Chapter 11
Part 10
She must have smelled the blood.
They had killed the looters outside.
The scent of blood had spread everywhere.
The Queen was already starving.
There was no way she could ignore so much blood nearby.
Tap.
Tap.
Tap.
A disturbing sound came from the ceiling.
Many legs were rapidly moving across the walls.
Yugeon stopped and looked up.
Hmm...? Why can I already feel the boss?
Something was strange.
Normally, the Queen did not appear this quickly.
“Come down. I already know you're hiding there.”
As if his words were a signal...
WHOOSH!
A white bundle of thread shot out of the darkness like a bullet.
SWISH!
BOOM!
Mincheol reacted instantly.
He raised his shield and protected Yugeon.
BZZZZZZ!
Indomitable Barrier spread outward.
A translucent blue shield surrounded them.
Psss!
Tap.
HISSSSS.
It was not an ordinary spiderweb.
Inside the ball of webbing was a powerful acidic poison.
It was so corrosive that the stone floor melted and released smoke.
“SKREEEEEEE!”
At the same moment...
A gigantic shadow fell from the ceiling.
BOOM!
Dust rose.
The ruler of Floor 20 appeared before them.
[Lv. 35] Cedria
Its upper body resembled a pale woman.
Its lower body was the enormous body of a spider.
The Arachne Queen.
All eight eyes were bloodshot red.
No sacrifice had been offered.
She was starving.
And prey had appeared directly in front of her.
She had entered a state close to complete berserk rage.
“Ugh... That's disgusting.”
Mincheol frowned.
He had imagined what the Queen might look like.
Reality was worse.
“Human... Human...”
Drool ran from the Queen's mouth.
A twisted smile appeared on her face.
She raised her front legs, ready to attack at any moment.
An ordinary Awakener would have been crushed by her killing intent.
Their legs would lose strength and they would collapse.
Yugeon smiled instead.
Those damned looters...
He frowned after checking the Queen's level.
Normally, the Arachne Queen was Level 30 at most.
But the boss before him was Level 35.
Why?
Because the looters had repeatedly provoked her.
They probably pretended to feed her humans, then pulled the sacrifices away again and again.
They had probably thought making her hungrier would make future sacrifices easier.
A simple-minded idea.
If she became desperate enough for food, perhaps she would focus only on the sacrifice instead of them.
But their actions had only enraged the Queen.
“She ate the General Spiders she gave birth to.”
That explained why she had appeared immediately.
Actually...
This was perfect.
Yugeon had originally planned to corner her until she ate the General Spiders anyway.
“Mincheol.”
“Yes, hyung.”
Yugeon smiled.
“Defeat the boss without getting hit even once.”
Mincheol blinked.
“And don't use any skills.”
Yugeon had just given him an extremely difficult mission.
SLASH!
SLASH!
Standing behind Mincheol, Yugeon swung the Godslayer Sword and cut down smaller spiders.
This place is good for leveling.
[Lv. 10]
That was Yugeon's current level.
He had gained nine levels since regressing.
Why was he only Level 10 despite defeating Baruoden and Drogas?
Because the level difference was too large.
The bosses he had defeated were far above his level.
Because of that, the experience gain had been limited.
Even reaching Level 10 this quickly was extremely fast.
Only a short amount of time had passed since his regression.
Numbers aren't everything...
But he could not completely ignore them either.
Whoosh!
SLASH!
CRACK!
Yugeon cut through the incoming spiders while recalling his old memories.
My martial arts disappeared from my Skill List.
But they had not disappeared from his memories.
Whirl.
SLASH!
Yugeon used Plum Blossom Sword Art.
Without Inner Energy, he could not properly use footwork.
Even his sword path was unstable.
But it was more than enough to kill small spiders.
Han Yugeon was someone who had reached the peak of the sword.
He had even learned every martial art that existed.
Normally, learning martial arts with conflicting properties could cause Qi Deviation or madness.
But Yugeon had been able to learn all of them through the System.
I have to admit, I was grateful to the System for that.
Before fighting the god...
Han Yugeon had learned every martial art.
He had even created his own personal martial art.
WHIRL!
BOOM!
Yugeon shifted smoothly from Plum Blossom Sword Art into Taiji Wisdom Sword.
Dozens of spiders exploded at once.
Hmm. As my stats rise, moving is definitely becoming easier.
His body was no longer that of an ordinary human.
It had reached roughly the level of a low-rank Awakener.
Ding!
[Accumulated growth has been reflected in your stats.]
Strength +1
Agility +2
Stamina +1
Senses +1
Technique +1
Oh!
