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Light and shadow intertwine among the broken corals and seaweed.

The man-eating spider's smooth face faced straight ahead, its two hollow nostrils twitching a few times as it caught the scent of creatures it had just slaughtered in the water.

"ah......"

He opened his blood-red mouth, revealing a perverted smile that resembled pleasure:

"What an alluring, fishy smell... the blood of the mad shark, a born hunter."

"Mixing with these weak ingredients? That's too wasteful... Why don't you join forces with me? The world is about to change, and then I'll give you half of the siren's flesh and blood."

Ivan stared at that smooth head, and his stomach churned.

He looked up and shouted at the random direction diagonally above him:

"Boss, listen to this! Is he even speaking like a living being?"

A mutated giant spider with ten legs claims to be of the same kind as him?!

How could he be so repulsive?

"You've gotten a virus from eating too many of your own kind, what are you trying to prove by claiming kinship with!" Ivan cursed, slashing upwards with his axe blade and shattering the man-eating spider's attack.

[Raven] is drawn from its sheath.

Wiggle its silver tail freely and observe the movement patterns of this man-eating spider that sends chills down your spine just by looking at it.

Surprisingly, the man-eating spider wasn't angry.

Instead, the curve of his mouth widened even more:

"The barriers between species are far shallower than you imagine... Shark, don't you feel the call of your blood?"

"Pah!"

"All I feel is the urge to vomit. Looking at you so abstractly, did Poseidon just cobble together scraps and glue you together?"

[Thoughts] A white line is drawn in the flowing water.

The man-eating spider easily parried the axe blade, while its other eight long legs, like bamboo spike traps, stabbed at Ivan from all directions.

To everyone's surprise, Ivan didn't even try to avoid it—

"Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang..."

A series of metallic clanging sounds rang out.

Ivan stood still, not even blinking, maintaining his pose as if he were splitting a mountain, putting pressure on the man-eating spider.

And those blocking his way.

It was a shield that gleamed with a cold light—

[Newton].

It took four powerful blows from the left, leaving four deep craters on the shield.

He's quite strong.

Klaus manipulated the metal to restore the shield to its original state. "Barely passable as a test subject..."

Test Results:

Newton needs an upgrade! I'll ask the boss for some materials later!

The right wing can be blocked at will.

It's not really blocking... it's purely using offense as defense.

The raven, which instantly stretched to two meters, trailed a ghostly green arc as it swam against the current and wrapped itself tightly around one of the man-eating spider's long legs.

The blade scraped through the seemingly slender segments with a series of harsh scraping sounds, shaving off a patch of bristles.

It's funny to think about.

But those bristles are indeed an important part of this guy who's all legs from the chest down.

The spider, in pain, instinctively retracted its long legs inward.

Ivan took the opportunity to retreat and disengage from the battle, but he didn't stop talking:

"Having long legs on you makes people feel disgusted, not hopeful!"

"You're only training your upper body and not your legs?"

"With this kind of structure, you wouldn't sell many pearls by weight. But with this variety, even if you paid three pearls for it, nobody would want it, right?"

He blew a bubble and made a universally recognized greeting gesture—

I wonder if these sea creatures can understand anything.

"The ugliest octopus I've ever seen is more pleasing to the eye than you... Klaus, don't you think?"

Klaus: ▼_▼

"Appearance doesn't matter at all!! My brain capacity is ten times that of his, don't compare him to an octopus!"

Having lived for so many years...

Even the Sea Dragon Guards required Captain Fak Squid's personal intervention to subdue them. When have they ever been insulted by some nobody?

The man-eating spider seemed to take a deep breath of water.

Its abdomen swelled up strangely, and its eight arthropod legs softened and bent back, transforming into eight 'nine-section whips' covered in barbs!

The water flow was instantly thrown into chaos.

Now, the man-eating spiders have even more tricky attack angles, always managing to bypass the defenses and emerge from some blind spot.

His two appendages, comparable to the toughest alloy, were also used in conjunction with eight "nine-section whips" to attack from both sides, pressing forward relentlessly.

Ivan and Klaus were willing to help.

But the man-eating spider is a perfect blend of offense and defense, its ten legs moving so tightly that it leaves no room for escape.

He could only watch helplessly as Ren Yi calmly and clumsily tried to evade the situation.

"Boss!"

Finally, one of the limbs seemed to have found an opening and launched a surprise attack from the right while he turned to avoid it.

Ren Yi did not retreat, but merely lowered his body slightly—

"Pfft."

The tip of the appendage pierced through the prey's shoulder.

The man-eating spider's mouth stretched to its ears, preparing to take a deep breath of water and savor the wonderful taste of gushing blood.

There was no blood.

To be precise, before any blood even flowed, the wound had already healed completely.

Incidentally, it also managed to trap the spider's appendages inside its body.

【Durability -30】

Any:

The human and the spider were locked in a stalemate in mid-air.

The man-eating spider tried to pull itself back, but couldn't.

"...Ha...hahaha! So that's how it is...monster...you're a monster too!"

regeneration?

The wound healed instantly?

"What a wonderful physique!"

His remaining legs were pounding with uncontrollable excitement. "Compared to the siren... you are the real feast! I'm going to capture you and eat you alive, bit by bit, for ten years!"

The fervent declaration echoed in the flowing water.

But instead of getting angry upon hearing these terrifying remarks, Ren Yi couldn't help but laugh.

He reached out and grasped the appendage, saying lightly:

"You're quite imaginative."

Before he could finish speaking...

With a sudden yank of his left hand, which was gripping the appendage, he used it to pull the spider close to its abdomen like a ghost, taking advantage of the spider's unprepared stumble.

Having dreams is a good thing.

"Click—"

Characteristic 1: Healer.

One section of the "Nine-Section Whip" was pierced off at the twisted joint, and green fluid gushed out.

The man-eating spider let out a scream.

"ah--"

"Weren't you pretty capable when you were killing people?!"

Ivan seized the opportunity and, using the force of the Klaus shield's recoil, charged straight forward like a cannonball.

the goal--

The man-eating spider's unnaturally swollen abdomen!

Sensing the threat, the man-eating spider hurriedly waved its remaining seven segments and one appendage, trying to block the simultaneous attacks of Renyi and Ivan.

"finally......"

After wandering around for half a day, Nathan finally found an opportunity.

"If they have no eyes, then...fight them—"

boom!

"nostril."

Looking at the man-eating spider that froze instantly, Nathan habitually blew on the muzzle of his gun.

at the same time.

Ivan's axe cleaved into the spider's abdomen, while Random's Raven pierced the spider's heart.

The game's announcement rang in Klaus's ears:

[You have assisted in defeating the Lv8 Deep Sea Spider Mermaid (Elite), and have gained 60 Evolution Points]

"Who killed him?" He looked at the three men who had put away their weapons.

After a second of silence, Ivan slapped his thigh in frustration: "Damn it! It wasn't the abdomen?!"

"I thought we had it in the bag... was that sea spider's head just for show?" Nathan muttered.

"I killed him."

Renyi swam over in a good mood, opened his palm, and waved it in front of Klaus, Ivan, and Nathan.

"Give it to me...a bet is a bet."