Chapter 264: Spider-Fusion

The female leader, having seen it all before, paid it no mind.

But the others present all showed disgust, and their murmuring ceased abruptly.

The drow girl, now spider-fused, her eyes filled with fear, carefully distributed the bowls and plates from the tray.

When it came to a female drow with white paint smeared on her face, she clicked her tongue heavily.

"Don't touch my utensils, damn it."

"Laya." The female leader warned softly.

"Sorry, my lord Anas."

After the spider-fused drow girl finished all this, she did not leave immediately.

She held the tray, her expression timid, words on her lips but unsaid.

The female leader Anas saw she had something to say and made a gesture of praise for my lord Lolth before her chest.

"Watching Yuna, do you have something to say?"

"Yes, my lord Anas."

"Speak. We are all my lord Lolth's favored ones; there is no need for restraint."

"Then, um, when will my sister Yufi be released?"

Anas shook her head, her face full of deep sorrow.

"You know, Watching Yuna, your sister Yufi's public slander of my lord Lolth angered everyone. I did not execute her; merely imprisoning her has already subjected me to great pressure."

"But, but sister is an 'Examiner'; she shouldn't have—"

"A failed 'Examiner'."

Anas cut her off. "You are one too, Watching Yuna. I once placed great trust in you two sisters, thinking you would become the mightiest warriors, but you both failed in succession, becoming the weak creatures you are now."

Watching Yuna's shoulders hunched slightly; tears fell as her mouth opened, yet she knew not what to say.

Pathetic.

Anas did not look at her again, merely pointing faintly toward the door, signaling her to leave.

The girl dared not disobey; her massive spider lower body moved slightly clumsily as she bent and left the room.

Seeing her leave,

the drow named Laya clicked her tongue heavily once more.

"My lord, is it necessary to keep these two sisters, these failed products who could not pass my lord Lolth's trial, here to offend the eyes? They provide no combat power boost, and until they adapt to their bodies, they are always clumsy, unable even to do daily chores."

"Silence, Laya."

The female leader Anas scooped a large spoonful of orange paste from a bowl and, frowning, put it in her mouth.

"Even if spider-fused drow are twisted, even if they are the lowest of creatures, they still represent Lolth's will. Keeping them by your side is to remind you of what fate awaits those who betray my lord Lolth."

She paused.

"Besides, they are my lord Lolth's reserve rations."

The spider-fused drow Watching Yuna left the kitchen.

Just now, while the head chef was not looking, she had secretly kept the leftovers—half a bowl of orange rice paste.

Actually, it was not rice paste, but a mixture of insect eggs and some fungus from the Underdark.

There is no food in the Field of Dread; the food the drow currently carry is brought from the Real World dimension.

Watching Yuna secretly wrapped it up, wedging it under her waist, on the joint of her spider body.

With a small skirt to block the view, no one would see it.

This was a new little trick with her new body she had discovered not long ago.

Newly spider-fused drow had not yet forgotten the habit of wearing lower-body clothing, even though they had nothing to cover.

Watching Yuna pretended to be disposing of trash.

She passed through rooms within the cavern that resembled nests.

She did not know when the Spider Queen named Lolth first appeared in the drow's vision; perhaps fifty years ago, or perhaps two hundred years ago.

Her parents hated history.

It was the tragic moment of their defeat, their expulsion, and their arrival in the lightless Underdark.

Parents like these were not rare among the drow.

Thus, Watching Yuna and her sister Yufi knew almost nothing of surface matters, only the endless teachings of their parents: hatred for the traditional elves.

Watching Yuna went downward.

She arrived at a shallow pool formed of blood and bones.

The benefits of the spider-fused body were revealed here.

Sufficiently high spider limbs, an exoskeleton that would not easily break, and quite good traction.

Moments later,

Watching Yuna arrived at a room where orange flames rose.

Outside the door was an ordinary drow hiding in the shadows.

Watching Yuna handed over a crystal ore she had hoarded for a long time.

The guard nodded, stepped aside to let her in, then lowered his head and dozed off.

"Sister."

"Yu-Watching Yuna..."

The room was quiet, save for the crackling sound of the orange flames burning.

Responding to Watching Yuna was a spider-fused drow covered in wounds, barely alive.

She was suspended in mid-air within the room; all eight limbs had been severed, green blood constantly flowing down.

The bare spider body made the heart tremble.

"I brought some food."

"You eat it yourself. After Ros's trial fails, she will consume a huge amount of energy."

Watching Yuna stubbornly shook her head.

She almost fed the rice paste right to her sister Yufi's mouth.

Yufi, helpless, could only open her dry lips.

Not long after.

With half a bowl of rice paste down, her spirit seemed a bit better.

"Sister, do you regret saying those words?"

"Never. Watching Yuna taking in the Dark Elves was just one of Ros's plans to ascend to godhood; her heart is full of madness, savagery, and brutality. She is by no means a good master. The so-called faith has no meaning, at least not in this awkward godless age we are in now."

"I don't understand."

Watching Yuna lowered her brows and eyes, carrying sorrow and submission.

Yufi's sharp gaze softened: "I'm sorry, Watching Yuna, I made things hard for you. You don't have to listen to me."

"Ever since Sister was captured, Lorena, Vasili, Shuli, and Greenberg—they all changed. We clearly played together since childhood, but now the way they look at me is like looking at something lower than a slave."

As she spoke, tears flowed, unable to accept such a contrast.

These were the two sisters' close friends, who had planned to start living together after the coming-of-age festival.

"It's not because of me; it's the Spider Transformation. They all view the Spider Transformation as a symbol of shame."

Watching Yuna did not answer, gradually bursting into sobs.

As the older sister, Yufi felt her heart ache greatly; she gritted her teeth:

"Watching Yuna... Watching Yuna! Let's escape! Leave this place!"

The little Spider-Transformed Elf blinked her tear-filled eyes:

"But where to..."

"To Aethelorn! It's big enough! And tolerant enough for races other than humans! Oh right! Go west! There is a Wind Wall Forest there! It's secluded enough, with no Dark Elves. We can spend the rest of our lives peacefully there! Just the two of us sisters."

Crack—

Rod stepped on a leg bone on the ground, snapping it.

In this decaying, half-wet, half-dry environment, the bones here had become very brittle.

He looked far away at the battlefield between the spider web ruins and the botanical garden.

He had just tried 【Chain of Far-Reach】; without a doubt, it failed.

It seems the power of Long Hun Nao Lin has still not recovered enough for her skills to pierce dimensions.

The Dragon Soul Maiden has indeed been sleeping recently.

Since obtaining the Dragon Body materials, Rod had not seen her again.

Come to think of it, he actually missed her crying face a bit.

"We're here, the outskirts of the botanical garden. Last time, when I and those three little ones were dragged in, it was right here."

Sharon on the side snorted with a laugh.

(End of this chapter)