My mom is waiting for treatment, and you're summoning me to be a hero?

Faced with the thunderous attack that resembled a storm, Lin Mo's brows furrowed almost imperceptibly.

Dick wasn't exaggerating; this elementalization technique did indeed restrain him.

His own slashes had no effect against pure lightning.

Even releasing the Soul Erosion Realm is the same.

All Lin Mo can do now is keep dodging the opponent's attacks.

His figure flashed rapidly within the lightning net.

The black sword was wielded to form an impenetrable barrier of dark light, precisely parrying the frequent lightning attacks.

The sword collided with the lightning, unleashing a deafening explosion and scattering electric arcs.

His speed was also extremely fast.

He would even occasionally turn back and slash at the elementalized Dick with his sword.

But the sword pierced through the lightning without causing him any harm.

Dick's attacks became increasingly ferocious and relentless.

The lightning almost completely engulfed the area where Lin Mo was located.

"What's wrong? Where did your bravado go? Wasn't your sword supposed to be fast? Come and cut me down!"

Dick's maniacal laughter, accompanied by continuous thunder, was full of mockery and ecstasy.

The tide of battle seemed to be turning in Dick's favor.

Hope rekindled on the faces of the remaining members of the Astark family.

The soldiers were on tenterhooks.

Just then, Lin Mo sighed, "It seems there's really no other way."

As soon as he finished speaking, he changed tactics and rushed straight towards the lightning that Dick had transformed into.

At the same time, the black sword in his hand slashed rapidly, leaving a barrier of sword light in front of him.

Dick burst into laughter upon seeing this.

"Elementalization! Do you even know what elementalization is?! No matter how many attacks you launch, they won't hit you!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a flash of sword light pierced through the lightning.

He sliced ​​the elementalized Dick into countless pieces of lightning, but in a short moment he returned to his original state.

He still had a maniacal smile on his face.

"Prepare to die, I..."

At this point, the expression on his face suddenly froze.

Lin Mo, who was behind the sword light, changed his posture at some point.

What he was holding was no longer the black sword, but a pinkish-white object.

It's that spider from before!

Isn't this spider a juvenile?

What kind of combat power can this thing have?

Several questions popped into Dick's mind.

At this moment, Lin Mo spoke calmly.

"Mianmian, eat him."

The sound wasn't loud, but it seemed to possess a strange magic.

Mianmian, who was being held in the palm of someone's hand, seemed to be stunned for a moment.

But the absolute trust stemming from the soul contract allowed it to instantly understand its master's intentions.

The little guy's eight eyes suddenly lit up!

It opened its small mouth, which was completely at odds with its cute appearance.

He aimed at the azure lightning bolt that was already within reach and took a bite!

There was no earth-shattering sound.

Time seemed to stretch out and freeze at that moment.

Under the gaze of countless stunned eyes, Nadik transformed into lightning.

Touching the small, pinkish-white spider's open mouth was like ice and snow meeting the blazing sun.

No, it's more like... a torrent of light crashing into a bottomless black hole!

Sizzle... Pfft!

A faint sound, like an electrical short circuit, rang out.

The imposing azure lightning bolt had its tip seemingly "erased" out of thin air!

It wasn't just the lightning energy; it seemed that even the Dick contained within it was swallowed up in that one gulp!

The lightning suddenly stopped, distorted, and dissipated!

The outline of Dick's shocked and distorted face was revealed!

"Wh...what the hell is that?!"

Dick let out a terrified scream, accompanied by static.

He felt a part of his elemental body, as well as the consciousness and energy connected to that part, suddenly lose contact!

It was as if it had been forcibly torn apart and swallowed up by some higher, more fundamental force!

He wanted to escape, to transform back into lightning and get away from that eerie spider.

But Mianmian was faster than him!

Or rather, it was the talent of [Devouring Monarch] that was triggered the moment it came into contact with the lightning elemental body!

That wasn't Mianmian actively chasing after it, but rather due to its devouring nature.

It exerts a kind of forced suction on any target it touches that it can devour!

Once swallowed, there is no escape once it enters the mouth.

The tiny body seemed to have become the center of an invisible vortex!

Dick's disintegrating lightning body was being forcibly pulled apart, strand by strand and clump by clump.

Throw it into Mianmian's seemingly harmless little mouth that seems to hold a deep abyss!

"No—!! Let me go! This can't be! My elemental transformation... how could this be...?"

Dick struggled frantically.

It attempted to re-condense the lightning, and even wanted to self-destruct to escape some of its energy.

But all struggles are futile in the face of the domineering nature of [Devouring Monarch].

The devouring power slowly disintegrated and absorbed everything about him.

As for the rest of the family...

At this moment, he was already intimidated by Lin Mo's gaze.

What nonsense about family honor, what nonsense about idiotic family elites, none of it is as important as my own life.

At this point, what's the difference between making a move and committing suicide?

Right now, all they can think about is how to escape or beg for mercy.

And so, under the stunned gazes of everyone, the arrogant and overbearing Dick Astark...

His elemental body, made of lightning, shrank and dimmed rapidly, like a noodle.

In the end, it all disappeared into Mianmian's mouth, which was no bigger than a fingernail.

The last spark of lightning disappeared into the slowly closing mouth.

The battlefield fell silent.

The sky filled with thunder and lightning, the blinding flashes of electricity, and the violent pressure all vanished without a trace.

Only the pinkish-white, furry little spider lay contentedly in Lin Mo's palm.

She rubbed her round, slightly bulging belly with her little paws.

Then--

"Burp~"

A burp, accompanied by a faint crackling sound of electricity, escaped from the little guy's mouth.

A wisp of pale blue smoke drifted from its mouth and quickly dissipated into the air.

At the same time, a ghostly figure, invisible to everyone except Lin Mo, flew out from within.

That was Dick's soul.

The soul, its face filled with terror, was absorbed by the black sword before it could even react.

The world fell completely silent.

On the city walls, there were the remaining members of the Astark family.

Or the soldiers and generals of Ash Fortress.

Horn himself was as if he had been collectively petrified.

They stood frozen in place, eyes wide and mouths agape.

A level 70 Divine Guide, a core member of the Astark family, Lord Dick who transforms into thunder.

He was... eaten in public by a tiny pinkish-white spider that was still in its larval stage?

This has completely exceeded the boundaries of their cognition and imagination.

Confusion, shock, absurdity...

A mixture of emotions was on every face.

Lin Mo calmly withdrew his hand and placed Mianmian, who seemed a little too full and didn't want to move, back on his shoulder.

The little guy affectionately rubbed his cheek.

Then, satisfied, he lay down and began to digest this unprecedented feast.

Lin Mo raised his head, his gaze sweeping over the Astark family members in the air, who were pale and trembling like leaves.

This glance made everyone gasp in shock.

"Well... I need to go home."

"My mother-in-law is getting married today, so I have to go back too."

"Yes, yes, I still have to go pay my respects. Let's go back together, let's go back together."

……

They felt awkward and wanted to leave.

However, Lin Mo simply swung his sword casually.

A sword aura, tens of meters long, rose abruptly from the plain.

The Astark family members shrouded in sword energy vanished instantly, as if erased by an eraser.

After doing all this, Lin Mo glanced at the stunned guards on the city wall.

Finally, his gaze fell on Horn.

Horn's expression was complicated; he didn't know what to do.

After hesitating for a moment, he uttered only two words to the soldiers on the city wall.

"Open the door!"