Chapter 166 – Utu

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Spiders have more legs than other land-crawling organisms, and dominate the ecosystem as predators that prey on a number of organisms, including pests.

Also, due to its strong maternal instinct, it protects spawned eggs as much as possible, and some species even show extreme maternal love by giving their bodies to their newborn offspring as food.

Utu was born as a spirit in the natural world, borrowing the form of a spider to build his faith.

As a tactile sense of the stars, what you have to do is to protect and select many life forms of the stars, including humans.

It was to protect the lovely people from things that harm the ecosystem or the natural world.

[KIKIRRaaaaa!]

The giant moved along with a cry that sounded like an ear-piercing scream. One leg was about twice as long as Cleon’s height, and the body was bigger than the rock part of the upper spirits we saw earlier.

Nevertheless, it moved along the walls and ceilings as well as the ground, similar to the rushing speed of a wild boar, so it was unavoidable that stones and piles of dirt would fall apart whenever it ran rampant in this narrow space.

“It seems that there is no rationality… The demon of a spider.”

“Kuh…Why.

When the demon god of spiders pours out cobwebs mixed with deadly venom, Cleon strikes them down with his sword.

Behind her her, Sasha was holding her arrows of magic, moving her eyes quickly, not only the movements of her demons, but also the various attacks she fired, after finishing her aim, she fired her arrows.

In comparison, Arachne had a fighting spirit, but her movements were a bit dull, as if the shock of the demon’s birth had not completely gone.

He did not show the menacing, intelligent, and quick movements he had shown when he faced Cleon and Sasha outside.

“Did I… Insult Utu… ?”

“Come to your senses! If you destroy the demon’s body, you can retrieve the holy relic… Regrets, it’s not too late to do it after you’ve done what you have to do.”

When Cleon lashes out at Arachne, who has a grievous expression, Arachne looks at him like that and nods his head heavily.

“By the way, that giant can move so fast… Ha!”

When Cleon waved his hand, thorns in the form of dark magic appeared and rushed towards Arachne.

However, the demon’s skin absorbed it as if it were food.

“Chit…”

[As expected, black magic doesn’t seem to work… Then it’s Quon’s holy magic. I should have brought Caliburn.]

“I’m regretting it too. I didn’t think I’d be fighting a guy like this. Even if I tried to call him like last time, the distance was too far, and it was difficult to call because there was a barrier…”

Galatea’s words and her are converted into divine magical power through the imprint connected to Kuon, but the conversion of the reversed magical power into properties is not very efficient.

In addition, the dark magic area formed like the outer skin of a demon.

Thanks to the property of halving the power of divine magic, it would be difficult to inflict fatal wounds with a little squeezed magic power.

It would be best to attack with magical energy in addition to physical attacks, but being quite agile and moving as if unaffected by gravity was annoying.

After Sasha was able to use magic arrows, she regretted not bringing an arrow with a physical form to lighten her body.

`But… I also have to help Mr. Cleon… !`

Even so, in order to do my best to do what I can do, I turn my magic power to the point of burning the seal, making my senses as sensitive as possible.

When Sasha sees something that is normally invisible to Sasha’s eyes, along with the feeling that time is passing slightly slowly, the movement path and traces of her demon god, and the reverberation of the black magic she scatters become visible to her eyes her.

It has a form similar to an extremely developed magic poem, and conveys much more information to Sasha than Laila’s magic poem.

“Kuh…!”

Feeling her eyes heat up, Sasha’s imprint looks one step ahead.

The movement of the Demon God is divided into several branches like an illusion. The main body was still there, but the vision was moving faster than that, along the walls, ceiling, and ground.

Sasha noticed that it was the prediction of the Demon God’s movement shown by the imprint, but her head hurt her from the amount of information.

Movement of the body. Direction in which the force is directed. Stream of consciousness. Tremors of fine muscles. Vibration of the ground.

An overwhelming amount of information for a single human being to accept and process.

The same agony that Cleon felt when he saw her bow count her, Shradsel, overtook Sasha.

However, that’s only for a moment. Sasha felt her body move on its own as she quickly felt unnecessary information disappear from her head her.

[You’re a bitch that can’t be helped. Leave the processing of information to me, you just focus on seeing and moving]

Ruben’s consciousness absorbs some of the feedback transmitted to Sasha, becoming a sort of filter, receiving unnecessary information from her.

Sasha’s eyes become sharper than ever before, and she quickly places her magical arrows on her strings.

“Arachne-san…! Please cover me!”

“!”

Saying so, Cleon is taken aback by the sight of her her running out her with strength in her legs her, but soon sees her sprint across the ground at the same speed as a gale, stepping on her fallen debris and floating into the sky. .

As she flew upside down in the air, her demon god her fired venom towards her, who became her perfect target her.

If hit, it was a deadly poison that melted armor and skin and penetrated to the muscles and bones inside.

However, when her Arachne her, who was looking at her after hearing her Sasha’s voice her, quickly reached out her hand her, her proud instructor’s spider web spread like a barrier to her Her Sasha her. Protect

The spider’s web absorbs all of it as if it were entangled in poison and sacrifices itself to disappear in the air.

But it did n’t end there, Sasha’s bow her had four magic arrows hanging from it.

Mixed with the will of restraint, it immediately flies in different directions on a whirlwind trajectory and transforms into a square apex that covers the demon’s body.

“Movements… I’ve already read them…!”

[KI!?]

When the demon’s bewildered voice is heard, the vertices connect and transform into a barrier that binds feet.

His body His hangs upside down from the ceiling, unable to move anywhere, as if tied to a chain.

“Mr. Cleon! Now!”

“Nice job, Sasha!”

At Sasha’s cry her, Cleon immediately pours prepared divine magic into Galatea.

Jump up in a straight line and immediately hit the guy’s body.

If you pierce the outer shell covered with the dark magic area and pierce it into the body, and let the magic flow—

[KIaaaaa!]

As if something resembling a woman’s scream resounded, the Demon God caused a rejection reaction inside his body.

Bodily functions cease, and the body itself, made of magic, begins to disintegrate.

After Cleon finishes injecting her magical power, he quickly kicks off the demon’s body and lands on the ground. Arachne stretches a web to Sasha and Cleon and brings them to her side of her.

Then, as if creating a cocoon, it spewed out a barrier to protect the three.

The next moment, as the Demon God’s physical disintegration reached its limit-

It starts emitting dark magic indiscriminately towards the surroundings. The venom sprayed from the rampaging body swept the entire space.

“Kuh…!`

Cleon and Sasha quickly cover their noses and mouths to protect themselves from the phenomenon, but Arachne focuses on rebuilding the collapsing cocoon by continuously creating threads with both hands.

Thanks to this, the devil’s venom penetrates her body and blood oozes from her mouth her.

“Ah, Mr. Arachne!”

Sasha panics and tries to help her, but her Ruben her inside her prevents it by controlling Sasha’s body her.

[Stupid guy! Worry about your body! Since that guy is Arachne, he has resistance to poison!]

“However…!”

Sasha looked up at Arachne, biting her lip at her unable to move.

Eventually, when the storm-like sound fades away, Arachne unties her threads and severes her body.

There was a lot of dust everywhere, and I could see deadly poisons spreading all over the ground and walls, melting even rocks and soil.

“Don’t be vigilant yet. Dark magic is gone, but…”

“Miss Arachne!”

While Cleon was saying that, Sasha lowered her head and ran to Arachne, who stopped her body from her.

Her body was cold, and the blood that flowed from her mouth her had turned a turbid black color.

[…

“…Why did you use your body to protect us?”

From Sasha’s mouth her, Ruben’s voice flowed. Arachne quietly turned her gaze to Sasha’s face her.

“…You… I still feel an unpleasant aura… But, at the same time, I also… Feel nostalgic… I… Have to use my strength… To protect someone. .. Utu Your… Voice…”

Ruben stretched out her hand and stroked her cheek as she watched Arachne stammering as she slowly heard the sound of heavy breathing.

“…Is it.”

Certainly. It must have been a kind of instinct that he had as a follower of Utu.

Because she was a god who was kinder than anyone else.

“… Cleon-sama. Can you heal her body her?”

“If you use Quon’s holy magic- But, not here. The dark magic area is too thick. First, go outside-“

The next moment when Cleon said that and tried to approach Arachne-

[Ruben!]

Inside Ruben, as Sasha’s cry came out, a mass of sharp objects rose from the darkness and shadows of the dusty cave.

“Thorn…?”

It could be seen that the needles, like the thorns of a porcupine, were pointing at the party, gradually increasing in number.

And, what appeared in the completely submerged dust.

A woman whose entire body is made up of magical power like a black shadow.

Somewhere, a woman who resembled Arachne’s upper body looked at the three of them with a smile on her lips.

At the same time, goose bumps ran down both Cleon’s and Sasha’s spines.

“I’m sorry…!”

As Sasha quickly regains control of her body from Ruben, she scans her thorns with imprinted eyes.

Each time, the number of magical arrows caught in the bow in his hand increased.

Sasha’s string of her was released and her spikes her fired at the party at about the same time.

“Seulbi is following me…!”

Shining flashes scattered in all directions, and began to shoot down the flying thorns.

Arrows of magic that bend in an impossible trajectory were to track the thorns and reach the trajectory they flew in advance to block the attack.

Cleon, too, wears the magic of black armor all over his body her, just like when he defeated a higher-ranking spirit.

Powerful magic pressure emanating from her body protects Sasha and Arachne from the thorns that Sasha couldn’t get rid of.

When the thorns stopped, like a heavy rain that poured down for a long time, the demon god seemed to stop attacking for a while as if thinking about the next move.

In the meantime, Sasha and Cleon catch their breath and replenish their stamina.

[Utu… No, she drew the remaining power from her holy relic and imitated the residue.]

“Uh, how can I…?”

When Sasha spoke to Ruben’s calm analysis, she was silent for a moment, then spoke again.

[It’s weak inside him, but it’s because a new core is formed. I have no choice but to separate it.]

“The divine core… Is it a holy relic?”

When Cleon answered that, Ruben nodded his head.

[Of course, that is the most important part of her. It is clear that she is putting on the strongest defense.]

“Is there a way?”

[Hmm. It is to move the divine core to a place that is more suitable than that lump of dark magic. For example-]

Ruben’s gaze sneaks back to look back at Arachne, who stretched her body out of her.

Arachne is a member of Utu’s family, and since she is a pure monster that changed from a spider, it is more suitable for a holy object to dwell in than a body composed of black magic.

In the form of the Demon God now, in which the power of the sacred object is fully revealed, if it receives a great shock while being close to Arachne, it will automatically spit out the sacred object.

If that happens, Arachne’s body will be healed and revived with the power of the sacred object, but-

Now, she was severely damaged by the poison and was in a near-death state, and she was unable to move on her own.

“… You mean you need to somehow bring her to her side of her?”

“Is it possible…”

Cleon shut her mouth for a moment at Sasha’s words, but she smiled and put a hand on her shoulder her.

“She risked her life to protect us. Her and us must do what we can for her.”

At Cleon’s words her, Sasha quietly nodded her head.

“There is an operation.”

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In my fading mind, I heard two humans talking.

No, to be precise, two humans and another huge something inside the girl. …Probably, it’s something related to Utu-sama.

All I had was a bit of knowledge that had flowed in from Lord Utu’s relics.

Everything that moves this body is an animal instinct. And a small voice from within.

`Look. The two of them are doing their best for you. Humans for demons.`

That kind voice moved my body and made me raise my head.

The dark-haired man was running towards the false Utu, sword in his hand.

The orange-haired girl was constantly shooting arrows from her bow her, dropping all attacks aimed at the man.

‘Man can be blind for what he believes in, sometimes making cruel choices… But even so, not everyone is the enemy.’

I ask her By any chance, are you Mr. Wootu?

‘Well… It may have been once, but now it’s part of you.’

I ask her Is there anything I can do for them?

‘That’s right… Although your body has been poisoned, you still have magic power.’

Magical power… Master Utu’s knowledge did not indicate how to control it.

To her god her, to use her magical power was no different from breathing.

`Magic power moves in response to the heart and soul. I will definitely move if you want. If you, the last member of my family, can be of help to Ruben-`

There was still no heart to believe in humans. But, if you can help them make up for their sin of insulting Utu-

To believe in them. It didn’t matter.

To believe is trust and also faith. For me, it was the only feeling.

Naturally, the invisible power flowed out of her body, entwined like a thread.

His eyes were still on the black demon impersonating Uto-sama.

There was an attack that rotated out of the black man’s line of sight and aimed at his body her.

In the next moment, I could feel something coming out of my body and flying away.

It was a lumpy, formless power, but even so- it was possible to protect the black man.

I am Utu-sama’s descendant. Because it was my duty to protect it.

“Arachne…!”

He called my name

Even in his voice, I could feel his gratitude and trust in me.

-This is trusting humans and each other.

In the next instant, a flaming chain stretched out from his hand and bound the Demon God’s body.

The Demon God struggled as if she didn’t feel any pain, but the chain’s restraints overwhelmed her strength.

The man used his invisible power to send her body her flying in the direction of me.

And the orange-haired girl. She, possessing the power of a beast, fires an arrow filled with magic toward her ceiling her.

A large boulder fell to the ground just in time and crushed the demon’s body.

Right in front of my eyes, the imitation in the form of Utu disappeared- the holy relic that came out of her body and flew into my arms of her.

And-

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“Haa… Did you do it…?”

“I-I think so. Although it was a bit reckless…”

In order to inflict great damage on the Demon God, which repeatedly regenerates with black magic, it was solved by hitting a large object.

As Sasha said, it was a reckless strategy, but I sighed in relief at having succeeded in getting the timing right and approached the place where Arachne was.

The holy relic she was holding in her hand her was slowly being absorbed into her body her.

“I’m glad… I think I got it right.”

[Um… No. I have a little problem.]

“Yes?”

Unlike Sasha, who expressed her reassurance of her, Ruben looked back at Cleon as if he noticed something about her.

“Cleon-sama needs to suffer a little.”

“What-“

In the next moment, Arachne completely absorbed her relics her and lifted her head towards Cleon, gripping her chest painfully.

“Human…Human…Kuu…Ah…Aaaaa!!”

And, a voice like a scream. As she randomly spews her thread towards her surroundings, the space tainted by her poison is covered with purified thread.

“Hey, hey, calm down!”

[By accepting her holy relic of her, she is also going to be reincarnated. However, the magic power to do so is lacking-]

“What…?”

And, in a space like a huge cocoon, Arachne pushes Cleon over.

She looked down at Cleon with a flushed expression and a rough deep breath.

“K-Mr. Cleon!? Gwa, are you okay?”

“Sorry, but. Human… My body is weird… I can’t control myself…”

As Arachne says so, she drools. Both above and below.

“Wow, is this how it ends…”

[What, what? Isn’t it good To be able to hold two members of the family of a god? It is impossible even for the king of an era.]

Cleon closed his eyes as he quietly complained about his fate her.