Chapter 16 Miscalculation
The magic pool is not a pool, but a room. There are a large number of spider sacs of different sizes on the ground of the room. This is the place where spiders store food in caves. Most of the spider sacs have been shriveled, and only a very small number are relatively full. The victims inside have not yet turned into delicious meals.
In addition, there are many large spider sacs hanging in the air, each spider sac has a diameter of four or five meters, swaying slightly in the windless room.
There is a huge energy-storing magic array engraved on the ground in the center of the room. The size of the room is, the magic array is almost as big as the magic array. This magic array is actually the so-called magic pool. The magic power drawn from the ground veins nodes will be stored in the magic array for use by the mage tower.
When the magic tower is still working, the energy-storing magic array will flash white light from time to time, similar to the light you saw before, but now the magic array is gray and cold, and I think it is dead.
In the center of the magic circle, there was a huge black shadow entrenched. The black shadow exuded the pressure that touched the soul. As long as it approached it, the mercenaries would involuntarily feel fear in their hearts.
The black shadow suddenly twisted a few times, and eight red dots lit up above his head. They were obviously the eyes of the cave spider. There was no trace of biological feelings in the scarlet eyes, only coldness and cruelty.
"Sa, Fla, Tran." Under the control of the spell, the cold air roared across the entire magic pool. The spider silk floating in the air quickly freezes, and then breaks under its own weight, falling to the ground and shatters.
"Fire Pattern." The thumb pinched the ring on the middle finger. Yuli, the winged man, did not dare to fly, but stood on the ground with his feet on the ground. The ring on the middle finger suddenly lit up, emitting a dazzling light like the rising sun.
"Fire Shock." With the command, the flame formed an arc-shaped fire wall and spread outward with Yuli as the center. Wherever the flame passed, the broken ice on the ground melted rapidly. The frozen spider silk lost its protection and turned into ashes in the flame. The threatening spider silk was almost wiped out with the cooperation of the two.
However, Mia was not happy at all because she found out that she had miscalculated this time.
There is no problem with the tactics, the problem lies in the enemy. Everyone has overlooked a problem. If you have such a large body, this mutant monster is likely to be a female spider, and female spider will produce it.
After freezing and burning, the spider sacs hanging in the air lost the support of the spider silk and fell on the ground one by one. The spider sacs that were frozen by the cold air collided with the ground, making a crisp sound of shattering, falling into countless pieces, and collapsing in all directions.
At the same time, countless black shadows were also broken, which were the children of the cave spiders. These demon-like little monsters were more than ten centimeters in size. As soon as they landed, they rushed around like a tide, quickly covering every part of the ground.
The huge spider was always lying steadily in the middle of the magic pool, observing the invaders coldly. After a few rounds, the young children quickly adapted to the new world in front of them, rubbed the rocky ground with their hard toes, making a sour sound, and spreading towards the mercenaries like carnival.
Mia knew that she had really miscalculated. As soon as the little spider appeared, she figured out the causes and consequences.
This spider may be the mother of the group of cave spiders underground, a very powerful female spider.
A long time ago, when the city had just been destroyed and the magic tower still had energy to retain, the mother, who was already pregnant with a large number of young spiders, entered the magic tower for food, and was attracted by magic power and stayed in the magic pool.
Perhaps it had just arrived, but the surrounding terrain changed. It was probably natural disasters such as earthquakes that caused the magic tower to sink to the ground, and the gate of the magic pool was blocked by soil, and its strength was not enough to destroy the wall reinforced by multiple magics, so it was trapped in the magic pool for more than 4,000 years.
By the time when time destroyed the gate of the Magic Pool, the energy-type mutation had been completed, and its body had become countless times larger, and it could no longer go out of the gate, so it could only stay in the Magic Pool to sleep.
"Be careful, these monsters are all silver-level." The little spider crawled quickly, and in a blink of an eye, it was approaching Dak. The shield turned into a spear. The blood-colored spear drew an arc in front of him. A blood-colored energy blade was emitted from the spider tip and passed through the spider group, cutting many small spiders in half. However, Dak was not happy because the attack effect was at least ten times weakened than he expected. The shells of these spiders were as hard as steel, at least with silver-level defense. "Their bodies are very hard, don't make up for their strength."
Silver level? Then it won’t take long to go, this will be a large nest of golden level monsters. The faces of the people behind Dak changed drastically. This is not a joke. There are thousands or tens of thousands of people in front of him who are all silver level, and their strength is enough to submerge a mercenary team composed of ten people.
"It's meaningless to fight to the best of your ability, and retreating." Mia completely understood that it was not only the female spider who had the energy-type mutation, but the young spider that had formed in its abdomen mutated by coincidence.
Mother's love is great, and the same is true for spiders. Due to lack of food, even if they contribute their own body, it may not be enough. Therefore, after the mother spider gave birth, it did not make the spider eggs hatch, but instead let the children fall into a deep sleep with themselves in the form of eggs. Until now, the magic tower has been opened again, and the breath of the living has woken up the female spider from the sleep.
Militi read that right. It has not moved, but this does not mean that it has not woken up. Although it seems motionless on the surface, in fact, it may have woken up as soon as the magic tower is opened. It is just hatching the little spider in other unknown methods.
In its opinion, more than one hundred creatures around are enough for children to pass through their juvenile period. After the children have passed the most difficult period, the vast world outside is their hunting ground. With enough food, they can easily form a new population. A group formed by thousands of golden-level monsters is enough to sweep Pavatiga.
As for the female spider, I'm afraid it never thought it would come out again. It would be enough for the children to grow up and spread.
"Don't think about running away, no one can escape." Mia said it very bluntly, as if it were alarmist, but everyone knows that she was not wrong at all.
These little demons are too flexible and are astonishingly fast. It is completely unrealistic to want to escape in front of them. Judging from their current speed, they will probably be caught up by the little spider after running up to two or three levels, and there is no possibility of survival. Even if they sell off their teammates and escape by chance, more than 100 people in the camp cannot escape the spider's pursuit.
Instead of being eroded by tremendous pressure like this, it is better to fight to the death, and maybe there is still a chance to survive.
"Sa, cool, Rakka." Under Mia's control, a raging fire wall ignited around everyone, dividing the little spider and everyone into two areas. Mia's face was shining with flames. "Take the opportunity to be isolated and prepare for the last time before the war is broken. Everyone should complete it before the fire wall is broken."
In fact, even she didn't believe this. What she released was just the simplest firewall technique, which probably wouldn't limit the little spider for how long it took.
Sure enough, it was useless for even a minute, and the little spider found a way to break through the firewall.
No one ordered them, but they seemed to have agreed, and a large number of small spiders gathered together to form a spider ball. Perhaps it is not surprising that individual spiders, but they gathered together enough to change everything.
At least it can change the firewall.
The hard shell allows them to roll in the flames in a short time without crumble at once, which gives them a chance. The spiders continue to exchange internally and externally. Before they are burned to death, all the spiders on the outer layer are replaced by the inner layer, which is a safe rest area.
Under the spider ball's repeated attacks, the flames ignited from the fire wall were quickly suppressed, and the air was filled with a pungent smell of burnt, but only a dozen spider's corpses were left.
"Damn it, the effect is too bad." Mia's face was cold and ignited several more firewalls in vain, but the little spiders were becoming more and more skillful. This time the firewall lasted less than two-thirds of the last time and was completely extinguished.
"Try it for me." The rings on Yuli's hands flashed at the same time, and the magic energy quickly gathered at the fingertips. This is the convenience of magic. Although each magic can only engrave a few magics and is not very universal, it does not require a long pre-chant when released. As long as the magic power is abundant, it can be cast quickly.
"Bang", before Yuli could start the magic weapon, a few little spiders had already escaped from the spider ball, broke through Dark's defense from the flank, and pounced directly on Yuli's face. The little spider's fangs were filled with paralysis venom, and once they were bitten, the consequences would be unimaginable.
"Go up." Shul poked Saffle and gave a prompt in a voice that Mia didn't hear.
Saff had no doubt about Sul's order at all. He appeared beside Yuli in an instant, swinging the great sword and slapped the spider in the air. The great sword with the afterimage had a good attack effect. He jumped over and slapped the spider far away like a ball. Several of the shells were cracked, and the disgusting green body fluid oozed out through the gap.
"Thank you." Uli ignored the little spider rushing over from the beginning, and did not stop the action of starting the magic weapon. At this time, he slapped his wings and smiled at Saf. His hands appeared, and thousands of light green wind blades appeared beside her, interlaced and rotated, cutting the little spider's body like a meat grinder. The little spider on the outer layer was constantly cut into pieces by the wind blade.
Magic is indeed effective, but unfortunately, in the face of the huge number of spiders, this effect is almost negligible.
Mia's tactics were completely chaotic, and almost all the mercenaries had joined the battle. They didn't care about the tasks they had originally arranged and could only passively protect the safety of several spellcasters.
Chapter completed!