[adolescent stealth acid spider

male

cla.s.s: 4

unlike it's older brothers and sisters this spider is still learning the the water spell that gives name to it's species, and is unable to become completely invisible. they are often found near a nests]

'well that makes sense... well, at least a little'

Mars decided not to question the logic off Alfan anymore and gave a quick look at Rex before he pointed to the spider then dragged his finger across neck, Rex gave a nod and nocked an arrow on his bow before shooting it at the spider hitting it right in the head killing it instantly as it turned visible as it fell down on the spot

'nice shoot'

Mars gave Rex a thumbs up before he drew his sword as he transformed to his half dragon form while he slowly walked out into the clearing completely alert looking around before he lowered his guard and called out to Rex

"it's clear"

Rex also walked out into the clearing, although he looked more alert than Mars that was looking at the lake before he asked Rex

"...so how should we destroy this nest?"

Rex was still looking around the clearing as he explained

"well, the village's plan was to use some 50 fire mages to boil the water, but you can mange on your own right?"

Mars gave a confident smile and sheathed his sword and closed his eyes and focused on using a spell Chloe had taught him

'what was it she called it again?'

as Mars stood in silence and focused his mana Rex felt the heat raising around Mars as he stood there and backed up a little giving him some more s.p.a.ce while he still focused on the surroundings

'...ohh that's right'

Mars raised his hands over his head and soon a small flame appeared over his head causing Rex to back off even more as this flame was even hotter then it looked, Mars opened his eyes as the flame rapidly grew bigger almost instantly turning into a small sun with a 5 meter diameter as heat suddenly spread across the clearing while Mars excitedly yelled out

"FIRE BOMB!!!"

as Mars yelled he threw the small sun towards to lake casing the water in the lake to heat up turning into mist almost instantly as a explosion sounded out

*BOOOOOOM*

Mars covered his face as steam and boiling water spew out all over the clearing, but he could still see the fire bomb burning and sinking into the lake getting smaller and smaller until it finely burned out and silence returned to the clearing

"did i over do it?"

"you sure did"

Rex returned from the forest as he had cleverly fallen back when Mars threw the fire bomb

"...by the way why did you yell out the name of the spell?"

Mars looked a little embarra.s.sed and scratched his the back of his head

"...just take it as a little childhood fulfillment, never mind that let's head back"

Mars and Rex turned away from the lake and began to walk, just when Mars felt all the hairs on his body stand up and quickly kicked Rex asides

"s.h.i.+--"

pain, pain was the next thing Mars felt, then he felt cold and looked down and found most off his upper body was missing, there was a giant round hole through his chest and the trees in front of him

"----"

Mars opened his mouth to cures, but was reminded that his lungs had been removed from his body, causing him to be unable to talk or even curse as he felt his legs go weak as he fell over and collapsed on the ground face down only catching a glimpse of a giant spider that was emerging from the lake as his [Energy: information] skill activated

[Queen acid spider

female

cla.s.s: 9

spoken off in legends and horror story's alike the leader of any acid spider nest is the queen. one legend spoke off a queen that turned a small kingdom into graveyard in less then a week with it's water magic and countless children]

'of cause there's a queen...'

Mars really wanted to activate his [Energy: healing] skill but his entire body had become numb and cold

's.h.i.+t i really want to sleep'

as Mars's gradually lost their focus he heard a familiar voice in his head

[death is no longer a option for you host, or should i call you Mars now?]

Mars suddenly felt power return to his body as a scolding hot feeling spread from the corners of his wound as it rapidly closed together, Mars felt a large amount of pain and really wanted to scream but was unable to move as he heard the voice again

[wait a little, i'm almost done.... there, now be sure to visit a temple soon i will be waiting]

Mars suddenly felt like his blood and been replaced with stimulant as his body heated up like it was on fire and he finally got control back and screamed out as he jumped off the ground

"AHHHHHHHH!!!!"

fire then cold then rage, he felt like is body was burning and freezing at the same time and then rage took him over as he saw the spider queen had walked out off the lake, it stood about 5 meters tall and was light blue in color, or rather it was almost transparent it was it's blood that was blue giving its body it's color, 3 of it's legs was badly burned likely by Mars's fire spell but he was in no condition to notice a small detail like this

"YOU KILLED ME YOU f.u.c.kING b.i.t.c.h!!!"

Mars kicked off the ground turning into a blur as the claws on his hands grew even larger than they used to be, only stopping when they were 10 centimeters long each as he reached the spider queen and cut right through one off its legs with his claws causing the spider to let out a scream that sounded like a rusty nail being dragged across gla.s.s as it's counter attacked with another leg

*SCREEEEM*

Mars sidestepped the leg before he grabbed it and kicked off the ground landing on the back off the spider as he went down on his knees nailing the scale spikes on his knees into it's back while he quickly opened a wound on the back off the spider causing his claws to be covered in blue spider blood as the queen spider screamed again and tried to shake him off

*SCREEEEEEEM*

"oh no you don't, i'm not done yet!"

Mars pieced his claws deeply into the back off the spider as the queen spider began to run wild, quickly running into the forest on it's 6 legs smas.h.i.+ng into trees as it desperately tried to shake Mars off it's back while he loaded his [Energy: discharge] skill with 80 units of kinetic

"DIE YOU ROYAL b.i.t.c.h!!!"

Mars unloaded his skill though his left arm that was instantly shattered by the recoil and tuned into a b.l.o.o.d.y mess, but still he was better off then the spider queen that looked like a normal sized spider being smashed by a boot as it flattened completely

*BOOOOM*

Mars landed in a crater filled with mashed spider and blue blood, but as grossed out as he felt he was completely immobile and could only lay and watch the starts as he healed his arm with 100 units of energy until Rex walked over and peeked into the crater

"Mars are you alive?"

"...mostly, wait for just a second"

Mars managed to raise his body off the ground and eventual stand up before he spotted a blue-ish

transparent bead in the mess that once was a giant spider and picked it up as his [Energy: Information] skill activated

cla.s.s 9 magic beast core

stored energy:1000

stored status points:15

source: queen acid spider

'well this might cover some of my lost status points form dying...'

Mars kept the core and jumped out off the crater and saw Rex standing with his bow ready

"ohh you really are alive Mars!, i thought you died when you got hit by that water spell"

Rex walked over and was about to hug Mars when he saw he was covered in blue spider blood and stopped with his arms open and eventual decided to just give him a pat on the shoulder, Mars gave a smile

"i really did die Rex"

Rex froze a little but still managed to smile back at Mars with a slightly stiff smile before he awkwardly asked him

"well, how was dying then?"

Mars only smiled and walked towards the lake to wash off the spider blood

"it sucked... really, really bad"