Chapter 123 Spider Web
The sudden attack forced Delphinium to give up the idea of continuing the attack. She used her magic to quickly do a spin in the air, and used her fists to hit the spider spear hard, thus narrowly avoiding the attack from below.
However, this does not mean the end of the crisis. The remnant beast in front of her was able to realize that the magical girl in front of her had been affected by the rules, so there was naturally no reason to stop. Soon, the remnant beast caught up and tried to chase Delphinium.
In the critical situation, Dengzhan intervened in time and took over Cuiqiao's position. The two magical girls fought and retreated, and finally managed to resolve this round of attacks from the remaining beasts.
However, the spider silk on Delphinium's elbows still could not be removed.
In the gaps between battles, she repeatedly used her masterpiece to cut the spider silk that entangled her, trying to break free, but it was useless. This spider silk generated by rules was completely unaffected by her magic suit or magic power.
More importantly, as she saw the spider silk on her arm clearly, she found that the spider silk that was entangled with her seemed to be no different from the ones that were tied around Maowei and others. This finally made her realize what the spider meant by "personal experience" before the transformation.
The Cat Tail Squad had apparently fought with the Spider before, and the reason why the entire team was defeated here was obviously because they were unable to overcome the rules of this crippled beast.
Even for herself, when her elbow was entangled by the special spider silk, not only was it difficult to fold and move her arm, but even the flow of magic power there became very sluggish.
"What's the situation?" Seeing the serious look on Delphinium's face, Dengzhan asked, "Can't we get rid of it?"
"I'm afraid we'll have to find another way."
Delphinium gave up dealing with the spider silk on her body and breathed a sigh of relief: "We have to figure out its rules first, otherwise even our attacks will be restricted."
The spider silk on her arm appeared when she was trying to chase the crippled beast. Although she didn't know whether the two were related, it did not prevent her from being careful before doing so.
"But..." Dengzhan hesitated to speak and looked up at the spider web in the air.
Delphinium looked up along with Lantern, and saw that the magical fluctuations on Maowei and others above the spider web in the air were becoming increasingly weaker.
With the magical perception of two magical girls, it is not difficult to find out where the magic power went: it was all sent into the body of the crippled beast along the spider silk.
Obviously, because of the consumption caused by the previous battle, the remaining beasts accelerated the rate of absorbing magic power. If it continued at this rate, Maowei and others would probably die of exhaustion before the battle was over.
Delphinium was silent.
She did have a winning plan in mind, but it was obviously impossible to have both speed and safety.
In order to protect herself and Dengzhan, and for the two of them to defeat the crippled beast in front of them intact, she was destined not to act impulsively. She had to observe the opponent's rules clearly before looking for an opportunity to attack.
If I want to save the cat's tail, I certainly won't have the time to slowly figure out the rules, so I can only adopt a more radical plan.
"Dengzhan, split up."
After weighing the pros and cons in her mind, she spoke again: "You go up and save them, and I'll deal with this crippled beast down below."
"Eh? That's not possible!"
Dengzhan hurriedly shook his head upon hearing this: "Senior, you have been affected by its rules. Even if you want to keep someone, it should be me who is in a relatively good condition!"
"You were seriously injured just now, how good can your condition be?"
Kuizi glanced at her and said, "Besides, you have already lost to it once before. I can't trust you to deal with it alone."
"But..." Dengzhan wanted to refute, but Cuique didn't give her a chance to argue.
“Don’t waste your time.”
Reaching out to push the lamp away, Kuei-Jin took a fighting stance against the remnant beast in the air that was about to attack again: "If there are no rules that get in the way, I am confident that I can kill it quickly."
As soon as he finished speaking, spider silk shot out from the darkness again. Delphinium controlled the magic suit and rushed out, fighting with the remaining beasts again.
The blood-red spider silk mixed with purple-black magic power entangled with the azure magic threads in the nest. The masterpiece blade composed of magic power collided violently with the exoskeleton of the remaining beast, and the two sides fell into a stalemate for a while.
Dengzhan finally obeyed the command of the Jacaranda, put aside the unnecessary worries in his heart, and flew towards the spider web in the air, leaving Jacaranda on the ground to fight an extremely dangerous battle with the remaining beasts.
The irrational beast could not understand why the two magical girls acted separately. In its opinion, since there was only one magical girl left in front of it, it was undoubtedly a good opportunity to kill her as soon as possible.
So it ignored the lamp that had left, and instead launched an even more violent attack on the delphinium.
Soon after the battle began, Delphinium's arm, which was originally entangled in spider silk, was completely wrapped up, and it completely lost the ability to call on magic power.
This forced her to give up fighting with both hands and switch to a combination of one-handed and magic thread, but this also made her fighting style inevitably lean towards defense.
With only one hand still able to move normally, she must prioritize the safety of the other hand. If both hands lose the ability to move, the situation will become even worse.
Besides that, she had a headache.
The side effects of the full-strength explosion of magic power were becoming more and more serious, and even caused her movements to become uncoordinated several times. The severe pain forced her to grit her teeth to prevent herself from crying out in pain; her body's instincts urged her to make a quick decision, but she knew that now was not the time to make a quick decision.
Even though the situation was extremely grim, Delphinium remained calm.
Despite a headache that was enough to make her eyes dizzy, Delphinium was still thinking. She carefully observed the behavior of the beast in front of her, piecing together clues that might be useful in her mind.
She could feel that the beast in front of her seemed to follow some special pattern of action, which was why she and others retreated and regrouped many times. What was this pattern? Thinking about everything that had happened since she saw the spider, Delphinium always felt that the answer was hidden in it.
At the beginning, he and Dengzhan launched a surprise attack on Zhu together. He attacked Zhu from behind with his magic armor. This attack should be effective, otherwise the other party would have no reason to endure his interrogation.
This attack should have successfully abolished the spider's normal fighting ability. The forbidden magic made him unable to use magic power, and he had to access the beast's organs to regain his strength.
Delphinium began to think from another perspective. If she were the spider, what would she do when it was clear that she could only turn the tide of the battle by transforming into a crippled beast? Without a doubt, she would make a series of arrangements for the next battle while she still had her human sanity.
I think it was for this reason that Spider was willing to endure Delphinium's interrogation and keep delaying time.
So what could he do under Delphinium's nose?
The answer to this question has already been found, and that is the white spider beast that completely obeys his command.
A turning point in the spider's counterattack was when he let the white spider attack from the air, attracting the attention of the delphinium and buying him time to transform. Before that, he should have directed the spider to do something in the air.
In the sky?
When this word appeared in his mind, Delphinium suddenly felt a flash of inspiration through his mind.
Because she suddenly remembered what the spider had been doing before the fight began.
——He is looking at the sky.
What was he looking at, and what did he see that made him feel the time was right?
These two questions seemed to have grasped the thread of the problem for Delphinium. She looked up in the chaos and saw only spider webs.
In addition, there is a lamp that has approached Maowei and others and is trying to use magic to separate Maowei from the bloody spider web.
She seemed to be really close to success.
The spider silk that bound Maowei and others was a product of rules and could not be easily removed, but the flesh and blood spider web in the air was obviously not.
Dengzhan only needs to cut off the part of the flesh and blood spider web that sticks the investigation team to each other to take them down from the air and prevent them from continuing to be drained of magic power.
But this behavior was apparently noticed by more than just the delphinium.
As the owner of the spider web, Canshou obviously knew more about the situation of his own spider web than Delphinium. When Dengzhan touched the side of the investigation team and was about to start the rescue, even if he had lost most of his intelligence, he knew what it meant.
This means that the prey it has almost killed will be stolen.
In his own nest, as the master of this space, the remnant beast would not allow such behavior.
So after only a brief pause, it abandoned the seemingly hard-headed Delphinium in front of it. It hissed angrily, the spider silk contracted, and pulled its body into the sky, trying to stop the lantern's behavior.
Delphinium subconsciously wanted to fly up, but after the magic power burst out, she found that her feet were also stuck to the ground by a ball of spider silk.
She couldn't chase.
The lamp next to the spider web was also attracted by the roar of the crippled beast. When it found that the crippled beast had become its target, it began to condense its magic spell and prepared to fight the crippled beast.
But this is absolutely not possible, and Delphinium is well aware of this.
Dengzhan in the air is probably no match for this crippled beast. Her injuries have not healed yet, and her grasp of the strange land is not good enough. If I just watch her fight with the crippled beast here, the possibility of Dengzhan winning will definitely not exceed 20%.
What should I do? What can I do to attract the attention of the remaining beast?
His brain was thinking rapidly, but he still couldn't think of any solution. Seeing the crippled beast getting closer and closer to the spider web in the air, Delphinium widened his eyes and finally made a decision.
She has to give it a try.
As to what the rules of the crippled beasts were and what the spider did before its transformation, she already had an answer in her mind, but she wasn't sure if the answer was correct.
But if she wanted to handle this battle as perfectly as possible, she needed to take a gamble.
"Lamp!"
So Delphinium raised her voice and shouted to the lantern in the sky: "Don't worry about the remnant beast, attack the spider web above my head with all your strength! With all your strength!"
"Huh?"
The lantern, whose technique was about to slip out of his hand, looked slightly startled.
She didn't know why Kuznetsus gave such instructions, because this action seemed to have nothing to do with the battle in front of them.
If Delphinium asked her to ignore the remaining beasts and prioritize saving the investigation team, or to protect the investigation team and fight against the remaining beasts, then she could understand these orders, but attacking a spider web that had nothing to do with it was still beyond her understanding.
While she was stunned, the Delphinium on the ground had opened its hands, and the masterpiece that had originally gathered around her returned to its original form of magic armor, transformed into countless silk threads, and climbed up along the outer wall of the nest.
These magic threads instantly intertwined into another network in the air, stopping the remaining beast that was originally rushing into the air and blocking it in mid-air.
However, this barrier cannot last long.
The beast they were dealing with was a half-molted one, which was completely different from the small fish and shrimps at the egg and worm stages. The strength of the magic thread was not enough to restrain the beast at this stage. Therefore, the net woven by the Delphinium only lasted for a few seconds before it was torn into several cracks by the impact of the beast.
Delphinium could only keep controlling the silk threads to fill the gaps and stop the actions of the remaining beasts.
This behavior bought time for the lantern in the sky, and finally made her realize that Delphinium was not talking nonsense, and it seemed that Delphinium really had some thoughts that she didn't know about.
So Dengzhan gathered his concentration and immediately changed the spell in his hand, aiming the spike spear at the flesh and blood network not far away. That network corresponded to the area above the head of the Delphinium.
She carefully controlled her magic power, pouring most of her strength into this attack, and a moment later, the spell burst out from her hands.
Hundreds of magic spikes flashed through the air and bombarded the spider web like rain. After a brief stalemate between the dark brown magic and the flesh and blood spider web, the torrent of magic penetrated the spider web and completely destroyed that part of the structure.
The smoke screen of magic, the shattered flesh and blood, the unknown liquid overflowing from the fracture, and the pierced spider web that instantly created a huge hole.
What surprised Dengzhan was that when the spider web was blown apart, the remaining beast in the air also let out miserable wails.
"squeak--"
Its voice became extremely sharp and high-pitched, as if it was enduring some great pain.
Then, Dengzhan saw a surging torrent of azure magic power erupting from the ground.
A few seconds after the spider web was shattered, the delphinium had already jumped from the ground into the air.
She used her magic to the fullest, her whole body was gleaming with blue light, and her eyes were filled with an extremely cold killing intent. She stretched out a hand, which seemed to be holding something extremely small, and rushed towards the crippled beast quickly.
The spider silk that was originally wrapped around her had disappeared at some point.
It turns out that Delphinium's answer is correct, because the rule of spiders is probably just like its name and its performance, which is spider webs.
When he was ambushed by Delphinium in his human form and thus controlled by forbidden magic, he chose to stall for time in order to allow the white spider to weave such a web in the air.
After becoming a crippled beast, its rules are actually very simple - as long as it is covered by a spider web, it will be entangled by the spider silk.
It is not a direct contact, but an envelopment - this means that as long as someone on the ground steps on the corresponding area of the spider web in the air, that person will also be entangled by the spider web.
This was deduced by Delphinium from the strange steps of the crippled beast itself.
It kept giving Delphinium and the other two opportunities to lure them under the spider web to fight it, but it always stayed at the edge of the area covered by the spider web and never stepped in.
Because of this, it was useless for Delphinium to attack the spider silk wrapped around itself: after all, these spider silks were essentially just the product of rules, they were just projections of the spider webs above its head, how could attacking the projections possibly hurt the main body? And when the spider web was pierced, why did the remnant beast show such pain, Delphinium did not know.
She didn't need to know.
Because at this moment she had already soared into the air, the surging torrent of magic power was like the materialization of murderous intent, representing Delphinium's current mood.
There was no need for her to understand so clearly the thoughts of a monster, a dying man.
There was a metallic luster in the hands of the Jade Bird. In a blue light, it flashed from under the crippled beast and appeared above it. Then, a torrent of magic power gushed out wildly from the crippled beast's body and the magic network.
In mid-air, the spider web that had already been torn into pieces became shaky, and the originally bright red flesh and blood spider silk began to turn black and gray. The spider silk lost the source of its supporting power and began to shrink rapidly.
Purple-black blood dripped from the sky, and the nest, which was pitch black except for the magic light, began to shake inexplicably.
"--squeak!"
Then, accompanied by the miserable wails of the remaining beast, the body of the remaining beast that was blocked in the air by the blue silk thread broke apart in an instant.
Boom! It fell toward the ground amid the scattering blood and uncontrolled magic power, and eventually exploded into countless pieces.
(End of this chapter)
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