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Ariel, enraged, seeing this, almost had her eyes pop out. With a wave of her hand, she unleashed Abyss Magic, instantly pulverizing those humans, souls and all.
With a heavy heart, Ariel gently raised her hand again, and the Queen Taratect's massive body dissipated with the wind.
She had originally intended to vent her anger on the human city, but she couldn't.
As a Demon Lord, she had an agreement with Administrator Gülie (Kuro) and Pontiff Dustin, so she couldn't act recklessly.
Since that's the case, I'll find the culprits who killed the Queen Taratect! And then, with my own hands, I will tear them to shreds!
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Elliot's first stop with Kumoko as they fled was, ironically, the Great Elroe Labyrinth. Seeing the extremely familiar surroundings, Kumoko was completely dumbfounded.
"Elliot, aren't we just walking right into a trap?" According to Information Brain's description, the enemy was a Demon Lord with limitless combat power.
Even Body Brain, with [Heresy Nullification], had been sacrificed! And it seemed even the Queen Taratect was just one of her subordinates.
The two of them, an Earth Dragon and a spider, were definitely no match for her; they could only run. But who runs towards the enemy's home?
Elliot smiled. "You could say that. That Demon Lord, with a little time, will find us sooner or later."
"Then why are we coming back to the Elroe Labyrinth?" Kumoko didn't understand.
"Precisely because the Demon Lord can find us, we should prepare beforehand, not just run blindly."
Although Ariel didn't have Space Magic, her speed was astonishingly high. Any place on this continent she wanted to reach, she could get there in a matter of days.
So, no matter how well they hid, they could avoid her for a day, but not forever.
Besides, Ariel possessed monstrous strength she could probably punch out a Gundam, let alone the two of them.
If they didn't prepare survival skills and increase their strength beforehand, and the Demon Lord really did show up, they'd both be finished here.
Running away aimlessly was useless.
Kumoko was convinced by Elliot. "Then what should we do?" She looked at Elliot with wide eyes.
With Kumoko's upper body now human and her lower body still a spider, when her human part looked at Elliot, her spider part would also turn to look. It was a very strange sensation.
Elliot pondered for a moment. Actually, he didn't have to be too afraid of Ariel. He possessed a Divine Domain. Within his domain, even Ruler skills from this world would have difficulty harming him.
The only ones who could truly threaten him were this world's Administrators. When he left Flamebright City, he had already retracted his Divine Domain.
His current strength wasn't that high; without the protection of his Divine Domain, he might even be weaker than Demon Lord Ariel.
Speaking of which, a god being weaker than a Demon Lord... that's quite interesting. But it was also easy to explain.
His Gnosis's "home world" was Genshin Impact, not this one. In another's world, a god's power from a different plane would be greatly diminished.
If the Evil God D went to the world of Genshin Impact, she definitely wouldn't be as strong as him, who possessed the Dendro Gnosis. Can't help it, it's an away game!
He himself didn't need to fear Ariel, but Kumoko was different. Although she had evolved into the highest form on the spider evolution tree Arachne her actual strength was no match for Ariel.
A monster with average stats in the ninety thousands could easily crush Kumoko, whose average stats were only around ten thousand.
So, Kumoko needed a life-saving skill.
"Right, you should have the [Egg Laying] skill, shouldn't you?" Elliot remembered that almost every spider hatched by a Queen Taratect inherited this skill from her.
"Eh... Ehhh???" Kumoko instantly tensed up. Egg... Egg Laying? Her breathing became a little ragged, and her normally snow-white face flushed a delicate pink, all the way to her earlobes.
Now? This is too sudden!... The Earth Dragon, who usually seemed like such a gentleman, was actually thinking about that kind of thing now?? No way! Earth Dragons and spiders... they're not even the same species! According to biology books, wouldn't there be reproductive isolation?
She had wanted to convince herself to nod in agreement. But when she looked at her own spider body, then at Elliot's slender human form, her mind raced, wondering in what position they would even perform such a sacred ritual?
So weird! Really, really weird! The more she thought about it, the more Kumoko felt it was absolutely not okay!!!
"N-No! Don't!" Kumoko shook her head violently and quickly took a few steps back. "Elliot, please control yourself!"
"Huh?" Elliot looked at her, his face blank.
"P-Please... please wait until I also obtain a human form like you, before we perform such a ritual!" Kumoko averted her gaze.
Already suffering from social anxiety, discussing this kind of thing in front of someone she liked made her brain feel like it was about to short-circuit. Her fair cheeks burned like fire.
Elliot was now utterly confused. What kind of ritual does this skill need? Isn't it just a normal skill?
"Can't you use it?" he asked, completely serious.
"I can use it, but I can't..."
"As long as you can use it, that's fine. The eggs produced by this skill can be used to host your soul. If Ariel attacks your physical body with Abyss Magic, you can instantly transfer your soul to an egg, thereby achieving rebirth." Elliot nodded slightly.
"This way, we'll have a higher margin for error when facing the Demon Lord."
He possessed a Divine Domain, which could negate all sources of damage except Ruler skills, including soul-targeting magic like Abyss Magic.
Although Kumoko had [Heresy Nullification], Abyss Magic not only threatened the soul but also erased mental energy and destroyed the physical body; Heresy Nullification wouldn't be enough.
[Egg Laying LV 10] might sound like a strange skill, but the eggs it produced were essentially avatars of herself.
If her main body died, her soul could directly transfer to an avatar to survive, achieving an effect similar to a cicada shedding its golden shell.
In the original story, Kumoko used this very skill to achieve a form of immortality against Demon Lord Ariel. Eventually, Ariel, realizing she couldn't kill her, chose to cooperate with Kumoko instead.
Seeing Kumoko's conflicted expression, Elliot assumed it was because she, as a girl, felt embarrassed to use such a skill in front of him.
So, he proactively said, "Um... I'll go keep watch." After saying that, Elliot went outside.
Kumoko, left alone, couldn't help but pout. Elliot doesn't seem to understand my feelings at all!
"Idiot!!!"
"Elliot is an idiot, aaaah!!!"
But... thinking about it, he was right. This skill could indeed help her avoid death. It's just... ahhhh idiot… idiot… idiot...
While Kumoko prepared her life-saving skill, Elliot wasn't idle either. He also needed to increase his own strength now.
The System created by the Evil God D prevented him from using his divine power externally. That was normal; if D went into his Divine Domain, she wouldn't be able to use her divine power either.
He couldn't use it externally, but he could use his divine power to strengthen this Earth Dragon body.
The pressure from Ariel was too intense; he had to increase his stats as quickly as possible.
"Thy celestial path is thy dharma gate..." A faint verdant divine light flashed in Elliot's eyes, and then he gently closed them.
His Earth Dragon body within the System hadn't been strengthened or evolved in a long time.
Kumoko, on the other hand, after five evolutions, now had stats surpassing his (System-based ones).
Although if they fought, he, with his divine power, could still easily suppress Kumoko, relying too much on divine power wasn't a good thing.
The Dendro Gnosis represented wisdom; it could create a spiritual universe within oneself. While tempering his Earth Dragon body with divine power, Elliot also began to construct this spiritual universe within himself.
His spiritual universe was built around the Imaginary Tree. In simpler terms, he was enriching the environment of the Imaginary Tree. The benefit of wisdom allowed Elliot to multitask.
In his spiritual world, there was originally only a solitary Imaginary Tree with countless World Bubbles floating around it.
After Elliot's careful "sculpting," this spiritual world had now undergone a great transformation.
Outside the Imaginary Tree, a universe exuding an extremely mysterious aura gradually formed.
A band of light, like a galaxy, surrounded the Imaginary Tree, circling it.
Dazzling starlight twinkled, creating a beautiful and dreamlike scene. Such a universe could protect and nourish the Imaginary Tree within it, and the Imaginary Tree, in turn, would feed back power to the universe a symbiotic relationship.
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