"It's... Arachnea!"
Raw chaos. That was probably the only way Rhys could explain what was going on around him right now.
The members of the Cerberus guild seemed like they had already completely forgotten about their guild master, even though he was still pretty much impaled like a whole roasted pig around one of Arachnea's legs.
None of them were even looking at him anymore — granted, you can't save an obviously already dead person.
All of them just started running away like cockroaches being exposed to the light. As for Arachnea, she could not really be bothered in chasing any of them—no. She was also not even looking at them; her eyes, just completely fixated on Rhys as a very small smile started to crawl onto her face.
Rhys thought that something was weird, and as Arachnea started to walk toward him, he finally noticed what it was.
She was wearing a shirt — an oversized shirt at that, which completely hid her figure from everyone. Even then, however, her shirt couldn't contain the bounce and jiggle with every step she took.
As expected of the only other female that could compare to Katarina's... mountains.
"Tch..." Out of nowhere, however, Arachnea clicked her tongue and stopped walking; her eyes, looking at all the people screaming and running away in annoyance. And her annoyance soon completely turned into disgust as Edward's corpse started sliding down from her leg, "These humans...
...always so annoying."
"!!!"
And with those words, Arachnea suddenly disappeared from Rhys's sight — and even with the enhanced senses and reflexes, Rhys could not even follow Arachnea's movements as she just started plowing through the members of the Cerberus guild like they were grass; she wasn't even actively attacking them, she was literally just plowing through them with her body and legs.
It wasn't that Arachnea was truly that fast, no — she was fast in all the senses of the word, but it was her ability to just quickly change directions that made Rhys instantly lose sight of her from time to time.
And as Rhys found himself impressed, he could not help but quickly shake his head as he realized he shouldn't just be standing there and should perhaps search for a better position — after all, behind him was a building that might as well be a trap.
But before he could even think of a new position, Arachnea was done — she had completely wiped out all the members of the Cerberus guild that was present in ambushing Rhys. Even those who were on top of the buildings around them couldn't escape; that was how efficient Arachnea was in hunting humans...
...and not even once did she use her webs and threads.
In fact, Rhys doesn't remember Arachnea using her threads against Ayesha at all... she truly was just playing with her. But then...
...this was not exactly the right time to think about anyone else.
"Finally, all the insects are gone," Arachnea once again landed a few meters in front of Rhys; walking toward her like she did not just kill dozens and dozens of people, "We were interrupted the last time we met, descendant of Eros."
"The other gods have exiled Eros for his betrayal against the King of the Gods."
"Eros... betrayed Zeus?"
"Ssh," Arachnea quickly placed a finger on her lips, "Do not let the big guy hear you; last I heard, he was still mad about that even after a thousand years had already passed."
"A thousand years ago..." Rhys blinked a couple of times as he looked Arachnea in the eyes, "...When the monsters dug their way up to the Surface? And the gods had to come from above?"
"Around that time, yes. But there is one detail you are sorely mistaken about," Arachnea giggled as she wagged a finger in front of Rhys's face, "The monsters, the gods...
...we all came from down there."
"...What?" Rhys's eyes slightly widened as he heard Arachnea's words. Although the change of detail in history does not really affect Rhys directly or even personally. But the fact that a major detail like the gods coming from the Underworld was not known to them...
...Rhys could not help but wonder what else in their history was wrong.
"Then... is Eros part of the Olym—"
"No."
"No? He's not—"
"I meant I am done answering your questions, Descendant of Eros." And as soon as those words escaped Arachnea's lips; her spider body suddenly started convulsing out of nowhere, causing Rhys to slightly burrow an inch of his feet into the shadows,
"It's time for me to eat."
Before he could actually escape, however, he found his waist suddenly wrapped in by Arachnea's legs... and not her spider legs.
It was a pair of... human legs that suddenly protruded from Arachnea's spider body, completing the rest of her human parts. It was slightly... slimy.
"Wh—" And before Rhys could even say anything, Arachnea wrapped her arms around his neck. And like an egg hatching... Arachnea's human body separated itself from her spider body.
And due to her size, Rhys could not help but just fall down on his back — with Arachnea sitting on top of him; her face, just inches away from his.
"...You could do that?" Rhys's eyes widened as he instinctively touched Arachnea's thick but soft new legs; the slime, causing his hand to almost just glide over it.
"Oh..." Arachnea opened her mouth as her unusually long tongue gently brushing across Rhys's lips,
"...I can do a lot of things, child."