412 Spider slaying (1/2)
He could only battle, then.
Seiji carried Yukari over to a corner and placed her down onto the ground.
”I'll deal with that spider. Don't get close and be careful to avoid it.”
”Seigo…” The purple-haired girl grabbed on to his shirt with a worried expression.
”Relax, it'll be fine.” Seiji smiled. ”I've dealt with monsters larger than this one before. It's not a big deal.”
Yukari took a deep glance into Seiji's eyes before slowly letting go.
”You have to be careful.”
”Yeah.”
Right when they finished talking, they heard the sound of footsteps.
*Tap tap tap tap…* The large spider had caught up to them.
Seiji headed out to face off against it.
When the humongous spider saw him, it lifted up its abdomen once more and shot spiderweb at him!
”Don't think that you're the only one capable of shooting such things.”
Seiji dodged the attack as he injected his own Mana into his wooden sword. He suddenly sliced out with a white wave of sword energy!
The wave of sword energy scored a direct hit against the large spider. It didn't cause any obvious damage. However, the red light on its body flickered slightly.
It would seem that this spider had Spiritual Abilities as well, so he decided to call it a Spiritual Spider Beast for the time being.
Seiji recalled a game from his previous life called Monster Hunter where the game was mostly focused on dealing with large monsters. One of the earliest monster encounters in that game was a spider monster, which seemed similar to this circumstance.
In that game, the first step required to deal with the large spider monster was to slice off all of its eight legs.
'Although it might not be the exact same thing, I can use it as a reference.'
Seiji moved around at a high speed while dodging the Spiritual Spider Beast's attacks and continuously unleashed new waves of sword energy aimed at the spider's legs.
The large spider roared ear-piercingly in anger once again.
It gave up on its useless spiderweb shooting and gathered red light at the end of its abdomen. It seemed to be preparing for some stronger attack.
When Seiji saw this preparation for such an obvious ultimate move, he decided to suddenly change the direction he was moving in and rushed towards the spider monster instead!
*Pu!* A large mass of white shot out in Seiji's direction. This mass of something white suddenly expanded into a huge spiderweb.
If Seiji had kept going in his original direction, it would have been impossible for him to dodge. But since he changed to dashing directly towards the enemy spider, he barely managed to dodge the edge of the huge spiderweb.
He dashed right in front of the spider monster!
Seiji was able to dodge one and blocked the other with his wooden sword. Immediately following that, he used some sliding steps footwork to slide beneath the large spider and swung his wooden sword while holding it in a backhanded grip!
*Boom!!*
It felt like it would be very difficult to pierce through, but suddenly, the wooden sword broke through the red light protecting the spider monster and pierced through the spider's stomach.
*Shing!* …Although the speed was a bit too quick for Seiji, so he was unable to see things clearly, he was certain that this blow dealt the spider monster some definite damage.
He speedily slid out from the spider's other side and instantly put some distance between him and the spider. It was angrily roaring; red flashes of light streaked all over its body, mostly concentrated on its stomach area down below.
”It doesn't seem that difficult to deal with. It just might take some time.”
Seiji was confident that he could defeat this spider just like in the game Monster Hunter if it was only strong to this degree.
The background music of Monster Hunter even started playing in his mind… Cough, don't get sidetracked!
He was unsure if it would have any extra powers or transformation abilities, and needed to be cautious against it. In fact, he had no clue where this place was or what exactly this Spiritual Spider Beast was supposed to be. He knew that he shouldn't treat this just like a game.
At this moment, the large spider suddenly jumped up into the air and curled up its body into a ball, which smashed towards him at a high velocity as if it was a meteor!
*Boom!* The spider crashed into the ground.
Seiji managed to dodge it just in time.
The spider monster unfurled its legs and jumped up once again for its meteor crash-like attack.
*Boom!*
Seiji dodged it for a second time.
The spider monster jumped up yet again…
”Are you supposed to be lice, jumping like that?!”
The third time that it crashed down, Seiji intentionally dodged at a close distance so that he could rush up to it and viciously slice down at its legs while it was recovering its balance!
The Kapok tree bark wooden sword broke through a red flash and sliced through one of the spider's legs.
The spider monster roared in pain and used its other legs to furiously counterattack!
Seiji immediately retreated and sent out waves of sword energy to cover himself.
The human and spider's fierce battle under the illumination of the red cluster amaryllis seemed like a scene from legends.