Fantasy Star Online's

20. Arachne II

Arachne, whose name means spider in Greek, is a beautiful woman who has a great talent in weaving. Everyone is amazed at her work and one day, Arachne encourages that she has greater talent than the goddess Athena herself. This was a violation of the gods, which was a very serious and even deadly sin for the ancient Greeks. That is why the goddess Athena turned him into a spider to wave all her life.

Yes, at least that's the background of Arachne, that half-human half-spider creature in outline. As legend has it, Arachne was originally just a Lydia woman, who some consider a princess, who was very talented in the art of weaving.

As a result of arrogance over her skill in weaving, she dared to challenge the Goddess Athena, the Goddess of Weaving in a weaving contest. Surely, when the final result is shown and although the Goddess Athena considers Arachne's expertise to be great, it is due to her anger over Arachne who dares to question the supremacy of the gods. The goddess Athena angrily transforms Arachne into a disgusting insect creature. He turns her into a spider, and declares Arachne and all her offspring will begin to live hanging from the thread forever.

That's a little story about Arachne, quoted from existing sources.

"Why would a kid like you know so much about that?" ask Ryzen.

"I have a lot of knowledge about such a thing, because it will be my stock before I will truly become an adventurer."

"...."

Ryzen turned his gaze to the large iron door located far in front of him. Sighing his breath then stood up while holding the spear in his hand.

"I don't have much time, it's better to finish it quickly."

His statement was responded by a slow nod by Moon who walked after him, saying, "Me too."

Lucius looked at the two of them from behind, feeling confused by them, suddenly wanting to hurry up to clear things up, whereas Arachne was not a monster that could be underestimated. Brushing aside his confusion, he also walked with them after Moon stopped walking and glanced sharply at him.

'I hope you're still safe, father, ' Lucius' inner self.

Lucius' father was the head of the bandit gang, he and his father went to this place while all his men guarded the entrance that no one should ever come. If Lucius is with his father, then where is his father?

This was the abbreviation of the story some time ago, before Ryzen and Moon managed to break through to this place....

Upon reaching the place where the bandits had gathered, Lucius went to face his father, the bandit leader. They had a little chat before they both went behind the guarded door, yes, it was the same door that became the barrier between a cave-like place filled with crystal stones and other places. When they got to the place, and saw a large iron door standing firm, they approached the door and tried to open it.

After successfully killing him, he attempted to cut through Lucius' cocoon net but always failed, the net was too hard. Then he remembered, an ancient artifact that could slash and split anything, even adamantine metal. However, despite coincidence, whether good or bad, the artifact is guarded by the ruler of this place, namely Arachne. In short, in order to obtain the artifact, he would have to go behind the big door and fight against Arachne for the sake of obtaining the artifact, well, he didn't mind as well because originally, it was, the goal is to kill Arachne and get his eggs or babies for sale.

After he walked into that huge door, no one knew what his fate was like now.

Ryzen, Moon, and Lucius stood before the large door. In close proximity, their height does not even reach a quarter of the height of the door.

Ryzen observed the door, looking for a way to open it. Then Lucius suddenly walked closer and placed his hand on the door. After his skin touched, the ground around them shook and the door slowly opened.

"B.. It's crazy!" ryzen Sentak.

He did not think of a way to open it enough to stick his hand.

"There is no need to be dizzy thinking, because that makes it no idea or other words lazy," said Lucius.

"Hmm, that's right, too" Ryzen replied.

"???" Moon looked at the two of them in confusion.

Behind the big, fully open door. There are a lot of spider webs and large eggs, in front of them also stands a monster— which has the upper part of the human body, which is, a female and her lower half was the body of a spider with eight large legs.

"So that's Arachne... Isn't he too...."

Only one thing bothered Ryzen when she saw Arachne. Yes, especially if not the appearance of his human body, how to say yes, anyway...

"Ero..tis?"

Yes, Arachne's human body looks very erotic, how not? her body was almost like naked, fortunately her skin color was a bit dark blue like the women who were usually of the demon race.