Deities: Rulers of Nature

Because the breakthrough was too smooth, and because he took a shortcut, Kester's temperament and will did not improve, or rather, the bestial nature of the Bloodthirsty Spider had a profound influence on Kester.

If Kester could continue to grow smoothly, then these problems would not be problems. Unfortunately, resources in the Dark Caverns are scarce, and when external resources are insufficient, his inner emptiness is exposed.

Kester tried to calm himself down, but waves of agitation kept surging up, gradually turning into rage. He wanted to find something to vent his emotions.

"Kester, what's wrong with you?" Caroline noticed his unusual behavior as soon as Kester stepped out of the ancestral land.

At that moment, Kester's gaze felt to Carlos like that of a red-spotted hyena eyeing its prey, filled with treachery, malice, frenzy, and murderous intent.

"Caroline, don't go over there!" Carlos grabbed Caroline's wrist quickly and pulled her back to his side.

Carlos stared warily at Kester, her fingertips gripping tightly with tension. She had always harbored a deep-seated aversion to Kester, and for some reason, every time she approached him, Carlos would instinctively feel a bone-chilling cold.

It was as if a venomous snake was crawling all over her, cold and damp, a feeling Carlos had only ever experienced with Kester.

So Carlos didn't like Kester at all, but at the same time, Carlos was clear-headed. She knew that for the future of her people, she would have to be with Kester sooner or later.

It was precisely because that predetermined ending was too oppressive that Carlos wanted to live recklessly until that day came. This is also why, despite having the best talent and temperament among recent generations of Snowdrop Spider-Men, she was always called reckless by Caroline.

Kester ignored the three's greetings, letting out a low, hoarse roar. The next second, he transformed into a blur, charging straight at the three with a terrifying aura.

"Kester! What's wrong with you!" Carlos exclaimed in surprise.

The three instinctively tried to dodge, but the Silver Rank suppressed the Bronze Rank in every way. Caroline's spider web could not trap Kester at all, and the venom sprayed by Carlos and Kadia only slid down Kester's carapace.

At the last moment, Caroline pushed Carlos and Cardia away, and then Kester knocked Caroline to the ground with a force she could not resist.

"Pfft..."

The sound of sharp blades piercing flesh rang out as Kester's eight spear-like legs mercilessly pierced Caroline's abdomen, pinning her firmly to the ground.

"Ah~"

Caroline's scream was cut short by despair before it could fully escape her throat.

What horrified Caroline even more than the excruciating pain of being pierced was that she could clearly feel her blood draining away.

"Caroline!"

"You beast! Let go of Caroline!"

Carlos and Kadia rushed forward like madmen, unleashing a barrage of attacks in an attempt to stop Kester.

But it was all too late. In just a few breaths, Caroline's voluptuous body shrank visibly, her struggling body went limp, and her eyes became unfocused.

When Kester shoved Carlos and Cardia aside with a wave of his hand, Caroline had already lost her life, leaving only a withered, dried corpse on the ground.

Kester pulled out his spider leg and drained Caroline's blood. He had regained his senses, but he did not restrain himself at all. Now that things had come to this point, Kester did not want to pretend anymore. His actions directly caused the dried corpse to be divided into nine equal parts of Caroline.

Seeing this, Carlos's eyes instantly turned bloodshot, and a raging rage almost consumed her reason. If it weren't for Kadia holding her back tightly, she would have charged forward, risking her own life to make Kester pay the price.

For them, Caroline was not only the matriarch of the tribe, but in Carlos's heart, Caroline was also a sister who would always embrace her and bring her warmth.

Now, with Caroline dead before her eyes, Carlos felt a heart-wrenching pain that made it hard to breathe. If she could, she would tear Kester to pieces.

Kester retracted his spider legs, not even bothering to offer a perfunctory explanation. He glanced contemptuously at Carlos and headed towards the ancestral land.

However, the moment he turned around, something unexpected happened.

The statue of the god of poison and spider seemed to awaken, and the cold stone statue suddenly lit up with a dark purple light. This light flowed out like mercury, carrying a suffocating pressure.

Carlos and Cardia stood frozen in place, their breaths almost stopped.

Under the incredulous gazes of the two, dark purple light flowed into Kester's brow, and then Kester actually stepped into the Gold rank.

Caroline devoutly worshipped the god of poison and spiders, yet she died tragically before His statue. The murderer, however, was blessed by the god. This scene filled Carlos with even greater despair than Caroline's death, and an uncontrollable sense of absurdity rose within her.

This was the poisonous spider god they worshipped, the response of a deceased deity to its believers. Carlos felt his faith crumbling.

However, Kester, who was enveloped by divine grace, was not having an easy time either. After the dark purple light entered his body, it directly launched a domineering baptism on his body.

The purple light was a fragment of divinity left behind by the god of poison and spiders, which had been dormant in the statue until it was just touched by Kester's surging blood and energy.

Divinity made the Snowdrop Spider-Man bloodline within Kester more condensed, while simultaneously stripping away the Bloodthirsty Demon Spider bloodline.

For Kester, this was tantamount to having his heart and flesh ripped out and his tendons and bones pulled out. The bloodline of the Bloodthirsty Spider was transformed into pure nutrients to nourish the bloodline of the Snowflake Spiderman, which loosened the bottleneck that had been holding Kester in, and finally broke through it.

As the purple light dissipated, Kester's appearance changed drastically; a layer of snow-white down grew on the surface of his jet-black spider body.

To be honest, in Carlos and Kadia's eyes, it was incredibly ugly.

The series of changes shattered the tranquility of the ancestral land. Urgent roars rang out one after another as tens of thousands of spider-men surged out from afar, rushing towards the ancestral land at breakneck speed.

However, before they even arrived, an even stranger change suddenly occurred.

A deep, rumbling sound suddenly rang out, like a heartbeat.

"Thump!"

Carlos felt his heartbeat being affected, starting to approach a roaring frequency.

The roar ignored the barrier of the dark cavern, and invisible ripples began to spread towards the void.

As all the Spider-Men's heartbeats synchronized, the space in front of the statue began to distort and collapse, and a blinding purplish-black light shot into the sky.

The light intertwined and reconstructed in the air, eventually coalescing into a huge and complex purplish-black three-dimensional rune cluster.

The structure of this rune cluster was beyond Spider-Man's comprehension. It hovered silently in front of the statue, with eerie light flowing within it. Each flash of light was accompanied by a chilling hum, making one feel as if looking at it any longer would corrode them.

Without needing to touch or understand, a message emerged in the minds of all Spider-Men.

This is corrupting the divine authority!