297 Queen Arachne (1/2)

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Raven didn't even need to turn around to know what happened, nor he wants to for that matter.

As soon as he heard that crack, he immediately turned into a blur and began booking it towards the entrance of the nest.

*Screech!*

A loud and piercing shriek was heard from the nest. Who else could it be other than the provoked and angry Queen Arachne?

Raven clicked his tongue and inwardly cursed. He ran faster and exited the nest as fast as he could. However, even without looking back, he could feel a dangerous presence following him and could hear that hair-raising sound of its movement.

He took the twin pixies out of his scarf and said: ”I'll distract it away. Find somewhere to hide or escape. Make sure you two are safe okay?”

”B-but…” Aina was about to object but Raven interrupted her.

”No time for arguments.” He then placed them inside a bush and said: ”Remember what I said.”

Raven then faced the Queen Arachne with his hammer on his hand. A steel armor appeared on his body as he ran towards the huge spider and smacked the incoming leg aside using his hammer.

He planted on foot forward, strong and firm. He grasped the hammer using both of his hands and issued a mighty swing.

*Boom!*

The air seemingly exploded as the spider flew back like it was struck with a battering ram. A piece of its carapace cracked under Raven's strength.

Raven didn't give up on the offensive, he leapt forward and landed on top of the Queen Arachne. He raised his hammer to deliver yet another strong strike but the spider's body suddenly moved.

The Queen Arachne sent a thick spider thread towards a very tall tree and leapt back, causing Raven to lose his balance and fall, which she used the thread she sent to adhere to the surface of the tree.

*Screech!*

The spider let out another piercing shriek that could be heard all over the forest. Raven glared at the spider while the latter started spouting pools of violet colored acid towards him.

Raven employed his evasion movements, he dodged the incoming pools of acid with relative ease but he didn't dare to be negligent about them. As soon as those purple acids make contact with the ground, it melted everything it touched. If Raven was to get hit by these acids, there might be nothing left of him when its done. These acids were similarly used by the Queen Arachne to build her nest.

Seeing how easily the little human was dodging its acids, the Queen Arachne was incensed. It curved its body to an impossible angle and started spraying threads of spider silk to where Raven was. On top of this, the Queen Arachne also didn't cease to send purple acids towards him.

This is how she deals with nimble enemies. First she reduce their mobility by covering them with webs and then, when they're slowed it would be easier for her to melt them down using her acids of turn them into food.

This is a good plan, specially for a beast that doesn't have a high intelligence. Unfortunately, it met Raven.

Raven didn't even do anything about the spider silk. Well, it's more accurate to say that he didn't have to anything. From the moment the silk threads touched his armor, they would be destroyed. None of the threads even touched his skin nor did their purpose of slowing him down before they disappeared.

This happened due to Raven's armor emitting Destruction Laws. Though the spider threads were strong and is enough to immobilize someone, it's not strong enough to oppose the force of nature itself.

The Queen Arachne got angrier since anything she does didn't work at him. Raven knew that she was getting impatient and that's precisely what he wanted. In fact, he even gave her more reasons to get angrier.

Switching to the second form of the hammer, he grasped it with both hands and mobilized his energies.

”Twisting Decimation.”

Raven uttered as multiple arms condensed behind him and combined into something that resembles a battering ram. It flew forward towards the surprised spider, the Queen Arachne reacted too late, causing her to get hit by Raven's attack and fall down from where she was. The tree she climbed earlier also fell down due to the force behind the attack.

Now that she lost the high ground, the Queen Arachne's patience were gone. It screeched extremely loud and charged towards Raven.