I, the anti-superman, have hacked into the chat group.

Karl thought about it and agreed. If it weren't for his own persona, he wouldn't care about those elves at all.

"Okay, be careful. I'll be there as soon as there's any problem."

While Spider and Kurumi Tokisaki went to capture the spirits, Karl used his super vision to observe the Demon King's actions in the lower levels of the labyrinth.

The Demon King is currently fighting several ancient earth dragons. The earth dragons are no match for the Demon King, but they should be able to fight for several days without any problem. According to information from the original work, once the Demon King finishes fighting, he will be transferred to Spider's side with the help of others, and the main quest will begin at the same time.

While Karl was pondering this, the elves had already been captured and brought back.

The elves are weak; by the standards of this world, their stats are generally only a few hundred. In contrast, the spider's stats are at least several thousand in one category, and its magic power and speed are over ten thousand. Although it can't withstand a single blow from the Demon King, capturing some elves is a piece of cake.

Some of the elves were bound by spider silk, while others were entangled by Kurumi Tokisaki's shadow. The elves entangled by the shadow were extremely weak, clearly indicating that Kurumi Tokisaki was secretly eating them.

Karl pretended not to see and said, "Thank you for your hard work. Now let's interrogate them."

"Do you speak the language of another world?" Kurumi Tokisaki asked curiously.

“Not yet, but maybe we can have these elves teach us,” Karl said.

Chapter Nine: The War Is About to Begin

The elves were cursing. Although I couldn't understand what they were saying, I could tell from their expressions that it wasn't anything nice. The elves in this world were all arrogant and looked down on all races except for elves.

However, when the spider revealed her sharp fangs, the elves wisely became obedient; they didn't want to be eaten by the monster.

One of the elves recognized Karl as the leader, and he softened his tone as he spoke.

Karl knew it was time to make a request, so he gestured to the elf that he wanted to learn the language.

After the elves realized that the three could not understand them, they began to whisper among themselves.

"What should we do, Captain? These guys are too barbaric. Are we, the noble elves, just going to let them do whatever they want to us?"

Most elves struggled to let go of their inexplicable arrogance, but the one called the captain was a little more rational: "It doesn't matter what we do, because the entire elven race belongs to the Great Chieftain. Completing the Great Chieftain's mission is the top priority. If we live, we might still have a chance to escape and complete the mission."

"Moreover, all the spider monsters are the Demon King's retinue. This man and woman with spiders must be demons. Coming to human territory is definitely not a good thing. If humans and demons go to war, it will only benefit our elves."

The elves mistook them for demons. There are two languages ​​in this world, human language and demon language. The elves believed that Karl and Kurumi Tokisaki, who could not speak human language, were demons who had infiltrated human territory to gather intelligence.

After some consideration, the elf decided to cooperate with the three teachers in learning the language. Under normal circumstances, it takes at least two months to learn a language to the point of being able to communicate normally. The elf planned to use these two months to find a way to escape.

They had a well-thought-out plan, but the three people they were facing were not normal.

Just an hour into the professor's work, Karl said to the elf who was teaching him, "That's enough, I've basically learned it."

Karl spoke fluent human language, proving he had indeed mastered it.

"That's too fast! Or do you already know human language?" the elf exclaimed incredulously.

Karl has a super brain and learns everything very quickly. This time it took him an hour, mainly because the elf was teaching him too slowly.

Spider Girl and Tokisaki Kurumi need to study hard.

Seeing this, Carl said, "Then I'll go into town and buy some food while I'm at it."

The spider got excited when it came to food. She opened the space she used to store her spoils and picked out a lot of monster materials to give to Karl so he could exchange them for money to buy food.

Not only that, the spider also personally knitted Karl a set of clothes that matched the medieval style of this world.

The new clothes were loose-fitting, and Karl put them on, covering his conspicuous blue battle suit and red cape.

Kurumi Tokisaki commented, "It suits you well. Although it was cool before, the style of printing the initials of your self-proclaimed name on your chest is still a bit strange."

“Actually, that’s not an ‘S’, it’s a family crest. On Krypton, it means hope,” Karl explained. Incidentally, the ‘U’ symbol that Karl covered up didn’t mean ‘ultra’, it meant ‘power’.

Carl went to town to buy things, while the other two were determined to learn the language as quickly as possible.

Spider-Child has acquired a skill called Parallel Consciousness.

This skill can split into other personalities, each thinking independently, which is equivalent to increasing learning efficiency several times over. Previously, Spider Girl also had several personalities, but she sent them to attack the soul of the Queen Spider Monster, which is why she angered the Demon King.

Kurumi Tokisaki cheated even more. She summoned her clones from the past to teach them, and then directly took over their memories after they finished learning. Her efficiency was extremely high.

With the help of their special abilities, they learned the language of this world in just a few days.

Meanwhile, Karl spent the last few days shopping in town while learning about the culture and people of this world.

"Give me 10 pounds of lean meat, finely chopped for the sauce, with not a single bit of fat on it." Karl casually made a joke while buying the meat.

"Praise be to the goddess, here's your meat, sir." Luckily, the owner didn't understand the joke and naturally handed the meat to Karl, even praising the goddess.

Because of the system, the culture of this world is very interesting, such as the characteristic of the Middle Ages—religion.

There are two main religions in this world: the mainstream Theravada religion and the weaker Goddess religion.

The notification sound of the Divine Word Cult belief system is the sound of a level being raised and a skill reaching a certain level of proficiency. It encourages people to practice their skills more and listen to the voice of God more often.

The Goddess Cult, on the other hand, believes that skills are meant to be offered to the goddess. They advocate that people should practice skills and then use a technique called "skill erasure," believing that skills erased in this way will become gifts for the goddess.

At first glance, this idea seems very unreasonable, but religion is not a product of reason. Considering that people in this world can hear the system's voice from birth, it is not incomprehensible that they would develop faith in the system.

The two religions are hostile to each other. Karl's town is under the control of the Goddess Cult, but Karl has discovered many members of the Divine Word Cult in the town. The Goddess Cult, the Divine Word Cult, and the elves are all involved. The town is in turmoil and war will soon break out.

In the original story, the Spider Child was drawn into the war by some accident, but the Spider Child was just an excuse. The Divine Word Cult had already begun preparing an army, so even though the Spider Child had been learning the language from the elves and had never shown himself, the war was still about to break out.

Karl is considering whether or not to intervene in the war, which is also a good opportunity to develop his character.

After some thought, Karl made a decision. Since the Spider Child hadn't appeared, the war here would be a little later than in the original story. If the war broke out before the Demon King arrived, Karl would try to stop it. If it broke out after the Demon King arrived, then there was nothing he could do but run the main quest with the Demon King.

After thinking it over, Karl took the food he had bought and returned to the temporary base.

"You've worked hard, come and take a rest," Karl said, putting down his package.

“Alright, then I won’t stand on ceremony,” Kurumi Tokisaki replied in fluent human language.

"Hey, have you learned it yet?"

"Yes, Spider and I have learned almost everything. Not only that, I also know the elves' purpose. They are the scum of the earth. Want to hear about it?"

When the Elf race's purpose was mentioned, Kurumi Tokisaki showed a rare hint of anger. For someone known as Nightmare to feel anger, it seems that the Elf race's actions were indeed quite evil.

“Tell me about it,” Karl replied.

Chapter Ten Anti-Magic Barrier

Kurumi Tokisaki uses a clock-shaped weapon to unleash her abilities. Each hour on the clock represents a different ability, and there are a total of 12 different time-related abilities.

One type of ability can be applied to objects, allowing the user to trace their memories of using the object. This ability is not mind reading and has many limitations. Only strong feelings attached to the object can be read, so the information is not very accurate.

Coincidentally, Kurumi Tokisaki found the mission book on the spirit, which was the mission book for kidnapping the baby vampire. From this, Kurumi Tokisaki deduced the spirit's general purpose, and with some interrogation skills, Kurumi Tokisaki successfully pried open the spirit's mouth.

"These spirits somehow learned of the existence of reincarnated beings like spiders, and then they wanted to collect them. In order to cover up their purpose, they plundered newborns on the continent." Tokisaki Kurumi revealed the information she had obtained.

"Why would they want to collect reincarnated individuals? Abducting newborns would offend a lot of people, so what reason could make them do this?" Karl asked.

Kurumi Tokisaki shrugged and said, "I don't know about that. These elves just follow orders. The orders are given by their clan chief, and I can't ask them anything more."

"Did you find out where they put those kidnapped newborns? Those children can't be left unattended," Karl asked.

"The reincarnated ones were kept in captivity, and as for those newborns used to cover up their actions, no one has seen them since," Kurumi Tokisaki said, her voice suppressed.

The elves need reincarnated beings; other babies they abduct are of no use to them, so the babies are likely to meet a grim fate.

"Damn it!" Carl cursed.

He was genuinely angry at the elves' behavior.

Even the villains in his world wouldn't be so reckless as to harm a newborn baby. Karl despised these elves. Compassion for infants is one of the basic human instincts, a bottom line of conscience. In other words, these elves were simply unworthy of being human.

"We can't be sure of the baby's whereabouts yet. As long as there's a glimmer of hope, we can't give up," Karl said.

"But even these elves don't know the baby's whereabouts, so where should we look?" Kurumi Tokisaki couldn't help but say.

Karl looked at Tokisaki Kurumi and said in a sincere tone, "Kurumi, didn't you say before that these elves were acting according to the Great Chief's orders? The Great Chief must know. Can you find out his whereabouts? Please."

Karl's words, brimming with a sense of justice, made Kurumi Tokisaki swallow back the condition she was about to utter.

She had originally intended to reveal the evil deeds of the elves so that she could eat them. These elves generally had a lifespan of 300 years, making them a rare delicacy for her.

"Never mind," Tokisaki Kurumi thought. "It's not a good time to make requests. I'll just consider this a good deed."

"Alright, wait for me a moment." After saying that, Tokisaki Kurumi picked up the Spirit's quest book again and activated her ability to carefully search the memories on it.

Fortunately, Kurumi Tokisaki quickly found the memories she needed. In the spirit's memories, the clan chief was also involved in this mission as the commander-in-chief.

The Elf Chieftain's name is Potimas, a name the Demon King mentioned before. He is currently in an unremarkable little wooden house deep in the forest outside the city.

It would take about a day to get from the town to the cabin by horse-drawn carriage, but Karl could fly there in an instant.

Spider and Kurumi Tokisaki also planned to go and see what kind of person the leader of the elves really was.

So Spider-Man swung his eight legs and climbed onto Karl's back, while Kurumi Tokisaki hid in the shadows and followed him to the front of the cabin.

Karl made quite a noise when he landed, which prompted Potimas to come out of the house.

From the outside, Potimas is a very normal elf, dressed in gorgeous clothes and not bad looking, but his cold and arrogant expression shows that he is not an easy person to get along with.

"Who are you people, and how did you find your way here?" Potimas asked.

However, Karl had no time for pleasantries and went straight to the point: "I'm asking you, where are those reincarnated beings and babies you abducted now?"

While Karl was asking questions, Potimas was also observing the three of them, and he immediately noticed the conspicuous spider.

"A spider monster? I see. Is it one of Ariel's minions? Ariel has noticed my actions, and I guess the humans know about it too. Looks like it's time to stop." Potimas muttered to himself.

At that moment, Kurumi Tokisaki emerged from the shadows and said, "This guy is obviously stubborn. Let's just knock him down and then ask him slowly."

After saying that, he took out two flintlock muskets made of pointers and fired one at Potimas.

Normally, being hit by a spiritual energy bullet would result in a large hole being blown into a person's body, but Potimas only took a few steps back.

Seeing this, Spider knew that Potimas was different from the elves they had faced before, so she habitually threw an appraisal at Potimas.

'Identification impossible.'

Spider was shocked. This was the second time she had encountered a situation where she couldn't identify someone. Spider already understood that Karl and Tokisaki Kurumi couldn't be identified probably because they were outsiders. So what about this elf in front of her? Was she also an outsider?

Spider wondered if he should give a reminder, but he wasn't good at communicating. So he decided against it. After all, Karl could even defeat the Demon King, so a mere elf wouldn't be a problem.

On the other side, seeing that ordinary bullets were ineffective, Kurumi Tokisaki summoned a giant clock called Zafkiel.

Potimas had never seen such a move before, but he remained calm.

"Don't even think about doing whatever you want. Activate the anti-magic barrier."