With all of the parts from the spider queen as well as the nurous eggs that he gathered inside of the net made by weaving cobwebs together, Eiro made his way back out of the caves, although this ti around he didn't go through the sa tunnels he went through before.
Instead, he climbed up other ones that imdiately brought him to the center of this spider-infested area, the large hollow tree that was directly connected to the large cave underneath. There were still so spiders around here, so he quickly got rid of them with so flas before just placing the net filled with precious materials onto the ground. Because there was sothing else in here that was more than just useful to him.
Eiro climbed up the inside of this hollow tree until he reached the top, which didn't truthfully take that long, and then climbed along one of the branches. It wasn't in its best state, but there were so leftover parts of the tree's seeds attached to the branch. He had to clean it up a bit later and have another look, but he had a feeling that these seeds were the perfect fit for making the spider-blood trees that he collected the mass amount of blood for.
Even now, he was making the blood from the spider queen float behind him. Either way, after collecting so of the seeds, Eiro packed them away into his satchel where there was still a little bit of space left and then climbed back down.
"Alright, let's go." The Demon said as he looked at the Golem floating next to him, who swiftly nodded his head. Eiro tried his best to start actually running with all of the things he was carrying around with him, although it was rather hard to do, especially since he garnered the complete attention of any spider currently left in this area.
But they weren't really enemies worth ntioning, and Eiro didn't even properly pay attention to them. Without their queen, they were completely and utterly unorganized and even dumber than before.
It didn't take too long for Eiro to catch up to the others either, and he just had to live with the fact that they were more than just confused and wanted to know how Eiro managed to kill and take apart sothing that was obviously incredibly strong and large.
For now, however, Eiro didn't care. He just wanted to be able to let all of this stuff down sowhere. Like, make a large tub of ice to keep everything in that could rot or decline in quality over ti. Luckily, Nelli and Gondos at least refined the queen's blood a little and made it slightly easier to control, so it wasn't that big a deal.
Either way, like this, the group made their way all the way back to the Goblin village before sundown. Eiro sat everything down inside of the ice tubs like he wanted to and then trapped the spiders in parts of the mines where he didn't have to worry about them escaping sohow.
And after he then brought Leon and Avalin to bed, as both of them were pretty tired, he stepped back outside and made sure that the Hobgoblins were at a good point. Eiro would keep the seals on them a little longer so that their monstrosity could weaken even more over ti while sealed away. Like this it would also be easier to get them to continuosly practice the things that he told them to.
The Demon tried his best to ingrain whatever he could into their thick heads, and then made his way into the cave as well to sleep.
Eiro was sitting there with the tal orb in his hand and simply cleaned it up properly, trying to get rid of the dried-up blood that covered it. He scratched his hand over the carvings, but he couldn't really notice anything that could give him any sort of hint.
"Do you have any idea which suit it's from at least?" Nelli inquired, although she was inside of the inbetween-space between the spirit and mortal plane at the mont, where only Eiro and Gondos could see and hear her. They didn't necessarily want the others to find out about what exactly this did until they weren't entirely sure what it actually was.
With a light frown, Eiro just whispered, although it wasn't really speaking. It was a spirit magic spell, the kind that one always used to communicate with their spirits over long distances anyway. Like this, as Eiro was whispering, his regular speech beca too distorted to properly hear or understand, while he could give Nelli and Gondos answers that the two of them could regularly understand.
"I think we can exclude the Suit of Swords. If this was so sort of experint by that organization, they would have tried to maximize the effects, so they would have changed its body itself. It didn't seem to have any extraordinary abilities, the queen was simply slightly... disfigured. That's all. So it probably wasn't the suit of pentacles either..." Eiro muttered quietly.
He wanted to figure out what exactly this did, but he didn't just want to randomly activate it either. It could have a pretty dangerous effect when used outside of specific situations, after all. As far as Eiro knew, it could very well be the Eight of Cups. The absolute poison that could turn a flourishing Kingdom into a wasteland if one wasn't careful with it. Or even worse, the five of wands. The artifact capable of creating a space in which everything simply disappeared without a trace as to where it may have ended up.
If it was either of that, and Eiro activated it like this, then he would be dead imdiately. The spider queen was definitely experinted on, since its body was not natural in any possible way, so this tal ball inside of its heart might have just been sothing to assure that it couldn't get out of control. Or rather, that the people that experinted on it could easily get rid of the spider if it did get out of control.
Eiro definitely had to be careful and do a little research on it. Maybe he could get so sort of clue as to what card this was based off of if he could figure out the carvings on the outside.
It seed like they were runic in nature, but they weren't runes belonging to the ancient language at the very least. It really annoyed Eiro that he had no recollection of what these symbols could an, although they obviously had so sort of aning. It did make him feel a bit better that Nelli didn't know about them either though.
But then, Jas asked sothing that Eiro didn't notice before, "Hm, that another one of the things the person that lived here made?" He asked as he stepped into the cave after properly cleaning himself up after today. It seed like Jas was just trying to make small-talk, but Eiro was still curious.
"What makes you think that?" Eiro inquired, and Jas raised his brows a bit, "Eh, the carvings are the sa type, right? I think I saw them sowhere before, they're like, Arcane Runes? I think that's what they were called." Jas pointed out, and Eiro imdiately looked down at the tal orb again, trying to see places where the patterns might be the sa.
He didn't rember anything like that directly, but he did have to admit that there were a few rather obvious similarities between the carvings on the slab outside and this tal orb.
"How did you see that?" Eiro asked, and Jas lightly shrugged in response, "I don't know, I just kinda did. My mom was an Archaeologist, I picked a couple things up."
"And how did an Archaeologist's son beco an Assassin?" The Demon inquired, and once more, albeit this ti with a rather annoyed frown, Jas shrugged, "Fuck off." He said with a light grumble and then slid down against the wall next to Eiro to sit down next to him on the ground.
For a few monts it beca rather tense and awkward, so much that even Eiro was able to notice this, but before he could ntion it, Jas did.
"Alright listen, man. I don't... like you." Jas started, "I get that you're not a normal monster by now. I get that you weren't the one that killed Avalin. You're a bit extre at tis, but in the end, I think you're a good guy. But I still can't... you know.."
"Stop hating my guts?"
"Basically. Well, it ain't like I feel seething anger every ti I look at your mug, but I can't help but get annoyed, you know?" Jas said with a light sigh, before Eiro turned toward him with a smirk, "Likewise, bud. It's a weird feeling. I don't dislike you, but I don't like you either. But it's different to how you feel toward random passerby's. For example, I do trust you. I think, I'm probably not the most emotionally stable person to ask at the mont. You know, Demon of Wrath kinda thing."
For a few monts, Jas looked at Eiro a bit confused before understanding what he was saying, "Right, because most normal demons have a sign assigned to them. You think you'd be a Demon of Wrath if you were a normal one?"
"No, I know. It actually happened rather shortly after I left you guys back then. I had Avalin with , and I was trying to figure out how to feed her. Then I t Arc for the first ti, my oldest, and he led to the carriage where he, so priest, a mage and the guy that had the three of swords before were. My kids are all a bit special, as you probably noticed. Well, I killed the priest, was nearly killed by the forr card owner, was saved by the forr Naiad Queen, watched the forr card owner be taken over by the card, killed the card owner and the mage, and then kidnapped the children to have them help out finding my way to the monster king's castle." Eiro explained, before Jas just stared at the demon rather confused at what happened. He knew there was obviously more to it, but hearing that Eiro literally kidnapped the children was more than just surprising.
"And well, I evolved for the first ti, got a bit smarter, and started kind of getting attached to the kids. Well, we stopped in a town for the night, and that town just happened to be part of an experint conducted by , aning that every night the town beca infested with demons of all sorts while all people indulged in their sins. So shadow bastard transported the children away from to the demonic lords of the town according to each of their 'sins', and then I went around town to get them back. They were mostly stronger than at the ti, but sohow I don't get stunned when I co in contact with holy energy, so I could overwhelm them sohow using a holy energy magic stone I got from the priorly ntioned priest's staff."
Jas looked at Eiro with a light frown. This seed ridiculous, but sohow, Jas believed it, "You fought using holy energy? You, a demon? And you don't get stunned by your bane?" He asked with a light frown, and knowing that Jas wouldn't believe him, Eiro already took out the white-golden magic stone out of his treasury. Eiro held it in his left hand and activated it. It caused his skin to lightly sizzle, although only to the extent that Eiro could hear it. Jas probably didn't. Although that just showed how strong the holy energy Avalin's body naturally gave off was. They should properly keep that in check soon as well. Maybe Eiro should reveal this information to Solomon..?
Either way, after showing this off to Jas, he put the magic stone away again, "I have a level 78, apprentice grade holy energy resistance skill. I didn't back then of course, but by now, this much doesn't damage anymore since my resistance stat went up this much. Either way, through the way I was fighting and how reckless I was, not only did I have my finger ripped off after falling off a tower with Leon in my arms, trying to slow my fall, but my hand completely died off the next morning after I saved the children.. That's when I t Jura, and the children nad Eiro."
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