Chapter 391: Adding fuel to the fire
The spider queen in the nest was still screaming angrily, but its intelligence was indeed as Phil said, not much different from ordinary stone-shell spiders, and it could not immediately deduce the location of the attack from the trajectory, but only went back and forth in the nest, temporarily posing no threat to the invaders outside.
Lukka doesn't have any bitter hatred for the spider queen, but Linde's whereabouts are still unknown, and it's best if this bug in the way is willing to leave obediently, otherwise he can only use some more force.
McCorbe wasn't as calm as he was, the blue-skinned goblin holding the maneuver cannon's operating device, and he no longer had the heartless state of the day before. The expression on his face was vicious, as if the drooling guy was another unrelated goblin when he first saw the shape of the spider queen.
"Hey, are you alright? Didn't you just say it was pretty?" asked Ollie as he walked up to him.
"That's because I didn't see the pattern on it just now!" McCorbe asked through gritted teeth.
Lukka recalled, "You mean those gray lines, do they have any special meaning?"
"I know I know, I've seen it in books," Phil squeezed over, "those stripes represent the bloodline of the queen spider, ordinary female worms only have some stripes on their feet, and only when they evolve into spider queens will they form unique special patterns on their bodies." ”
McCorbe nodded: "That's right, and the offspring produced by the spider queen will have similar patterns on their legs, as long as you look at it, you can know which nest those stone-shelled spiders ran out of." ”
"So, the two spiders that attacked Deep Mine City yesterday are the descendants of this spider queen?" Lukka speculated.
"Not only that," McCorbe said, "In the decades since I was born, all the attacks on Deep Mine City were born of this bastard!"
"As you can imagine," Phil said seriously, "with such a large spider queen here, the likelihood of other spider queens living around it is very low, and it should only be its offspring who will attack your city." ”
"Why, it's costing you so much?" Lukka asked.
"Heavy losses?" McCorbe rubbed his temples, as if remembering was a painful thing, "Sixty years ago, when I was just born, Deep Mine City was attacked by these monsters, and it wasn't a small fight like yesterday, there were more than sixteen stone shell spiders, at least four of them were females. ”
"Sounds scary. Phil said.
"Isn't it scary? I was a baby and didn't know what scary was. McCabe said, "I only heard Toby tell you about the situation later, and that attack destroyed two entire blocks of Deep Mine City, including where my house was. At that time, the protective helmet had not yet been researched, and there were no more than ten goblins surviving in those two blocks!"
"You're one of them?" Lukka probably understood his anger.
"yes, do you think my skin color is a little weird?" McCorbe asked.
"I've wanted to ask, why are you so blue?" Ollie had been asking.
"That's because, before he died, my dad hid me in the basement and detonated all the explosives in the house, blowing off four or five legs of a stone-shelled spider above our house. Its blue blood flowed out and filled the cradle in the basement where I was. McCabe sighed, "When the rescue team dug me up, my skin was already dyed this color and I couldn't wash it off. ”
"What about your family?" asked Ollie.
McCabe shook his head: "My parents, four brothers and three sisters, eleven uncles, four uncles, thirty-seven cousins, twenty-six cousins, and ...... I can't remember exactly, anyway, there are so many goblins, I'm the only one left, and my skin has turned this disgusting color. ”
"Okay, I see. Lukka patted him on the shoulder, "Anyway, we have the same goal, today, we must get rid of this pest." ”
"And I'm going to blow it up?" McCorbe said, turning back to the trailer.
"You're too tired to be alone, Ollie, you go carry the gunpowder, Phil, you help with the reloading. Luca commanded.
This would greatly improve efficiency, but could these shells alone really do damage to the spider that had been entrenched here for decades?
Lukka thought for a moment, clenched the Amethyst Staff in his right hand, and silently recited the grease spell as McCorbe fired a new round of cannonballs.
This is a low-level spell of the summoning system, and is often regarded as a change spell by trainee mages who are not very skilled. In fact, the grease generated by this spell was directly summoned from the Void Realm, so it was a genuine summoning spell.
The general purpose of this spell is to make the soles of the feet of the creatures walking on it slip, and there is no way to walk and stand normally, and in combat, it is at most a secondary spell.
However, when put together with the flames, its effect is immediately different. Lukka clearly remembers that when he first came to the Sea World, he used this spell to kill a murderous pirate of the Black Sails Group.
However, at that time, he could only use the spells provided on the scroll through blood magic, and the effect was not the same as that of Luca, who had now reached the peak of an intermediate mage.
He was single-minded, guiding two spells at the same time, and under the guidance of the peeping eye, a large amount of oil appeared in the nest.
Although the spider queen has a limited IQ, when the cannonball strikes again, she also knows to protect her head with two giant claws. But at the same moment, the thick cobweb was suddenly covered with a layer of slippery liquid, making its feet slip, its eight feet stretched out unnaturally, and its whole body fell in the middle of the cobweb, and the giant claw also moved away from its front, waving wildly, trying to maintain its balance.
In this way, the next few shells were no longer hindered, and all of them directly hit the body of the spider queen, followed by the roar of the second explosion.
That's not all, when the first spark landed on those slippery greases, the flames immediately rose in the hive**, and the cobwebs burned and curled in the heat, emitting a thick smoke that even the eyes of the peeping eye could not penetrate.
Now, all you see from the rearview mirror of the battlefield is a gray smoke and the dazzling fire that shines through it from time to time.
McCabe fired the last shell he had at hand, jumped out of the car, ran to the rearview mirror, and asked anxiously, "How's it going?"
"I'm afraid you're all familiar with such a big formation, right?" said Ollie.