The Cornflower Witch Chapter 206

Knowing the location of the enemy’s lair, Hylial began to plan.

She first found a hillside with a good vantage point, moved her warhorses and camp there, cleared out dangerous creatures nearby, and then planted thorny vines around the camp as a guard to prevent her warhorses from being attacked by other creatures when she was away.

After that, she began to move along the periphery of the spider’s lair, checking the surrounding environment.

…

“Wild Growth of Plants!”

In the woods, Hylial shot an arrow, hitting an escaping white stink bug spider. The massive growth of leaves trapped it, making it difficult to break free.

At this moment, Hylial came before it, raised her hand, and recalled the scene of using her talent ability before. Dots of starlight flickered in her eyes, suppressing the spider in front of her.

She tried to seal the opponent, but found the effect was not good. It was like the opponent struggling in the water during the slow freezing process, preventing the water from freezing quickly, only leading to a stalemate.

After trying for more than ten seconds, Hylial felt a bit mentally exhausted and temporarily gave up.

She urged the growing leaves to tightly bind the spider in front of her, then slowly dragged it back to the camp.

After a rest, Hylial sat in front of the bound spider, continuing to ponder how to unleash her talent abilities.

She attempted to interfere with the opponent’s Fate Plate, sealing one of its abilities, for example, its [Spider Poison Fang Lv.4]. Targeting a single ability this way made it much easier.

As invisible starlight flickered, the “white stink bug spider’s” [Spider Poison Fang] ability was sealed, and the poison fangs on its outer body also became dull.

Hylial carefully approached the spider, thought for a moment, took out a piece of wood, and offered it to the front of its poison fangs.

“Hiss—” The spider, seeing the wood approach, unintelligently bit down, its poison fangs piercing the wood.

Watching it chew for a long time, Hylial then tapped the spider’s head with the wooden stick, making it release its bite, and then retrieved the bitten wood.

She lightly sliced it with her Glimmergold Greatsword and found only bitten holes and a small amount of liquid inside, with no traces of venom injection.

It seemed the seal was effective. The girl nodded slightly in satisfaction.

After re-tying the spider, Hylial noticed some injuries on its body. She thought for a moment and fed it some meat, just in case it didn’t survive.

“Here, eat something.” She fed the “white stink bug spider” a piece of meat, which it swallowed directly, not even checking for poison, and ate it heartily.

Seeing this, Hylial shook her head.

Indeed, insects are a bit dim-witted compared to beasts. If she had poisoned the food, this fellow would surely have fallen for it.

Speaking of poisoning, Hylial suddenly had a flash of inspiration, remembering something.

…

A day later, a wild boar rushed headlong into the depths of the forest. It ran frantically, grunting and snorting, eventually arriving at an open space.

Seemingly smelling something, the wild boar rooted around in the soil with its snout, foraging for wild fungi. In a short while, it unearthed a black truffle.

After eating the delicious treat, it became more energetic and continued deeper into the woods, completely unaware of the increased presence of spiderwebs on the surrounding trees.

Several minutes later, the wild boar delved deeper into the forest, and a shadowy figure moved silently among the forest canopies.

Suddenly,

As the wild boar happily munched on a freshly found wild mushroom, the shadow descended from above, pouncing directly onto the wild boar. Its poison fangs pierced its body.

A few seconds later, the wild boar stopped struggling, completely still.

The thick-skinned giant spider released its poison fangs, then spat out white silk, wrapping the wild boar layer by layer, then packing it away and hanging it in a spiderweb among the trees.

It had already injected digestive venom into the silk cocoon. In about half a day, this wild boar would become delicious and nutritious “juice”.

On the hillside outside the lair, Hylial’s eyes flickered with light, observing the inner forest obscured by layers of trees. Watching the spider pack the wild boar and take it back to its lair, she calculated in her mind.

Although she didn’t know how effective the giant spider’s digestive venom was, she had experimented with the second-tier spider outside for the past two days. If a small bottle made of clay was used, it could resist erosion for a relatively long time, but if the container was made of biological materials like leather, it would be corroded very quickly.

In the evening, the silk-wrapped wild boar was gradually being digested, but the giant spider in the forest lair was still in slumber and had not yet enjoyed its meal.

“I was careless,” Hylial thought. She only considered the digestion time but didn’t account for its lazy personality and habits. Her experience was still lacking. The girl shook her head slightly.

After waiting another day, the giant spider finally seemed to remember it had a “snack” left uneaten. It approached the silk cocoon wrapping the wild boar, cut a small opening, and sucked the juice. By this time, the wild boar had completely dissolved, even its bones turning into a soft mass. As for the seeds Hylial had sealed inside beforehand, they were corroded by the digestive fluid and failed to take effect.

Two days later, Hylial experimented with other materials, but unfortunately, the effects were all poor; they couldn’t withstand prolonged immersion in the digestive venom.

At this point, she had to change her plan.

Since it was impossible to create a container that could resist the digestive venom, it would be better for the giant spider to quickly eat it without thinking, rather than soaking it in digestive venom.

So, what do many monsters like and enjoy eating?

The answer is the “alfalfa flower ball” exuding a faint fragrance in the girl’s hand. She used a catalyst vine to hang it on the foot of a bird, then released the bird.

Watching the bird fly deep into the forest, and upon reaching the designated position, emerald light flickered in her eyes. The vine automatically loosened, dropping the alfalfa flower ball.

The light flower ball drifted with the wind, falling through the canopy, tumbling between branches, and descending until it hooked onto a spiderweb, coming to a still.

Subsequently, a faint floral scent permeated the air, and the “Emerald Honey” aspect power within it, like a sweet fruit, tempted the surrounding creatures.

Some small spiders climbed up, approaching the flower ball, and some snakes and insects slowly came closer, drawn by the scent.

At this moment, the giant spider swept across the treeline, landing silently but with lightning speed on the flower ball. Its poison fangs clamped the flower ball, and it sniffed it carefully, realizing that eating this thing would be very beneficial.

So, the spider no longer hesitated, swallowing the flower ball whole and ingesting it.

Outside the forest, Hylial watched this scene, and a weight was lifted from her heart.

“Good, it’s eaten,” she thought, no longer lingering. She picked up the scabbard beside her and rushed into the forest.

Her silver hair fluttering in the wind, clad in silver-white armor, the girl no longer concealed herself. A faint glow of silver moonlight emanated from her, like a charging Valkyrie, approaching the spider in its dark lair.

As the breathing method circulated, Hylial’s speed increased rapidly, silver light flickered in her eyes, and her spiritual power was highly concentrated. The trees before her seemed to become transparent, allowing her to “see” the spider hidden in ambush within.

In a flash, the glimmergold blade tore through the darkness, breaking the spider’s camouflage and exposing it before the girl. Then, she agilely flipped and spun like a swallow, her waist lantern blazing, an invisible wave of fire spreading, “lighting up” this dark and lightless forest lair.

Flames swept through, and a burnt smell permeated the air. The giant spider, realizing its lair was ignited, rubbed its poison fangs. Its eight blood-red eyes stared fixedly at the silver-haired figure, then it leaped up, pouncing directly at the girl on the tree trunk.

Inside the lair, its speed was nearly sixty percent faster than before. At this moment, even Hylial found it difficult to dodge and was bitten on the arm.

“Sizzle—” The poison fangs and armor plates rubbed, producing sparks and a sound. Even though it didn’t break through her defense, the poison fangs clamped like iron pincers, making it difficult for Hylial to break free.

At this moment, she no longer hesitated and fully activated the seeds within the giant spider’s body.

The giant spider painfully released its poison fangs, its eight legs incessantly scurrying across the silk web, but it couldn’t find any way to deal with the vine-like plant growing within its abdomen.

The demonic blood vine grew inside the giant spider, continuously absorbing blood and nutrients from its body, then transforming them into fruit, weakening the giant spider.

Several minutes later, the giant spider stopped moving, lying in a corner beneath the tree, nearly dead.

Hylial bandaged her wounds and approached the weakened “thick-skinned giant spider”, beginning to cast the [Star] sealing ability, with the core ability of the opponent as her target this time.

Invisible starlight flickered in her eyes, beginning to suppress the core ability within the spider’s Fate Plate.

Time slowly passed, and drops of sweat constantly seeped from Hylial’s forehead. She felt as if she were a child lifting an object far heavier than herself, with a difficult and precarious feeling.

“Just a little longer,” she thought. The spider before her was already a very easy monster to deal with, and next time, she might not find such a suitable experimental subject.

Enduring immense pressure, Hylial continued to persevere, adding more weight to the battle of wills.

Several minutes later,

Pushing through the extreme pressure that made her eyes see stars and her consciousness nearly faint, Hylial finally sealed the core ability of the giant spider before her. The originally colored core card was as if covered by a faint curtain, separated from the Fate Plate.

Soon, a clear message appeared in her mind.

(Successfully sealed “Spinning a web and nesting insect”. The advancement method for this core ability is revealed.)

[Spinning a web and nesting insect] (Advance method); forge a nest, defeat enemies, and guard territory. Those who achieve this trial can condense the “Nesting insect” core ability.

—Effect: [Nesting insect]: When in the nest, all abilities are increased by approximately 60%. (Different creatures gain different enhancements when advancing this way, depending on their specific characteristics and habits).