CHAPTER 39: SPIDER-MAN

Spider-Man

39

The child’s small mouth slowly opened.

The skill, accelerated growth lv10, is influencing the host.

The mouth that until a second ago had nothing, was now filled with small, sharp teeth like miniature razors, the child bit the girl’s fingers fiercely.

The child’s body suddenly grew large, and she jumped on the human woman, who opened her eyes when she felt the bite.

The woman tried to get rid of the child, but her hands and legs were completely tied by the spider queen’s golden webs, the child took a strong bite on the woman’s neck, causing a large amount of blood to flow everywhere.

The woman writhed and twisted as she was devoured by the child who had no intention of stopping.

The spider queen was quite pleased with her king’s attitude, she hissed with joy, humming as the child devoured the human.

After a while, the female human’s body had been completely devoured, all the bones, including her skull had been devoured, the child gave a small satisfied face at the meal.

System.

The skill, Assimilation lv10, was used.

The child felt a vast current of power radiate from his stomach to his entire body, in a second, he was stronger and hunger fell upon his empty stomach.

System.

You absorbed all the experiences of your meal.

Skills were not absorbed due to the user’s low level.

Even happier than the queen were the 14 warriors who looked at their king with great devotion.

Level 25

You have obtained the class: Spider King.

New skills have been gained.

New skills will be generated.

New skills will be combined.

The sovereign title was obtained.

The child now looked like a human of about 7 years old, his snow white hair was stained with blood from his meal, his black eyes looked around in search of more victims he could devour.

With the new skills and class the child obtained, he could feel countless information fill his little brain.

The child stood still for 10 seconds without moving, during this time his eyes remained closed, he absorbed all the knowledge of each skill and their respective purposes, including their origins.

The child or rather, Spider-Man, or maybe it would be the little king, now like this.

Hope the king looked at his queen, a bitter feeling came over him, he knew that the feeling was not his after all it had just been born and the queen had done nothing to justify such deep hatred.

All he knew was that hatred was consuming him as much as hunger and the desire to devour, only in the presence of such a being, hope only thought about how pleasurable it would be to annihilate and devour the queen.

Hope expanded his mind to sense a million mutant spiders that were scattered throughout the forest, he could also sense the 14 warriors that stood before him in the cave.

He could feel the loyalty of each of the mutant spiders and what he discovered displeased him, each of them excluding the 14 soldiers had their loyalty focused exclusively on the queen and not on him.

For the first time, Esperança felt an attack on her own sovereignty and there were also mixed feelings she felt for the queen, with each passing moment that he thought, the more she disliked her noble progenitor.

"Progenitor, what is the reason for a king’s existence? What purpose should I deign to serve?"

The little king looked at the giant spider queen and asked, to which the queen replied without even thinking.

"A king lives for his queen, you exist to serve upon my crown"

The king reflected a little on the words he heard and asked another question.

"Someone who exists to serve the crown of a queen." He looked at the queen with his dark eyes that did not let the light escape lightly and continued with his words. "You call this being a King?"

"A king is the greatest feat a queen can create, as such his importance is vital to the development of the queen and the swarm."

At these words the black eyes frowned for a moment.

"What does the mother wish her King to do?"

The king walked slowly and looked at the humans he had to devour, unlike him, they all had something covering their bodies, this intrigued and at the same time captivated him, his small hands groped their clothes.

"I see," the king muttered to himself and turned to hear his queen’s answer.

"You must serve my purposes," the queen hissed these words in the language of her people.

"To serve your purposes? And what purpose would a queen whose maturity is about to reach have? Would the progenitor deign to inform her king?"

The queen flexed her paws and approached the little king and asked menacingly.

"What exactly do you want to know? Child"

"Child? It is a fitting designation for my young being. Answering what the mother wishes to know: Why would I subject my royalty to serve her purposes, to the detriment of those that correspond to me?"

The spider’s paw lifted her creation before her eyes.

"It seems you are a defective design" she examined parts of the king’s body and spoke again.

"It is not only your appearance that is displeasing in the eyes of this queen, your logical chain of thought is defective, the human organic has contaminated you" the queen installed a few times corresponding to frown.

"The mother claims a failure in my production. Knowing this is truly regrettable. In a few more seconds, I would congratulate myself on creating something so beautiful that I believe it is irreplicable." The words carried undisguised hatred.

"Serving the purpose of a queen’s crown is the highest purpose a king aspires to achieve, his thoughts must be based on this premise and nothing else," the queen hissed angrily.

"I refuse such a premise, I will not breathe upon any purpose other than my own" the king’s eyes did not waver.

"If you refuse, then you must not live" the queen’s mouth opened dragging her flawed creation towards her jaws.

***

The clock read 11 in the morning when the sword saint entered the command room of the hunters’ association, he threw himself on a sofa, behind him a person followed respectfully.

"Sword Saint, are you back already? Why did you bring a thief to me? I don’t like wielders of that kind." Felix’s hand was extended towards the Sword Saint as he said these words.

Arnaldo picked up a set of candy and passed it to little Felix, who, as always, was operating a huge screen. There were several hunters, each intent on urinating, some calling for assistance.

Other hunters requested information and there were those who asked for extrusions, Felix dealt with them all appropriately, those who released something he couldn’t handle, someone on his team sent to the corresponding department.

"I finished urinating without any problems," Arnaldo said as he addressed his suit which was wrinkled in some places.

"Santo, where is Miss Joana? And again, why did you bring a thief into my room?"

The aforementioned thief took a sweet and, just like Arnaldo, passed it to Félix with a smile on his face.

"How did you get this?" Felix’s eyes widened in disbelief at the package in his hands.

"I thought they had stopped production, my supplier said the factory had been blown up in a dungeon breach , how did you manage it?"

"As you said, I am a thief" these words were spoken with undisguised provocation.

"Felix, you should pay attention."

Arnaldo pointed to a hunter from the association on one of the screens, he was about to infiltrate a guild to get something in a secret room and someone was approaching, if Arnaldo hadn’t pointed it out, and Felix warned him in time.

The agent would fail in his mission and perhaps be killed in the process.

"Joana went to the bar association," Arnaldo said. He wanted to introduce the person he brought, but it would be a waste of time, excluding Joana and the general of the hunters’ association. Félix treated everyone based on class.

"Where’s the newbie? Didn’t he come until now?"

Felix slapped his forehead and spoke.

"His majesty is in a dungeon right now"

" In a dungeon? which squad you are part of, turn on the rookie camera from the main screen"

Felix told everything that happened earlier.

"Why was Lucia kidnapped? It’s like the newbie has so much bad luck with dungeons, hasn’t it been a month since he became a hunter and he’s already escaped his third dungeon?"

Félix recovered the videos of Lucia’s kidnapping, one from the public camera and another that Alex recovered from the convenience store before being swallowed by the dungeon.

"Have you done facial recognition yet?" Arnaldo asked when he saw one of the individual’s faces.

"Of course, where are you going?" Felix asked as he saw Arnaldo heading for the exit with concern in his eyes.

"Send all the information to my tablet , I’ll check on the way" the words were left behind, Arnaldo had left.

Only Felix, the young thief and a bunch of employees were in the command room.