Dragon's Soul Chapter 28: The Swarm

Yuying and Ai both pulled out bows and began shooting arrows rapidly at the giant spider.

Being in the treasury of the Sai empire it made this spider seem more like a guardian of the treasure then a monster.

Each time it landed it would cause the mountains of gold and treasures to shift and splash everywhere.

However, the arrows did little to no damage to the queen spider. They simply did not penetrate deep enough and only made shallow wounds.

A few sailors threw their spears at the queen spider. The spears pierced through the sky and homed for the queen spider's abdomen. The majority of the spears upon impact simply bounced off the spider's hard exoskeleton. All but one spear, this spear managed to penetrate one of the spider's leg joints.

A dagger shot out toward the spider as it was distracted by its punctured joint. The dagger weaved its way around two of the spider's legs wrapping them tightly together while looping around many times. Following that another dagger appear and wrapped around the same pair of legs.

"HELP ME PULL!!!!" Zhang screamed.

"Pull towards there!" He commanded while pointing to a pillar sticking out of the ground and extending into the ceiling.

The spider pounced on Jian Wei who was busy pulling the chain and was the closest person to it. With its fangs and mouth wide open it jumped at Jian Wei.

A smile could be seen on Yan Li's face as blood spewed from his mouth. He tried to open his mouth and say something however all that came up was bright red blood.

With a sweep of its leg the queen spider sent Yan Li's body flying and slamming into a pile of gold coins. Yan Li laid there gasping for his final breaths.

"Rest assured I will treat them as my own." Jian Wei said as he ran up to where Yan Li landed and grasped his hand.

"Kyaa!" Although Yuying rolled to dodge the thread it caught her leg. Once it latched onto her leg the thread pulled her toward the spider's jaws.

However, when it bit down the spider's fangs slid right off and was not able to penetrate the armor she was wearing. The scale armor was too slick and strong to be penetrated by its fangs. Drool and venom from the spider queen's mouth sprayed all of Yuying's armor coating her in a layer of slime.

It was Zhang holding a Lightning Eater scale shield! With the shield attached to his arm Zhang bashed the spider crushing one of its eyes. Then using the bottom end of the shield which was sharpened Zhang slashed at the spider wildly.

From his interspatial ring Zhang withdrew an arrow and plunged it into one of the larger eyes of the spider queen. Like regular spiders it possessed two large eyes and six smaller eyes. Once the arrow was lodged into the beast's eye while gripping onto it Zhang made another arrow appear and stabbed it into one of its smaller eyes.

Once in the air the spider queen landed on a nearly invisible web. From a distance away no one would be able to see this massive spider web. Unlike the webbing it spat out this web was not as sticky.

Without even a moment to rest the spider queen lunged at Zhang with its two front legs. Lifting his arm with the shield attached to it Zhang took the blunt impact of one of the incoming legs. The spider began pounding again and again against the shield. It's massive weight alone made it hard for Zhang to continue keeping his shield up however if he didn't the weight of its legs hitting against his body would give him heavy internal damage.

"BURN!!" Zhang screamed as he lifted his numb arm and shot out a fireball. Once the fireball shot out of Zhang's hand it soared through the air and splashed itself onto the spider's web. The instant the two touched the spider's web light on fire.

Zhang had used this chance to use the loose threads to lower himself back onto the ground.

No one said a word and instead looked at where Yan Li was laying on the ground close by. Seeing this Zhang quickly ran up to Yan Li and checked for a pulse.

"Luckily we have this." A small bottle appeared in Zhang's hand and from it red liquid flowed into Yan Li's mouth. It was the phoenix blood that Zhang had bought before at the auction house.

Once the giant web was extinguished by the fire the burning spider queen plummeted onto the ground. The group watched as it wallowed in pain and after a few breathes stop moving with small puffs of smoke still rising from its body.

Suddenly the spider queen's body began twitching and a large split appeared from its head. And from that split a spider leg popped out and slowly the split got bigger and bigger and from within it another spider crawled out.

"Shit everyone of you get out of here!" Zhang yelled while pointing for the door.

"Wait aren't you leaving brother!?" Ai asked.

"But we can't leave without you."  Yuying said.

Knowing they could not convince him and if they stayed they might hinder him everyone retreated to the door.

Zhang brandished his chained dagger while running full speed at the spider queen. Once he was close enough he slid under it and while under the spider queen slashing wildly at the joints of its legs. However, he was only able to make shallow wounds due to the shortness of his dagger.

"It called for help!! Everyone find a safe place to hide now!! If they surround you use fire against them!" Zhang yelled toward the group.

Tens of titanic golden spiders pounced at Zhang once they reached the ground. Zhang sent essence into the chained dagger and made it dance about around him slashing and killing the spiders. The only reason why he had not been able to kill the queen yet was due to its size but these regular sized titanic gold spiders were easily dispatched by him.

Hundreds upon hundreds of spiders filled the room after a while and they all targeted Zhang. At first Zhang slaughtered all that came his way but eventually he became overwhelmed. If not for his armor he would be dead long ago. The armor kept the spiders from ripping him to pieces but if he did not act sooner or later he would die from taking so many blunt hits.

Just when everything seemed so bleak a sparkling blade could be seen popping out of a pile of gold coins right by where he landed. Thanks to Zhang's impact a part of the blade could be seen as the gold coins slid away.

Zhang sprang to action and used both of his hands to dig the blade out from under the pile of gold coins. After a few moments a beautiful halberd appeared in front of his eyes. The halberd's blade was a crimson red and its shaft pitch black. And on its blade the words sky piercer could be seen etched into it.

Once more the two engaged in an exchange of blows. However now that Zhang was armed with weapon more fitting for the occasion he was able to hack off the spider queen's limbs after a few swings. Zhang would repeatedly aim for the same spot until the limb was chopped off. First went the spider queen's left front leg and soon to follow it was the right front leg.

Zhang lifted the sky piercer into the sky and was able to chomp the spider queen's head off when the regular sized titanic golden spiders began swarming him once more. But they could only delay the inevitable as Zhang hacked them into pieces also.

He did not know how much longer he could last before running out of energy to retaliate. The spiders filled up almost every corner of the treasury as they attacked Zhang.

"Guess I got nothing to lose." He thought to himself as he tried to work his way toward that certain corner of the room.

Luckily the entrance to the room at most would only allow one spider to get in at a time. The group would be able to defend themselves for a while unless something happened. And well something did happen one of the walls of the room started rumbling. Soon a small hole appeared on the wall and the eyes of a titanic golden spider could be seen peering in.
Then the wall began rumbling once more.

Chapter end