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Molting the Mortal Coil - Chapter 570

Published at 29th of March 2024 06:15:08 AM


Chapter 570: Spider

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Chapter 570: Spider

It took Sage a moment to recover his senses, time which he gained when the Living Disaster was fighting off the Samsara Flame shot into its mouth. That strange experience hed undergone was his usage of the Soul Resonance technique. The residual pain of its use was flaring up now, but despite experiencing all the memories of the giant spider, it took only an instant for the transfer to occur. They had each lived the others life and almost immediately Sage realized it had been successful. Unlike the Living Disaster there were no terrible acts or prior prejudices. There were also no prior experiences with humans like with the Cloud Swallowing Thunder Eel.

The giant spider was something of a clean slate. It had lived its whole life without ever coming into contact with a human. It only took action when something threatened it, or it was migrating to a larger body of water. The rest of its life was spent carefully weaving a larger web, and straining the water for nutrients. Now that hed seen its life, he knew it was a Swamp Genesis Spider. On earth web weaving spiders were the equivalent of a filter feeder on land, using their web to filter food from the air. The Swamp Genesis Spider was a true filter feeder. It had large vent-like holes on its large limbs. Those vent holes were filled with comb-like structures that could capture tiny living organisms and other particles from the water.

The Swamp Genesis Spider did not have gills, and it could also use those passages through its limbs to breathe. It could simultaneously be filtering the water through seven of its legs, while the last one reached up out of the water to act like a snorkel. Combined with its ability to create air bubbles, it was possible for the spider to live the majority of its life while submerged. It created a web that acted like a shallow bottom for a body of water, which could slowly transform a lake into a swamp. It was rarely seen, because of its shy nature and the fact that unless it was directly threatened it would never show itself. Two Demonic Beasts could be fighting right above it and it wouldnt care. If one of them died, the victor would usually eat the loser. Then scavengers would pick through the remainder, and the Swamp Genesis Spider would filter nutrients from all the bits and pieces that fell into the water. This chapter was first shared on the Ñøv€lß1n platform.

Sage took the gamble when he felt a surge of confidence and now the Swamp Genesis Spider was connected to him. It had lived his life and felt like a parent or sibling. For Sage, he felt wonder at the alien life of the giant spider and wanted to take it around to see the world. As a Demonic Insect, it had a lot more intellect than Spirit Insects, but it was still severely lacking in comparison to a Demonic Beast, let alone a human. The spider wasnt a vicious human hunter so he felt no reservation at all towards it. It was a lot easier for a Soul Resonance to succeed on such an innocent and simple minded creature. Of course, this was all speculation on his part, as there was no way to control or predict how a Soul Resonance would go. He was already on the edge of death and adding another enemy wouldnt make much difference.

The Living Disaster was flipped upside down and the remainder of the people on its back were thrown into chaos. Many were sent flying, and a few were crushed. Unfortunately for Sage, most of them had already left the back of the tortoise. They had already spread out to create a perimeter and they started moving just after Sage did. Once the initial destructive wave from the tortoises flip had passed, they rushed towards the swamp and the giant spider. The trio of Nascent Souls were the most obvious, since Sage could feel Law energy swirling around them. Hei Bai followed along with them, her furious face standing out to him even from afar. Whitestaff didnt advance, instead she went towards the tortoises head and started calling out to it. Sage was too far away to hear them, and without a body he no longer had the Hearts Tongue to use.

Without a body, Sage was at a huge disadvantage against the other Nascent Souls. Without poison, how was he going to use the Law of Corruption? What use was he going to be against them if he couldnt bring his own law into play? At their level, even Demonic Beasts used laws. Their usage of laws were instinctual, albeit limited. The ones that could reach tier 6 all used them in some way or another. The Living Disaster used some sort of earth type law, which it used to consume and spit stone, which he sensed on the molten rocks that had been constantly falling on him before.

At this moment he was still at a severe disadvantage, but at least there was a chance. He floated near the terrifying face of the giant spider and looked into one of its eyes. He patted one of its giant chelicerae, the creepy mustache-like jaw that was actually a pair of multi-segmented appendages with fangs on their ends. They were like tiny limbs used mainly to wield its fangs and deliver venom, the two scissoring fangs let it control penetration power and grab hold of prey so it could properly control a venom dosage without losing control. A venomous snake would bite down and hold on with its jaws to deliver the proper dosage. A spider, on the other hand did not have a large mouth with a distending jaw. Instead of adding the venom onto a bite attack, it used the fangs like tiny poisoned daggers, pinning a victim between them.

Despite the monsters terrifying face, Sage found it quite cute. The huge monster was so naive and innocent and had basically come to his rescue. His ghostly hand couldnt actually touch its body, but he made the gesture nonetheless.

Its just you and me now, Big Guy. Im going to reserve a whole ocean for you on my Inner World, we just have to get rid of these idiots, right?




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