Disciple of Immortal

Act 2: Chapter 41: Those Who Lurk in The Ground

Deep in the forest near the magic city of Manarak, there was a gigantic cave made deep underground. Its size was bigger than the magic city of Manarak itself.

Ragnos of various sizes were jam packed against the giant warthen walls.

There were more than one hundred jumbo ragnos which were regarded as dangerous by the adventurer’s guild and many other variants which have yet to show up above the ground.

This place was Ragnos’ underground empire.

Numerous monsters and humans were wrapped in cocoons of thread and hund upside-down from the ceiling.

Though many of them had already died, some of them were still alive.

「H-HELP! S-Someone, please, help…….」

A man was frantically calling for help despite his crushed throat, hanging upside-down from the ceiling.

「YoU… NoISy.」

「Human!? Please he–」

Though hope flickered alive for him the moment he saw a humanoid figure, it was quickly extinguished into deep despair the next moment.

Because the one he saw did have the upper body of a woman, but her lower body was that of a spider.

The female humanoid-spider monster had striking, red-colored hair and a well-ordered face, but the glint in her half-opened eyelids, and glimpse of a row of sharp fangs in her mouth was enough to showcase her twisted personality.

「M-MONSTER!」

The man shouted in fear.

The monster smiled delightfully upon hearing the man’s scream and opened her mouth before taking a large bite right out the man’s face.

The man then fell on the floor, bleeding profusely from his crushed head as the monster munched on his face.

「Dispose him.」

The moment the monster spoke, countless ragno descended upon that man’s corpse and ate it.

The sound of that man’s body being torn to shreds could be heard from beneath the monsters.

The monsters who had already lost interest in the man kept walking inside the cave without turning back, and then looked around as if trying to find something.

「Mother, mother.」

「Is something the matter, my adorable 3rd daughter, Marie?」

The reply came from one corner of the cave.

The monster, 3rd daughter Marie, was a giant close to five meters tall.

Though the woman who replied to Marie had the same lower body of a spider like Marie, her face wasn’t as well-ordered as Marie’s.

Her skin was rugged, like the surface of the ground.

Her eyes were different sizes that wriggled around and her mouth formed a long slit. Each of her hands had four giant blade-like claws.

There was a huge jade buried on her spider lower-half.

She was the demon king of the spiders, the culprit behind the ragno incident which was occuring in Manarak right now.

「Marie… it seems the humans have started to notice the existence of this place.」

There was a little spider on Marie’s hand.

It was a scout type, mini ragno. It’d slipped into the city to gather information.

The mother’s mouth opened even wider upon hearing Marie’s remark.

「It seems I ended up giving birth to too many children after I gained the power of the world. Well, I guess it’s just matter of time before my naughty children overflowed to the surface.」

Mother spoke as she gently brushed the jade buried on her abdomen.

「Nevertheless, those humans will never expect just how powerful we are right now.」

「That’s right. Mother, I don’t think we have to hold back anymore. Marie alone will be enough to bring down that city.」

「But, you have to be careful, my adorable daughter, Marie. Promise me that you won’t become too conceited once you leave our nest.」

「Don’t worry, mother. Do you think that Marie will lose against those lowly creatures?」

Marie stuck out her purplish red tongue.

On the tip of her tongue was the eyeball of the man whose face she ate a while ago.

「Marie’s older sister is also not the kind of demon who will be defeated by the likes of humans. Though… the youngest daughter Lily might be loss to them…」

Marie giggled as she spoke.

Marie was one of four ragno’s variants who received mother’s blessing; she and her three sisters were hailed as the four sisters.

The four were composed of the eldest daughter; Dori, second daughter; Mery, third daughter; Marie, and youngest daughter; Lily.

「Well, since we’ve been exposed, I guess hiding any longer is no use either. Take your youngest sister, Lily and some ragno to attack the city.」

「What about Mery and older sister, mother? Marie wants to kill some humans too. I want to capture living adventurers and torture them to death as I tear them apart from limb-to-limb.」

「I hear that clear enough Marie. Well, there’s a small number of strong human mixing amongst the groups. Let them face Lily first to expose our existence to them, and make them lower their guard by thinking that we already went all out. Well, I think Lily alone is enough to wipe them out.」

「… Can’t be helped then. Marie shall obey mother.」

「When those humans defeat the likes of Lily… it will become your duty, Marie. And Mery will drive them into an even bigger despair. Make sure to not let your eldest sister, Dori, get her turn. That girl is a naughty girl who doesn’t listen to me at all after all.」

Marie showed a complacent smile upon hearing mother’s words.

「Understood, Mother.」