Chapter 196: A "Alone" Volcano Journey (Part II)
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The next moment, a raging flame burst out from the lava giant's feet and struck the nearby swarm of emberweb spiders. But the spiders were only knocked back by the shockwave, and the flames themselves didn't affect them in the slightest.
For creatures that live on magma inside volcanoes, fire immunity seems to be a standard skill.
The hind legs of the ember web spiders bent slightly and began to accumulate strength. Then, like the glass snake Barrett had encountered, one by one, they catapulted out of place and leaped towards the lava giant by the pool.
They swooped down on the giant, slashing at their sword-sharp, flaming forelimbs and stabbing into the giant's rocky body with their long, sharp fangs. Although the scorching spider venom also had no effect on the lava giant, the surging fire energy in the giant's body was constantly absorbed by the spiders.
The lava giant let out a muffled roar of pain, grabbing an ember-web spider from its shoulder, throwing it to the ground, and stomping on it.
The eight-legged ember-web spider was smashed to the ground and churned by the giant, its bloated orange-red belly splashing out a magma-like orange-yellow liquid that hissed as it landed on the rock.
Immediately afterward, another Ember Web Spider was directly crushed from the air by the Lava Giant, and then the third Ember Web Spider was also destroyed, and the fourth was torn in half, and the spider's legs that fell to the ground were still twitching.
But the fire inside the lava giant is getting dimmer and dimmer. It had to pick up the ash-web spiders one after another and throw them directly at the opposite rock wall.
Even so, the giant's struggle became weaker and weaker, and the spiders that were thrown onto the rock wall only needed to flip their bodies over after falling to the ground, and they could still stagger into the fight.
Eventually, the giant let out an unwilling roar and fell directly into the magma pool. The spiders swarmed up, digging through its rocky body with their sharp forelimbs.
Five heartbeats later, an amber-shaped flaming nucleus was dug out of the giant's body by the ember spiders. The spiders didn't want the rest of the lava giant's body, as if disgusted that it was too big and heavy, and only took the apple-sized piece of flame melt core.
After this, Barrett found that the ember spiders had pulled out four or five web chrysalis trapped by orange-red spider webs from a corner of a rock. These web pupae are large and small, and some are even struggling, as if the creatures inside are still alive.
No wonder they didn't want the big lava giant, it turned out to be a full load. Barrett hid in the corridor, intending to wait for the spiders to leave, and then quietly go to the pool to fill it with a few bottles of magma, and then turn away, and the task was easily completed.
But just then, one of the peculiar chrysalis managed to attract the attention of the brute. Because although the outside of this web chrysalis is also wrapped in a thick layer of cobwebs, it can still be clearly distinguished that the creature inside it should be a human form.
Humanoids, humans, orcs, trolls, Barrett thought with a frown, then shook his head. The size and shape of this pupa are quite slender, and it is obviously not possible that the latter two are as stout creatures.
He hesitated for a moment, and then found that the humanoid net chrysalis had struggled extremely slightly, but these struggles seemed to have exhausted all its strength, and after that, the net chrysalis never moved again.
Alas, what else can I do, the barbarian sighed in his heart, can he still see death and not be saved?
Barrett pulled the Resonant Tomahawk from the Spatial Ring, aimed at the soft-looking belly of the last Ember Web Spider, and threw the axe violently.
Instead of checking the result of the blow, he took out the Black Knight's shield and quickly slipped it on his left hand.
The fire creatures here seemed to spew anything, either viscous lava phlegm or thin lines of flame saliva, and without the protection of a shield, he feared that he would probably fall victim to the siege.
The Resonant Tomahawk hit its target with precision, slashing the hapless spider's abdomen and sending it to the ground screaming, leaving it with a slight twitch of involuntary convulsions.
The other ember spiders turned their heads to look around, and finally focused on the corridor. They let down all their prey, and then angrily pounced in the direction of the road.
Barrett hid around the corner and listened patiently. The first spider had reached the other side of the corner, and it was starting to become cautious, as if trying to make an arc to see what was going on here.
The IQ of this monster is actually not low.
Our barbarian adventurers did not give it such a chance. He sprang out from around the corner, his sword slashing directly at the ember spider's head and chest, splitting it in two.
Then he pushed his shield forward, and the rest of the ember web spiders kept hitting the shield with their forelimbs, making a crisp clanging sound, which was of no use except for adding a few scratches to the surface of the shield.
An emberweb spider leaps high, trying to leap over the hard Black Knight's shield and attack Barrett behind the shield. But he was directly stabbed in the head and chest by a sword from the barbarian, and then threw it to the ground.
The rest of the spiders fanned out to besiege Barritt, but he dodged and retreated into the corridor. Barrett has a lot of combat experience, and he has a good grasp of the battle situation and the use of terrain.
Although the corridor is not too narrow, the ember spider is quite large. Moreover, the eight spider legs also take up a lot of space if they want to swing, so the entire corridor can only accommodate two spiders at most, and it is quite crowded.
The next moment, the sword struck out from behind the shield like lightning, piercing the brain of another ember web spider with precision. The spider behind him replenished, but he still had no choice but to shrink his body behind the shield, and coquettishly attacked the retreating barbarian adventurer.
The ember-web spider at the back of the line climbed the rock wall at the top of the tunnel and fired at Barrett like a cannonball.
He pierced one of them with his sword, and blocked the other with his shield. The power carried by the spider's catapult is quite huge, but the strength of the barbarian is not vegetarian, and the body only shakes slightly, and it is completely parried.
He slammed the spider's shield into the nearby rock wall, and the spider let go of the shield in pain, fell to the ground, and was cut in two by Barritt's sword. Then he stepped back again, dodging the sharp forelimbs of several spiders in front of him.
The battle continued as Barrett retreated, but the number of emberweb spiders was decreasing.
Another ember spider climbed up the rock wall and shot orange-red viscobwebs at him from above, a tricky attack, but still a bit difficult for our barbarian adventurers.
Barrett took a few quick steps back, then stuck his sword into the ground and put the Black Knight's shield away. After dodging a few cobwebs, two steel hand axes appeared in both hands at the same time, one left and one right, and threw them at the spider at the top of the rock wall.
Two ember-web spiders fell in response, and a pair of sharp spider forelimbs struck in front of them, but only one pair remained.
Barrett drew his saber and slashed with a massive force, smashing the penultimate spider in front of him. He then threw his weapon at the last ember-web spider at the top of the rock wall, and the sword stabbed into the spider's abdomen, and the orange-yellow liquid scattered like rain.
After destroying all the Ashweb Spiders, Barrett galloped towards the humanoid web-chrysalis.
The orange-red cobwebs were a bit hot to the touch, and I didn't know if the creatures inside would survive, maybe they would have suffocated to death. He used a dagger to carefully cut off the cobwebs on the face of the humanoid web chrysalis, and then peeled off all the cobwebs, and the creatures inside finally revealed their faces.
Oops, I'll go. It's actually a chick?
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