Chapter 447: Chapter 447 I Slide Tackle

As the Mother Spider hesitated due to the pain shooting up from the tip of her spider leg, a shadow emerged from behind Yang Yu and instantly submerged itself into his sword blade, painting it pitch black.

Sword light and shadow flowed, a streak of dark light flashed by, and a long gash appeared on the chest of the Mother Spider.

The golden chest armor of the Mother Spider shattered under this strike, and green blood seeped out like wine from a burst barrel, slowly streaming down.

However, the scent of the Black-footed Mother Spider’s blood was oddly intriguing, like the feet of a man who hadn’t bathed for over a dozen days.

Black-footed Mother Spiders primarily used brute force for hunting.

They targeted prey and approached silently, then clamped down on it firmly, swinging their sharp teeth to tear open wounds on the skin, followed by the smaller spiders biting fiercely into the wound, until the prey couldn’t bear the pain and died a painful death.

Only then would they inject powerful digestive enzymes into the prey, tenderizing the flesh during the drag back to their cave.

Despite being bestowed with poison by someone, the original racial talent of this Mother Spider didn’t immediately change simply because it gained this potent weapon.

The level of this Mother Spider was seventy, its attack was as high as eight hundred, while its defense was only two hundred and one.

“Shadow Deception” was a skill that used the enemy’s attack panel to strike, and the high attack but low defense of the Mother Spider perfectly showcased the skill’s power.

Alas, besides having high attack but low defense, this Black-footed Mother Spider had another key feature—it had substantial blood volume, with health surpassing eight thousand, nearly reaching nine thousand.

It’s not hard to imagine the kind of endurance monsters in the desert had developed.

Yang Yu didn’t indulge in self-praise, for if he didn’t have this skill, he might not even have managed to lower one percent of the Mother Spider’s health.

A tinge of orange crawled onto the sword blade, and red electricity snaked from the hilt into Yang Yu’s palm, wounding him.

This pain, too, Yang Yu gradually grew accustomed to.

Without any pause, Yang Yu seized the opportunity to counter-attack, using “Double-sided Slash” on the Mother Spider’s wound.

The shattered armor of the Mother Spider was completely embedded into the flesh by Yang Yu’s strike, and the green blood suddenly stained the chest of the Mother Spider green.

The Mother Spider could use poison, and if the poison were to stick to him, its spider legs could instantly tear Yang Yu apart.

As he attacked, Yang Yu also deliberately kept his blood volume low, to be able to instantly unleash “Sudden Killing Intent” in case of dangerous situations.

Bai Jin supported with “Frost Ice Arrow,” as the offspring of the Mother Spider were likely to pounce out from the pure white spider web at any moment.

Currently, Bai Jin, holding the power of large-scale AOE that could clear a mass of minions in an instant, had to contain them as much as possible when the smaller spiders emerged, to prevent their team from falling into a tough battle.

Consequently, she could only opt for the faster-casting Frost Ice Arrow as her method of support attack.

Though less powerful, with Bai Jin’s high Intelligence, she could still output respectable damage.

Several consecutive Frost Ice Arrows hit their mark, and the health of the Mother Spider rapidly dwindled.

The Mother Spider swung its forelegs to block Bai Jin’s Magic and spat out silk from its abdomen, navigating the silk with its Poison Teeth to re-apply Poison Liquid.

Standing on three legs to support the silk, the Mother Spider suddenly pounced towards Yang Yu.

Yang Yu slid into a tackle, sliding underneath the Mother Spider’s belly, but he didn’t use a knife to instantly slice open its abdomen.

Instead, he used a sword and shield to change direction beneath the Mother Spider’s abdomen, darting through spider legs to arrive in front of the Chariot Knight on the chessboard.

Behind the Mother Spider, the staircase surely hid countless little spiders.

Even though the Mother Spider had said it wouldn’t let them join the fight, if he accidentally entered their domain, he’d inevitably get bitten to shreds.

Without pausing too much, Yang Yu swung his sword blade through the air, severing a slender thread in an instant with a strike.

The Mother Spider had intended to take control of Yang Yu in an unguarded moment, but who knew Yang Yu would not reveal any flaws at all.

Rotating its body, the Mother Spider swallowed the webs it had ejected and chewed them up.

This time, a greater number of threads erupted from its abdomen, and the Mother Spider wound these threads into a ball and tossed it into the air.

The ball of thread reached the center of the chessboard, where it unraveled like scattered fairy blossoms, rapidly unfolding.

The Mother Spider had changed its strategy.

If Yang Yu could evade by exploiting the smallest gaps, then it would create a space with absolutely no gaps, leaving Yang Yu with no place to hide.

Furthermore, this approach would prevent wasting poison liquid, killing two birds with one stone.

Facing the sky-full of threads, Yang Yu simply took a deep breath, memorized the sequence of the splitting threads, and then, relying on his excellent positioning, threaded his way through the openings and began an odd dance, dodging the myriad of threads.

The Mother Spider, seeing how easily Yang Yu had avoided its web trap, blew out more threads from its abdomen, dabbed them with poison teeth secretions, and flung them at Yang Yu.

However, it hadn’t expected Yang Yu to be so prepared.

Yang Yu stepped back to dodge the head-on assault while moving backward to the staircase entrance as he had estimated he should.

In this way, Yang Yu found hope for survival amidst the dense webs.

The Mother Spider moved its eight legs, edging a few steps closer to them, all while spitting out a large ball of purple poison liquid as if blowing bubbles.

Once again, the Mother Spider shot out threads from its abdomen, twining them into a thick rope with one end soaked in the poison, and the other end wrapped around its hand.

Like hurling a meteor hammer, the Mother Spider swung the massive ball of poison again towards the center of the chessboard, shattering countless droplets from poison bubbles, creating an ominous rain in the room.

Countless droplets splattered onto the walls with a ‘bam,’ and Yang Yu sought a chess piece to momentarily shelter from the poison rain, only to see droplets hitting the ground, bouncing back up and splitting into tinier droplets, leaving no square on the chessboard unscathed.

Having no other choice, Yang Yu had to stand once more in front of Bai Jin and the others, deploying the Illusion Shield.

He could only watch powerlessly as the poison slowly spread, covering the entire chessboard.

Just as the poison rain ceased, Yang Yu felt something sticky latch onto his shield.

Without a second thought, Yang Yu immediately released the shield, and saw it instantly pulled into the Mother Spider’s mouth.

To the Mother Spider’s disappointment, it spat out the bitten shield.

Fortunately, the Purple Quality shield was incredibly tough; it hadn’t suffered damage, but it was covered in poison liquid and temporarily unusable.