CRACKLE! In the blink of an eye, the mother spider ran all the way toward Aella and swung her front leg down. Aella blocked the attack with her bow, staring at the spider's face as her feet dug into the ground.
"You're stronger than you look." The mother spider smiled.
While still blocking the mother spider's leg with her bow, she quickly pulled the string and released an arrow toward the spider's face.
The mother spider dodged the arrow by tilting her torso. ^Elemental arrows, straight from her bow.^
"Fool, you'll only hit the humans above." The mother spider swung another leg at Aella's torso.
STAB! Before she could fully swing her leg, an arrow pierced her torso from the back. She growled, "What!"
Aella's arrows are made of wind, and she can control them at will. They don't need to fly in a straight line. She then quickly swung her palm, sending a powerful blast of air that flung them both in opposite directions.
CRACK! As the mother spider hit the wall, she gasped, looking forward as the wound in her torso quickly healed. From the dust where Aella landed, several tens of wind arrows flew forth.
The mother spider conjured a large web, blocking all the arrows as she rushed forward at a blinding speed. Even when small, spiders are known to be fast. With the queen's size and the monstrous composition of her body, that speed only got scaled up, resulting in a massive, fast bug that could run faster than any animal.
Aella jumped up as the mother spider charged at her, letting her hit the wall head-first. She flew up beside the wall firing arrows, escaping the spider's constant leg stabs as she ran after her on the wall.
Seeing that the mother spider could still tank and block her arrows, Aella flew into the center of the room, firing as the spider still standing on the wall.
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtThe mother spider twisted her gigantic butt, firing a long silver threat to the ceiling, and used it to swing straight toward Aella. Seeing such a large creature almost the size of a bull with long legs swing around was honestly mesmerizing.
"So you can fly, elf!" The mother spider growled, coming in with a bite at Aella's face.
Aella dodged mid-air by twisting her torso and kicked the spider in the face, firing an arrow at her chest.
The mother spider swung one of her legs, and smacked Aella's bow from her hand as the two of them finally landed on the ground. "Bowless, now die!" She unleashed a barrage of stabs with her legs, but surprisingly, Aella wasn't fazed, slapping the mother's legs with her bare hands.
Most people make the mistake of underestimating archers' arm strength, pulling bows requires a lot of power, let alone magical and steel weapons made by a certain woman. But even though the mother spider was swinging at Aella with four legs, she wasn't getting through her defenses. The reason was simple, while fighting Arad in the training, he felt as if he had six arms. With the speed and raw strength behind his attacks, one wrong move got Aella smacked down, so she learned how to deal with multiple attacks.
"You're skilled." The mother spider growled.
"You can have all the arms you want, but never reach the oppression of my husband's barrage of attacks." Aella stared at the spider with a menacing glare and swung her palm. The hand missed, and the mother tried to use that opportunity to get a hit in.
SLASH! She felt something on her torso, a slash.
[Wind blade] With each swing of her palms, Aella unleashed the spell forth. Almost invisible, you could only see a faint haze as the compressed wind flew, but due to the speed, most creatures would find those blades hard to track. But once again, if she only did that against Arad, he would slip between them with ease and smack her in the face as he has [Void Eyes] that could see mana, therefore Aella learned to mix the already hard-to-track blades with feints and boomerang blades to make an even bigger pain to deal with.
The mother spider started finding it harder and harder to stay close to Aella, blocking the wind blades was all she could do at such a close range. She opened her mouth and tried to spit a large splash of poison at her.
Aella slipped beneath the poison and punched the spider beneath the belly button, [Wind blast] The impact of the spell was enough to lift the spider up a bit from the ground. Using that, Aella slid beneath the mother spider and reached her back, shoving her arm, elbow deep into the mother's butt.
The mother spider cried in pain, nothing went in there before. But Aella wasn't just messing around, she pulled a long string of silk from the mother's spinneret. She then quickly flew around her, tying her in her own silk.
"You damned woman!" The mother spider growled, but Aella couldn't care less about her. She landed far away, grunting her teeth.
"You can't pull me." The mother tried to be the one to drag Aella.
A magic circle flashed beneath the mother spider, and she gasped. Aella set it there when she slid beneath her. The wind blast was only meant to cover that.
The magic circle exploded into a powerful gust of wind that lifted the mother spider up, and by controlling the wind in the whole room. A green crown appeared on Aella's head as she swung the spider as if she were nothing and smacked her on the wall.
"That crown of mana, you're the monster here." The mother spider immediately stood back on the wall, ripping the webbing that tied her body as her eyes glowed with a faint green and blue light.
Aella noticed that and made a mental note that different eye illumination indicates different magic. She should expect something from the mother spider. Aella then lifted her arm and caught her bow as it fell down.
BAM! The mother spider lunged forward, even faster than before and she used her threads to swing around Aella, finally landing behind her back with an evil smile. Aella stood in place, motionless with an even scarier face. Both of the magic started spiking up as they entered their high gear, ready to get serious.
Aella spun around, blocking a leg stab from the mother spider, and fired several arrows. The mother spider caught the arrows in a web and spat a large splash of poison at Aella.
Aella punched the poison back at the spider with a [Wind Blast] But she got smacked with one of mother's legs, sending her flying back.
Aella killed her momentum with a few back flips before landing on her legs, pointing her bow forward, and unleashing several tens of arrows mixed with wind slashes at the charging mother spider.
"It's useless! Useless!" The mother spider shouted, smacking both the arrows and wind blades aside with her two front legs as she charged.
^I knew it. That blue glow in her eyes, she's becoming able to see mana. This means this dungeon should at least be an S-
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏm rank to have such a boss.^CRACK! A stone smacked the mother spider in the face, causing her to trip and slide on the ground. "Who threw that?!" She growled, looking for the other girls, but they were all knocked out.
Aella stared down at her with an evil smile, pointing her finger and several more stones started to smack the queen left and right. Just as strong wind can pick stones and throw them around, Aella could do the same.
The mother spider jumped back, creating a new between her two front legs, and caught all the stones Aella was flinging at her, rolled them into one massive ball, and swung it at Aella with a thread like a wrecking ball.
Aella swung her palm, cutting the tread with a [Wind Blade], and then started lifting her palms. The mother spider lunged forward as Aella's moves didn't seem like an attack, trying to bite her face off. And as she was a tiny bit away from chomping Aella's face off, it happened.
With her hands together like a cone, she unleashed it.
[Wind Expansion: Roaring Tornado]
Aella's expansion covered the whole room and pulled the mother spider in the middle, where she started spinning in its center while bombarded with an endless stream of stones, debris, wind arrows, slashes, and blasts.
The mother spider cried, covering her body in a cocoon of threads to withstand the attacks. After a few seconds, the wind started slowing down and the spider felt it. She slowly opened her cocoon to look at Aella, "You're running out of mana…" at that time, she almost shat herself, seeing Aella menacingly standing at the corner of the room, with a blazing arrow in her bow.
"Burn." Aella said, releasing the arrow. It flew straight into the gape the mother spider made in her cocoon to look at Aella, exploded it from the inside out, and ignited the tornado into a blaze of fire. A fire tornado illuminated the whole room.
As the fire settled down, Aella approached the mother spider's charred corpse, and stared at it for a second. "No magic, she's finally dead."
After confirming that, she pulled several healing potions and was about to rush toward the girls.
CRACK! A hand extended from mother's burned corpse and punched Aella in the back of her head, sending her sliding on the ground, digging a trench with her face.
From the mother's charred body, a pale naked woman walked out. She was tall and slender, with eight green eyes on her face, long white hair, black long nails and webbing dripping from her butt.
"That was painful. I never knew that fire hurt that much." The mother spider growled, now standing in her final form, taking a full humanoid shape.
CRACK! But at that moment, a large hand emerged from the ground and grabbed her by the ankle.