Learning from Marvel

Chapter 331 Spider King
Looking at the burning spider nest, Ian couldn't help but have a question:
Spider Nest's obvious weakness of being afraid of fire, no one has discovered it before, and no one has taken advantage of it?
"Giant spiders have been peacefully staying in the dark forest, and humans rarely enter the dense forest, so naturally they rarely deal with giant spiders, and have never had a large-scale conflict with giant spiders. It is possible that the weakness of the spider nest has not been discovered. .” Ian analyzed in his heart:

"But the elves must have known the weakness of the spider's nest very well after fighting against giant spiders for so many years."

However, it reminds me of the spider silk all over the dark forest, and the spider sea that appeared briefly just now.

Ian suddenly realized:

"The reason why the elves didn't take advantage of the Achilles' heel of the spider's nest was probably because it was difficult for an army of elves to kill through the spider sea and reach the vicinity of the spider's nest?"

The boundless spider sea that Ian saw just now was just a giant spider with a spider's nest.

And the elves definitely faced more than one spider nest directly, and the scale of the spider sea was definitely bigger.

The difficulty of killing through the Sea of ​​Spiders is absolutely beyond the horizon, even for a well-equipped army of elves, it is difficult to do it without paying a heavy price.

However, the nests of giant spiders are all over the Mirk Forest. Even if one or two nests are destroyed at the risk of heavy losses, it will not have any impact on the overall battle situation.

And like Ian this time, the situation where all the troubles are solved by a big fire is basically impossible to replicate.

"Spider colonies generally don't place their battlefields near their nests, unless there are special circumstances.

In addition, the almost endless sea of ​​spiders is the nightmare of all enemies! "Ian kept analyzing in his mind,
"Furthermore, giant spiders are indeed very afraid of fire, but they are not so fragile that they can catch fire.

If there is no special burning agent, the ordinary flame may be extinguished directly by the giant spider before it ignites.

Ordinary fire attacks, when facing the spider sea, must have little effect. "

Based on all the known information, Ian found that the wood elf was completely suppressed by the giant spider, and it was not unreasonable!
Walking to the bottom of the rock wall, Ian looked up at the huge spider nest.

A large number of giant spiders are desperately trying to save the ignited spider nest.

They have no ability to extinguish fire, so they can only cut off the burning nest piece by piece.

But doing so can only slow down the spread of the flames, and cannot completely extinguish the fire.

On the contrary, due to the continuous cutting and discarding, the huge spider nest became more and more dilapidated, and the scene inside the spider nest was revealed.

With the help of the firelight, Ian could vaguely see some swaying shadows through the broken spider silk wall.

Especially at the core of the spider's nest, there is a huge shadow that looks familiar to Ian.

In the same squirming way, with a larger body size, Ian instantly determined:

That is the egg sac used by the spider king to lay eggs!

His eyes wandered around, but he didn't find any other spiders.

"This Spider Nest Spider King has given up the egg sac?" Ian immediately guessed and was a little surprised.

Giving up the egg sac should be a difficult decision for the spider king, and it is definitely not an easy process.

It took less than 2 minutes from Ian to set the fire, and the spider king had disappeared.

It can be seen that the spider king had decisively chosen to give up as soon as the fire started.

"What a decisive choice!?" Ian couldn't help raising his vigilance.

Whether it acts decisively or is simply cowardly, it is not easy to deal with.

"Where are the two spider kings hiding now?" Ian used the light of the fire to expand the search area.

He had never seen the Spider King directly, but he knew without thinking that the Spider King must be very different from ordinary giant spiders.

It's just that he searched for a long time, but he didn't find any suspicious figure.

"Could it be that they have escaped?" Ian immediately denied this idea.

He rushed over very fast, and whether it was the ambush by the spider swarm or Ian's fire attack to secure the victory, they were all very sudden.

There was no time left for the two spider kings to escape.

"Unless it is the escape route prepared by the Spider King in advance! Otherwise, it is impossible to escape from under my nose." Ian thought confidently,

"The giant spider is used to being invincible in the Mirk Forest, and this is not the front line to fight the elves. The Spider King probably doesn't have the consciousness to prepare an escape route!"

After the analysis came to this conclusion, Ian considered: "Should I use mental power to search?"

Spiritual power search is definitely more accurate, but it is also easy to overwhelm the enemy.

Moreover, there is no dense forest to cover the valley, and with the firelight soaring into the sky, the normal field of vision is not small, and it can be clearly seen within a range of hundreds of meters, which is not far behind the spiritual detection.

Just when he was hesitating, a warning sign suddenly appeared in his heart.

He subconsciously pounced forward, flipped in the air, and turned around before landing.

He noticed in an instant that there were several fist-sized holes in the position where he was standing just now!

The sneak attack came very suddenly, and the attack was very powerful, definitely not something that ordinary giant spiders could do.

And the attacker didn't leave, but stayed where he was, surrounding Ian vaguely from left to right.

"Spider King!" Ian's eyes narrowed. These two big silver spiders were obviously the Spider King he had been hunting down.

The spider king looked exactly like the giant spider, an enlarged version of the giant spider.

However, Spider King's body was even bigger. When he stood upright on eight legs, his carapace was more than five meters high. It looked like two big trucks in the morning.

The spider kings are dark silver in color with obvious metallic luster. One can tell at a glance that their defense is definitely not weak.

Especially their eight silvery spider legs, like sharp spears, can be seen to be horribly destructive.

The holes on the ground obviously came from the legs of two big spiders.

The two spider kings were almost identical in size, but Ian felt that the difference in strength was not small.

The momentum and oppressive feeling are incompatible, and the luster on his body is also different.

One was brighter, with a weaker breath, and it was probably the newborn spider king;

The other one is darker in color and has a stronger breath. It must be the old spider king who presided over the ambush.

The two spider kings missed a single blow, and cautiously did not continue to attack, but confronted Ian instead.

Ian resisted the urge to kill them and continued to observe the two spider kings.

For him, killing the spider king in front of him was not the key. There were many such spider kings in the Mirk Forest, and it was impossible to kill them all.

The key is to collect information about the Spider King so that you can prepare in advance!

Ian soon discovered that the two spider kings were faintly steaming.

"They were hidden in the flames just now!" He immediately guessed how the two spider kings avoided his vision.

The dark silver carapace of the Spider King not only seemed to have strong physical defense, but also seemed to be extremely resistant to flames and high temperatures.

"The weakness of ordinary giant spiders that are afraid of fire is completely absent in the Spider King?!"

Ian was a little surprised, but also vaguely understood:

"Perhaps the spider king is the complete body of the giant spider group, and ordinary giant spiders are just cheap cannon fodder without wisdom!"

It's not that ordinary giant spiders have obvious weaknesses, it's just that the spider king deliberately reduced some of the giant spider's abilities in order to reduce the hatching cost and increase the size of the spider group.

Time passed, the fire didn't burn for a long time, only a few minutes, the spider silk in the valley burned out, and the fire began to weaken rapidly.

As for the Mirkwood beyond the valley?

Not a single tree was set on fire from start to finish!

There is only a circle of trees near the valley, because the distance is too close, it has been dried a little by the high temperature.

This is obviously the result of the influence of Mirkwood's power.

Seeing the flames go out little by little, and the spider nest burnt out little by little, it was the Spider King who was a little less patient in the end.

"Hiss!..."

The two spider kings, one on the left and the other on the right, attacked Ian at the same time.

The spider king still started with a mental attack, followed by lightning-fast leg guns.

Generally, people who are not strong enough in mental strength can definitely be taken away in one wave.

It's just that they chose the wrong target this time, and Ian was not affected at all.

Without dodging or evading, he slashed at the old spider king's forelimb with a single sword.

"Ding!" The long sword collided with the spider's leg.

The old spider king paused suddenly, and the six spider legs sank in an instant, but with the help of its own huge tonnage, it finally resisted Ian's full-strength sword.

"What a strong defense!?" Ian was quite surprised when he saw the tiny gap the size of a grain of rice on the old spider king's front leg.

His long sword is not an ordinary weapon, its sharpness is comparable to that of a divine weapon.

This was the first time since his long sword was forged that he failed to cut off the target directly.

Of course, it's not because the sword's sharpness is not enough, it's just that Ian's power is not enough.

An analysis instantly appeared in Ian's mind:
"The forelimbs are the main weapon of the Spider King. It should be harder. The defense in other positions should not be so strong..."

Despite this, Ian still made a decisive decision to change the first attack target.

He was going to give up the one-on-one fight with the old spider king, and turn to kill the new spider king with all his strength.

Weak first and then strong, the efficiency can reach the highest!
"The new spider king hasn't grown up for a long time, and its defense is definitely not as strong as the old spider king."

Ian's series of thoughts were completed in an instant.

Immediately, he easily avoided the follow-up attack of the old spider king, swung his sword down with all his strength, and slashed directly at the new spider king, the target of the attack was still the hardest forelimb of the spider king.

With the magic weapon in hand, he can completely attack the enemy's strongest defense directly, without having to take the risk of attacking the spider king's weak point.

Cut off the only spider leg that threatens you first, the spider king is the lamb to be slaughtered.

"clang!"

The spider king's strongest pair of forelimbs crossed, barely blocking Ian's long sword.

However, the huge impact made it slam and then stiffen, unable to make other reactions at all.

Ian's long sword was unscathed, but a deep crack appeared on the two forelimbs of the new spider king.

The old spider king seemed to have sensed Ian's intentions, and decisively accelerated his attack speed, trying to break free for the new spider king.

Ian's reaction speed was full, and his body almost turned into a phantom, completely ignoring the old spider king's attack.

The evasion effect of this move is very strong, but it consumes too much mental energy and cannot be used as a routine method.

"Come again!" Ian shouted loudly, slashing with his long sword.

"Clang! Clang! Clang!..."

The new Spider King could only keep blocking, his body was so stiff that it couldn't even dodge.

In just a moment of confrontation, there were gaps and cracks all over its pair of forelimbs.

"Crack!"

After only a dozen sword strikes, the new spider king's forelimb finally couldn't hold on, and suddenly broke.

The most threatening weapon on the Spider King disappeared, and Ian decisively stepped forward, cutting off the other spider legs of the new Spider King one by one.

With the loss of eight spider legs, the new spider king instantly lost the threat and the possibility of escaping.

"Get one!" Ian decisively dropped the new spider king who had lost his threat.

Rush forward to stop the stronger old spider king.

Seeing that the situation was not right, this guy immediately wanted to run away, and the talent for running away was indeed hereditary.

It's just that the time left for it was too short, before it had time to run two steps, it was easily caught up by Ian.

The spider's running speed in a straight line is not fast, and there are no obstacles in the valley, so the agility advantage of eight legs cannot be used.

The speed of the old spider king was far inferior to that of Ian.

After being stopped by Ian, it could only fight hard.

The forelimbs of the old spider king are much stronger, if you want to cut them off forcibly like you did with the new spider king.

After a little calculation by Ian, it is estimated that the time required will definitely not be short!

However, he is not a barbarian who can only use brute force. He likes to simply use force to overwhelm people, but this kind of battle is more refreshing.

That doesn't mean he has only one option: brute force:

"Simple and direct brute force is not enough, then add some skills!"

In fact, Ian is better at fighting with skills. After all, his physical strength can only be described as weak compared to the strength of the same level.

It was only after coming to this world that the strength of the creatures he came into contact with was generally not high, so he had the opportunity to show off his might with strength.

The spider king's fighting skills can be said to be basically zero, the only reliance is its attack speed, and the hardness and sharpness of the spider's legs.

But Ian can understand, after all, the main duty of the Spider King is to reproduce ordinary giant spiders.

Generally, it is not the last moment to protect the spider nest, and they do not need to participate in the battle in person.

So after only a few rounds, Ian made a judgment:
"Spider King's physical foundation and fighting instinct are very strong, worthy of his powerful blood. It's a pity that he seriously lacks combat experience, and most of it has been crippled!"

This is probably the result of not having a strong enemy!

After finding out the reality of the old spider king, Ian immediately became more at ease.

The old spider king's spider legs are indeed very hard, but after all, they are just legs and not spears, so it is impossible for the whole body to have the same hardness.

As long as it is still the structure of spider legs, there will always be weak spots.

For example, the position of the joints of the spider legs must be the weak point!
The Spider King lacked combat experience, but his natural fighting instinct made him subconsciously protect his weaknesses.

It's just that the pure fighting instinct is far from enough for it to cope with the battle with Ian.

Ian's master-level fighting skills are enough to crush its fighting instincts.

However, after Ian suppressed the Spider King, he was not in a hurry to solve it:
"What a great research material and opportunity!?"

It is very difficult to meet the spider king who is alone, and Ian must seize this opportunity to conduct in-depth research on it.

After all, it is inevitable for him to continue to go deep into the dense forest and encounter more and stronger spider kings.

While it is still safe now, thoroughly study the spider king's body structure and weaknesses, and the next action will definitely be easier.

(End of this chapter)