Wolf of the Blood Moon - Book 3 - Chapter 32.2 - For Home Part II (Patreon)

                                                    Scarlet

The arachne, although startled for a moment, rushes towards me as well, meeting me halfway with one of its bladed legs clashing directly with my claws. And unlike all of the attacks I shared with the taracht, I actually manage to hold my ground a little despite the level difference of about seventy levels between us.

The spider’s strike pushes me back, my feet digging through the ground.

Just the fact that I’m able to contend with it and not get completely wiped out in a physical confrontation goes to show just how strong my beast form is, not to mention the blood metal.

I reach forward with my other hand, only for the spider to send two more limbs towards me while also using her human hands to throw a bolt of poison that I end up disengaging to avoid, jumping back and away from the creature.

“We battlllle theeen,” the arachne says, her humanoid eyes narrowing on me.

“Scarlet, I should warn you that any orders this demon may have probably won’t be enough to stop her from actually trying to kill you if you fight it,” Tar mentions as I summon my blood shadow and have it circle around to the other side of the arachne, whose eyes are glancing between me and it. “An arachne just doesn’t have the intelligence for it. The creature will end up losing itself to its rage as unlike the arachnae, arachne are creatures of the Wrath sin.”

My eyes narrow slightly at that, but I continue keeping my gaze locked on the arachne still.

Then let it.

I raise one arm and begin summoning two dozen weapons of blood in the air all around the arachne before dropping my arm and sending them all flying towards it from different angles. And at the same time, I order my blood shadow to attack it.

The arachne lets out a loud screech that sends what look like visible soundwaves outwards at my blood weapons, making me wince and almost drop down to my knees, just barely stopping myself by lowering the sensitivity of my ears.

Why the hell does a creature who specializes in poison type magics have a sound based skill?!

“That… I’m not sure,” Tar says, surprising me even more than the arachne by his ignorance of the subject.

Well that’s annoying.

“By the way, how did you speak earlier?” Tar suddenly asks as I start using blood boil and life drain on the creature.

I blink at that without stopping, only to frown.

He’s right. How did I speak? I shouldn’t be able to speak in my beast form…

The arachne continues letting out screech after screech while fending off my blood shadow with relative ease through its spider limbs. But then it suddenly freezes in place and begins radiating a purple light that has me focusing solely on the fight again.

We can figure that out later.

Tar doesn’t say anything in response, but I can feel his agreement with that enter my mind anyways.

The purple light immediately turns into a light spray of some sort of acidic poison that burns everything it touches. Whether that be the grass, the trees, the leaves, my blood shadow, or even the small amount that gets on me before I jump away.

Fortunately it only manages to burn through the armor on my right sleeve and doesn’t get past the blood armor underneath. Although it would’ve been worse if more of it got on me.

I can’t help but notice my blood shadow though, as the thing doesn’t actually seem to be harmed much if at all by the acid. The only thing I saw from it was a small amount of red steam floating into the air. Like the acid had boiled a tiny amount of the blood making up the blood shadow.

Oh. Wait. Can you really poison a walking clone made out of just blood and my shadow?

“Probably not,” Tar comments, making me grin a little. “Not with most poisons at least. Corruption maybe, and acidic poisons definitely. But not regular poisons.”

That’s good to know.

Then the arachne finally gets a clean hit on my clone, sending it flying into a tree where a large portion of the blood making up its body splatters the tree, making my clone shrink a little.

“Doesn’t change the fact that the clone is a lot weaker than the spider though,” he adds as if an afterthought as I grimace at the sight.

Well, that decreases its use again.

The arachne lets out another screech, but midway through the screech begins to turn into a scream. A much more humanlike scream from it. And I can’t help but frown as I wonder what it’s doing.

Then a large wad of silk shoots out of the creature’s spinneret before floating into the air and forming a sphere above the creature’s head. And it doesn’t stop there as more and more silk shoots out in a constant stream as the creature screams its heart out.

Is it… in pain?

I’m so confused right now. It shouldn’t hurt a spider to create silk, so why…

“Maybe it’s the massive amount it’s creating at once?” Tar suggests, and I nod in agreement since it’s the only reason that makes any sense.

That aside though, I immediately use null magic field around the arachne, which only has the creature’s screaming go up a pitch again. But it doesn’t stop.

Interesting.

I sprint forwards before raising my clawed right hand and striking at the arachne, only for it to raise a limb to block it. But the way it does so is incredibly awkward since it doesn’t seem to be able to stop creating silk, making the orb of slightly slick silk in the air continue to grow larger and larger. So my claws manage to avoid its own large claw at the end of the leg and instead cut into the limb itself, digging nearly two inches into the five inch thick leg, making the creature’s scream once again increase in volume.

I don’t stop there either, instead spinning slightly to avoid another limb before it hits the ground and I take the chance to strike at that very limb, cutting just as deep in this one as the other.

Then I feel something impacting my blood diffusion barrier on my side, making a tingling sensation run through my body. And at the same time, a crimson light shines from the arachne without much to show for it before the light fades.

Guess the base damage that passive skill does isn’t really suited to deal with a demon seventy levels above me. Or at least, not when the skill is only level six.

I am a little surprised the arachne’s limb striking me in the side didn’t break the blood diffusion barrier though. And I’m also pretty sure that I just got a tiny bit of life energy from the true damage dealt to the spider.

Which means that the Sanguine Effect skill and Bloody Thorns stack together. The damage dealt in retaliation through the thorns also activates the life energy restoration of sanguine.

“That’s a very powerful combination of skills for when you’re a higher level, especially when combined with your healing,” Tar comments, apparently not having realized how powerful it was before now either considering how impressed he sounds.

The screaming comes to a sudden halt, making me raise my head to find the arachne now staring at me as a large arrow made out of poison forms in front of it and smashes directly into my chest, breaking the blood diffusion barrier and sending me flying through the air across the clearing.

And before I even land, I find the massive ball of silk spanning nearly five meters in width in the air suddenly falling down and crashing against the ground, making the silk in it spread outwards to cover the area.

By the time I hit the ground with a cough of blood, I find the entire area coated in webbing with a large cocoon somehow built up above and around us, blocking the blood moon’s light from shining through while making the only light in here that of the red light bloody thorns is making shine from the arachne.

Well, this isn’t good.

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