Fantasy Star Online's
21. Arachne III
"Ahh, the next dish has arrived, huh?"
The sound was heard echoing and like coming from the depths of the earth, a heavy voice but also mixed with the voice of a woman who sounded high-pitched.
When they find out the owner of the voice, which turns out to belong to a large creature that has most of its lower body is a spider and ranging from the stomach until its head is human, exactly is the body of a human woman, ahem, of course the body was dressed to cover the area that became a symbol for most women. In addition, the skin of his human body was slightly dark and his spider body was pitch-black which did not reflect the light in the least.
"Ah, what is this? A family of a couple of young men who seem to be in their teens?"
The creature, looking at the three of them with passionate eyes, signifies how much he wants to eat the prey. Other than Ryzen and Moon, only Lucius was trembling in fear when he felt the gaze, because for Ryzen and Moon who were players, he was a very powerful figure, maybe the gaze will only give them a debuff status only and if they die, they can still live or play back after 2 hours of punishment. But, for Lucius who was an inhabitant or an NPC, of course he only had one life, if dead would not be able to live again unless it was turned on by certain magic.
"So you're Arachne? Not as erotic as I imagined" Ryzen said, looking at the creature.
When he finished saying that, he suddenly felt like something sharp was being pointed at the back of his neck.
"What. did he. imagine?" moon said as he muttered but sounded loudly with a pause in each word, a black aura also looked like it was enveloping him.
"Hoo~. Aren't you being disrespectful to me, boy?"
Arachne gave an intimidating look even until Lucius who was standing some distance behind Ryzen was affected, that is, his breathing became tight as if the air around him was being suppressed and vanished. But for Ryzen and Moon, although not as bad as Lucius, they still get debuff status that reduces their mental spirit to fight and as a result the debuff managed to reduce their stats by 20% for 2 minutes.
"I'm not being disrespectful, but, I'm still normal. Which humans are passionate when they see mixed creatures like you?" ryzen sneered while raising his weapon.
As soon as Ryzen raised his weapon, Moon also prepared and made a distance while carrying Lucius away from the battle area, which again if not on the other side of the iron gate.
"YOU, LOWLY MAN!" arachne Amuk.
Arachne leapt backwards and fired several needle-shaped nets from his spider body.
"Go, find a safe place." Moon could only escort Lucius to the front of the iron gate, the rest Lucius had to do by himself. After understanding the situation, Lucius nodded and immediately ran further.
When Moon managed to return to the Arachne battleground, the state of the place was already much different from when they had originally entered it. Now, the place was already filled with cracks and nets everywhere, and it all happened in just a few moments.
Ryzen still stood firm against Arachne without losing a single HP point, it was because he continued to dodge all attacks from Arachne. But, dodging has its limits, because stamina, is the most annoying feature when fighting strong enemies. Moon realized this, his partner would not be able to win if he continued to avoid, so one thing that must be done a ranged class on a team is to help melee their class.
Shoot it! Whoosh!
An arrow coated in wind waves that looked sharp like a knife was fired by Moon, the arrow pointed towards the human body part of Arachne quickly. But, who would have thought that such a swift attack could be stopped by the savage instincts of the spider monster Arachne using his web that appeared even from his human body.
"A good shot, but, his strength is still too weak to break through my defense."
Arachne threw back the arrow that had lost the wind element that enveloped him. However, even so, because the arrow was thrown too fast, in just one second the arrow was stuck on the ground behind Moon.
"Ap—? Moon!" yell Ryzen.
"?!!"
Moments later, Moon lost half of his HP points that were still full, and his cheek was scratched by the lightning strike and left a scratch mark but the mark looked blue like a data program.
After doing so, Arachne looked like he was going to do something that would definitely be bad for Ryzen and Moon.
"Do you know the difference in strength between us?" said it. After a moment, he continued, "... Since I already know, and I'm already too hungry, I'd better get this over with."
The body of Arachne emitted a white light that increasingly enveloped him, as if the light was devouring him.
"Damn! Avoid!!"
Ryzen and Moon did not know that the light was not something they needed to worry about, as it came from a savior who came along with the rumbling of the place.
