The Strongest in the Game by Dominating Monster - Chapter 30

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Monster Domination: Game’s Strongest Episode 30

“Forest Lord? Tell me more about it.”

At the curious question, the Orc flailed its limbs in terror and shouted.

“Squeak. It, big and dark! Our kind, many eaten!”

“And?”

“Squeak. It, uses strange magic! Once caught by it, cannot escape! So, so you must not go! I cannot protect master either!”

“Hmm.”

He stroked his chin and fell into deep thought at the stronger tone than expected.

Forest Lord.

He couldn’t gauge what kind of monster it was, but it was certainly a strong and formidable one.

As a Monster Lord, a great desire to capture it welled up inside him.

However, the Orc’s intense warning weighed on his mind.

Though weak, it was a monster with fierce fighting spirit and bloodlust.

For such creatures to be this terrified?

If things went wrong, far from capturing it, he might die instead.

Even so.

Despite the worry that he might drop items if he died.

“Let’s go take a look first.”

His desire as a Monster Lord couldn’t be suppressed.

“Squeak…”

The pale Orc’s shoulders drooped.

However, that was only for a moment.

Like the simple monster it was, it straightened its shoulders and boldly declared.

“Squeak! Understood! I will protect master!”

A smile formed at the sincere loyalty contained within the clumsy speech.

Both the Goblins and the Orc.

Once tamed, they showed strong loyalty.

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“Squeak. Here it is. Master. This is its home.”

After following the Orc’s guidance for 10 minutes.

A massive cave was gaping open like a damp mouth.

Though just a simple cave, that alone revealed the presence of its owner.

Around the entrance, large enough for three or four adults to pass through, unidentifiable bones were scattered everywhere, and the fishy smell of beasts mixed with nauseating decay numbed his nostrils.

“Ugh. This doesn’t look good.”

He shook his head as soon as he saw its habitat.

Though it looked wide and deep, it was still just a cave. It wasn’t a suitable place to fight with a bow.

Moreover, the interior was a pitch-black space where not even moonlight entered.

In many ways, it wasn’t a good place to fight.

“Should I just go back?”

Being consumed by desire and ruining things was what fools did.

Since he was far from such foolishness, he assessed the situation coolly.

“Hey. Are there times when it comes out of the cave?”

“Squeak. Many, many! It only sleeps there! It eats there, hunted our kind around here!”

The Orc explained with gestures that were easy to understand.

When it said it only slept, it pointed to the cave, when it mentioned eating, it pointed to the entrance, and when talking about the surroundings, it waved its hand widely.

“Hmm. So it’s probably sleeping right now.”

With the bright full moon shining from a cloudless sky, he wondered if he should wait until morning.

“Squeak! No! It sleeps during the day and hunts at night!”

The Orc kindly informed him that it was nocturnal.

“Then, since it’s not mealtime, it’s out hunting?”

“Squeak! Pr, probably so.”

Unable to be certain, the Orc trailed off.

However, since he had the same thought, he made a decision.

“Good. Then let’s wait here for now. When it appears, we’ll make a new plan.”

It was a creature whose identity he didn’t even know.

Rushing in recklessly was forbidden.

The best approach was to confirm its identity, identify its weaknesses, and then attempt capture.

Of course, if there seemed to be no chance of capturing it at all, he was prepared to retreat.

How long had they been waiting like that?

Grrr! (There’s a foul smell!)

“Squeeeak! It, it’s here!”

Rookie and the Orc reacted simultaneously.

Rookie, with all his fur standing on end, growled while looking at the cave, and the Orc also gripped its axe tightly.

And he too could soon feel its presence.

A foul smell stung his nostrils, and the thicket some distance away swayed.

Crack!

Breaking a small tree near the cave, the ‘Forest Lord’ revealed itself.

Whether it had brought food out from the cave, it emerged with a white silk bundle in its mouth, and he muttered quietly as he watched.

“…Was it a spider?”

It was a giant spider.

The creature, whose name floating above its head was indeed Giant Spider, had a formidable size as the Orc had said.

Each of its 8 legs was almost as big as a Dwarf, and its body was the size of a carriage.

The fur covering its entire body was as thick and large as ballpoint pens.

“At least it’s not something I can’t capture.”

He muttered cautiously while looking at its name.

The six characters ‘Giant Spider’ were white.

Since they weren’t red, it meant there wasn’t an enormous gap between them.

As he felt hope and fingered his bow, it spat out the silk bundle it was holding.

After dropping it on the ground, it carefully cut the thread with its sharp claws.

“A human?”

He frowned as he saw a young woman who seemed to have just reached adulthood emerge from the silk bundle.

“Ugh. That’s going to be unpleasant to watch.”

Though he had a strong stomach, this time he gently turned his head away.

No matter how much of an NPC it was, he didn’t want to see a human being eaten by a monster.

But then.

“Kyaaaah! Sa, save me!”

The woman who had been wrapped in silk screamed and crawled on the ground.

“What? She was alive?”

The human’s survival when he thought she was already dead.

As he watched with wide eyes.

An alarm appeared before his eyes.

[You have discovered a Random Quest!]

[Save Urupu in Crisis (Rare)]

Merchant Urupu is in crisis. Save her and receive a reward.

Objective: Urupu’s survival and the Giant Spider’s elimination.

Reward: Job-Exclusive Random Box (Rare)

“…!”

His eyes widened at the suddenly generated Quest.

He had heard about this somewhere before.

That in New World, Quests could randomly occur even in the same situations.

As that situation unfolded before him now, his thoughts became resolute.

It was a monster he wanted to hunt anyway, and now a Quest had appeared too.

This was truly killing two birds with one stone.

Not even attempting it would be far too foolish.

“Rookie. Orc. Get ready.”

After giving orders to Rookie and the Orc, he pulled out an item from his inventory.

Unlike Orcs and Goblins, this was an unfamiliar monster.

Even though he knew its identity, it was still an unknown enemy.

That’s why he needed to act even more cautiously in times like this.

Even though Urupu was in a life-or-death situation, he calmly opened the book.

The treasure-like book that contained information about every monster in this world.

[Using Monster Bestiary (Legendary).]

Quickly dismissing the notification, he searched for the Giant Spider.

[Giant Spider (Magic)] A descendant of ancient spiders that live in the forest. Despite its hideous appearance, it tends to be quite timid. According to some oral traditions, Giant Spider eggs are said to be an incredible delicacy. Tip: The thread it spits from its mouth is so strong that even an Ogre cannot move. Its eyes are its weakness, so target the eyes.

After quickly reading through it, he closed the book.

The preparations were complete.

Now it was time to take on the challenge.

“Hiiik! No, no!”

As Urupu’s desperate screams echoed again after being caught by the spider, and the spider’s sharp claws glinted in the moonlight.

Whoooosh!

A sharp arrow flew through the air and pierced one of the spider’s five eyes.

Kiiiiiek!

As the spider writhed in pain.

Urupu discovered something.

An unexpected combination emerging from the darkness.

It was an odd party formed by a human, an Orc, and a dog.

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Fear, bewilderment, hope, amazement.

The young 20-year-old merchant Urupu experienced all four emotions in an instant.

When her mind returned and she faced the spider, she was overwhelmed by terror to the point of losing consciousness again.

When the strange party appeared from the darkness, she felt bewildered.

And she glimpsed hope in their performance.

Though it was a strange party, their skills were outstanding.

The Orc was hit several times by the spider’s swinging legs but got back up like a roly-poly toy.

The dog that looked like a sheepdog was agile and clever.

It moved faster than the spider with twice as many legs, diverting its attention.

The scene of it climbing up the spider’s legs and clawing at its body was almost acrobatic.

And the human.

The handsome human was an archer, and even though she was a novice with bows, his skill was amazing to behold.

Literally perfect accuracy.

Every shot hit the spider’s body, creating the hope that maybe they could win.

And now, after more than thirty minutes of fierce battle between the party and the spider.

Urupu was amazed.

She couldn’t believe the scene before her eyes.

“Is, is that really human skill?”

Once again, watching Kairen hit the spider’s eye with an arrow, Urupu admired purely despite being in mortal danger.

Until just now, she thought he was simply an adventurer who was good with a bow.

But now she knew for certain.

That human wasn’t just an adventurer who was good with a bow.

He was an adventurer who was incredibly good with a bow.

If he had simply been hitting the spider’s body, she wouldn’t have been this surprised.

The spider’s movements were fast but its body was huge, so a skilled archer could have managed that.

But the skill this archer was displaying now was not at that level.

The spider had five small eyes that didn’t match its giant frame.

And now, four of those five eyes, each about the size of river pebbles, had arrows embedded in them.

At first she thought it was coincidence.

Then she thought it was luck.

On the third hit she realized it was skill, and on the fourth she felt it was divine.

“O, only one left!”

Urupu found herself shouting encouragement without realizing it.

It was clear that the adventurer was targeting the spider’s eyes.

If he could blind the remaining eye too, survival wouldn’t be just a dream.

“Hic!”

Perhaps annoyed by the cheering, the spider turned its head to look at her, startling her into hiccupping and covering her mouth again.

However, the spider’s interest didn’t last long.

The spider that had turned its head looked at Kairen and worked its mouth.

Whoosh!

White, sticky spider webs spread like a net and poured forward.

“Tsk!”

It was obvious that getting hit would leave him unable to move.

Kairen clicked his tongue and threw his body aside.

The spider web grazed past his head and stretched between the ancient trees like a giant hammock.

After glancing at the massive spider web that even an Ogre probably couldn’t escape from, he gripped his bow again.

Hiss.

At the same time, the spider made a threatening sound.

Soon it drew its legs back greatly.

Whooooom!

It moved at bullet-like speed.

“…!”

The speed was so fast he couldn’t even perceive it coming, and Kairen froze in place.

And he felt relieved.

Perhaps because its eyes weren’t intact, the spider’s charge narrowly missed.

‘Binding with webs, then charging.’

Though both had failed, it was a plausible pattern befitting the Forest Lord, and the power was threatening.

Looking at the tree that had been cut in half by the spider’s charge, he wiped the sweat from his forehead.

The spider’s special attack that appeared at the end. It was quite spine-chilling.

“Rookie! Orc! Watch out!”

Shouting a warning to the two, he quickly surveyed the surroundings.

How could he dodge if that attack came flying again?

Could he block it?

And what was the way to finish this in reverse?

As he calculated rapidly, the spider moved its mouth again.

At the same time, Kairen quickly leaped to the side.

“Orc! Rookie! Don’t just stand there! Evade as much as possible!”

Whoosh!

Countless webs flew toward the three of them, but the accuracy was terrible.

However, the three were also busy just avoiding the webs. Getting close enough to attack was difficult.

One-sided attacks and evasion.

But that exchange quickly came to an end.

“…!”

Kairen stopped in place and looked down at his legs.

Spider webs spread out in a circle, decorating the ground in white, and his legs were caught in them.

As if he hadn’t noticed because he was too busy avoiding, Kairen’s face was colored with bewilderment.

“Woof! (Master Kairen!)”

“Squeal! Master!”

The two pets, sensing their master was in crisis, were almost on the verge of tears.

Hiss.

Watching this scene, the spider licked its lips.

This tiresome hunt was finally over.

Now, all it had to do was end everything and prepare for a feast.

The spider pulled in its legs and coiled its body.

Whooom!

The spider flew like a bullet.

And at that moment.

Kairen smiled faintly.

He wondered if it would work.

His clumsy little act had worked perfectly.

He immediately threw his body and leaped to the side.

A deeply indented footprint was clearly embedded not in the spider web, but in the solid ground beside it.

Whoosh!

Feeling the pressure of the spider flying through the air barely graze past him to the side, Kairen flopped face-first onto the ground.

Though his whole body was covered in dirt, he leisurely got up and brushed the dust off his clothes.

“Phew. Finally finished.”

It was over. This tiresome hunt.

Kairen, harboring the exact same thought as the spider, smiled and turned around.

Hiss, hiss!

The Giant Spider panicked and thrashed its entire body.

It tried desperately to move somehow, but it was futile.

Spider webs stretched like a hammock between the massive ancient trees.

The stickiness that even an Ogre couldn’t break was binding its entire body.

“Now then…”

Kairen drew a faint smile and pulled out an arrow.

The spider’s position.

The webs scattered across the ground.

The webs spread like a hammock between the giant ancient trees and even the Giant Spider’s movements.

Having grasped and calculated everything, Kairen’s hair glittered as it caught the moonlight.

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