The black sun hangs high

Chapter 163 The moment to feast has arrived!

Just as Hugh had guessed, this giant spider came from the city of Seren, and it was once part of the vast Dark Abyss Offspring.

When the great earthquake and magical anomalies destroyed the sealing ritual of Seren City, it obeyed the command of the collective will and left Seren City with some of its kind to embark on an exploration of the world.

However, as the mages of the Law Council completed the restoration of the ritual site in Seren, the connection between these scattered Dark Abyss offspring and their main body was completely severed.

Thus, they became individuals scattered in the outside world, possessing independent will.

The memories of the victims from Seren taught it what fear and death were.

Therefore, when it arrived outside the city of Seren, it began to explore and observe cautiously.

It took it more than ten days to successfully cross the plain covered by artillery fire from both sides. It witnessed the explosion of crystallized shells, the small-scale infiltration of human armies into both sides' positions, and several bloody encounters in sensitive areas.

It sensed a strong threat—those humans, whom it and its kind had once regarded as food, were not as weak as it had imagined; they possessed a terrifying power capable of easily destroying each other or other living beings.

Therefore, it chose to flee.

This dark forest gave it a new opportunity to grow, and after attacking and devouring a hibernating spider, it began its own hunting journey.

The magical power of the spider made it a top predator in the forest. In the process of hunting again and again, it also understood and digested the knowledge from humans. It gradually realized that the real threat to it was the human army and the spellcasters among them. But at the same time, these two were also the food it longed for.

The instincts and understanding within its body told it that if it could hunt down enough spellcasters and soldiers and understand the power they wielded and their habits of action, it could wield those terrifying powers just like them and avoid further threats.

The arrival of the hunters from Black Forest Town and the Fifth Hunter Regiment's march through the forest presented it with a significant opportunity.

It began a new round of hunting—using its ability to traverse spiders and its mutated body, it avoided large human forces, stayed away from those terrifying weapons and high-ranking mages in the army, and constantly extracted everything it needed from small, lone prey!
In this process, caution has become its new instinct.

How to identify the real target, how to attack and escape, how to conduct probing...

These are all skills it is constantly learning and mastering.

But now, the mage, whose entire body exudes an "alluring scent," has almost driven it to madness.

It could sense the power within the other's body, which was exactly what it was seeking. Instinct told it that as long as it successfully completed this hunt, it would be able to achieve the most thorough growth and even become a new "subject"!
However, the "success" of the hunt seemed to come too easily.

It never expected that its casual attack would hit the target directly and pierce through his body. Based on its past experience and understanding of humans, the armor made of Demon Silver was very strong and it could not easily destroy it.

After a moment of stunned silence, it was immediately overwhelmed with excitement and ecstasy. It abruptly retracted the segmented limbs that had pierced its target's body, bringing the precious prey back to its front. The black oily shell on its body began to writhe, and the feeding mouthparts of the traversing spider extended from its body.

It was a long and sharp straw.

This is a feeding method it learned from the spider itself after combining its own power—using its mouthparts to pierce the prey's body, injecting a part of itself into it, completely dissolving the prey's flesh, internal organs, and power, and then drawing it back.

Simple and efficient.

As for the bullets constantly being fired from nearby, it completely ignored them. As long as it could absorb the prey in front of it, the remaining soldiers would just be dessert after the meal.

But just as the giant spider had aimed its mandibles at its prey, it suddenly noticed that the prey's face showed no sign of pain. It was staring intently at the spider with a strange smile on its face.

It was as if he desperately craved this dangerous close contact.

The next second, all the soldiers present witnessed a shocking scene: the figure suspended on the arthropod suddenly pulled out a revolver, and the "magical arrows" already loaded inside fired as the trigger was pulled, hitting the relatively vulnerable mouthpiece directly.

The damage from the magical explosion caused the giant spider to tremble violently. It thrashed its limbs, trying to shake off its frenzied prey, but Hugh's hands transformed into jet-black claws and gripped its limbs tightly.

In the chaos, a second magic bullet was fired, striking the giant spider's carapace squarely in a crack. This second burst of magic created a gruesome gash in its body.

A piercing hiss rang out, and the repeatedly wounded spider unleashed its ferocity. It slammed its limbs into the ground with force, finally managing to throw its prey to the ground with brute force. Then it pounced forward, braving countless bullets, and smashed its limbs toward the figure.

White snowflakes flew everywhere, but there was not a trace of the flesh or blood of living things in them.

With a strange, cold laugh, the mangled body exploded into a wisp of black mist, dissipating into the air. Before the giant spider could react, a thick shadow suddenly swept out from the slowly dissipating magical smoke.

It was a massive scythe formed from countless intertwined tentacles of Karron, with a black blade at its end enhanced by a great deal of magic. Under Hugh's control, this terrifying scythe slashed fiercely at one of the giant spider's thickest limbs.

A sickeningly crisp sound rang out, and the seemingly incredibly sturdy limb, capable of withstanding bullets, was instantly severed in two.

Learning from humans not only allowed the Dark Abyss Offspring to acquire that knowledge, but also enabled it to understand some of human emotions.

Therefore, at this moment, the disappointment of the failed hunt and the humiliation of being cheated completely filled its mind. The giant spider let out a piercing hiss, immediately used its other limbs to support its body, and then jumped up with force, rolling and crushing towards the direction of the hunters.

Under its ferocious impact, trees snapped and felled. Soldiers targeted by it immediately took cover, but one unlucky soldier, unable to react in time, was struck by its sharp foot blades and instantly severed in two. The black light within the giant spider's body began to flow rapidly—an instinct belonging to the offspring of the Dark Abyss. It was using the power stored within its body to alter its form and repair its damage. Amidst the chaos, its two limbs, originally designed for capturing prey, became incredibly flexible. With a twist of its body, these limbs cleaved through the spreading magical mist and crashed down towards the location of Hugh's true form.

A magical barrier and the Touch of Karron quickly formed a defensive line in front of Hugh. While forcibly withstanding the opponent's attack, Hugh withdrew from the magical smoke. The wolf fang tattoo on his right wrist shimmered slightly, and the strangely colored Hound's Fang revolver appeared in his palm.

The hunting instincts of the palace hounds were now at their peak, but this time, something inside the metal disc responded to Hugh's call faster and more proactively.

It was the squeak of a rodent.

……

Since acquiring the magical summon, the Running Rat, Hugh had never seen it so proactive.

It is always so insidious, ruthless, and despicable, just like the name Hugh gave it. It is more like an assassin and killer lurking in the darkness than a warrior who appears on the front lines.

However, Snich is not the same person he used to be.

Perhaps it was the intense battle that Hugh was engaged in that had greatly stimulated it, or perhaps it had finally completely digested the power from the Earth Mother Goddess. In any case, it finally woke up and immediately conveyed its strong will and thoughts to Hugh!
It needs to hunt, it needs to eat.

As the "chariot" of the Earth Mother Goddess, it wants to charge towards its goal.

"Okay, approved!"

Hugh's body immediately began to tilt, but he soon discovered that with his current magical reserves, he was finding it somewhat difficult to summon the running rat.

At this moment, all the creatures present, including the giant spider that was trying to hunt down the soldiers of the hunter regiment, felt an unusual sense of crisis. But before it could change its strategy, a figure suddenly tore through the pervasive clouds and rushed out on the cold snow. Its speed was so astonishing that the soldiers did not even see the shape of the thing clearly at first.

By the time they realized what was happening, the shadow was already in front of the giant spider. It rammed into it without mercy, using its own weight and speed to flip the mutated magical creature to the ground.

It was a giant rat, much larger than any ordinary beast, covered in smooth fur, and with a pair of twisted horns on its head.

Even the most experienced hunters have never seen such a magical creature.

The spider that mutated from the offspring of the Dark Abyss was now in a daze. The information and shocks it received in a short period of time were too much and too complicated... All sorts of complex thoughts, emotions and concepts filled its mind and thoughts, while the mage and the terrifying giant rat in front of it both exuded an aura that was both incredibly tempting and extremely dangerous.

Driven by its instinct to grow, it wanted to continue its hunt.

However, the biological emotions within its body make it want to escape.

As a fragmented offspring of an ancient clan, it is currently incapable of selecting and processing such complex information.

In that brief moment of hesitation, the sprinting rat, its three long tails swishing wildly, had already launched its next move, deftly dodging the constantly sweeping, deadly limbs.

After two nimble leaps, the sprinting rat actually clung to the back of the giant spider. Its sharp fangs and claws gleamed with a dangerous, corrosive magical light. With brutal biting and tearing, the limbs growing on the giant spider's back were torn off on the spot, and the fragments that fell into its mouth were immediately chewed up.

Upon sensing the taste of its prey, the raging rat's eerie green eyes began to turn scarlet, and its fur stood on end. It ignored the giant spider's violent struggles and counterattacks, letting its sharp limbs stab and slash at its body. The toughness of its fur was no less than that of hard metal armor, and under the slashing of the limbs, it only suffered some insignificant damage.

This is the splendor of the top-tier benefactors and predators under the worship of the Earth Mother Goddess.

That was a terrifying existence that even a defective offspring like the Dark Abyss's offspring could not reach.

The transformation from hunter to prey completely shattered the Dark Abyss Offspring's hunting instincts. Its will to survive took over at this moment, so it twisted its body forcefully, risking the tearing of its carapace to throw off the running rat. Then it quickly stretched its limbs toward the nearby tree and began to climb toward the top of the tree in an extremely strange posture. As it did this, the carapace on its body and the jet-black color of its body began to change rapidly.

It is trying to use the cloaking ability of the spider to escape this terrible place.

But it underestimated the killing intent and hunger of the three-tailed giant rat under the tree. With a hiss, the mad rat came to the tree where the giant spider was. Its sharp claws clung to the tree, and with its amazing explosive power, it chased after the top of the tree!

Just as the spider was about to completely disappear, the sprinting rat's three long tails curled up and thrust forcefully into the air.

The running rat was certain that its tail had hit its target, so the barbs growing at the end of its long tail immediately stretched out, becoming three anchors to secure the prey.

"Pretty!"

With Hugh's approval, the giant rat, which had just awakened, leaped up, its three tails immediately taut, and using its own weight, forcibly dragged the fleeing spider back from the treetop, and the two fell to the ground together!

At this moment, the running mouse felt an unprecedented sense of satisfaction and joy.

It knew that the time to feast had arrived!

(End of this chapter)