Caleb claimed the life of the three spiders and was about to continue their pace. Now, he was the one carrying Fatty on his back. He could feel on his skin Fatty's unnaturally low body temperature.
He knew that Fatty wouldn't last long. Even if they manage to reach the city. Fatty had lost too much blood and his organs were in a mess. In this world, where technology has taken a step back. Saving Fatty would be a miracle. The only hope he had was if there was a Destiny with an amazing ability to heal.
'I can't even do anything. Healing abilities are really important.'
Just as they were walking, weird crawling continuously sounded.
"What is that?"
The members including Caleb immediately readied themselves and turned around. Then they saw the houses and church, hundreds of spiders broke out from the doors and windows.
Hundreds of monkey heads stared at them with a weird smile on their faces.
"Crap!" Caleb felt goosebumps on his skin. Without thinking, he made a huge purple net, then threw its ends to the path the spider had to take to block them. "Run! Guys carry the others. You go first, I'll hold them back!"
Producing webs, he slings it everywhere in hopes of slowing down the spiders.
With Caleb's signal, Jin and Dunn went beside Andre and Clifford to carry them on their back. Rina did the same to Luna.
"I don't know what you plan to do. But be sure to catch up!" Dunn shouted.
Just like that, the members disappeared leaving Caleb behind.
Just as they disappeared, the ground rumbled intensely which almost made Caleb fall on his back. He saw the spiders dumbly get entangled with the net and web-like substance.
"What's up with that!?" Clifford turned his head to the annoyingly loud sound and made a displeased face. Suddenly, his face froze in shock...
'Why did he suddenly become silent.' Jin also felt a bout of irritability arise from his heart after hearing the screech. But he managed to put it under control. Curious, he turns around only to regret his decision.
Far away in the distance, a twenty-meter behemoth of a spider was walking towards them slowly. It was as if as a six-story building so it could cover a lot of distance, even with its slow stride.
Its eight malevolent eyes gleamed with an eerie, unnatural light, each one resembling a sinister window into the abyss. They blinked rhythmically as if calculating the impending dread it would inflict upon those unlucky enough to cross its path.
Its grotesque exoskeleton was adorned with bone-chilling skull patterns etched in glistening, obsidian black, a macabre mosaic that whispered of suffering and despair. The skeletal markings seemed to writhe and shift, creating an unsettling illusion of life within death.
Its legs, sturdy and metallic, radiated an otherworldly chill, clinking with a haunting, reverberating resonance as they moved. These menacing appendages bore wickedly sharp, barbed tips, dripping with a venom that could melt even the bravest of hearts.
Its facial features were a grotesque caricature of malevolence. A maw of jagged, serrated mandibles opened and closed with a sickening clicking sound, revealing rows of serrated fangs that glistened with malefic intent. A pair of blood-red pincers twitched menacingly, their grip capable of crushing bones with ruthless ease.
Then below the Queen's feet. They are an army of spiders, numbering thousands. Such a scene made the members thankful that they got past the town without being detected. If they got entangled with them, their fate would be sealed.
"M*therf*cker!"
Johan's cursing pulled Jin and others from their daze as they were frozen in fear due to the immensity of the Tier 8 Spider Queen.
Caleb produced another three pieces of spring and gave them to Jin, Dunn, and Rina. "Use these! As long as you're not two kilometers away from me, they won't vanish."
Rina, Dunn, and Jin took the springs unceremoniously and equipped them. Under Caleb's teachings. The three quickly got the hang of them.