Diablo traveled through time and became a necromancer

The rotten leaves beneath their feet surged wildly under the trampling of countless sharp legs, splattering sticky black mud. The air was filled with a piercing hiss and the rustling of legs scraping through branches and leaves, as if the entire forest were screaming.

Scarlet compound eyes, like a fiery flame burning in the darkness, burst forth from the depths of swirling spiderwebs, from the cracks between giant plank-like roots, and from the hollow, rotten tree trunks! They varied in size, from rat-like to dog-like, covered in hard shells striped in dark green, dark brown, and even eerie purple. Their eight ferocious compound eyes locked their gaze on the tiny group.

The disgusting mixture of fishy, ​​sour, and sticky sweet smell reached its peak when a tide of spiders poured out, almost making Leah nauseous again.

"Form a circle! Protect Leah!" Wu Ye's mental strength instantly strained to its limit under the pressure. His thoughts were like invisible steel cables, precisely pulling each skeleton warrior! The skeleton warriors originally guarding the sides and rear did not hesitate at all, and quickly retreated in unison!

They used their rusty yet incredibly strong bone shields to collide with each other. "Bang! Bang! Bang!" The dull sound instantly drowned out the spiders' screams! In less than two breaths, a circular barrier composed of pale bone shields rose from the ground, firmly protecting Leah, Vera, Wu Ye, and the high priest floating in the air!

Almost at the moment the circle closed, the first wave of spiders slammed into the bone shield barrier!

boom! Bang bang bang!

The dull thuds of impact were like dense drumbeats! The force of the impact caused the skeletons of the frontline skeleton warriors to violently vibrate! Sharp legs frantically scratched the surface of the shield, making a teeth-grinding "scraping" sound, mixed with the strange "crackling" sound of the mouthparts gnawing at the bone shield! Dark green, fishy saliva splashed on the bone shield like raindrops, and the harsh corrosive sound of "sizzling" accompanied by rising white smoke was heard continuously! Although these venoms were not as terrifying as the stingers of the Rot Nest, they were more abundant.

The shields of several skeleton warriors who had borne the main impact were becoming thinner and blacker at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the fire of their souls was swaying violently, as if it would go out at any time.

Even more deadly, several larger spiders (heirs of Mana Burn) with dark purple legs swooped through the gaps, their sharp legs piercing the tiny gaps between the bone shields! The blue soul fire on the skeletons of the struck warriors visibly dimmed, and their sword swings immediately became sluggish and stiff!

"Freeze them!" Vera's roar was like thunder! Her arm muscles flexed, and three spears, wrapped in the shrill sound of wind and thunder, instantly transformed into three streams of green light in her hands! Plague javelins! The moment the spears flew out of her hands, the spear shafts exploded with a dark green poisonous aura! Puff, puff, puff! With incredible precision, the javelins pierced through three cat-sized spiders that were rushing towards the top of the circle, pinning them to death in the surging wave of spiders in mid-air! The terrifying and toxic plague attached to the spears erupted instantly, spreading like invisible green ripples through the dense spider swarm!

"Ah! Too many! Disgusting! Disgusting!" The High Priestess of Holy Light stamped her feet in the air anxiously, her tiny soul erupting with unprecedented brilliance! "Get out of the way! Holy Light Impact!" She thrust her palms forward fiercely! A column of incomparably condensed and pure Holy Light, half a meter in diameter, shot out with a bang! The dazzling beam, carrying the divine power to purify all filth, plunged into the oil barrel like a red-hot iron!

Boom! Wherever the beam of light passed, whether it was the spiders' fragile shells, their tough silk, or the stinking mire, it was instantly burned and purified! Dozens of small spiders in the front didn't even have time to scream before they were instantly reduced to ash by the holy light! But this violent attack only temporarily cleared a small fan-shaped area in front, as the spiders behind continued to advance, instantly filling the gap! The huge consumption of the holy light also caused the high priest's soul to dim its radiance, and it swayed several times in the air before stabilizing.

"High Priest! Take it easy! Bless Leah and Sister Vera!" Wu Ye's heart tightened, and he immediately sent a telepathic message. Simultaneously, his right hand grasped the air! A cold, deadly force emanating from Lasma instantly condensed! A poisonous nova! A dark green, swirling, and expanding ring of toxic energy spread out with Wu Ye at its center, amplifying with a bang!

The poisonous ring swept through the spiders that were scrambling to reach the top of the circular barrier! Sizzle! The spiders' shells quickly turned black, blistered, and festered. They struggled to fall from the bone shield, twitching and dissolving in the rotting leaves! Although this poisonous star couldn't kill these tenacious monsters instantly, it greatly slowed their attack speed, buying Leah precious time to breathe and cast spells!

"Whoosh!" After a brief moment of shock, Leah's icy blue light reignited in her eyes! The brief moment of protection allowed her to capture the faint energy nodes within the surging spider tide at the outer edge of the circle—several significantly larger "leader" spiders, hiding at the rear of the swarm! Their compound eyes were exceptionally scarlet, emitting a frightening surge of magical power. With each flicker, the surrounding spiders' attack became more organized!

"I found you!" Leah's eyes were as sharp as an eagle's. The ice crystal staff blazed with a piercing cold light. She held it high with both hands, pouring magic power into it frantically! The ice crystals on the tip of the staff instantly turned from blue to white! The surrounding air temperature plummeted, and tiny ice crystals condensed out of thin air!

"Bury it! Snowstorm!"

Rumble!

A massive magical cloud instantly formed several meters above the circle! It wasn't just a small patch, but it directly enveloped most of the surging spider swarm! Icicles, larger than fists, with ferocious angles, like spears of divine retribution, cascaded down with a shrill, air-piercing sound like a waterfall! Boom, boom, boom! Puff! Snap! The icy spikes slammed into the spiders' hard shells with a dull thud, piercing their relatively soft abdomens and pinning the charging spiders to the muddy, rotting leaves!

A biting cold current raged through the blizzard-covered area, and the spiders visibly slowed and stiffened! The "commanding" spiders hiding in the rear were especially vulnerable, receiving special attention from Leah. Several of the thickest ice spikes were precisely directed at their hiding places!

"Well done, Leah!" Vera's voice trembled with excitement. She had keenly grasped the opportunity! She raised the javelin again, but her target wasn't any individual spider, but the huge spider webs that had become extremely fragile in the blizzard! "Open! Lightning strike!"

Tsk! Tsk! Tsk!

Several blazing white lightning bolts, like twisted silver snakes, shot out from Vera's hands! These lightning bolts didn't strike living creatures, but instead struck the densest and toughest main spider webs, suspended between the massive plank-like roots and the enormous ancient trees! Dazzling flashes of lightning flashed like a hot knife cutting through butter! The resilient spider silk, strong enough to withstand the immense impact, was vulnerable to the destructive lightning element, instantly melting, burning, and turning into charred ash! Without these supporting points, the spider webs collapsed like an avalanche!

Crash! Boom!

The massive, scorched, melted, and collapsed web slammed down like a white blanket from hell, plunging headfirst into the densely packed spider swarm below, slowed by the blizzard. Countless tiny spiders were caught in the swarm, instantly clinging to the remaining web, unable to move.

The larger spiders were also pinned down by the heavy web debris, struggling and tearing frantically, only causing even greater chaos! The spiders' charge was instantly disrupted, trampling and tearing at each other, and the entire offensive frenzy was stalled!

"Gah!" In this brief moment of chaos, the blue soul fire in the hollow eye sockets of the skeleton brother, who had been at the forefront and bearing the greatest impact, suddenly solidified! He didn't look at the chaotic spider swarm below, but suddenly raised his head and looked at a huge ancient banyan tree in the distance, with tangled roots and a trunk covered with strange, rotten black lines!

Deep within a massive, pitch-black hollow on the tree trunk, two crimson lights, darker and colder than the poisonous stinger compound eyes of the Rot Nest, brimming with pure evil and greed, locked onto it like ghostly eyes in the darkness! The malice and mental impact of those gazes were so intense that even the skeleton's sword-wielding hand trembled slightly!

"In the tree hole is...the master of the nest..." The metallic friction-like voice of Skeleton Brother sounded directly in the depths of Wu Ye's consciousness, with unprecedented solemnity and a trace of extremely rare...fear!

"It's much stronger than these spiders."

Wu Ye looked in the direction of Skeleton Brother's soul connection! His mental power, like a probe, rapidly swept towards the giant banyan tree hollow! As expected! A vast, cold, and viscous evil will, like viscous oil, lingered within! This will not only exuded a soul-freezing pressure, but also resonated strongly with the violently pulsating brass compass in his hand—the compass needle pointed madly in the direction of the tree hollow!

At the same time, driven by this evil will, the entire spider swarm underwent a terrifying transformation! The enraged spiders stopped chaotically attacking the bone shield and began to retreat in layers. Several giant spiders (Spider Nest Weavers), the size of calves and covered in dark golden spiral patterns, squeezed out from the back row.

They puffed their abdomens, aimed at the circular array of bone shields, and spewed out even more viscous "web binding bombs" with a dark green, acidic sheen! Once these sticky bombs hit the shields, they instantly engulfed, corroding, and imprisoning several skeleton warriors, shields and bodies alike! The spiders behind ignored the corpses of their companions, trampling over the solidified "ice road" and the trapped skeleton warriors, and like a black wave of death, they rushed forward again!

Among them, several "leader" spiders that had been frozen by the blizzard suddenly had a flash of red in their eyes, and the ice covering their bodies suddenly cracked inch by inch, making a sharp "crack" sound, and they broke free from the ice! Clearly, the real mastermind behind the plot had taken action!

What was even more terrifying was that, along with the mental pressure from the nest master, three auras that were far more powerful than those of ordinary elite spiders, like three poisoned daggers, locked onto the circle from different directions!

First, from the shadows of the giant banyan tree's tangled, sticky, moss-covered roots, a terrifying giant spider, the size of a rhinoceros, slowly emerged! Its body was covered in a thick, dark brown carapace, as rough as granite and studded with sharp bone spurs! With every step, the ground shook slightly, and its spur-covered legs sank deeply into the humus.

It did not charge immediately, but blocked the entrance to the tree hole like a mobile fortress, its eight compound eyes flashing with dark yellow light coldly scanning the battlefield - this was exactly

Nest Guardian: Dark Gold Giant Spider!

Skin Hardening (Physical Resistance +80%/Defense +200%)

Thorn Aura (30% melee damage reduction)

Magic resistance (ice/fire/electricity resistance +40%)

Nest Guardian (will summon spiderlings)

Vera tentatively fired a javelin at it, which struck the spur-covered carapace with a crisp clang, and was surprisingly deflected! The javelin's toxins couldn't even leave a trace on the thick carapace! Even stranger, several vines that tried to wrap around its legs withered and broke as if cut by a sharp blade the moment they came into contact with the sharp spurs on the carapace!

Then, above everyone's heads, on the huge spider web platform that had not yet been completely destroyed by Vera's lightning, a dark shadow emerged silently.

It was a relatively slender purple spider with unusually long limbs.

Dark Web Weaver - Dark Gold Spider Mother

Special curse (attack additional damage aggravation/aging)

Multi-shot (Venom Spray splits into 5 streams)

Send

Phantom Web Weaver (summons more spiders to guard when health drops below 20%)

It did not hiss like other spiders. Its eight compound eyes, flashing with eerie purple light, stared at Leah below.

Its mouth opened slightly, and a silent, dark purple ripple with a decaying aura instantly spread out! Leah felt her body sink, as if she had aged ten years in an instant. The staff in her hand became incredibly heavy, and the speed of her chanting slowed noticeably!

At the same time, its abdomen suddenly contracted, spewing out no longer sticky spiderwebs, but several dark green venomous water bolts emitting a pungent, sour smell! These water bolts mysteriously split in mid-air, transforming into dozens of thinner poisonous lines, enveloping Leah and Vera like a dragnet! The High Priest of Holy Light screamed, and the Holy Light Shield instantly opened, barely blocking most of the poisonous lines, but the shield's light also flickered violently and became extremely thin!

Almost at the same time as the Phantom Web Weaver launched its attack, a blinding flash of lightning tore through the shadows of the treetops! A spider the size of a cheetah, covered in a bright silver shell, with eight compound eyes like sapphires flashing with violent lightning.

Compound Eye Tyrant - Dark Gold Spider King

Extra Strong (Damage +150%/Attack Frequency +25%)

Ghost Strike (physical attacks add 100% lightning damage)

Mana Burn (attacks drain target's mana)

Spider King (strengthens all companions within 3 meters when HP is below 70%)

It swooped down from the treetops at a speed barely tangible to the naked eye! Its target was Leah, who had just released a blizzard and was in a moment of weakness! One of its forelimbs was raised high, wrapped in a blinding arc of electricity, and with a sharp, air-tearing shriek, it fiercely stabbed Leah in the back!

"Liya!" Wu Ye's eyes were bloodshot! His mind was madly urging him! The two skeleton warriors closest to Liya crossed behind her fearlessly!

Snap! Boom!

The Compound Eye Tyrant's electrified forelimbs pierced through the bony shields and skeletons of the two skeleton warriors like a hot knife through butter! The violent lightning energy exploded, instantly reducing the two skeleton warriors to charred bones! But their sacrifice bought Leah less than half a second! Leah felt a gust of evil wind from behind, mixed with the pungent smell of ozone and the coldness of death! She didn't even have time to turn, and could only instinctively throw her staff backward to block!

boom!

The sharp legs, shrouded in arcs of electricity, slammed fiercely into the ice crystal staff! The immense force cracked Leah's jaws, sending the staff flying! She was sent flying like a kite with its string cut off, slamming heavily into the bone shield. Her throat felt sweet, and a mouthful of blood spurted out! Even more terrifying was the icy suction that followed the brief contact, draining her mana like a flood! The momentary weakness made her vision black out!

Wu Ye's heart sank. The worst had happened! The rot nest stingers they had just eliminated were merely guards; the true mastermind had now revealed its true power! Under the mental pressure and command of the nest master, the spider nest surge instantly escalated from a chaotic onslaught into an organized, premeditated, and deadly encirclement! And these three newly emerged, terrifyingly powerful dark gold spiders, like three deadly knives, combined with the endless spider tide, instantly forced the team into a desperate situation! That malicious tree hole was not only their ultimate goal, but also their only possible way out!