Chapter 28 This Time It's Spider

  The 25th floor's labyrinthine area is a vast, monotonously grey space with towering stone pillars scattered throughout, connected by narrow stone bridges.

  The Labyrinth area is mostly inhabited by some lizard-like monsters, these armored lizard monsters hold a knife in one hand and a giant shield in the other, once they discover the players of the strategy group, they will rush up with red eyes.

  Because the army tried to take over the 25th floor BOSS reward alone before and was defeated by the BOSS, there is no one from the army in this attack team.

  It seems that the military has already planned to withdraw from the combat group.

  Some players felt regretful about this matter, but more players felt relieved.

  The military's reputation is too poor, and their behavior has already made the entire SAO full of complaints.

  After clearing all the monsters along the way, Asuna finally brought the entire raid team to the entrance of the BOSS room.

  This time's Guardian BOSS room door is a huge spider web, through the gap in the spider web can vaguely see behind is a huge platform.

  The surface was covered with all sorts of gigantic spider eggs.

  Seeing this scene, some female players in the strategy group had already let out screams, and even among male players, there were those who couldn't help but tremble.

  Next to the spider web were some torches, after looking at the torches and then glancing at the huge spider web, Asuna quietly swallowed her saliva, walked forward, took out a torch, and ignited the spider web.

  The ignited web burned away quickly, revealing a path leading to the platform behind it.

  "Everyone prepare for battle!"

  Ayase shouted loudly, drew out the thin sword at her waist and stepped onto the platform first. The people behind her also rushed up to the platform with their weapons at the ready, taking their predetermined positions.

  "Where's the boss? Why can't I see the boss?"

  Facing the vast and quiet giant platform, players showed puzzled expressions.

  Baiyun Mo glanced at the giant spider eggs, his heart moved, turned around and went back to the door, picked up a torch, and directly ignited the nearest pile of spider eggs.

  "Ah!!!!!!"

  Almost the moment the egg was ignited, a loud, ear-piercing shriek echoed throughout the space, and then a gigantic spider with a body as large as an adult's waist descended from the sky, appearing before everyone.

  Enormous and terrifying eight eyeballs, ferocious mouthparts, a body covered in sparkling cold-light armor... The gigantic spider BOSS's fearsome appearance directly scared some of the female players with weaker nerves in the raid group into fainting, throwing the crowd into chaos.

  Baiyun Mo noticed the girl standing in front, Asuna, who was trying to calm herself down, but Baiyun Mo clearly saw that Asuna's legs were trembling slightly.

  "Sure enough, even if she's strong-willed, a girl would still be afraid of these things?"

  Looking at the giant spider, Hachigen Ushiro's heart didn't waver in the slightest, yet he was certain that if he were still his human self from his past life, he would have been terrified of this creature.

  "It seems that after becoming a monster, one's mindset changes greatly..."

  I'm a monster myself, so why would I be afraid of such an ugly creature?

  According to the rules of the monster world, the more terrifying a monster's appearance is, the weaker its strength.

  The fantasy world of Touhou can prove this point, where in that extremely chaotic place, powerful youkai are none other than seemingly harmless girls.

  Thinking of Kishibe Flandre, Yakumo Yuko suddenly gained a deeper understanding of the phrase "Harmless to humans, I'm cute".

  But for now, I'm in the SAO game, and this giant spider in front of me isn't a monster. All these unnecessary thoughts can be put aside for now; there's time to reflect after defeating this giant spider.

  Approaching Asuna's side, Yui gently patted her slender shoulder.

  Ayase's body trembled as she turned to look at Yakumo Sumeragi, and from those beautiful, clear eyes, he could clearly sense the suppressed fear.

  "I heard that the people in the strategy group call you 'The Devil of Strategy'? " Yakumo Sumi pulled out a folding fan and tapped the tip of it on the girl's forehead, "This battle, how should I take it?"

  "No, no way..."

  Asuna raised her slender sword with a bit of stubbornness, her lovely face scrunched up into a knot.

  Looking at Asuna's appearance, Yatsumaki Tsubasa didn't say anything else. Seeing that the BOSS had already shifted its attention to himself, he suddenly flashed and rushed up.

  Because it was Yayumi Moku who burned the spider egg with a torch, the BOSS rushed up with red eyes as soon as he saw Yayumi Moku. Although the BOSS is extremely large in size, its speed is not slow at all, and its eight legs move quickly on the ground, its huge body rushing over like an express train!

  Not yet colliding with the BOSS, Yayumi Sumi could already feel the gust of wind rushing towards him. Having fought countless battles against numerous BOSSes and possessing rich experience, he naturally knew that this BOSS's power was not something he could withstand alone. Therefore, when the BOSS pounced on him, he immediately leaned back, sliding under the BOSS's abdomen.

  "Cheers!!"

  With a loud explosion, Ba Yun Mo kicked the BOSS's abdomen with one foot, and the BOSS's huge body was actually kicked flying by him!

  "What's wrong with you?! Just push everything up!!"

  On the other side, Asuna was initially startled when she saw Yui rush forward, then tightly grasped her rapier and closed her eyes to give a loud command.

  "Charge!"

  "Look at the sword!"

  "Taste my axe!!"

  The players of the raid team saw Yagumo Mukuro's bravery and suddenly became excited, their faces flushed with excitement as they shouted towards the BOSS under Asuna's command!

  However, Keita on the side suddenly furrowed his brow, he took a glance at the giant spider eggs that covered the entire platform all around, and shouted to Asuna: "Asuna Vice-Commander! Be careful of those spider eggs!"

  "Huh?" Ashina tilted her head in confusion, then immediately reacted, the Guardian BOSS could summon small monsters! And those small monsters were not much weaker than the wild BOSS outside!

  I never thought I'd make such a huge mistake just because I'm afraid of spiders!

  "How despicable!"

  "Ashna hummed and immediately ordered the attacking strategy group players: "Attention all Blood Alliance Knights! Closely monitor those spider eggs! Prevent the BOSS from summoning small monsters!"

  It is!!

  It's no wonder that the Blood Alliance Knights, founded by Schicksal Cliff, have earned the admiration of other players with their strict discipline and absolute obedience to Asuna.

  As expected, after being kicked into the sky by Yayumi Moku, the BOSS seemed to realize that the person in front of him was a threat, and suddenly shot out a stream of spider silk from his lower abdomen, suspending his body in mid-air. Then, he opened his large mouth and let out a rhythmic screech!

  "Hurry! Bring those torches and burn away the spider eggs!"

  As soon as they saw the spider eggs around them start shaking, Asuna immediately ordered everyone to burn the eggs.

  With Asuna's reminder, apart from the strategy group players who were attacking the BOSS with Yui and Kirito, the other members of the Knights of the Blood guild ran to the entrance of the platform, picked up a torch, and scattered around to set fire to those spider eggs!

  Unfortunately, although Asuna gave the order in a timely manner, there was still a part of small spiders that crawled out from the eggs. These small spiders were all about half the size of an adult human body and their speed was even faster than BOSS!

  "Ah!"

  "I don't want to die!"

  "Help!!"

  Watching the Blood Alliance Knights members being bitten by those small spiders that suddenly appeared and their HP dropping rapidly, everyone's heart skipped a beat.

  "Binah!"

  "Wah!"

  At this time, Silica's voice suddenly rang out, and immediately a clear and melodious wyvern cry echoed through the sky.

  During the time following the 8th cloud ink practice, Silica's auxiliary ability has been greatly improved and has reached the level where she can recover HP for all players in the party at the same time!

  Although the effect of restoring HP for all team members is far less than that of a single player, it can save many lives at this time!

  As Bina's clear cry sounded, a burst of green light points shot out from the Wyvern in mid-air, sprinkling over everyone. Instantly, the rapidly decreasing HP of those entwined by the small spiders was forcibly halted at the red line!

  Watching his HP no longer decrease, the person who was entwined felt a sense of relief and immediately swung their weapon to shake off the small spider. Then, they quickly pulled out a potion from their backpack and drank it.

  Seeing this, Asuna and Keita finally let out a sigh of relief.

  "No wonder... a strong army would suffer heavy casualties here. Most of the elite troops didn't even have time to use their transmission crystals before they died..."

  Ayase looked at the Blood Oath Knights who were fighting against the small spiders, and then looked at Yakumo Sumi who was leading the rest of the people to attack the BOSS, saying in a low voice.

  "Well, I'll go up too!"

  In an instant, Asuna transformed into a beam of light and shot forward!