Chinese professors at the Wizarding Academy

Suddenly, a large group of spiders appeared in front of him. The rock wall beside the riverbed blocked the sunlight, preventing any light from entering. Although it wasn't pitch black where Gu Chen was standing, it was enough to make the dozens of pairs of eerie green compound eyes stand out.

The spider swarm had clearly locked onto Gu Chen. He could even see the white stripes on the spiders' bodies.

"This is just one problem after another..."

Gu Chen felt his lips twitch; how could this sea of ​​fog be so dangerous...?

However, it is precisely because of the danger that this path seems to be the right one.

The reason is simple... It's like playing a game. If you can't find the way forward, the easiest way is to go wherever there are the most monsters.

Simply put, the more monsters you spawn, the more fun the game becomes.

Of course, this is in a game, but using this kind of language is simpler and more straightforward.

The depths of the foggy sea are naturally fraught with danger, but as a young master with a powerful family background, Joebeck can avoid these dangers with the help of his family and his own sources of information.

But other wizards or apprentices don't have this ability, so for Joebeck, the more dangerous the environment, the safer he is.

"Let's not think about that too much for now, let's deal with these spiders..."

Gu Chen clenched his fist, his hand flashing with a scarlet light, the blood wizard's red magic dancing on his fingers.

"I'm starting to lose my composure... The new students who recently entered Gray Tower Academy might not even be as strong as these spiders..."

Gu Chen noticed that the white patterns on the spiders' backs were shimmering with an eerie light, standing out starkly against the dim rock wall.

Logically speaking, although the patterns are white, the environment here is still quite dark, and these patterns are simply too obvious.

This was the light of magic. After probing with his mind, Gu Chen discovered that the strength of these spiders was basically close to the first level.

Although he didn't reach the level of a formal wizard, he had already accumulated mental strength. Although he didn't have the intelligence of a human, mental strength wasn't something that humans possessed exclusively.

For some monsters, their mental strength also increases with experience, eventually allowing them to use magic instinctively.

Although the group of spiders in front of us is not particularly strong, their sheer number makes up for it!

"This is exactly the kind of situation I'm not good at dealing with..."

Gu Chen muttered to himself... Although he recovers quickly, has strong attacks, and can fight across ranks.

The problem is that his defense is weak, and his attacks can only be single-target attacks.

If this huge swarm of spiders were to press forward and I were bitten... physical wounds would be the easiest to treat, but what if they were poisonous? Once poisoned, they would slow me down, and if they were surrounded, I would be in serious trouble!

So he didn't retreat. He was now next to the rock wall. Although the space was cramped, he had a way out. The rock wall meant he could defend against attacks from one less direction.

Retreating means exposing yourself to a wider riverbed, making you an easier target to besiege.

"Walk!"

So, Gu Chen turned around and ran away!

Run for your lives!

Since I'm not very good at handling this kind of problem, I might as well just run away!

But the spider swarm reacted faster than he did.

The five spiders in the front row simultaneously raised their abdomens and instantly sprayed out several strands of silk as thin as hair.

These multiple threads, shimmering with a deep blue luster, shot out and intertwined and spun in the air, eventually forming a net with a diameter of more than two meters!

It directly covers the path leading to Gu Chen!

"Holy crap, is it really that advanced?"

Gu Chen was utterly shocked!

Wait, these spiders can actually make something like a web?

What's even stranger is that the air the net passed through made a faint hissing sound, as if the fog was being corroded!

However, Gu Chen did not give up. He suddenly stopped and his body leaned back and rolled to the side in an illogical posture!

He narrowly escaped the edge of the spider web.

"Hiss hiss hiss..."

The edge of Gu Chen's robe made a corroding sound, and a faint woody scent appeared in the air.

The robes made by Ysera are certainly not made of particularly bad materials... but even so, they are corroded just by rubbing against the side of the net, without even touching it.

"Tsk..."

Gu Chen put on a serious expression... The current situation didn't allow him to complain.

The situation at hand is not easy to handle...

"Speed, teamwork, and tactics..."

His eyes were serious; these spiders were far more intelligent than ordinary monsters.

He had stopped; there was no road ahead.

Because of this short delay, the spider swarm had already completed the initial encirclement.

They quickly dispersed, occupying all directions around Gu Chen.

"There are definitely tactics involved... a clear division of labor, which means they must have a controller, or a spider queen..."

What's more troublesome is that these spiders maintain some kind of formation...

The spiders in the front row were smaller and more agile, constantly shifting their positions, seemingly tasked with harassing and restraining the enemy. The spiders in the middle row were of medium size, and the runes on their backs were growing brighter. Gu Chen knew what this light meant—it meant that magic was accumulating. The spiders in the back row were the largest, almost the size of a washbasin, and instead of immediately advancing, they were weaving a larger web behind them, seemingly trying to block any escape route.

"A spider colony that knows how to divide tasks and cooperate..."

Gu Chen's mind immediately went into overdrive! This was clearly no ordinary monster hunting; it was practically a trained army!

Your teamwork is even better than those apprentice teams in Misty Valley!

Seeing his living space being constantly squeezed... Gu Chen knew he had to act quickly or find a breakthrough.

His brain was working at lightning speed, his mental energy was projected out, and his consciousness analyzed the surrounding environment, the location of the spiders, and possible escape routes.

"There's only one exit left..."

Finally, Gu Chen realized that although the spiders' formation was tight, it was not invincible.

There was a gap in the back row... Then, behind me was a large rock, next to which was a bend in the riverbed... The rock wall there was concave, forming a small, relatively narrow area.

If the spider colony can be lured there, their numerical advantage will be limited by the terrain.

"Hiss!"

As soon as the idea came to him, Gu Chen immediately took off running!

"Blood extraction!"

As the spell was cast, the giant spiders also launched their webs!

Gu Chen dodged it once again in a way that almost defied the laws of physics. This was the enhanced ability of the Star Gazing Technique, which significantly improved his mental analytical skills!

Then, Gu Chen continued to run backward, with the swarm of spiders chasing closely behind him!

The first few venomous creatures were already spitting out poisonous threads, attempting to entangle Gu Chen's legs.

Gu Chen leaped up suddenly while running, using a protruding rock for leverage, and flipped in the air to dodge two more incoming threads!

The moment he landed, he had already rushed into the narrow area!

Here, the rock walls on both sides are squeezed inward, and the passage is less than two meters wide!

This was a perfect position for Gu Chen, because the spiders' numerical advantage was greatly reduced here, with only two or three spiders able to attack side by side at most.

And then, Gu Chen will face less pressure from attacks.

"There are indeed fewer spiders to deal with now... Thanks to rapid recovery and the blood absorption from words, it's not a big problem to handle them."

"We can just come a few more times."

This is really awesome.

Because of the environmental barriers, the spiders could not swarm together, which gave Gu Chen an opportunity to make his move.

A crimson light flashed across his hand, continuously connecting to one spider after another.

Then, blood extraction begins!

In an instant, the once enormous spider turned into a dried-up corpse lying on the ground, while Gu Chen restored his magic power by absorbing the blood and also absorbed the magical properties of these spiders...

That's toxicity.

"This is great..."

As Gu Chen released his blood to absorb energy, he thought to himself...

Although the scene just now was scary, the progress is real.

Once they've all been killed, I might be able to control the venom within these spiders.

"sand……"

Just as Gu Chen was engrossed in the battle, a dark figure slowly moved on the rock wall in a blurry area above his head.

"It finally moved..."

"...It's the Spider Queen."

It was an extremely large spider, but not the size of an ordinary washbasin.

This spider was significantly larger, almost as big as a giant horse! It was entirely black, and the white stripes on its back even formed a complex pattern!

What caught Gu Chen's attention even more was that on the underside of the spider's abdomen, he could vaguely see something that looked like a rune, with intricate and complex patterns...

"Wait, isn't that the Lorian family crest?"

Why is the royal emblem of the Kingdom of Lorian on a spider queen?

"It's getting more and more complicated..."

It was as if a fog had enveloped everything, making it impossible to discern the truth. However, there was one thing that Gu Chen could understand: these spiders were not naturally occurring magical beasts, but rather modified and controlled magical creations.

The large spider slowly climbed down the rock wall and moved towards itself. It moved very carefully, and its eight legs moved almost silently on the pebbles.

However, Gu Chen's mental detection had already discovered her.

suddenly!

The Spider Queen charged forward, her eight legs stomping loudly on the pebbles, spewing out a ghostly blue venomous mist from her mouth.

"They're here!"

Although the narrow passage was not wide enough for a large number of spiders to pass through, the Spider Queen was just able to rush through!

Gu Chen didn't take the hit head-on. He dodged sharply to the left. This was incredibly lucky. How could he possibly dodge that?

However, the Spider Queen was not without a countermeasure. She charged forward blankly, then suddenly turned her head. Fortunately, Gu Chen activated his Blood Shield at the same time!

"boom!"

A burst of crimson magical light erupted! Drops of blood splashed onto Gu Chen and the Spider Queen.

The Spider Queen went even crazier after the impact. Instead of dodging, she smashed through the nearby rocks with her body!

"We can't delay any longer..."

The terrain here has been destroyed, and soon other spiders will swarm in...

Without hesitation, Gu Chen covered his right hand with a layer of blood red and directly stabbed its three right eyes!

"Pfft! Pfft! Pfft!"

Three soft sounds rang out, and three eyes were pierced! Dark green liquid gushed out like a tap that had been turned on!

The Spider Queen let out a pitiful scream, her body writhing wildly. Her remaining five eyes were all locked on Gu Chen, and then Gu Chen could clearly see her abdomen twitching...

Gu Chen smelled poison...

Sure enough, a deep purple mist erupted out!

Gu Chen was about to dodge when suddenly—

"Bang!"

A huge explosion came from upstream of the riverbed! After the explosion, the shockwave made Gu Chen and the Spider Queen stagger and lose their footing.

"Not a magical explosion?"

Gu Chen could not sense any obvious magical fluctuations, which proved that the explosion sound just now was... the sound of something collapsing?

"Whoosh whoosh whoosh!"

The sound of water flowing?

Immediately afterwards, the roar of rushing water was heard!

"Damn, there's no water here, just a riverbed!"

Holy crap!

"...The underground river has changed course!?"

The leader spider paused noticeably, its five eyes turning toward the source of the sound.

Gu Chen also looked in that direction. He saw that at the bend in the riverbed, a large amount of turbid groundwater suddenly gushed out from the middle of the previously dry riverbed! The water rose at an alarming speed, instantly submerging the three white cocoons, and then surging towards the spider swarm and Gu Chen!

"It really is an underground river!"

Gu Chen couldn't figure out what was causing the river to change course. It might be due to his battle with the Spider Queen, although he didn't think he was that strong...

Or was it done intentionally by someone, or was it simply a geological activity?

But Gu Chen had no time to think about it. In just a short moment, the water had already reached his feet!

He didn't even have time to run! Because there was a huge spider right in front of him!

The water was moving too fast; the murky river water instantly covered my ankles, then my calves. The water was mixed with mud, sand, pebbles, and... the spiders that had just joined us.

The little spiders that had collapsed on the ground were swept up by the water and floated along with it.

The Spider Queen tried to resist, but the force of the water far exceeded her weight, and she was swept backward.

Gu Chen was just about to take advantage of the Spider Queen giving up her position to make a run for it, but the water level rose faster than he had imagined!

In just ten seconds, the water had reached up to my thighs.

To make matters worse, the direction of the water flow began to change!

"swirl!?"

A whirlpool formed in the riverbed!

Gu Chen felt unsteady on his feet and had no way to maintain his balance. He could only grab a protruding rock to barely keep his body steady.

Turning his head to look around, he found that the entire section of the riverbed had turned into a muddy shoal, and the water level was still rising!

The current grew increasingly rapid! Not only were the three white cocoons washed away, but the corpses inside also floated and sank with the water, swept away by the whirlpool!

As the massive floodwaters rushed in, the spider colony's nest was submerged, and the spider silk on the rock walls dissolved and scattered in the water.

And the Spider Queen...

It is struggling, just like Gu Chen.