Chapter 459: A Spider... Friend?

This damn spider is the most relentless thing I've known, and I have grown already quite intrigued on its physical structure and what made it even so resilient, mana alone can't make you like this, right? You're worse than a cockroach.

CRASH!

Her entire body cracked into pieces, she was still frozen, and her body didn't simply unfroze or something. however, it broke apart and died...

Or so I thought. As I glanced at her I realized that she had indeed not died, this wasn't death, she had certainly not died at all. She was pushing forward with all she had and was breaking her own limits now.

A smaller spider emerged out of her broken down body, as if she was just left a carcass of her former exoskeleton behind... however, this one was fairly different.

Aside from being several times smaller, it emanated a strong glistening aura of shadows and darkness, as if it were twisting space itself, distorting things.

This thing just evolved?

You're fucking with me now?

It was now officially at Rank 4 Peak Stage when I killed it and revived back into an evolution.

Could it be that it saved its own evolution until the moment it was to surely die to provoke a revival through the mysterious effects of evolution?

This monster really knows how to abuse this world's monster's evolution powers... She's intelligent and cunning too, I can already see that.

"GRYYEEEEEE!"

The monster leaped towards me once more, this time it was swifter than ever and it had new color patterns of purple and red across its body, activating these patterns like runes enhanced her strength by a tenfold too, and she punched me down into the ground with her legs, piercing my entire body with her massive legs and leaving me like Swiss cheese.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

"Y-You damn bitch!" I roared, as kicked her into the abdomen and then unleashed a storm of winds towards her, forcing her to slowly push forward with the power of my winds going against her.

"GRRYYYYEEEEE!"

It was so angered it was going to surely give me a horrible dead if she could, this fucking bastard...

"RAAAAA!"

I combined all my techniques and skills I could muster at the same time, concentrating 100% all my split minds into this task. This point was something I had not experienced yet until this very moment, and when I did, I felt as if everything turned slow. My muscles were reinforced beyond belief, my bones grew sharper and my scales stronger and hardier. Even more, my entire body felt as if it was going 100% into tis full power, by utilizing every single physical enhancing skill possible!

TRUUUMMM!!!

A red aura surged from my body as in that moment, I felt as if my mind was getting dizzier, my eyes began to glow redder and redder as I began to gather Mana from my mana cores at a fast pace.

FLASH!

BOOOM!

I reached up to the spider like a flash of red light, crushing her into the ground, punching her and braking apart her exoskeleton at long last. Now it felt terribly easy to do. What was this?!

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

"GRYYYAAAA!"

The spider groaned in agony, I was tearing her body into shreds faster than she could regenerate, and I was kicking her ass better than anything ever before. I was finally pulling through!

I used my tail and countless techniques combined into my fists and claws and tore apart her body piece by piece, although her regeneration was almost as insane as mine, making me only more angered that there could be anything daring to be as strong as I was, it broke my entire illusion of being as strong as I thought, and although it made me realize I could go even further than I originally thought, this still made me frustrated.

My arrogant nature had been developing more and more as I grew into a stronger dragon, it was as if acting arrogant and prideful was within my genes. I was never this kind of person in my previous life, but something on my very bloodline slowly turned my demeanor into such a thing.

And this form... where I was releasing my full potential was when my pride and ego exploded to their fullest degree, I felt incredibly rageful and egocentric, as I if I couldn't forget this monster for trying to be better than me.

I called this "form" as "Prideful Heart".

BOOOOOOMMM!!!

My massive fists crushed the head of the spider, its brains gushing out...

But it was not dead.

"GRRAAAAAH...!!!"

"What are you, a freaking undead? Won't you die already?!" I roared back, bathing it in my breath attack!

BOOOOOOMM!!!

However, it slowly regenerated back, weaker, and weaker, but it was still coming back.

"Y-You're a persisting monster... Why?" I asked.

"Grooohh..."

It muttered back, as its eyes finally regenerated and it looked back at me, but it, for some reason, didn't used its Evil Eyes, and simply stared me down.

Skadi and Uller were already ready. I was going to use them as my last resort and made them let reach her insides through her jaws, forcing them to crush her insides into pieces and freeze her there. If that didn't worked, they were going to break her mana core.

But now...

Why do I feel so strange?

Ah, I can't move.

The effect of Prideful Heart is gone now, and my entire body is paralyzed, a gigantic exhaustion assaulted me too.

"Grryyeehh..."

However, the spider simply slowly crawled near me and began to lick my face with her long and slippery tongue.

"W-What the heck?"

<Drake, I believe you've already won over her and she acceded defeat, you've tamed her.>

"What?! I tamed this giant thing?! I wanted to kill her, not tame her!"

"Grryyaahh..."

The spider continued to cutely rub her head over my chest.

<She's cute.>

"Don't fuck with me, System! I was just about to kill her off and... Ugh... I feel so exhausted..."