Silas, who had just escaped from the Subterranean Widow, decided to find a suitable skill first. He felt that he was at a major disadvantage as he had to rely solely on his physical body.

As Silas was contemplating his next move, his eyes contracted sharply as he could feel the ground beneath him begin to tremble.

Silas looked around and soon found the source. A few hundred meters ahead of him, he saw a large silhouette moving toward him. Eight large legs, like pillars, carried a huge fortress that was obsidian in color. Looking closer, Silas realized it wasn’t a fortress but a large spider built like a tank. Silas’s eyes gleamed sharply. Rather than feeling afraid, Silas became excited. His eyes grew fierce. The things he had encountered so far were all pests, but this one was definitely something that could test his strength. Without hesitation, Silas rushed toward the giant spider like lightning. Even with such a large body, Silas was swift and agile.

Seeing something approach, the giant spider became vigilant. In no time, it used its front leg like a spear, stabbing toward Silas, who was swiftly closing the distance.

Seeing the spear-like leg approaching him, Silas leapt high into the air and bounced over the spider completely, dodging it.

Now standing behind the spider, Silas leapt forward with the help of his powerful legs and used his front paw to smash the spider.

Boom!

A resounding boom echoed through the forest as the spider, like a huge cannonball, was shot backward, a paw print appearing on its steel-like carapace. The spider, still in mid-air, performed a full 360-degree rotation and landed on the ground using its legs.

"Can you even do that?" Silas was quite speechless. He had expected the spider to take huge fall damage, but this thing had simply performed an acrobatic stunt, landing gracefully.

Suddenly, green light emitted from the spider, and the claw mark that had been left on its shell disappeared visibly. Silas’s eyes widened as he muttered, "A spider priest?" For all the skills he had expected the spider to possess, he didn’t expect one that looked like a battle fortress to have a healing ability.

"Damn it, how am I supposed to take down a tank that can heal itself?" But soon, Silas threw those thoughts away as the earth began to tremble once again. The spider, which had just healed itself, came charging back at Silas, using its front legs like spears.

Silas dodged left and right, narrowly avoiding the incoming strikes. But the spider did not relent, continuing to rush toward him, stabbing with both its front legs, creating sounds like air being pierced.

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Silas dodged again, and then, in a sudden move, slapped one of the incoming spider legs aside with his paw and bit down on the other leg that was approaching. The spider, caught off guard, tried to pull its leg back, but it was too late. Silas bit down fiercely, and with a powerful death roll, he tore the spider’s front leg apart. The spider screamed, but green liquid flowed like a waterfall from the wound.

The spider tried to heal itself, its body glowing green.

Puchik!

But before it could fully recover, the spider collapsed to the ground, a massive black leg piercing straight through its head. Silas let out a sigh of relief. As soon as he had grabbed the spider’s leg, he had realized it was many times tougher than iron. If he had tried his previous strategy of hurling a tree, he was certain it wouldn’t have left a scratch. Even his claws had only left some faint marks.

A notification popped up:

“Killed Bronze-ranked Giant Arachnite, gained 10 universal points.”

At the same time the notification appeared, the giant spider, which lay motionless on the ground, began to glow with green light. Slowly, green particles floated from its body and drifted upward. They soon condensed into a book.

The book’s cover shimmered with green particles, and beneath them, a giant tree appeared to embrace the world in its warm glow. Seeing this, Silas’s eyes blazed with excitement, his breath quickening.

“A skill book...” he murmured. Skill books were one of the rarest commodities in the human world. Healers were one of the most elusive and revered classes, considered divine. High-level healers could even regenerate limbs, a sacred profession honored by mortals, known to cure all ailments.

Silas stepped forward and grabbed the skill book, gently opening it with one of his claws. Inside, he found an unfamiliar language written on the pages. Silas wasn’t surprised. He knew humans couldn’t read it, but when the book was placed on the forehead, it would dissolve into the person, instantly granting them the ability to learn the skill.

He placed the book on his forehead, and a warm current swept through him. Silas waited, but after a moment, nothing happened. He opened his eyes and stared blankly at the notification screen that appeared before him.

“Failed to learn the skill Healer. Unable to find Earth Elemental Heart.”

A black line formed on his forehead as he suddenly remembered. To learn the skill, he needed the corresponding Elemental Heart. In his excitement, he had completely forgotten about it. He had been eager to acquire powerful skills to easily wipe out the dungeon.

“Damn it,” Silas banged his head on the spider's carapace.

The green particles around him floated upward, reverting back into a book that fell gently before him. Silas shook his head.

With a long sigh, he looked at the spider's lifeless body. Using his claws, he slowly began to tear open the spider’s carapace. Once dead, the spider’s armor was much easier to slice through, and Silas dismembered it with ease.