Silence slowly filled the air.
Neither Angor nor Laplace said anything. They didn't have the time to deal with the stragglers. Instead, they looked at the sky and waited for the next wave of "cleaners" to arrive.
They didn't have to wait long before a large fissure appeared in the sky.
Angor frowned when he saw the size of the fissure.
That was because the spatial tear this time was clearly much larger than the one that had been torn apart by the army of devil beasts. Angor didn't know how many monsters were coming this time, but he estimated that they would be bigger than the previous ones.
He just didn't know how much it would be.
If the crack continued to spread and even tore the entire sky apart, they would have no choice but to run.
He kept his eyes on the crack and carefully observed its expansion. But to his surprise, the crack did not expand any further after it first appeared.
Generally speaking, the spatial crack would constantly struggle to expand until all the Cleaners had entered it. Only then would it slowly shrink.
But now, the fissure was about 200 meters wide, and it just stopped growing.
This was much smaller than the four-hundred-meter-long crack that was created by the army of monsters!
Angor's worry slowly faded away. It wasn't a gigantic monster, was it? Was it?
Could he use God's Eye View to see what the cleaners looked like?
Angor quickly looked away when he sensed the energy ripples in the air. He was worried that a gigantic monster would notice his gaze and lock onto him, which would give him no chance to escape.
For now, he had no idea what the Cleaners looked like.
However, seeing that the crack in the sky was not that big, did that mean that the Cleaners in the void were not that big either? Were they the kind that could be dealt with? It should be fine if he used God's Eye View to see what they looked like.
With that in mind, Angor closed his eyes and prepared to use the power of Dream Gate.
But before he could do that, he saw a long, thin leg reaching out from the fissure. The tip of the leg looked like a sharp blade.
In less than a second, the second leg showed up.
Two seconds later, a third, a fourth, and a total of ten legs reached out from the fissure.
From afar, the appendages were slender, sharp, and very long. They were like tentacles, clawing at the curtain-like sky.
Although this scene was not as shocking as the huge Sky Eye in the Abyss Dream Wilderness, the feeling of fear was not small at all.
"So many legs … Arthropods?" Angor muttered.
Not long after the voice fell, the ten legs in the sky began to split up, placing five legs on each side of the spatial rift.
Under the shocked gazes of both Angor and Laplace, all five of its legs exerted force at the same time and tore apart the thin space fissure.
Angor was really surprised by this.
The monster army had to rely on tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of monsters to create a space fissure that was about 400 meters long.
But none of them could tear a space fissure with brute force, let alone with a horizontal one at that.
And now, the monster that had appeared had done just that.
It meant that this was a monster that could easily tear space apart.
It also meant that even if they defeated this monster, they wouldn't be able to kill it. It was able to tear through space and escape.
It was like a wizard using a plane passageway to leave the battlefield. It was impossible to do anything about it.
Besides, judging from how easily the monster tore a space fissure, they weren't sure if they could defeat it.
Angor looked at Laplace. It was up to Laplace to decide whether they should fight, fight, or run.
Laplace didn't make a decision right away. "Let's wait and see. I have a feeling that this monster is different from the others."
"It's different from the monsters from before?" So far, there were only ten legs sticking out of the ground. He couldn't see anything different from the rest of the creatures.
"What's different?" Was it different in strength?
Laplace shook her head and didn't say anything. It was difficult for her to explain it now, but she had killed too many monsters before and was familiar with them. The monsters in the air that hadn't appeared yet gave her a different feeling.
While they were talking, the fissure had reached a hundred meters long.
Through the dark fissure, Angor saw a pair of eerie, pale eyes glowing in the air.
There was no white in the eyes. They looked like the eyes of a dead fish.
Before Angor could figure out what kind of monster it was, it finally stuck its head out of the fissure.
When he saw the monster's head, his expression froze as if it was frozen by ice. He did not say anything for a long time.
On the other side, Laplace was also stunned, because this monster's head was really … too strange.
There was a humongous bump on its head, which was even bigger than its entire head. The bump was round and black, with fine gray patterns on it. It looked like the bump on a flower horn's head.
Furthermore, its face … was also that of a fish. It had strange, pale fish eyes and constantly opened gills.
There were two whiskers on its chin, which curled upward like goatees.
The head looked like a combination of a flower horn and a goatfish.
It was both ridiculous and strange.
When the head came out of the fissure, the monster's ten legs grabbed the air and used it as a wall to push its body and abdomen into the fissure.
At this moment, the true face of the monster was finally revealed.
Angor fell silent again after seeing the monster's body and abdomen.
The monster's body was very similar to a human's. It had shoulders, chest, hands, and even fingers. However, its skin was black, and its body was covered with "layers of armor".
These layers of armor had curved semicircles, thin, long whiskers, and tough thorns, which looked like the shell of a horseshoe crab.
Its abdomen was the largest part of its body. It was a giant oval shape, and all of its legs were under it.
Overall, it was a monster made up of all kinds of deformed creatures.
But if Angor had to give it a "category", he would prefer it to be a spider.
Angor once saw a special undead creature called Lady Shila, who had a human head and a spider body.
And this monster, in general, was like a hundredfold version of Lady Shila. The only difference was that it had a fish head instead of a human head.
Therefore, Angor still preferred it to be a spider monster.
Angor had never seen such a monster before. The book "Where Are Amazing Monsters" didn't mention anything about it either. He looked at Laplace and hoped that he could get an answer from the man.
Laplace shook her head. "I've never seen it either."
Angor sighed. "That's normal. It's probably another kid's dream."
Most of the strange-looking monsters in the Dream Realm were born from the dreams of other living creatures. Children's dreams, on the other hand, were limited by their knowledge. Often, adults would scare them, causing them to let their imaginations run wild. It was more likely for them to have strange dreams at night.
Laplace also heard Angor's comment, but she didn't say anything this time.
The reason was the same as before. She vaguely felt that something was wrong. This spider monster gave her a different feeling from the previous cleaners … She even suspected that this spider monster was really a creature from the Dream Realm.
As Laplace wondered, the Spider Monster in the sky lowered its head and looked at Angor.
Its fish-like eyes were glowing with a strange light as they stared at the two people on the mountain of corpses.
Angor's heart skipped a beat. "I'll leave them to you. If you can't handle them, we'll retreat."
Angor vanished into thin air. When he reappeared, he was already at the safe zone in the distance.
Angor was going to bring the Mushroom of Reproduction with him, but since Laplace seemed to want to keep the fight near the mountain of corpses, he decided to leave the mushroom there to keep the space stable.
The Spider Monster in the sky didn't seem to let Angor go. It slowly turned its head around and kept staring at Angor with its cold eyes.
Even with the dome of the safe zone protecting them, those eyes still gave Angor a lot of pressure.
Angor felt a little intimidated by the stare.
Laplace was even more eye-catching than Angor. The energy around her was like a lamp in the night sky. Why did the Spider Monster keep staring at him? Was it trying to pick on the weak one?
Angor felt like crying. Maybe I should go back to the real world and hide for a while?
But before he could make up his mind, Laplace already dashed into the sky.
If Laplace didn't move, the Spider Monster would keep staring at Angor. But now that Laplace moved, the Spider Monster couldn't help but turn its attention to Laplace even if it didn't want to.
As soon as Laplace flew into the sky, she unleashed a rain of scales.
Although the scales were separated from Laplace's body, she could still control them as if they were part of her body. She waved her hand, and a dozen scales flew toward the Spider Monster like darts.
The spider monster's ten legs leisurely swayed in the air, trying to use its agility to avoid the shedding of its scales.
However, Laplace could control when the scales would explode. As long as the scales got close to the Spider Monster, Laplace could make them explode even if she didn't touch them.
Thus, the Spider Demon's hopes of dodging the explosion with its agility were dashed.
Although the consecutive explosions did not directly hit its body, it was obvious that the Spider Demon was enraged. Now, the Spider Monster's cold eyes locked onto Laplace.
Laplace also felt a little uncomfortable under the strange gaze. But with the protection of the scales, the discomfort quickly disappeared.
The Spider Monster let out a strange cry. It lifted all ten legs and aimed at Laplace. Its abdomen also curled up like a bee, and its stinger was also aimed at Laplace.
White light flashed.
Numerous glowing threads shot toward Laplace from the sharp edges of the legs to the center of the stinger.
Laplace's figure was extremely fast. He quickly dodged the first wave, but the threads didn't break and continued to pursue Laplace.
During this time, the top of the mountain of corpses was directly shaved off by the silk thread. The thorny forest in the surroundings, which seemed to have a strong defense, could not withstand the sharpness of the silk thread. With a light stroke, the thorny forest was shaved off by more than half.
With such terrifying sharpness, if one were to be struck by it, there was no doubt that one would be sliced in half.
The most frightening thing was that the silk thread was very strong and very fast.
Laplace had to dodge several of them by a hair's breadth.
However, Laplace didn't show any weakness. He quickly used the scales to counterattack.
These threads were even more tenacious than Laplace had imagined. Even when the scales exploded, the threads did not break. Laplace bombarded the thread with several scales in a row and barely blew it in half.
The broken threads didn't fall to the ground. Instead, they turned into light spots and were absorbed by the Spider Monster again.
Angor frowned. So the spider monster wasn't afraid of the explosion? And it could return to its body even if it broke the threads?
If that was the case, Laplace's scales wouldn't be as effective as before.
The Spider Monster this time was harder to deal with compared to the previous ones. But he was a bit relieved when he saw that the spatial rift was already closed. It seemed this was the only new target.
Furthermore, even though the spider monster was huge, it wasn't strong enough to shatter the Dream Crystal with a single blow.
This gave them enough time to prepare.
Laplace spoke to him again, "Put away your Thorn Forest and get out of here. I'm going to do something big. Prepare to give me more scales! "
Laplace had to put away his Thorn Forest because the Thorn Wall couldn't stop the threads at all. On the other hand, the Thorn Wall around Laplace was restricting his movements. Therefore, the Thorn Forest would only harm Laplace in the face of the Spider Monster. It was necessary to put away the Thorn Forest.
By "doing something big", Laplace meant that the Spider Monster was going to blow up all its scales at once.
Angor had seen this before. That mountain of corpses was blown up again and again by something "big". In the face of such a bombardment, even a rank 3 Magus would have to avoid it in the real world.
Angor nodded, told Laplace to be careful, and logged out of the game.
Seeing that Angor had left the safe zone, Laplace didn't hesitate to use all the scales on his body to attack the Spider Monster.
The Spider Monster didn't expect Laplace to use such a "self-destructive" move, so it didn't try to dodge.
The huge explosion caused the sky to be blasted red.
Laplace stood near the explosion and looked at the legs and fish head that had been blown away. His eyes flashed with joy.
It seemed that bombing wasn't necessary. It needed a large amount of bombs to be effective.
As a matter of fact, no matter how powerful the monster looked, it still couldn't withstand the bombardment of molting.
Just as Laplace was getting excited, the limbs and fish heads that had been blown up suddenly emitted a strange light and combined together at an extremely fast speed.
Under Laplace's bewildered gaze, a new Spider Demon was miraculously born just like that.
The Spider Demon, whose legs and fish head had been blown off, also recovered its broken limbs under the strange light, as if it had been reborn.
In other words, not only did Laplace's bombardment fail to kill the Spider Demon, but it also created a new one!
Facing the pincer attack of the Spider Demons, Laplace couldn't help but frown.
(End of Chapter)
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