A wild human-faced spider appeared!

Boom~ A fireball spell reduced it to ashes. Kuber tossed the dropped Magic Crystals straight to little A Luo.

Another wild human-faced spider appeared!

Boom~ Another fireball spell turned it to dust. A Luo kept munching happily.

A wild frost spider appeared! It unleashed Ice Spike Barrage! But it was utterly useless!

Boom~ One fireball spell again, and the frost spider was incinerated. A Luo ate with pure joy!

As Kuber and A Luo ventured deeper into the Labyrinth, spiders grew more numerous and diverse. First came human-faced spiders, then frost spiders wielding ice magic, followed by water spiders with aquatic spells, earth spiders burrowing through soil, and even giant spiders larger than grizzly bears!

Kuber almost thought he’d stumbled into a spider nest. How could there be so many disgusting spiders?

Every encounter followed the same loop: one fireball to ash, then A Luo devouring the Magic Crystals.

A Luo seemed like a bottomless pit—no matter how many tiny crystals she ate, she never got full. They’d cleared a mountain of them by now.

Yet A Luo kept urging, “Kill! Kill! Eat! Eat!”

Kuber suspected this little one’s race was born starving.

Soon, they cleared all corridors and rooms on the Labyrinth’s first floor, reaching the central hall. Defeating the elite monster here would unlock the second floor.

The hall was thick with silvery webs. Kuber, with A Luo perched on his head, stepped inside—and heard a lazy moan.

“Mmm~ I smell a man’s scent~”

At the hall’s center, on a bed woven from spider silk, a woman stretched, yawned, and slowly rose.

Jet-black hair flowed over her shoulders. A delicate, heart-shaped face. Seductive crimson lips. Arched willow-leaf brows. Blood-red eyes with no pupils.

A slender waist, enormous chest barely covered by a black bikini-like armor.

Her lower body was pure spider: obsidian exoskeleton gleaming like metal, eight blade-sharp legs clicking like high heels on stone as she glided toward them.

“Whoa~”

Kuber gasped. His body stiffened instantly. He swallowed hard—this was his favorite kind of monster girl. Instinctively, he used Appraisal on her.

Acrina

LV: 467

HP: 13,354

MP: 4,322

STR: 5,000

STA: 6,530

DEF: 4,332

RES: 300

Skills: [Advanced Charm] [Advanced Minion Creation] [Kiss of Death] [Essence Absorption] [Venomous Touch] [Advanced Physical Resistance] [Advanced Magical Resistance] [Poison Immunity] [Advanced Ice Magic] [Advanced Destruction Magic] [Ravenous Appetite] [Black Widow] [Blessing of Lolth]...

Kuber stared, stunned. This spider elder wasn’t just beautiful—she was terrifyingly powerful.

Acrina reached him. Kuber snapped out of it and bowed hastily.

“Big Sister, nice to meet you. I’m Coburn William.”

“Heh~ heh~ heh-heh! Oh, little brother, you’re delightfully odd!” Acrina covered her mouth, laughing—a sound that shook the soul. She’d never expected a human boy to greet a monster so formally.

Her crimson eyes glowed eerily. She wrapped slender arms around Kuber’s neck, lips brushing his ear.

“Little brother,” she whispered softly, “let’s make babies together?”