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Original Translation: Blastron
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Ah, is it finally happening?
{Finjegoat – LV 6 – failed to appraise status}
{Finjegoat – LV 4 – failed to appraise status}
{Finjegoat – LV 5 – failed to appraise status}
{Finjegoat – LV 5 – failed to appraise status}
{High Finjegoat – LV 1 – failed to appraise status}
Hovering in the sky before my eyes is a squadron of wasps, and they sure don’t look like they’re just here to watch. They’re giving off an atmosphere of hostility, like they’ve finally seen me as a threat and are here to settle things.
My nest stretches up about halfway to my goal. As I’ve been building higher and higher, the wasp’s attitudes have been changing bit by bit, but it looks like I finally hit a point where they just can’t leave me alone anymore.
But still, they just sent one squadron. Are they not taking me seriously, or are they just testing the waters? Regardless, in my nest I can totally win against just one squad.
I ready my Ku-morning star. I’ve been building the walls of this nest out of a fine mesh, but I’ve left cracks for me to throw my weapons out of. Of course, even though there’s cracks, it’s not like they’re big enough for those two-meter-long wasps are going to be able to get through them. My foes have no way to get through to me, but I can attack outside as much as I want. Well, they can always run away, though, so it’s really more of a tie.
The two level fives rush in to assault my nest. Heh. Even when there’s two of them attacking simultaneously, my nest doesn’t even budge. My [Spider Thread] skill is level eight! Even when it was low-leveled, my thread was something I was proud of, and now that it’s this high-level, it’s only gotten better. Just like that, it was able to withstand two of those wasps directly charging into it, without moving an inch! Even though they came at me with their impressive bulk and their great speed, there was literally no damage at all. It literally didn’t even shudder from the impact.
The threads I’ve surrounded my nest with are maximally strong, with just enough rubbery elasticity to be excellent shock absorbers. I designed it so that the threads can expand and contract somewhat, in order to absorb a certain amount of shock. Two wasps ramming into it head-on did nothing! It can absorb at least that amount. If it couldn’t, then I’d have to rely solely on the raw strength of the threads to keep things together.
It’s not like those wasps’ attacks are particularly weak, or anything. From my observations, these wasps are, hm, how do I say it… strong. They drag all sorts of prey back here, including those huge snakes!
They can attack unopposed from the air, with their poisoned stingers and powerful physiques. Under any normal circumstances, they would be a huge threat! No ordinary attacks can reach them when they’re in the air, so they can attack without fear of reprisal. Ah, hm, this might be why they seem so weak to my anti-air attacks. My perfect accuracy with the Ku-morning star may be because they just simply aren’t expecting anything to hit them!
Thanks to all that, an ordinary battle with these wasps would be extremely difficult. Yes, an ordinary battle. My home, my trump card, is not, however, ordinary. It possesses extraordinary resilience, extraordinary binding power, and extraordinary siege potential! I’ll bet these wasps haven’t ever seen any tactics like these. This is, after all, what happens when a spider’s strongest trump card is wielded by a human’s powerful intellect.
For now, I’ll ignore the two wasps that got stuck in my nest after they body-checked it. I turn to the remaining three wasps, who still haven’t grasped the severity of their situation, and hurl my Ku-morning star! Their leader is completely unable to avoid it, and takes it full on. This was my goal all along. I crack my thread like a whip, and the centrifugal force slams my foe down into my nest. The leader has been neutralized.
The remaining two wasps panic, not knowing what to do now that their leader’s been taken out. Perfect targets. I fling out the Ku-morning star yet again and dispatch the higher-level one. After that, the remaining wasp gets its head together, but its next move is awful. I don’t know if it was expecting a turnabout, but it charges straight at me! Didn’t you learn anything from the other two that tried that? Well, unfortunately, that desperate attack completely fails to reach me, and there’s one more wasp stuck in my webs.
It was over too quickly. The wasps I thought were so dreadful and terrible when I first fell down here have no strategy to deal with me once I’ve built a nest! If it can withstand a straight-on charge without even shuddering, then no matter how many wasps may attack, they’ll never reach me! This alone is proof of the ridiculous defensive strength of my nest.
In a video game, if your defense stats are high enough, attacks from weaker characters won’t deal you any damage at all. It looks like that’s holding true for my nest against those wasps. I had imagined that the wasps wouldn’t be able to break through, but I was figuring that they’d at least do enough damage that I’d have to do some maintenance every once in a while.
There are still hundreds of pathetic little wasps buzzing around above me. I remember the terror I felt when I first realized how many there were… but, now that I have my indestructible nest, it’s an entirely different story. It doesn’t matter if you bring hundreds, or even thousands, if you cannot break through my webs, your stingers shall never reach me!
My chances of escape are looking better and better. In an excellent mood, I finish off these captured wasps and get back to work.
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