Chapter 74: Rip and Tear

Chapter 74: Rip and Tear

The large and bloody man approaches casually, though his eyes are still locked on me.

100 meters.

My awareness and intuition are on full alert, showing me he is clearly expecting a fight, despite his casual looking approach.

With my body tense, I can tell I am prepared for this. Mentally and physically.

Reading his every movement, ready for sudden movements.

It is at this time that my previous plans come to fruition, activating almost subconsciously. Before my eyes, I can see an almost holographic overlay, similar to the one I see for healing, appears. Showing his future movements.

90 meters

Woah it looks like hes going to continue walking closer until he gets within 50 meters. Then he will launch at me, to literally knock my head off. Faster than anyone has ever moved on earth with their own body.

It wont even take 2 seconds to reach me at that distance.

Even as I think this, the holographic image changes, updates to show his changes in plans. Switching to the likeliest approach.

75 meters.

He gives me a pleasant smile and begins talking. You know, you look like you are nervous. Never been in a proper fight before?

I ignore him, as much as I can, and call the spiders to flank him from above, on the tops of the buildings. I still have the mass of spiders behind me menacingly moving. Keeping his attention.

65 meters.

I lower myself into a basic fighting stance. Different ways to position my body come up, but I settle with what Im most comfortable with right now.

Turning my body to the side, bending my knees, and raising my hands, I keep my eyes on the man. His face is filled with a twisted mask of glee and laughter. The sounds of him maliciously laughing fill the area.

Its strange, though. I feel I shouldnt be looking at his arm or hand for the punch. Rather, I should just be looking at his entire body. Rolling with the hologram.

50 meters.

At that moment, the hologram switches to show a glowing area, just beneath his left armpit. A weak spot.

As his body shoots over to meet me, that arm is extended. His fist at my face at high speed.

DODGE!

Diving to the side, I almost catch a glancing blow from the sheer speed he moved.

FUUUCK! Its very different when you actually have to fight!

He pauses for the briefest moment, looking at me in confusion. Before quickly breaking out in excitement and charging at me again.

Im caught in a dangerous position, even as I jump to my feet.

His fist catches me in the chest with the loud sound of a crack, filling my chest with pain, throwing me backwards, and knocking the breath out of me.

They continue eating him from the inside and out. The majority of his lower body and into his intestines seem to have been hollowed, slightly.

I collapse on the ground backwards. My arms and hands shaking from the adrenaline. My eyes overlap the two men Ive now killed this way.

Another hiss from the spider, makes me focus back on the situation.

Its still injecting him.

Just in case, I use my intuitive scan to see whether he is dead, causing me to scramble backwards even further.

A shiver crawls down my back, as I can feel that he still lives.

All of you! Finish him off!

At my words, all the spiders in the area surge to him.

Somehow, he likely heard me, as well. Far more than ever before, he struggles. Like a rabid animal, his strength is far beyond anything Ive ever seen and the web is ripping from the strain.

Sounding like the continuous snap of gunfire, multiple web snaps onto its sides, blowing away spiders and almost hitting me. Crevasses form from the strength of its tension.

Fighting through the pure fear raging throughout my body, I sprint forward. Diving onto the edge of the web, desperately attempting to support the efforts to keep this monster down.

My scan suddenly picks up movement down the alleyway. Running around the corner are a few kids. With knives.

Before I can warn them to stay away, I see someone jump down from the window above us like a fucking assassin and plunge a rusty knife deep into the mans back.

The spiders clear away from that spot, before they were crushed.

All while the giant spider, the tiny spiders, and I barely hold down the web enough to keep him from lashing out at us.

More and more people come with sharp objects and begin stabbing into him.

Rip and tear. Over and over and over again.

Almost endlessly, they stab into him. The spider injecting. Us holding.

All until the last signs of life disappear from him.

With his final movements dying away all that is left, is just silence and the sound of heavy breathing.

As he is definitely dead now, the spiders return to feeding on him.

Gnaw, tear, devour.

Delicious. Love you.

The local people slowly move away from the body, before bolting back into the alleyways.

All that is left, is the spiders, the body, and me.