Chapter 280: Life hangs on a thread
early morning.
Origin Castle, second floor guest room.
Click, click, click…
The sound of high heels hitting the floor tiles created a rapid and crisp echo, reverberating in the empty corridor.
The young woman wearing high-heeled leather boots is beautiful and dignified. She is wearing a black slim-fitting hip-hugging knitted skirt and a pair of gold-rimmed glasses.
Her long black hair was tied loosely into a bun, which passed over her shoulders and hung on the right side of her chest, giving her the gentle temperament of a good wife and mother.
However, a person's image and temperament are often deceptive and inconsistent with his or her inner self.
For example, this young woman with a gentle and is actually the leader of the world's largest cult, and is fearfully called the "Spider Queen".
The Spider Queen's beautiful face could not hide her anxiety.
He ignored the surprised looks of passers-by and walked quickly along the corridor.
He didn't stop until he reached the door of a guest room.
Crunch——
By chance a door nearby was open.
Four young warlocks from the Silver Moon Monastery, Adam, George, Baker and Hogg, came out chatting and laughing.
Seeing Caroline standing outside Allen's guest room, the four of them stopped at the same time and winked at each other.
"I heard that Junior Brother Allen has been very close to Spider mother and daughter recently. Could it be that they are now both mother and daughter..."
George's fat face showed a smile that all men know.
"Hush! Second brother, stop talking nonsense!" Adam interrupted him quickly, "Don't you see what kind of occasion this is!"
"That's right, Brother George! Gossip is fine if you talk about it in private, but it would be rude if it gets to the ears of the person concerned."
Green-browed Baker lowered his voice and echoed his senior brother.
"The demon girl who worships the Beast Cult doesn't have a good reputation to begin with. She probably doesn't care about these romantic rumors. But our Silver Moon Monastery has too many old-fashioned rules and regulations. If this gets to Master Shiva's ears, I'm afraid he will get angry with Junior Brother Allen!"
Hogg in the pig yard was worried.
Adam nodded, expressionless , and walked forward.
As he passed Caroline, he bowed slightly and then walked quickly past her.
The other three people did the same thing.
Caroline was preoccupied with something and instinctively nodded in return, not paying attention to the four people's strange looks.
The four monks walked through the long corridor, followed the spiral staircase, and came to the lobby on the first floor.
After getting away from the Spider Queen, they all breathed a sigh of relief at the same time.
"I didn't see anything at the door of Junior Brother Allen's guest room today, so you should all keep your mouths shut, okay?!"
Adam warned his three fellow apprentices sternly.
The three of them nodded in agreement on the surface, but they disagreed in their hearts.
The four of them were not the only ones who saw the Spider Queen lingering at Allen's door.
Even if the four of them kept their mouths shut, they couldn't stop others from talking nonsense.
The scandal about Junior Brother Allen and the Spider Queen was bound to spread widely, and could not be hidden from the hot-tempered White Tiger Martial Master.
Next, how will Junior Brother Allen face the wrath of his Master?
This problem gives them a headache just thinking about it!
I am a powerless person and my influence is not important. Even if I want to help Allen, I can't do anything.
Outside the bedroom door on the second floor.
Caroline smoothed her hair, raised her hand to knock on the door, but hesitated.
It's still early.
Alan, Helen and Sonia, who had a party last night, are probably still sleeping soundly in bed now.
Knocking on the door now would be a bit abrupt.
However, she really had something urgent to discuss with Allen and could not delay.
When I was hesitating, I suddenly received a telepathic message.
"Auntie, please come in. There is no one else in the room."
Caroline breathed a sigh of relief and opened the door.
On the other side is a glowing barrier.
Pass through the barrier and teleport directly to Allen's secret villa.
After a brief dizziness, Caroline came to her senses.
I found myself in Alan's bedroom.
Spacious room, very tidy.
Her eyes involuntarily drifted towards the bed.
There was a big, soft bed with three pillows placed side by side.
Although the bedding had been tidyed up, it was not difficult to imagine from the dents left on the pillow that Alan had spent an ecstatic night surrounded by women.
The room was filled with a faint body scent that penetrated Caroline's nostrils.
With her sensitive sense of smell, she could smell the scent of more than one woman.
The strongest scents of perfume came from Sonia and Helen, who had stayed here the previous night.
In addition, there are many familiar and unfamiliar body scents, including her baby daughter Spanna's favorite perfume.
These women must have spent nights with Allen.
"This brat is really a playboy!"
"My poor daughter, how could she bear it!"
The Spider Queen sighed secretly.
Retracting his thoughts, he asked Alan politely: "I'm sorry to bother you so early..."
Alan was washing up and smiled and shook his head when he heard this.
"It's not a bother. I always get up very early."
"Where are Sonia and Helen?" Caroline couldn't help asking.
"They left early in the morning. They just advanced to the next level and need to spend more time practicing and getting familiar with their newly awakened bloodline skills."
Allen explained.
"I thought you guys would stay up late and take a nap."
"Normally, we would have stayed up all night, but I remembered my aunt's advice and felt that we should not overindulge during the trial. Sonia and Helen are also very sensible and understand the principle of moderation."
"Oh? Not bad, not bad, you are all good kids!"
Caroline's heart warmed, and the look she gave Alan was filled with relief and kindness, as if a mother was looking at her son.
"Auntie, you came to see me so early, is there something urgent?"
Alan put down the wet towel and got back to the topic.
Caroline nodded, with a look of worry on her face.
"Alan, Spanna is in big trouble! Her life may be in danger!"
…
During the days that the Spider Queen accompanied Allen on the trial, her two precious daughters were also busy.
The two sisters roamed the abyss battlefield, searching for various evil demons with spider characteristics.
After hunting, extract the blood essence as a resource for blood fusion.
The two sisters gained a lot.
The most valuable prey are the Waxmelts and Demon-Hunting Spiders.
The Waxmelt is a sixth-tier demon with four forms.
Usually she will transform into a beautiful female dark elf, approach her prey, and seduce them with her beauty and seductive magic.
When the prey loses its vigilance and throws itself into the witch's arms, it will be struck by the witch's fatal blow!
The wax-melting monster can also transform into a huge black spider, climbing walls and running on rooftops as if it were walking on flat ground.
Or a cloud of turbid, highly toxic mist that puts anyone who inhales it into a coma.
As for the true identity of the wax-melting demon...
Just like her name, it is actually a pile of sticky mud monster that emits a poisonous and foul smell, like melted wax!
In the squirming waxy mud, there is a scarlet eye.
Eight slippery and sticky tentacles extend from its body, which can be used to capture prey or perform spellcasting gestures.
The Spider Sisters spent a lot of effort and worked together to hunt down a wax-melting monster and obtained the blood essence and the essence of the abyss.
However, the sisters were not satisfied.
As a beautiful girl who loves cleanliness, she was very reluctant to inject the blood essence of such an evil creature as the Wax Melting Demon into her body.
So the two sisters kept this option for the time being and continued on their hunting journey.
They longed to find a spider-shaped demon that was more powerful than the wax-melting demon and more in line with the sisters' aesthetic tastes.
Hard work pays off.
After two days of searching, and spending a lot of money to buy information from the castle's butler, Mr. Miri, the sisters finally had a new target - hunting demon spiders!
Adult demon-hunting spiders are blue-haired spiders as big as mammoths. They have an average strength of level six and feed on demons!
The Demon Hunting Spider's spellcasting ability is slightly inferior to that of the Wax Melter, and it does not have as many fancy transformation forms.
However, its physique and agility attributes crush the wax-melting monster, and it also possesses three talents: "tracking", "teleportation" and "armor breaking".
Once the Demon Hunting Spider targets its prey, even if it flees to the ends of the earth, it will not be able to escape the pursuit of this monster!
The Demon Hunting Spider's "Armor-Piercing Claws" are skills of the same level as the Behemoth's "Armor-Piercing Claws". They can also inject highly corrosive acid the moment they hit their prey!
Spenza and Spanna took great pains to hunt the Demon Hunting Spider.
The trap that was set at first was easily destroyed by the ferocious and strong demon-hunting spider, which chased the two of them and forced them to flee in a panic.
The Spider Sisters were very dissatisfied with being reduced from hunters to prey.
After a series of dangerous fights, the Demon Hunting Spider was finally caught and was marked with a "dimensional anchor" by Spencer, making it unable to teleport out.
Even so, the Demon Hunting Spider still risked its own legs and forced its way out!
The two sisters were afraid that if they delayed too long, the "dimensional anchor" would become ineffective, so they chased the demon-hunting spiders all night long.
It was not until dawn that they finally caught the exhausted and dying Demon Hunting Spider in an abandoned mine in the north of "Blood Hand Fortress" and killed it as they wished.
After obtaining the essence of the Demon Hunting Spider bloodline, the two sisters did not stop there and embarked on a new adventure.
They found traces of demonic sacrifice in this abandoned mine.
Continuing to follow these mysterious traces, the deeper we get into the mine, the more violent the fluctuations of magic power become.
In this magically chaotic environment, it takes double the concentration to cast spells stably.
Especially with teleportation magic, things can go wrong if you're not careful.
He originally wanted to teleport to an open area, but was disturbed by the turbulent flow of magic, and slammed his head against the wall, causing his brain to burst!
Such unexpected situations are no joke!
The two sisters had to give up teleporting and track down on foot.
Finally, we found the secret altar deep in the mine.
The sisters used the knowledge they learned in the meditation world to decipher the abyss inscription on the altar.
It turns out that the altar is a seal!
If the seal is opened, the monster that even demons fear will be released!
So, what exactly is this monster?
Judging from the sculptures enshrined on the altar, it seems to be an evil demon between a spider and a scorpion.
Its body is like a huge, slightly elongated black spider, with a pair of forelimbs specialized into scorpion claws and a scorpion tail dragging behind its butt.
The sculpture is exquisitely crafted, and the pale patterns on it are still clearly visible after years of wear and tear.
They looked like human faces that seemed to be neither crying nor laughing, with extremely crazy and distorted expressions.
The scorpion's tail, inlaid with a ruby stinger, flickered with an eerie luster in the dim cave.
Scorpions and spiders are distant relatives (Arachnida).
If the evil demon sealed in the altar really looks like the sculpture...
Spenza and Spanna, who possess spider blood, can theoretically also absorb the blood essence of this monster and use it for their own benefit!
The real devil is hidden in the greedy human nature.
Perhaps the two sisters were bewitched by the statue on the altar, and couldn't help but feel greedy.
Do you want to break the seal, release the evil demon, hunt it down, and extract its blood essence?
Its value must be higher than the blood essence of the wax-melting demon or the demon-hunting spider!
If they could be integrated, the sisters' upper limit of potential would be raised to level seven without any problem, maybe even higher!
Spenza is a relatively stable person. She is worried that she and her sister can't handle it, so she hesitates whether to inform her mother.
Spanna objected immediately.
He also half-jokingly said, "Don't disturb Mom and Alan's world of two."
The evil statue, with its strange human face patterns, made Spenza feel inexplicably dazed, and her self-control was weaker than usual.
He was easily persuaded by his impulsive sister and decided to lift the seal first to see the strength of the mysterious evil demon.
If the two sisters can't handle it together, they will retreat and ask their mother and Allen for help.
Spenza managed to stay calm and made full preparations before lifting the seal.
Summons a swarm of Phase Spiders to surround the altar to prevent any unexpected events.
She and her sister both activated their ancestral forms and prepared for battle.
To be on the safe side, the next second after the seal was lifted, Spenza used her blood gift of "Spiritual Drifting", took her sister's hand, quietly sneaked into the spirit world and hid.
In her opinion, this is foolproof.
Even if the evil demon broke the seal and attacked madly immediately, it would not be able to harm the two sisters in the spirit world.
However, it turned out that she underestimated the risks.
After the seal was lifted, the altar collapsed immediately.
In the ruins, a portal leading to a secret realm opened.
Accompanied by a noisy and piercing noise, a large group of monsters that looked like spiders but weren't spiders, and scorpions but weren't scorpions swarmed out of the portal.
It is estimated that there are no less than a thousand of them!
They vary in size.
The smallest one is only as big as a cat, and the largest one is as big as a bull!
In a blink of an eye, this group of monsters started fighting with Spanna's phase spider servants.
Spenza was surprised to find that even the smallest young monster had the combat power equivalent to that of a fourth-level demon!
A few monsters as big as bulls even have sixth-level combat power!
Almost in the blink of an eye, all the phase spiders were slaughtered.
The few that remained fled into the spirit world in a hurry.
At this point, the two sisters had already realized that the situation was not good.
I'm afraid I've gotten into big trouble!
They winked at each other, held hands, and ran away!
Just as they were escaping from the dungeon, an incredibly huge monster emerged from the secret realm.
Behind her, the flickering portal collapsed.
This monster is the mother of all scorpion spider demons.
He was defeated by the three demon generals of "Blood Hand Fortress" many years ago, but they could not kill him completely and could only seal him deep in the underground.
Until he was freed by Caroline's twin daughters.
This evil demon was forty meters long from head to tail, and was covered in thick black exoskeleton armor.
The surface of the carapace is dotted with pale human face patterns, exuding a "crazy aura".
Any sane person would become insane upon seeing these distorted patterns!
The Spider Sisters heard an earth-shaking roar behind them.
He was so scared that he didn't dare to look back and ran away.
Hoping to escape from the magically chaotic underground mine as soon as possible and cast a spell to teleport back to the City of Origin.
But it was too late.
Behind them, in the deep mine, the terrifying evil demon raised its scorpion tail needle and suddenly shot out a red light.
Swoosh——
The scarlet beam actually penetrated the dimensional barrier between the material world and the spiritual world and shot straight towards Spenza!
At the critical moment, Spanna moved sideways and blocked the fatal blow for her sister.
Her chest was pierced by the radiation.
Before the blood could flow out of the wound, the whole person turned into a gray, cold stone statue.
All this happened so fast!
Even the trial ring on Spanna's hand did not have time to activate to protect the mistress.
Normally, Spenza was often dissatisfied with her willful and reckless sister.
However, when his life was hanging by a thread, his sister sacrificed herself to save him without hesitation, which made her both moved and guilty.
He quickly picked up his petrified sister and fled desperately.
Finally, before the evil demon emitted the second ray, they escaped from the magic disorder area and teleported back to the City of Origin.
After arriving home, Spenza found her mother and tearfully told her what had happened to her and her sister.
Caroline hurried to check on her little daughter's injuries.
Afterwards, my heart felt cold...
With her magical powers, there was no guarantee that she could cure Spanna.
In desperation, he had to try every possible means to cure his illness.
He knocked on Alan's door early in the morning and asked him if he had any way to cure the disease.
…
After listening to Caroline's entire account of the whole incident, Alan immediately went with her to see Spanna to check on her current condition.
Spenza stayed in the room with red and swollen eyes.
When he saw his mother bringing Alan into the house, he quickly stood up.
I wanted to say hello, but I couldn't help choking up...
"Don't worry, sis. There will always be a way." Allen held his sister-in-law's trembling and cold little hand. "How is Spanna now?"
Spenza resisted the urge to cry and turned toward the wall.
Against the wall stood a statue of a man covered with a velvet tapestry.
Spenza gently lifted the tapestry.
The figure that appeared in front of Allen was both familiar and unfamiliar.
Spanna had been completely petrified, like a meticulously detailed sculpture.
An expression of fear froze on her cold and pretty face.
What worries Alan even more is...
A huge wound with a diameter of half a foot appeared on the chest of the stone statue.
Organs, including the heart and lungs, have been completely destroyed.
"Auntie, sister, Spanna is in danger."
Alan told the truth.
"Petrification is not difficult to resolve. The problem is what to do after the petrification is resolved?"
Caroline nodded slightly, feeling the same way.
Both she and Alan have awakened the 5th level magic "Breaking the Barrier", which can turn the petrified back into flesh and blood.
But Spanna was already mortally wounded.
After the petrification was lifted, all I got was a corpse...
"There is only one way to save Spanna's life."
Alan stroked his chin, thinking deeply.
"First try to repair her rock body and replace her damaged heart and lungs, then remove the petrification."
This is easier said than done.
The human body is an extremely sophisticated instrument and the slightest mistake can lead to fatal consequences.
A skilled sculptor might be able to fill in Spanna's missing organs with finely carved stones, but he could not eliminate the tiny cracks between the rocks.
There is no guarantee that after Spanna turns back into flesh and blood, the stone organs inserted into her body will be able to turn into flesh and blood and perform normal physiological functions.
This cannot be achieved with simple carving skills.
Only with the help of magic can this broken stone statue be repaired to perfection from the cellular and even atomic level.
"Alan, do you know the 2nd level of 'Complete Repair Technique'?"
Caroline asked expectantly.
"Complete repair technology" can perfectly repair all non-living matter in a physical sense.
Including living people turned into stone statues.
Alan shook his head slightly.
Just when Caroline and Spencer were feeling disheartened, he brought a glimmer of hope to the mother and daughter.
"I don't know this spell, but I know someone who does."
"Who is it?" Caroline asked impatiently.
Alan stared at the Spider Queen's anxious face and was silent for a few seconds before speaking.
"My teacher, Ms. Shiva."