episode_0064

After the darkness was revealed, the terrain that came into view was completely different from what I had seen last time.

In the huge spherical cavity, spiders were climbing down the walls from all directions, narrowing the siege towards us standing in the middle.

It seemed clear that Aladikh had made up his mind and prepared for this moment.

“The contract was kept. Guest.”

“I guess so.”

When I answered calmly, she briefly turned her head and looked at me.

A mixture of surprise and admiration filled her eyes as she realized that none of us showed the slightest agitation at this sudden change of events.

“It looks like you were expecting it from the beginning.

I thought it might be true for someone as smart as you, but…

But even so, it won’t be easy to get out of here. So please listen carefully to my suggestion…”

‘A proposal?’

Although I was puzzled by the unexpected words, I did not reveal my doubts and just silently nodded towards her.

Even if it’s an offer not worth accepting, it may buy you a little more time that you need right now.

“You are truly a capable hunter.

Even in the new world we will create out of this darkness, that talent will be able to become our sharpest fangs.”

Her expression softened and a warm smile appeared.

Then, perhaps sensing the mother’s intention, or perhaps she had issued a separate command to make the proposal more persuasive, the group of spiders that had been threateningly swarming from all directions suddenly stopped.

In the silence created, Aladikh’s soft voice was heard so loudly that it could not be ignored.

“Is it co-optation? If so, you could have tried to persuade them from the beginning without having to put pressure like this…”

“I couldn’t be satisfied with such a mediocre thing. I had no choice but to decide that I had to get my hands on you, even if it meant going to extreme lengths.”

A few drops of poison flowed from her tongue as she licked her lips and fell for a while before hitting the floor.

“Please accept the gift I give you.

So that you can become one of our clan and continue happy hunting forever…”

“…Imperialist. You’re not going to say that you’ve changed your mind now, are you?”

The female warrior, who was holding the ax tightly, quickly whispered to me and asked in a slightly anxious voice.

“…Even though it was a bit obvious, I can’t say it was wrong to set a trap like this.

If that was the content of the offer anyway, I wouldn’t have accepted it even if I had persuaded him from the beginning.”

At my answer, the female warrior smiled as if relieved and raised her weapon, while Aladih’s expression was filled with sadness.

“…I’m sorry.

I can’t believe I should just leave your memory engraved in our clan’s web…”

With those last words, she turned around, holding the game we had given her in her arms.

The march of the spiders, which had stopped for a moment in accordance with the movement, begins again.

Letting the waves of legs and teeth engulf us, Aladikh slowly climbs onto the rope he came down from and tries to leave again.

Now, somewhere up there, unseen to us, she will use the curse of the prey we caught to create an exit to the outside world.

And with its countless descendants, it will cover Britannia and one day spread its poison across the sea to the lands beyond.

So why did we come back here even though we expected all that?

-Good luck!

“What?!”

Because I had no intention of gently letting her leave in the first place.

When a contract made through magic is completely fulfilled by both parties keeping the contract, the engraved writing also burns out and disappears.

All I had to do before stepping into this cave was to shed a little of my blood that would have dissolved the letters I had carved in poison on my hands.

Then the Druid girl drew a pattern with the blood on the torn cloth and returned it to me.

A pattern for a spell that increases the size of fire.

Originally, it was said that it was not that powerful as it was a simple spell that even a girl who had just become a druid could do.

At best, it’s about breathing warmth back into a dying campfire.

However, the medium of the spell now is the poison that Aladikh, who created the unbreakable spider web, extracted from himself.

The cloth that had been secretly inserted between the spider webs from the time the hunt was successful was burning slightly the moment Aladikh completed her share of the contract.

And at this moment, the flame, which had rapidly increased in size due to the influence of the spell, finally tore the cobwebs and lashed out its greedy tongue.

When flames suddenly bloom from the spider web that wrapped and trapped the cursed rabbit, Aladikh is taken aback, but it is already too late.

As the flames that bloomed like that transferred to her body, Aladikh’s questions soon turned into high-pitched screams and began to reverberate.

As the brood mother writhes in pain, her children, the spiders, also become confused and struggle.

The chaos was all we needed.

I pulled a sword from my belt and threw it straight at the flames in the air.

To someone whose ears can catch the sound of a blade cutting through the air.

The white woman who broke through the fiery and tearing spider web stretched out her hand to grab the sword.

With a graceful movement, like a butterfly taking off from a chrysalis, she took the weapon in her hand again and jumped straight up, cutting down the spider web on which Aladikh had been climbing.

The spider, having lost anything to cling to, crashes its burning body to the floor and falls.

“…Khaaagh…”

Things would have been easier if Aladikh had just burned to death, but she somehow succeeded in extinguishing the fire by rolling her body to the floor.

I let out a painful breath and somehow managed to support my body with my shaky legs and stand up again.

“…I was quite confident in my state of mind…but it looks like things got a lot worse outside while we were locked up.”

In a voice that vividly contained the pain of her burned body, she muttered as if she were in despair.

“Because there was so much going on.”

I lightly answered the muttering, then changed the direction of the spear and aimed it straight at her.

“…But even if you kill me here and now, you won’t make way for my children, right?

Or are you planning to take me hostage?”

“I thought about that method, but I don’t think you will be easily captured. So-”

As if to fill in the rest of the answer, a white figure gently stepped on the floor and then shot out like a wave.

The moment the blade of the sword it held and the red eyes following its tip glowed at the same time, the sword stabbed by the cursed rabbit began to dig into Aladikh’s neck.

Of course, she didn’t seem to have any intention of giving up her life so easily, so she held the blade with both hands to block it, raised her sharp, huge legs, and slashed at the rabbit.

As the owner of the hand holding him throws away, the blade also falls away from the person biting him.

Aladikh, who was covering the wound with both hands to stop the bleeding from his neck, said no more and just looked at the white rabbit in front of him and then at us.

The cursed rabbit that had been hunted by us and brought here also followed our gaze and turned to us, but then turned its head again towards the spider in front of it.

Perhaps it is because her instincts are telling her who she should oppose first in order to survive in this situation.

Up until this point, the loopholes in the contract had been identified and everything had proceeded as planned.

It pits two beings too dangerous to be released into this world as is.

Of course, we’ll have to work harder from now on to carry out the rest of the plan.

When I raise my spear and point it forward, taking him as a signal, the rest of the group also starts moving in unison.

Luvia rose into the air wearing a shadow and sharply swept around, blocking the approach of the spiders who were trying to intervene in the fight.

It won’t last long, but it will be enough.

Meanwhile, the dragon soldier and female warrior rushed towards Aladikh from both sides, each holding a sword and an ax in their hands.

Aladikh, who was already busy fighting the cursed rabbit, barely managed to dodge the attacks and avoid having two of his legs cut off.

However, the rabbit’s red eyes, heated with the excitement of battle, did not miss the moment she retreated and caught her.

The sword that pierced through the movement of her twisted legs as if flowing was aimed at her vital spot once again.

Of course, the power of the old malice that existed before the rabbit was cursed was not just brute strength.

The moment the sword was about to dig into Aladikh’s body again, the magic she used came out first, mixing with the blood from the torn neck wound instead of the mouth.

As the rabbit stumbled and fell after being hit by magic, covered in smoking bodily fluids, Aladikh had a sinister smile on his face for a moment.

However, that smile becomes distorted with embarrassment as I see myself riding on Emma and rushing behind the white woman who is falling down like that.

Every time the hoof hits the floor, that expression gets closer and closer.

The moment when the spear blade finally pierced the woman’s upper body and Emma smashed into the spider’s lower body.

We make eye contact right in front of our noses.

The crossed gazes read each other’s emotions contained within.

Until one of the lights goes out.