After they returned to where they were originally–
Arisu immediately cast “Distance healing” for Tamaki, and then charged towards the Arachne warrior. She stubbornly aimed at the spider’s front legs.
It seemed like she was doing it both to stall the enemy’s movement in addition to drawing its attention to herself. She was creating a chance for my familiars to attack.
Hiding behind Arisu, the two spirits remembered the principle that they had to go around the enemy’s back. Attacking from both sides would reduce the power imbalance between them and the enemy. That was the tactic for now.
The Arachne warrior couldn’t focus only on facing Arisu. The wounds were increasing on its body, plus…
“Whole body electric shock.”
Mia’s electric attack slowed the warrior down temporarily.
Taking advantage of the opportunity, Arisu let out a shrill cry, charging and sinking her blade into the Arachne warrior’s chest.
Blue blood spurted out of its chest like a fountain.
Arisu and the spirits leaned forward further, increasing the intensity of their attack. As the stiffness in its body wore out, the Arachne warrior writhed from side to side, its shoulders and abdomen sustaining wound after wound.
I thought that we had won already…
Yet the Arachne Warrior leapt up immediately after the stiffness left its body.
Oh no, Arachnes could jump?
The enemy leader rose high above Arisu and the spirits’ heads, heading in the direction of Tamaki and the legendary Arachne she was battling. It was likely planning to protect the highly valuable legendary Arachne that was stronger than itself.
It must have taken the enemy aback that the legendary Arachne and Arachne warrior had been drawn so far apart. This was our plan at work…
If we let it land, things were going to go badly. I immediately shouted out, “Mia, finish it off!”
“Got it! Gravity!”
Things had happened so quickly, but Mia immediately understood what I was thinking.
A level 7 wind spell, “Gravity” would affect the gravity around the Arachne warrior in the air.
It didn’t understand at all what Mia had done as its huge body was crushed by its own weight, losing all speed and plummeting to the ground.
The sound of bones cracking was clear. It seemed like a few of its legs had snapped. It wouldn’t be able to stand up anytime soon.
Even so, the Arachne warrior still spat out webbing at Arisu and Tamaki, who were trying to approach it.
“Ah, ah!”
Arisu was coated in sticky webbing from her face to the rest of her body.
“Go, fire spirit!”
Immediately, Arisu’s body started burning. The fire spirit from behind used its magic to burn Arisu along with the webbing.
In the earlier battle, we had already confirmed that webbing was weak against fire, so we had explained the plan to the fire spirit ahead of time.
From the leaping flames charged Arisu. Her spear’s head stabbed deeply into the immobilized Arachne warrior.
Letting out a haunting death wail, the Arachne warrior fell to the ground.
Its huge body disappeared, leaving behind four blue gems.
So it was equal to forty credits…that meant that it was quite a formidable foe. But because we were stronger than it, we didn’t really get that feeling.