Catalyst System

The Forest to the City of Tungsten

    After solving the problems in Illiod Village, the two finally returned to Tungsten City. Not to forget also they say goodbye to – villagers. In the end, the carriage was filled with fruits. Although it does not look luxurious, but the goods – items obtained are very meaningful.

    The sun began to rise, shining all over the land, giving spirit to all creatures, the chariot was pulled by two horses after the coachman told him to walk. The road accompanied by a large plot of wheat, the condition is almost the same as yesterday, now they return through this road.

    “It is a pity, Vina there is no chance to play with them” he said with a tone of complaint, feeling that the visit to Illiod Village was too short for him, he said, but Veroa can't leave Tungsten City for too long either. So, that's the best choice.

    They began to enter the forest area, the scenery that was presented was beautiful. Sunlight that escapes from the foliage barrier, until it penetrates the soil, making plants – small plants get the opportunity to photosynthesize.

This forest is the border forest between Californium Forest and Copernicium Forest. Although there is no prominent dividing mark, but can be seen on two large stones on the right and left that are slightly far apart. Which indicates that from one stone to another straight line separates these two forests.

From behind the bushes, there was often a rustling sound, indicating the number of living things hiding there. It could be rodents, predators that are making traps, insects, or even reptiles. Melata beasts in this border forest were rare, it was very difficult to find them here. But, once found, the slithering animal that appears is a very rare melata animal, rare anywhere.

Rare and unique animals, certainly expensive when sold. Hence, it is often seen that some adventurers are testing their luck to get a slithering beast, whatever it is. Importantly, when sold has a high selling value.

At that time, the atmosphere felt a little noisy from the interior of the forest. Slowly, a rustling sound was heard increasingly clearly. It was the sound of human footsteps running in a hurry, like they were being chased by something dangerous.

The horseman who felt a bad feeling was about to speed up the carriage, but Veroa prevented him and told him to wait for something to come. The horseman was unable to do anything and only obeyed him. Although he believed in his Master's abilities, but aside from worrying about himself, he was also worried about his Master's safety with the little girl he was with. The one who came was unknown to his identity, it could be something very powerful and dangerous, he did not want to imagine the worst possibility.

From behind the trees, two humans were seen running in fear. Coincidentally, the two of them ran towards the horse carriage that was being rode by Veroa and Vina. Things that the horseman was worried about.

“You! Immediately go from here” exclaimed one of the two after being not far from the position of the horse carriage at this time. They were still running, from his behavior clearly visible, actually they wanted to turn the direction, so as not to lure something towards Veroa. But, it was too late, a very large spider had been spotted back there and he was looking towards them as well.

The sword-legged spider, every time he jumped over a tree, it would fall down with a single footing. The body is slender, but there are five thin, strong, and sharp parts that extend from the neck to the buttocks. These five parts, there is one in the middle, one pair on the left and right. The height of this section is about 10 cm and it can be seen from a distance that this sword-legged spider not only has a pointed, sharp, and strong part in the legs only, but also the legs, but almost all over his body.

Along the path he passed had damaged the forest order a lot. The spider leapt high with both of its front legs ready to chop off the head of Veroa who was standing waiting for his arrival.

[Kendo master: delayed effect]

When the two legs that were shaped like swords were about to behead him, the two legs were lying down, apart from his body. A strange one-eyed sword had just been sheathed back.

It turned out that, out of nowhere, honjou masamune suddenly appeared in his hand, he happily cut the two legs off in a bit of style, using one of his flagship skills.

The sword-legged spider screamed in pain. He ran here and there and came back many uprooting tree trunks. But, before more trees were uprooted, Veroa immediately picked it up with gravity domine magic and the spider could only wriggle helplessly in the air.

After that, Veroa handed the beast that had been helpless to the two people before, whereas she would proceed to return.

But before that, Veroa asked about something to the two of them, “The sword-legged spider basically won't come out of its nest, let alone in the morning like this. What exactly is your purpose in disturbing him? While you yourself are not able to defeat it, to approach it you have to be extra careful. Ridiculous is not if you do it just to play?”

The two looked at each other at the question from Veroa, but one of them immediately replied, “At that time, we were hunting a slightly large green ape. The monkey jumped here and there, not seeing the spider web so big in front of him and he was trapped there. Shortly after, a sword-legged spider emerged from behind the dense foliage and immediately ate it. We who were seen by him were also the next target, because the spider is so large, eating the body of a green monkey that is considered small, of course, still requires intake. Until, here we are and meet you all. Thank goodness, you are very good at being able to pass on the beast. Even though I had no intention of helping us, I thought..”.

“Yes, yes, no problem. Better, you are also careful when herding the quarry. Also, you take care of the beast, I will continue the journey with the others” said Veroa who cut off the man's conversation about to thank him, and he soon passed away.

While in the carriage, Veroa daydreams about the strange story of the man who was previously chased by a sword-legged spider with his friend. You see, sword-legged spiders usually nest in a cave or in a dark place. “I have to investigate! Than later until something worse happened” thought.