Rise of the Undead Legion

Chapter 535: Settling Some Old Debts

Dave and Ralph rode up to the north on the back of Grumpy. The journey wasn't that far away, but once they have gotten into the Man-Eating Spider's territory, things became far too different than when Dave remembered.

The area, still covered in cobwebs looked far calmer than before, and not even one or two of the juvenile spiders were seen anywhere. Dave frowned, the area here was a huge headache to him and TNT when they first crossed it. But now it was so calm it was nerve-racking.

"Something must have happened here."

"Why'd you say that?" Ralph asked.

"The spiders, none is here."

"So are the animals, I don't see a single bird chirping."

"Usually birds would avoid this area, and this was the same, but spiders? Leaving their home, that's not right."

"I bet our friend Ashkar is responsible."

"Yeah, I have the same thought, keep your guard up bro."

"Will do."

The three kept moving, Grumpy's usual grumpiness was changed to casual snorts and sniffs, he was checking his surroundings.

Soon, they came upon the corpse of a dead spider, only half of its body was charred black. Even the ground next to it was the same.

"Ashkar's lightning, he's close."

"Right then, we should probably hop off," Ralph said.

"No, Grumpy has good senses, he can notice it when danger is close," Dave patted the big basilisk on the back, "We're counting on you."

The onyx basilisk did a light snort and kept moving.

The party was getting closer to the spider queen's nest, and even more of the dead juvenile spiders were spread along with the ground charred black.

Grumpy suddenly stopped.

"I hear something," Dave said and gestured to Ralph to jump off.

"Grumpy, if things get ugly, I'll be calling you for help. Stay here and see if any nasty people try and ambush us."

The basilisk nodded and sat on his hind legs, like a dog on watch duty.

Dave smirked and headed first, Ralph behind him to the hiding hole of the spider queen.

Withing the dark cavern of the Man-Eating Spider Queen, Dave noticed a rustle and movement in the shadows. His dark vision kicked in, and soon he was able to see clearly.

The Spider Queen was laying on her stomach, its legs were spread all over the ground, and her head was held tightly by a man whose hand was spewing continuous jets of black lighting right through the spasming queen's face.

Dave drew Durandal, and the sound of the sword alerted the wizard to Dave's entry.

"You've grown a nasty habit of being where you're not supposed to be, Draugr," Ashkar spoke without turning back.

"Just like you said, a force of habit. And you as well, you're always somewhere where you're not supposed to be. Say, what's going on here, I don't think you're being too friendly with our little spider here."

"Yeah, I guess so, my calculations were slightly wrong, you see," Ashkar turned and released the queen that suddenly fell to the ground.

"When I tried forcing the two Gods to submission, the spell backfired and didn't work, it made them enter into a crazed rage. I was surprised that you managed to release them from it. But that taught me that I have been doing things rather wrongly."

Dave got a few steps closer, his eyes fixed on Ahskar, but still, he took note of the queen that was slowly gaining her footing and trying to stand up rather shakily.

"I was arrogant, though strong, and a demi-god, I shouldn't have tried to control something that is of a higher status than me. But all is well, at least I learned something new, that even if I can't control a god, making them go berserk is enough to keep it out of my way. Still, that gave me a good opportunity to fully explore my ability."

Dave didn't interrupt the villain's monologue, it was never wise, keep them talking, keep them spelling secrets, at the end, it might come to your own advantage.

"So, controlling lesser things, things that had never the chance to ascend became far easier. And believe me when I tell you, this is but the start."

The spider queen fully stood up, black lighting crackled from around its body and its own size which was quite massive grew more noticeably so.

Dave inspected the spider.

***

Man-Eating Spider (Queen) [Amplified]

Level: 650

Tier: Mythic

Danger Level: ? ?

Base damage: 500,000-850,000

HP: 55,000,000

PD: 420,000

MD: 300,000

Skills:

[Royal Dominance] all arachnids in the vicinity of the Deep Wilds are bound in servitude to the Queen. If the queen's HP drops below 20% a call will go out and players have five (5) minutes to kill the queen before every spider within 20 miles comes to her aid.

[Late Night snack] the queen consumes one of its children to recover HP (1% of the queen's total HP for each adult spider and 0.5% for each spiderling).

[World Wide Web] the queen sprays sticky masses of webs that snare enemies in an area. Can cover areas up to a 50-meter radius. The sticky webbing lasts for 20 seconds, all snared enemies receive 50% more damage, and their movement speed is reduced by 30%.

Additional effect [Amplification] The Spider queen's power has been increased thanks to the effects of the amplifying lighting used by Ashkar.

Bestiary:

Man-eating spiders are a matriarchal species. The queen arachnid will not allow another female to grow and threaten her authority, she kills and eats all female spiders as they hatch.

Addendum:

Subdued and controlled by Ashkar the Spider Queen's ferocity has been increased.

***

Dave drew Ajax, battling Ashkar alone was a hassle and now with the queen as his own personal battle pet, this was bound to get ugly.

"So you see, even queen tier classes are easy to subdue. Now if you think about it. What else can I control and would make the following events far more compelling than they actually are?" Ashkar grinned leaving the thought to fester in Dave's mind as a lighting bolt, darker than the night struck where he stood, and with it, the wizard disappeared.

The spider queen hissed at Dave then charged the two.

"What the heck was he talking about? You got an idea?!" Ralph said.

"Yeah, I think I know, but you're not gonna like it." Dave pivoted his entire body and smashed Ajax into the charging queen's face sapping the force out of her charge then used [Reject] not to rebound the strength of the charge, but a saved up spell he had on him.

La-Shmir's corrosive dragon breath.

The breath blew in the spider's face and immediately began melting it off.

The massive acid spray caused the queen to rear back in languished stature and pain.

-8,000,000

"Get out of here! It's gonna blow!" Dave shouted.

Ralph hurried out of the area and jumped to the side of the cliff, while Dave switched to his gauntlets and struck at the ground with a fiery fist.

The flames from the impact busted out and sparked the highly flammable acidic remains of the dragon breath.

Dave used [Bastion] the effects of Lashmir's corrosive breath would undoubtedly damage his newly repaired armor and he was not interested in paying another visit to Andre so soon.

An ear-splitting explosion sounded from within the cave of the spider, as flames burst from the entrance of the cave and its top, akin to a compacted explosion that found a small hole of release.

-22,000,000!

Dave didn't take any damage thanks to [Bastion], but now the heavily wounded queen shrieked loud and high, that the entirety of her spider army heard the cry of help and came rushing toward the cave-like a mad stampede of skittering death.

Dave switched back to his sword and shield, a glint to his eyes and a smile on his face, "Time for some payback for all the shit you had me go through in my nooby days."