Chapter 38

Hiss! Hiss! Hiss…

Seeing the terrifying and ferocious spider monster, Princess Alice, who was carrying her own race, gradually disappeared among the reeds and calamus.

The stone-scaled lizard, which had stopped by the shore, hissed as if it was discussing something.

“What should we do now? Have we completed our mission?”

“Actually, we should follow them, because His Majesty Lawrence requested that we confirm Princess Alice’s death.”

“Are you crazy? Didn’t you see how terrifying that spider’s silk was just now?”

“That’s because the blue-spotted frog doesn’t have any protection on its body. We stone-scaled lizards have hard, thick, and heavy stone armor.”

“The bodies of Yisis and the other three were cut into minced meat. Are you sure we’ll be safe?”

“They’re just four female guards. Can they compare to our elite troops?”

“Stop arguing. Let’s hear what Captain Miles has to say first.”

At this point in the discussion, the five stone-scaled lizards stopped at Hopper’s line and looked behind them.

A stone-scaled lizard whose scales were slightly brighter and thicker than theirs was poking its head into the bushes as if it was looking for something.

When the five stone-scaled lizards saw this, they immediately looked at each other, not knowing what to say.

Therefore, one of the stone-scaled lizards, who had the best relationship with Miles, crawled towards it and asked carefully, “captain, what are you looking for? Do you need my help?”

“No need, Carlos. I’ve already found it. Call them over to take a look.”

When Carlos heard that, although he did not understand, he still turned around and shouted at the other four stone-scaled lizards.

“All of you, come over and take a look! The captain seems to have discovered something.”

When the other four stone-scaled lizards came over, Miles, who was blocking in front of them, turned his body sideways and gave way to them.

Only then did the other stone-scaled lizards realize that in the originally lush and green bushes, there was already an area that was dyed black. At the same time, the leaves and branches were rotting.

“Could this be? Fortunately, we crawled out earlier!”

The five stone-scaled lizards suddenly felt some lingering fear when they thought of the previous situation.

“That’s right, this should be caused by the spider monster’s spider silk. It seems that its spider silk is not only sharp but also poisonous.”

As the captain, Miles confirmed the deduction of his team members, and then extended his front claws toward them.

His front claws were glowing with a faint earthy yellow light, and there was a crystal clear spider silk between his fingers.

“I just activated the stone-skin heavy armor to try. This spider silk can’t cut through my defense, and it also can’t penetrate the stone-skin heavy armor.”

“Everyone, activate the stone-skinned heavy armor now. Maybe that spider monster isn’t as terrifying as we thought.”

Under the call and encouragement of Captain Miles, the five stone-scaled lizards activated their skill, the stone-skinned heavy armor.

After trying to touch the crystal-clear spider silk a few times, they were all delighted.

However, they did not know that Hopper’s spider silk only had the ‘highly toxic’ characteristic.

“I told you! As a member of the elite troop of the stone-scaled lizards, I usually only take on five blue-spotted frogs at most.”

“It seems that the spider monster just happens to be a counter to the blue-spotted frog monster! Because of its own toxicity, it can withstand the blue-spotted frog monster’s poison.”

“I didn’t expect this batch of blue-spotted frog monsters to be so weak. No wonder a dozen of them didn’t kill Princess Alice.”

“…”

Listening to the discussion of the team members beside him, Captain Miles seemed to have remembered something and hurriedly asked, “I asked you to keep an eye on the spider’s movements from the shore. Do you remember it clearly?”

“Uh… I know the general direction, but we don’t dare to cross that line.”

Team member Carlos pointed in a direction and then looked at the line that Hopper drew.

“We really have to be careful. Let’s go up the tree and take a look.”

He remembered that Hopper had jumped out from the reeds and calamus.

As captain Miles spoke, he signaled his team members to come over.

The six stone-scaled lizards were divided into two groups and built ladders to climb up the tree.

After Miles and Carlos climbed up the tree, they looked in the direction that Carlos pointed to.

Through the swaying reeds and calamus in the distance and the spots where they stopped, they determined the approximate location of Hopper’s nest.

After coming down from the tree, Captain Miles was silent for a moment, as if he was thinking about something.

The five stone-scaled lizards were also a little nervous when they saw this.

Although they were temporarily certain that the spider monster’s spider silk could not harm them, they were worried that if they really followed, they might face a nest of spiders.

“Brothers, do you still remember what our mission objective is this time?”

After pondering for a long time, Miles asked an unexpected question.

The five stone-scaled lizards looked at each other, and finally, their eyes fell on Carlos.

In the hearts of the other team members, Carlos was already the vice-captain. So, Carlos did not hesitate and told them their mission objectives for the next few days.

“By moving in this area of water, we will attract the nearby blue-spotted frog monsters and use get them to kill Princess Alice, who is the biggest threat to His Majesty Lawrence’s throne.”