There was dead silence in the woods.
"Ouch... It feels really bad here..."
Asuna held the rapier in her hand and scanned the surroundings while moving forward on the path. Eriri stood not far in front of her, watching the bushes on both sides with vigilance and glancing at the map from time to time.
"Don't worry, at least there shouldn't be any enemies near us... But it's really strange, isn't the initial map generally used to familiarize yourself with the monsters? How come we haven't seen any monsters in such a long time?"
"It's dark everywhere, and it's really uncomfortable to have these branches pressing down on you."
Looking at the branches and leaves above her head, Asuna sighed. The branches in this forest almost weighed down to her head. When she walked forward, she would bump into branches and leaves from time to time. Fortunately, this was a game and not reality. Otherwise, Asuna would have to go back and take a good bath. But even so, Asuna had already decided to take a good bath and relax after returning...
"Ah, Asuna, wait a minute."
At this moment, Gabriel, who was walking behind Asuna, suddenly called her.
"You have something on you."
As she spoke, Gabriel lazily reached out her hand and took something from Asuna.
"Ah, thank you, Gabriel..."
Hearing what Gabriel said, Asuna hurriedly turned around to thank her, but she only said half of her words and suddenly stopped.
The next moment, Asuna's face turned pale.
Because she saw that what Gabriel held in his hand was a hairy creature as big as his palm, which was struggling...
spider.
"Alas--!!"
Seeing this scene, Asuna reflexively wanted to step back, but was pulled back by Gabriel.
"Wait, there are several more."
"Okay, several?!"
Asuna felt her legs go weak and she could hardly stand. She could only stand there like a puppet, watching Gabriel grab spiders from behind her and throw them aside one by one.
"What's wrong? Asuna?"
At this moment, Eriri also turned around and looked at Asuna curiously and asked, while Asuna looked at Eriri and then her eyes widened in horror - because Asuna saw that behind Eriri, there were several furry spiders slowly crawling on her back! !
"Eri! Spider! Spider..."
"Why?"
Seeing Asuna pointing at her with a pale face, Eriri suddenly stood still stiffly.
"Where? Where is the spider? Help me swat it away! Quickly!!"
"Ah, there really are spiders!"
At this moment, Yuki also ran over with a smile on her face. When she saw the spider on Eriri's back, she opened her eyes wide with curiosity and then quickly stepped forward.
"Wait a minute, Sister Eriri, I'll take it off for you now."
“Hurry up, take it down for me…!!”
Ying Lili's whole body was stiff at this moment, and she was about to cry!
Fortunately, Gabriel and Yuki were not too afraid of these spiders, and they cleaned all the spiders on their bodies in no time.
"Wow, why do we have to suffer this..."
Asuna looked at Gabriel and Yuuki with dissatisfaction, looking at them with a sad face. For some reason, there were no spiders on these two people. But judging from their expressions, they didn't seem to care.
"Really? Where on earth do these spiders come from?"
Although the spider had been taken away and thrown away, Eriri continued to pat her robe, as if it was stained with something dirty. Then, while complaining, she instinctively raised her head and looked at the top of her head. Then, Eriri was stunned there.
She hadn't noticed it before, but when she looked carefully, she realized that there were white spider webs everywhere between the trees. Densely packed spiders were crawling back and forth on the spider webs, looking like a swarm of ants...
“Ah…ah…”
At this moment, Ying Lili felt that her whole body was weak, she was shaking all over, and her teeth were chattering. At this moment, a palm-sized spider swayed on the branch twice, and then fell on Ying Lili's face with a "click"...
“Wa ...
With a scream that almost broke through the sky, Eriri shook off the spider on her face and ran backwards madly. Then she bumped into Mimil, who was at the end of the queue, and then sat down on the ground.
"Woooa ...
Mimiel, who was carrying a large sword, was also startled by Eriri's sudden collision. She stared at her with dissatisfaction and asked. Eriri looked up and saw that above Mimiel's head, several spiders were crawling along the large sword to her hair and shoulders...
"Spider...Spider...Sword..."
Ying Lili pointed at Mi Mi Er, her words were unclear, she even felt a warm sensation pouring out between her legs like a flood...
"Sword? What?"
Mimiel curiously took off the big sword on her shoulder, and soon she saw the spider web wrapped around the sword and the densely packed little spiders crawling on it...
“Aaaaaaaah!!”
With a scream, Mimiel threw away the sword in her hand and began to beat her body desperately.
"Where did the spider come from?! Help!!"
What was even more terrible was that as Mimiel slapped the spiders, more and more spiders fell from her body. Seeing this, Mimiel became even more panicked. She waved her limbs wildly, just like a drugged person dancing...
"Ms. Mimiel! Please calm down!"
"No, why are there so many spiders?! Help!!"
“Kacha, kacha, kacha…!!”
Just as Asuna was about to go forward to comfort them, suddenly, accompanied by a few low noises, Asuna saw several huge black shadows falling from the sky and surrounding everyone - they were spiders as big as hippopotamuses, their scarlet eyes stared at the prey in front of them, and they kept shaking their mouthparts...
Asuna stared blankly at the spider in front of her, and the next moment her eyes went dark and she fainted.
“…It’s really troublesome.”
Looking at Eriri who collapsed on the ground, Asuna who fainted, and Mimil who kept dancing, Gabriel scratched his hair helplessly and sighed.
"Yuuki, let you deal with these monsters. I'll take these three people back..."
"No problem, leave it to me!"
Hearing what Gabriel said, Youki nodded, then she raised the sword in her hand and rushed towards the spider monster in front of her.