Spider were moving around so much that I couldn’t join in the fight.
They were ignoring me.
Did it think that the Swaying Bear was my weak point?
Or did it start attacking because it thought I was weaker than Swaying Bear?
“Swaying Bear, Hugging Bear, I will have you return for now.” (Yuna)
When I was about to do it, they responded.
“Ku~n.”
However, Swaying Bear and Hugging Bear shook their heads in disapproval at my suggestion.
I didn’t want Swaying Bear and Hugging Bear to get tangled up in those strings and melt.
“I’m sorry about this.” (Yuna)
“Kuu~n!”
Even though they squeal in protest, unsummoned them.
When I finish this, I shall pet them, and give them some honey, so please forgive me, Hugging Bear, Swaying Bear.
Swaying Bear disappeared before the King Spider’s eyes, and the King Spider’s body turned red with magic power.
Even without being able to communicate with it, I could feel that it was angry with me.
But I was angrier. Much, much angrier.
Even I would be angry if my precious Swaying Bear and Hugging Bear were about to be killed.
Then the battle between me and the King Spider begins.
The King Spider was very agile. It moved around, taking advantage of every obstacle in the village.
It also escaped to the area behind a house. The King Spider was good at hiding and often took potshots from hidden locations.
And when I attacked, it escaped.
It was using hit-and-run tactics.
Hit-and-run, the type of opponent I disliked.
If this had been in the woods, it would have been an even harder opponent to fight than it is now.
And the longer we fought, the more skillful it became at hiding.
It would be on the roof, stick to the wall when it went around, or attack from behind objects and structures.
The detection skill could only give me an approximate location. If it were on a roof or stuck to a wall, it would be able to surprise me.
Until now, I have beaten my enemies by brute force using my Bear Equipment, so I was not very good at dealing with enemies that ran away from me.
I have always disliked enemies that moved around a lot in games, so maybe agile monsters who keep moving around were simply a bad match for my type.
I was tempted to use magic to blow up the whole house, but I couldn’t because there were people in the house.
I tried many times to release magic when the King Spider stopped moving, but the house was in the way by being just behind the Spider King.
If I cast magic, which required long casting times, it would be avoided, and when I thought I had a chance to attack, there would be a house behind the King Spider, and I would not be able to attack.
If it weren’t for the house, I would use my super-powerful bear magic to take it down.
I tried to trap the King Spider with earth magic, but it was moving too fast for me to catch it. It also avoided the pitfalls I conjured. Even if it fell down, it would climb right back up.
I thought about using wall magic to trap the Spider King, but it was moving so fast that it ran away before I could close it.
The game of tag situation irritates me.
What was even more irritating was that the spider would spit out web threads to interrupt my actions.
Several times I stepped on spider threads, but thanks to my bear footwear, I suffered no damage.
If I had been wearing an ordinary shoe, I might have been in trouble if I had been hit by the sticky or the fire-starting threads I had encountered earlier.
It would have been very difficult for any ordinary adventurer to deal with the Spider King.
However, the King Spider also seemed to dislike me and was constantly ticking its menacing and angry maw, and its eyes glowing red.
But then again, its behavior was strange.
Whenever the King Spider stopped moving, whenever it tried to unleash its magic, there was always a house behind it.
If it uses powerful magic, it could destroy the entire building, and the people inside the house would be harmed. They could lose their lives if trapped under a collapsed house.
Perhaps the Spider King understood that I could not attack the houses?
I checked with my detection skill, and the King Spider was moving through the house with people inside.
Again.
As if to prove it, the King Spider stops moving in front of a house with people in it.
If it was doing this purposefully, this spider was highly intelligent.
Monsters were stronger than people. But it was said that people can defeat monsters because of their lack of intelligence.
People would fight them by setting traps or driving the monsters into places where people could gain an advantage over them. Of course, even animals and insects do this, but I never thought they would fight while taking hostages.
This might be a more troublesome opponent than I had thought.
While I was dealing with the King Spider, thinking about how to defeat it, something jumped down from the roof. A spider? I thought, but then a goblin holding a sword came down from the roof.
“Orya!” (Deborane)
No, it was not a goblin, or a goblin king. It was Deborane.
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