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Molting the Mortal Coil - Chapter 573

Published at 29th of March 2024 06:15:01 AM


Chapter 573: Approach

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Chapter 573: Approach

After being launched like he was shot out of a cannon, the Swordsman spun in mid-air and stabbed his sword into the giant spiders back. Digging in effortlessly, the sword carved a path across the spiders body, and only when the swordsman added a little twist to its path did it actually slow him down. It cut too cleanly and perfectly through the carapace, there was no resistance unless he wanted there to be. The slice was as thin as the blade of his sword, so even though it was quite long, it wasnt all that damaging to the giant spider. Some of its blood started to leak out, but it was far from a fatal injury.

While the swordsman came to a stop, hanging from the handle of his sword and skidding to a stop in a crouched position, the Fu Clansman leisurely strode through the air and came to a feather light stop beside him. Somehow the masked man was able to treat the clouds of smoke as solid or immaterial as he desired. Sage was still underneath the giant spider, but hed seen the man ascending into the air and immediately made a comparison between the mans ability and his own Cosmic Traction. He seemed to be treating smoke the way that Sage treated space. Of course, he also seemed far more adept at it than Sage was, and it also appeared effortless in comparison to how strenuous Cosmic Traction was for Sage. The other main difference was that Sage felt the man drawing upon Laws as he strode through the air, while his own technique was something inherited from some sort of Space Dragon.

The two Nascent Souls shared a look and then rushed into action.

Her body flipped around in mid-air and she stomped towards the spiders incoming leg, one which had swept toward her half-heartedly while the spider focused on removing the pests from its back. Instead of being hit by the giant limb, she absorbed the impact with her legs and then pushed off, leaping closer to the spider and launching a rapid flurry of attacks. One of them resulted in the cracking sound when one of those deep sound waves struck against one of the Swamp Genesis Spiders eyes. The spider released a pained screech and one of its smaller forelimbs, a pedipalp, flew forward and smacked the woman. She tried to leap off the limb like shed done to the spiders leg, but it was moving too quickly and her legs buckled. The pedipalp was a smaller limb used like an antenna and an arm for eating. While it was many times smaller than one of the spiders huge legs, it was still over a hundred feet long and it had more than enough force to collapse her attempt to push off and smack against her rear end, sending her body to skip across the surface of the swamp water and smashing into the trunks of half a dozen trees before her momentum was arrested.

With the second slice on its back rapidly growing larger and one eye damaged, the spider was feeling distressed. It was really not much of a fighter, it usually used its giant web as a fortress to chase away sea creatures and stay hidden from those traversing the swamp it created. These tiny and dangerous enemies made it revert back to what it was best at, and its two rear legs swung back and grasped at its spinnerets, pulling forth its thick webbing and working together with another pair of its legs to start weaving. A few moments later a large net of spider silk was pulled onto its back like a cape. Normally a spider touched webbing only with the tips of its feet, but in this case it was making an exception and draping the web over itself to capture the tiny enemies in a net.

Go!

The Fu Clansman sent out a tendril of smoke to the Swordsman and then dashed away leaping off the spiders back and into thick black smoke. While the smoke was a large billowing cloud, he fell through it at a diagonal angle. His feet caught on something and he looked like he was riding a giant rail, grinding down towards the swamp water. The Swordsman held onto the smoke that was wrapped around his waist, smoke that suddenly went taut like a rope and pulled him along. The assassins mobility was clearly much greater than the Swordsman and they worked together to escape the web that the spider draped over its back. This chapter was first shared on the Ñøv€lß1n platform.




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