Chapter 11: Hanging by a thread

Early morning.

Origin Castle, second floor rooms.

Click, click, click......

The heels struck the floor tiles, and the rapid and crisp echo reverberated through the empty hallway.

A beautiful and dignified young woman in high-heeled leather boots, dressed in a black slim-fitting hip-knit skirt and a pair of gold-rimmed glasses.

The long black hair was loosely tied in a bun, around the shoulders, and hung down on the right side of the chest, quite the gentle temperament of a good wife and mother.

However, a person's image and temperament are often deceptive and inconsistent with their interior.

For example, this gentle and elegant young woman is actually the helmsman of the biggest cult in the world, and is called the "Spider Queen" by people in awe.

The beautiful face of the Spider Queen could not hide her anxiety.

Ignoring the surprised gazes of passers-by, he walked briskly down the corridor.

I didn't stop until I was at the door of a guest room.

Crunch –

It just so happened that the door of a nearby house was open.

The four young warlocks of the Silvermoon Monastery, Adam, George, Baker, and Hogg, walked out laughing.

Seeing Caroline standing outside the door of Alan's guest room, the four of them stopped and exchanged glances.

"I heard that Senior Brother Allen has been very close to the spider mother and daughter recently, should he be a mother and daughter at the same ......time?"

George's chubby face shows that men know how to smile.

"Shhhh Second brother, you don't talk nonsense! Adam hurriedly interrupted him, "Don't look at what kind of occasion this is!" ”

"That's right, Brother George! Gossip, it doesn't matter if you talk about it in private, it's rude to reach the ears of the person concerned. ”

Green-eyed Baker, with a low voice, echoed his senior brother.

"The demon girl of the Beast Sect doesn't have a good reputation in the first place, most people don't care about these peachy rumors, but our Silver Moon Monastery, there are too many old-fashioned rules and precepts, and when this matter reaches the ears of Master Shiva, I'm afraid it will throw a tantrum at Senior Brother Allen!"

Hogg in the pig yard was worried.

Adam nodded, expressionless, and walked forward.

As she passed Caroline, she bowed slightly, then walked briskly past her.

The other three did the same.

Caroline was preoccupied, and nodded instinctively in return, not paying attention to the strange eyes of the four.

The four members of the monastery walked through the long cloister and along the spiral staircase to the hall on the first floor.

After getting away from the Spider Queen, they all breathed a sigh of relief.

"I didn't see anything at the door of Senior Brother Allen's guest room today, and you all keep your mouths tight, you know?!"

Adam admonished the three disciples.

The three of them nodded their heads in agreement, but they didn't think so in their hearts.

The four of them were not the only trialists who witnessed the Spider Queen wandering at Alan's door.

Even if the four of them are tight-lipped, they can't control others from going out and talking nonsense.

The scandal about Senior Brother Allen and the Spider Queen is destined to be rumored, and he can't hide the grumpy White Tiger Wuzun.

Next, how will Senior Brother Allen face the anger of his master?

This is a problem they have just thinking about and have a headache!

He is soft-spoken, and he can't do anything to help Allen if he wants to.

Outside the bedroom door on the second floor.

Caroline straightened her sideburns and raised her hand to knock on the door, but hesitated.

It's still early.

Alan, Helent, and Sonia, who had a blast last night, are probably still asleep in bed at this time.

It's a bit abrupt to knock on the door now.

However, she really had something urgent to find Alan, and she couldn't delay.

When he was hesitating, he suddenly received a telepathy.

"Auntie, please come in, there is no one else in the house."

Caroline breathed a sigh of relief and pushed the door open.

On the opposite side is a glowing barrier.

Walk through the barrier and teleport directly to Alan's Uncharted Villa.

After a brief moment of dizziness, Caroline came to her senses.

I found myself in Alan's bedroom.

Spacious room, very tidy to pick up.

Her eyes involuntarily drifted to the bed.

A large fluffy bed with three pillows placed side by side.

Although the bedding has been cleaned up, based on the dents left on the pillow, it is not difficult to imagine that Alan spent a night of ecstasy with left and right.

A faint body odor filled the room, burrowing into Caroline's nostrils.

With her sensitive sense of smell, she sniffed out more than one woman's scent.

The strongest perfume scents came from Sonia and Helent, who spent the night here last night.

In addition, there are many body fragrances, both familiar and unfamiliar, including her baby daughter Spana's favorite perfume.

These women must have also spent the Spring Festival with Allen.

"This stinky boy is really not an ordinary flower!"

"My poor daughter, how can she bear it!"

The Spider Queen sighed to herself.

Retracted his thoughts, pretending to be polite and asked Allen: "I'm sorry to bother you so early......"

Alan was washing, smiling and shaking his head.

"No interruptions, I've always gotten up early."

"What about Sonia and Helent?" Caroline couldn't help but ask.

"Leaving early in the morning, they have just been promoted, and they need to spend more time cultivating and familiarizing themselves with the newly awakened bloodline skills."

Alan explained.

"I thought they were going to toss until late to catch up on sleep."

"Normally, we do toss all night, but I think of my aunt's advice, I don't think it's appropriate to indulge in excessive lust during the trial, Sonia and Helent are also very sensible and understand the principle of moderation."

"Oh? Yes, yes, you are all good boys! ”

Caroline's heart warmed, and she looked at Allen's eyes, adding a bit of relief and love, as if a mother was looking at her son.

"Auntie, is there something urgent when you come to me so early?"

Alan put down the wet towel and got down to business.

Caroline nodded, a little more worried on her face.

"Alan, Spanna she...... We're in big trouble! I'm afraid of my life! ”

……

In the days that the Spider Queen accompanied Eren on trials, her precious daughters were not idle.

The sisters roam the battlefield of the Abyss, searching for various demons with spider traits.

After hunting, extract the bloodline essence and use it as a resource for bloodline fusion.

The sisters have gained a lot.

The most valuable prey are the Wax Melt Demon and the Demon Hunter Spider.

The Wax Melt Demon is a sixth-order demon with four forms.

Usually transforms into a glamorous female dark elf, approaching her prey and seducing them with beauty and seductive magic.

When the prey loses its vigilance and throws itself into its arms, it will usher in the fatal blow of this witch!

The Wax Melt Demon can also turn into a giant black spider, flying on the wall and walking on the ground.

Or a cloudy, highly toxic mist that puts the inhaler to sleep.

As for the true face of the Wax Melting Demon......

True to her name, it's actually a pile of slimy, poisonous and foul-smelling, mud monsters that melt wax!

In the wriggling mass of waxy mud was a scarlet eye.

Eight slippery, sticky tentacles extend from the body, which can be used to catch prey or make spellcasting gestures.

The Spider Sisters have spent a lot of effort to hunt down a Wax Melting Demon and obtain the Bloodline Essence and Abyss Essence.

However, the sisters were not satisfied.

As a beautiful girl who loves cleanliness, she is reluctant to inject the blood essence of evil things like wax melting demons into her body.

So, the sisters kept this option aside for the time being and continued their hunting journey.

Eager to find an arachnid demon that is more powerful than the Wax Melt and more in line with the sisters' aesthetic tastes.

Hard work pays off.

After two days of searching, and spending a lot of money to buy information from Mr. Miri, the castle butler, the sisters finally have a new goal - Demon Spider Hunting!

Adult demon hunting spiders, blue-haired spiders as big as mammoths, have an average of sixth-order strength and feed on demons!

The Demon Hunting Spider's spell-casting ability is slightly inferior to that of the Wax Melting Demon, and it does not have so many bells and whistles in its transformation form.

However, his physique and agility attributes crush the Wax Melter, and he also has the three major talents of "Tracking", "Teleporting", and "Armor Piercing".

The prey targeted by the demon hunting spider, even if it escapes to the ends of the earth, it can't escape the pursuit of this monster!

The Demon Hunter Spider's "Armor-Piercing Minions" are the same level of skill as the "Armor-Piercing Claws" of the Beamon Behemoth, and the moment it hits its prey, it can also inject a highly corrosive acid!

Span Sha and Spanna take great pains to hunt the Demon Hunter Spider.

The trap set up at the beginning was easily destroyed by the fierce and strong demon hunting spiders, and instead chased them and fled in embarrassment.

From hunter to prey, the Spider Sisters are not convinced.

After a series of dangerous fights, the demon hunting spider was finally caught in the net, and was hit by Span Sha as a "dimensional anchor", unable to teleport out of the trap.

Even so, the demon hunting spider still broke off its own legs and forcibly broke through!

The sisters were afraid that if they delayed for too long, the "dimensional anchor" would fail, and they chased and killed the demon hunting spider overnight.

It wasn't until dawn that he finally caught the exhausted and dying Demon Hunting Spider in an abandoned mine pit in the north of the "Bloody Hand Fortress" and killed it as he wished.

After obtaining the essence of the Demon Hunting Spider's bloodline, the sisters did not accept it when they saw it, and started a new adventure.

In this abandoned mine, they found traces of demonic sacrifices.

Continuing to trace these mysterious traces, the closer you get to the depths of the pit, the more violent the magic fluctuations become.

In this kind of mana disordered environment, it takes double the focus to cast spells consistently.

Teleportation magic, in particular, can go wrong if you're not careful.

I wanted to teleport to an open area, but I was disturbed by the turbulence of magic, and I rammed my head against the wall, and my brain burst out!

This kind of accident is no joke!

The sisters had to abandon the teleportation and track it down on foot.

Finally, in the depths of the mine, find the hidden altar.

The sisters used what they learned in the meditation world to decipher the abyssal inscription on the altar.

It turns out that the altar is a seal!

If the seal is opened, the monster that even the demons are afraid of will be released!

So, what exactly is a monster?

Judging by the sculptures enshrined on the altar, it seems to be an evil spirit somewhere between a spider and a scorpion.

The body resembles a large, slightly slender black spider, with a pair of forelimbs specialized into scorpion pincers, and a scorpion tail dragging behind the buttocks.

The craftsmanship of the sculpture is exquisite, and the pale patterns on the body are still clearly visible after the baptism of the years.

It looks like a human face that seems to be crying but not crying, and seems to be smiling but not smiling, showing an extremely crazy and distorted expression.

The scorpion's tail is inlaid with a ruby stinging needle, shining with an eerie luster in the dim crypt.

Scorpions and spiders, which are distant relatives (arachnids) by blood.

If the demon sealed in the altar is really like a sculpture......

Span Sha and Spanna, who have spider blood, can theoretically absorb the bloodline essence of this monster and use it for their own use!

The real devil is hidden in greedy human nature.

The sisters may have been seduced by the statue on the altar, and they couldn't help but be greedy.

Do you want to break the seal, release the demons, hunt them, and extract the essence of the bloodline?

Its value must be higher than the bloodline essence of the Wax Melting Demon or the Demon Hunting Spider!

If they can be fused, the upper limit of the sisters' potential will be raised to the seventh order, and maybe even higher!

Span Sha has a relatively stable personality, and is worried that she and her sister will not be able to handle it, so she hesitates to inform her mother.

Spanna immediately objected.

also half-jokingly said, "Don't disturb the two-person world of Mom and Allen."

The demon statue, with those strange human face patterns on its body, made Span Sha feel inexplicably in a trance, and her self-control was weaker than usual.

It was easy to be persuaded by her impulsive sister, and decided to break the seal first and take a look at the strength of the mysterious demon.

If the sisters can't do it together, they retreat first and ask their mother and Alan to help.

Span Sha barely managed to keep her composure, and was fully prepared before lifting the seal.

Summons a large swarm of phase spiders and surrounds the altar in case of accidents.

Both she and her sister have turned on their atavistic forms and are ready for battle.

To be on the safe side, the next second the seal was lifted, Span Sha used the bloodline talent "Spirit Drift", took her sister's hand, quietly sneaked into the spirit world, and hid.

In her opinion, this is foolproof.

Even if the demon broke the seal and immediately attacked wildly, it would not hurt the sisters in the spirit realm.

However, it turned out that she underestimated the risks.

As soon as the seal was lifted, the altar collapsed.

In the midst of the ruins, a portal to the secret realm opens.

With a loud and piercing noise, a large group of monsters that looked like spiders and not spiders, scorpions and scorpions, swarmed out of the portal.

Visually inspect the number of thousands!

They come in a variety of sizes.

The smallest is the size of a cat, and the big one is as big as a bull!

In the blink of an eye, the monsters were fighting against Spana's Phase Spider minions.

Span Sha was surprised to find that even the smallest juvenile monster had the same combat power as a fourth-order demon!

A few monsters as big as bulls even have sixth-order combat power!

Almost in the blink of an eye, the phase spiders were slaughtered.

The few that remained fled into the spirit world in a hurry.

By this time, the sisters had sensed that something was wrong.

I'm afraid I'm in a big disaster!

They winked at each other, held hands, and pulled their legs away!

Just as they fled the crypt, a surprisingly large monster broke away from the secret realm.

Behind her, the flickering portal crumbled.

This monster is the mother of all scorpion spider demons.

Many years ago, he was defeated by the three demon generals of the "Bloody Hand Fortress", but he could not kill it completely, and could only seal it in the depths of the crypt.

Until she was released by Caroline's baby daughters.

This demon was forty meters long from head to tail, and was covered in a thick black exoskeleton armor.

The surface of the carapace, embellished with pale human face patterns, exudes a "crazy aura".

Any sane person who sees these distorted patterns can't help but go insane!

The Spider Sisters heard the roar of the earth shaking behind them.

was so frightened that he didn't dare to turn back, and ran wildly.

Expect to escape from the magically disturbed underground mines as soon as possible and cast a spell to teleport back to Origin City.

However, it was too late.

Behind them, in the deep pit, the terrifying demon cocked its scorpion tail needle and suddenly shot out a red light.

Hmmm-

The scarlet beam of light actually pierced through the dimensional barrier between the material realm and the spirit realm, and shot straight at Spana!

At the critical moment, Spanna took a step sideways to block the fatal blow for her sister.

Her chest, pierced by the ray on the spot.

Before the blood could gush out of the wound, the whole person turned into a gray and cold stone statue.

All this happened so fast!

Even the Ring of Trials that Spanna wore on her hand didn't have time to activate to protect the mistress.

On weekdays, Span Sha is dissatisfied with her wayward sister.

However, when her life was hanging by a thread, her sister did not hesitate to sacrifice herself to save her, which moved and blamed herself.

Hurriedly picked up his petrified sister and fled desperately.

Finally, before the demon sent out the second ray, he broke away from the area of magical chaos and teleported back to Origin City.

When she got home, Span Sha approached her mother and tearfully told her about what had happened to her and her sister.

Caroline hurriedly checked her youngest daughter's injuries.

After that, my heart was cold......

With her mana, there is no certainty that she will cure Spana.

In desperation, he had to rush to the doctor.

Knock on Allen's door early in the morning and ask him if there is a cure.

……

After listening to Caroline's whole story, Alan immediately went with her to see Spanna to check on her condition.

Span Sha stayed in the room, her eyes red and swollen.

Seeing his mother take Allen into the house, he hurriedly got up.

I wanted to say hello, but I couldn't help but choke......

"Eldest sister, don't worry, there will always be a way." Alan shook his sister-in-law's trembling and cold little hand, "How is Spanna doing now?" ”

Span Sarsa resisted the urge to cry and turned to walk to the wall.

Leaning against the wall is a portrait covered with velvet tapestries.

Spenca gently lifted the tapestry.

The shadow that appeared in front of Allen's eyes was both familiar and unfamiliar.

Spanna has been completely petrified, like a sculpture of great detail.

The expression of horror froze on the cold and hard face.

What worries Alan even more is ......

The stone statue's chest was broken with a huge wound half a foot in diameter.

Organs, including the heart and lungs, have been completely destroyed.

"Auntie, eldest sister, Spana's situation is very dangerous."

Alan told the truth.

"Petrochemical is not difficult to solve, the question is what to do after the petrochemical is lifted?"

Caroline nodded slightly, agreeing.

Both she and Eren have awakened the 5-ring magic "Breaking the Enchantment", which can transform petrified people back into flesh and blood.

But Spanna was already mortally wounded.

After depetrifying, all you get is a corpse......

"There's only one way to save Spanna's life."

Alan stroked his chin and pondered.

"Try to repair her rocky body first, repair the damaged heart and lungs, and then remove the petrification."

It's easier said than done.

The human body is an extremely delicate instrument, and the slightest mistake can lead to fatal consequences.

A skilled sculptor may be able to fill in Spana's missing organs with finely carved stone, but he will not be able to remove the subtle cracks in the rock.

There is no guarantee that after Spanna turns back into flesh and blood, the stone carving organs filled into her body can also become flesh and blood, and play their physiological functions normally.

Pure carving skills can't do this kind of thing.

Magic is needed to restore this broken stone statue to flawless perfection, from the cellular and even the atomic level.

"Alan, will you have 2 rings of 'complete restoration'?"

Caroline asked expectantly.

"Complete restoration" is the perfect repair of all non-living substances in a physical sense.

Including stone statues turned into living people.

Alan shook his head slightly.

Just when Caroline and Spanza's hearts were cold, he brought a ray of hope to the mother and daughter.

"I don't know how to do it, but I know someone does."

"Who is it?" Caroline couldn't wait to ask.

Alan stared at the Spider Queen's eager face and was silent for a few seconds before speaking.

"My teacher, Ms. Shiva."

……

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(End of chapter)