A pair of 8 enormous eyes looked at them before they moved upwards, and a bone-chattering screech left its maw, sending sound waves in all directions.
A low boom rang through the area, making the human's ears ring.
They couldn't tell what power it was at since it was still in the shadows and was hiding its aura; however, what they could tell from the roar was that it, at the very least, had a solid-amethyst core.
Syra's eyes shone with a bright, radiant glint of silver as she pointed her spear at the spider before her.
Without waiting a single second for her teammates to get ready, she created a tier-3 magic circle as she yelled---
"Sonic Bolt!"
Something began to revolve around the magic circle, and after a while, it shot out with incredible speeds and intensity, ripped through the air, and appeared before the spider in less than a second.
However, something unexpected happened when the attack hit the spider's furry coat.
*Thud*
The sound of a contained explosion rang out while a cold breeze flew through the air and blew Syra's hair back.
Her eyes widened in shock as a realization hit her.
"Even a pristine amethyst core can't block my attack like that." She muttered.
"It has a bloodline ability..." Argon muttered as he took in a deep breath and shot forward. At the same time, he made sure to yell- "Cover me," as he did do.
Resolve shone within Syra's eyes as she pointed her staff at the creature before them and took in a deep breath.
However, they were not the only ones who could work in a group.
Suddenly, hundreds of spiders began to swarm forward.
Their eyes shone with a blazing crimson intensity while their collective auras sent a palpable feeling of dread throughout the larger clearing.
"David, Zelon, push them back while Syra's covering for Argon," Herla said with a certain amount of distress in her voice.
The moment they heard Herla's words, they stepped forward and began to create their own spells.
Before both their palms shone a tier-2 magic circle twice as large as their heads, while David's was blue, Zelon's was a bright and fiery orange.
Water bolts shot through the air and exploded on impact with the spiders. At the same time, fireballs did that same thing, but at a much lower pace.
However, while the water bolts created explosions when they landed that sent spiders flying alongside their amputated body parts, the fireballs were different.
Once they landed, they would spread the fire from one creature to another.
Every creature within a certain radius would be set aflame, not only losing their speed and strength but also affecting their brethren as they burned them as well.
"Alright, Herla... You can do this." Herla muttered to herself before closing her eyes and lowering herself to the ground.
When her hands were placed on the ground, she lowered her head slightly and whispered a chant under her breath.
Suddenly, two magic circles appeared under her hands; however, they didn't connect.
Yet, despite her saying only one chant, the two spells under her hands differed from each other.
They were both tier-3 spells. However, their runes were completely different. The only thing that was the same was the rune in the middle of both magic circles.
"Syra, Argon! Jump!" Falco warned when seeing what his girlfriend was doing.
Without thinking twice, they both jumped as high as they could simultaneously. It was easy for Syra since her boots were like her grandmother's. She channeled her mana into the boots, and they shone with red runes before launching her upwards with a flame blast.
Argon had it more difficult through.
He was surrounded by spiders, yet the moment he heard Falco's warning, he quickly covered his body in toki and used his movement technique.
A second later, he could be seen climbing the mountains of incoming creatures with ease before using his toki to make a final jump that was stronger than the rest.
His jump was so powerful that it immediately turned into dust when he used the spider under him as leverage.
The spiders under it were flung out in different directions, and all died a few seconds later.
When everyone in front of Herla was off the ground, the earth before her rippled. That ripple went in all directions, before coming back to her and allowing her to see where everything was.
*Shing*
And an instant later, hundreds of spikes shot out of the ground and stuck themselves into the spiders there were still on it.
Most of them that were weaker than the amethyst core instantly died.
The ones with an amethyst core survived a little longer, but they were immobile and eventually died.
However, anything at the Solid-amethyst or higher had enough power to tank the hit, the enormous spider included.
Suddenly, it opened its maw wide and showed its fangs.
A bloody red aura erupted out of the larger spider, and within an instant, it had covered everyone in the room.
And in that very same instance, a powerful aura fell upon them, making them feel even more dread than they felt when the spiders were coming at the in swarms.
"Vortex" Syra shouted and pointed her staff again.
A vortex of wind was created around the larger spider, but it was instantly ripped into shreds.
And in that very moment, it happened.
5 different aura erupted.
4 Pristine amethyst spiders stood tall as they brandished their auras.
While the mother spider stared the humans in the eyes and let off a deep sapphire energy from the depth of its core.
A realization washed over the humans that were there.
They all felt their hearts drop to their stomachs.
They knew that they didn't stand a chance against the monster before them... Maybe if it was the other creatures, but not the mother...
She was too powerful... Too strong...
No... They were too weak. Or at least that's how Syra saw it.
"I guess the boss fight's already begun huh." A voice suddenly echoed from behind them, and when they looked back, they saw a man with slicked jet-black hair and silver eyes breathing heavily, as if he had been running for a really long time.
"Good thing I came before all of you died."
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