Chapter Seventy-Three: Am I Spider-Man?
"Rove, do you really have a basilisk?"
Running through the dense forest, Ronan the centaur asked with some unease.
He didn't want to go deep into the hinterland of the Eight-Eyed Giant Spider Clan, but the gas frog incident last time pitted Rove, and this time he had to remedy it, otherwise his friends wouldn't have to do it.
Ronan still cherishes Rove as a wizarding friend, even if he is not very old and still a foal.
But the eight-eyed spider is too dangerous and has an extremely violent personality.
As highly intelligent creatures and able to communicate with wizards, why were they classified as "animals" back then?
The reason for this is that the Eight-Eyed Spider does not have the ability to overcome its ferocious nature.
If something happens, Rove rides a broomstick and turns his head and flies away, but he Ronan has four hooves...... You can't fly!
Rove sat on a broomstick, holding a book of alchemy written by Nicol, and an oil lamp hanging by his side, looking very chic.
"I've got a basilisk, it's in the box." He said indifferently.
"That's good." Ronan breathed a sigh of relief, he thought for a moment and continued: "When you summon the basilisk later, remind me, I will close my eyes in advance, otherwise I will be hit." ”
"You don't have to close your eyes." Rove flipped a page of the book.
"Why? Anyone who makes eye contact with the basilisk will die instantly. Ronan was puzzled, "I've also read the book "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" written by your grandfather! ”
"Oh, I forgot to tell you that my basilisk was 'accidentally' blind."
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"Who did it?!"
"I can do it."
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Your grandfather drips ...... Why don't you hurry up and take a blind basilisk to the eight-eyed giant spider's lair to find death?
"Ronan, you've underestimated the Eight-Eyed Spider's fear of the basilisk." Rove said calmly: "As long as they smell the breath of the basilisk, they will scare away, and they will fall second." ”
This fear is engraved in the genes of the eight-eyed spider, similar to the fear of snakes...... Many people do not dare to approach snakes when they see them, even if they know that they are non-venomous snakes.
Like Hagrid's Aragog, he was too scared to mention the name of the basilisk!
Besides, Rove also uses the magic of a basilisk, and he is like a nemesis in the face of the eight-eyed spider.
But Ronan was still scared, and he was about to persuade Rove to turn back, but he stepped into the air and fell into a deep pit.
Ronan didn't fall to the bottom of the pit, but fell on layers of cobwebs, and he struggled hard, but the webs were sticky, and the more he struggled, the tighter they became, binding him to death.
"Be careful!" Ronan yelled, "This is a trap dug by the Eight-Eyed Spider!" ”
Without Ronan's reminder, Rove had already flown higher to avoid the cobwebs that had spilled from the trees.
"Grab a horseman, a bumper harvest tonight! I haven't eaten a centaur yet, so let's add food~"
After a loud click, a huge spider pulled at the white filaments and slid down from the top of the tree.
It was an eight-eyed spider with eight slender legs and eight eyes, with a huge chelicerae underneath the eyes, and two elongated fangs at the end of the chelicera.
"Rov, hurry up and save me!" Ronan shouted.
"Ji Ji ~ There is also a wizard ......"
The eight-eyed spider looked up and saw the boy riding a broomstick, but it suddenly shifted its gaze to the ground.
I saw a group of vines emerge from the ground, wrap around its eight legs, and drag it forward.
Rove rode a broomstick, spun and fell in the air, and finally he jumped down onto the back of the eight-eyed spider and stomped heavily on its head.
"Take me to your lair and spare your life...... What do you say? ”
"Hurry up and save me!" This time, the eight-eyed giant spider shook people wildly.
Rove was not polite, he raised his arm, and all the vines were under his control, pulling in all directions.
The eight-eyed spider's legs were pulled by the vines and bleeding, and it let out a terrible roar of a dying beast, "Don't kill me...... I'll lead the way!! ”
"I'm sorry I gave you a chance...... It's you who don't use it. ”
Rove's five fingers opened, and the vines were dragged in all directions, and a series of tearing and shattering sounds came from the thighs and backs of the eight-eyed giant spider that was struggling desperately.
An eight-eyed giant spider that originally wanted to eat Rove and Ronan was directly split by the five horses and collapsed on the ground.
Blood splattered Ronan in the face!
Instead of riding a broomstick, Rove flew upwards like this, and the magic from the elf "Flyaway" allowed him to fly through the air.
Rove came to the top of the tree, where there was still an eight-eyed spider, and was about to escape, when the boy beckoned, and the branch tilted slightly downward, aiming at the spider's eyes.
"What about you?
Lead the way, or ......
Die with it?! ”
The eight-eyed giant spider swallowed and said, "Lead the way!" ”
"Wouldn't it be okay to say yes sooner? I've always been a good talker. ”
The eight-eyed spider glanced down at its companion who had just died, and then at the branch that was about to be inserted into its eye...... I didn't dare to refute it.
Rove made a quick downturn and slowed down when he reached the ground.
The boy snapped his fingers, and the vine reached for Ronan and freed him from the cobwebs.
Rove also picked up a piece of spider silk from the ground, pinched it lightly with his thumb and forefinger, and after a few seconds, the fingers stuck together, like 502 glue.
"It's sticky."
"Otherwise, how can I say that the eight-eyed giant spider is very dangerous." Ronan came out of the pit, rubbed the blood on his face on the trunk of the tree, and said with palpitations:
"There are a lot of traps in the Forbidden Forest, and they are entangled in spider silk, so it is basically difficult to break free."
"Nice magic material." Rove laughed.
The eight-eyed giant spider is indeed a treasure all over its body, not to mention that spider silk can be used as a magic material, and the venom secreted can be sold for hundreds of gallons in a pint.
However, these animals are ferocious by nature, and it is difficult for ordinary people to deal with them.
Rove pulled out a small bottle and told the eight-eyed giant spider to secrete venom while going to the spider's habitat.
Ronan is an overseer, he has just been caught in a trap and almost died in the belly of the spider, and he is now very resentful of the eight-eyed spider, and he is very hard to supervise.
The eight-eyed spider ran for ten minutes, and it came to the edge of a wide depression, and the trees in the depression were cleared and turned into the spider's territory.
The eight-eyed giant spider ran down the steep slope and ran towards the center of the depression, and the entire depression was full of giant spiders, densely packed with hundreds, each of which was the size of a car, and it was very terrifying to look at.
The companions of the eight-eyed spider approached and surrounded it, and they saw Rove and Ronan, both excitedly moving their claws, and making a clattering and excited sound.
"Captured a centaur and a wizard...... Yes! ”
There was also an eight-eyed giant spider yelling loudly, and the spider under Rove's ass was in shock.
Don't be spicy?!
"Aragog!" The eight-eyed spider shouted, "Aragog, someone is looking for you!" ”
In the center of the depression is a hemispherical spider web, and very slowly burrows out an eight-eyed spider the size of a pickup.
In Rove's brain, there was a sudden "ding".
[A domestic eight-eyed giant spider detected, triggering side quest 1:]
Capture Aragog and reward Magic:
【Spider Sense】
[Through the tingling in the back of the brain and the secretion of adrenaline, it is increased to alert the ability to predict danger.]
The degree of pain triggered by the induction will increase with the severity of the danger, but the spider induction will not be triggered by the subjective judgment of people and objects that are not threatening.
【Side Mission 2】
Help Aragog treat cataracts and glaucoma with a bonus of magic:
【Cocoon Coil】
[Consumes mana to make spider silk, which has high strength and stickiness]
【Side Quest 3】
Complete 100% domestication of Aragog, rewarding magic:
【Poisonous Sting】
[Can secrete the same venom as the eight-eyed giant spider]
(Mission not completed)]
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