“What happened?” Zall asked, as he too stopped. Xavic looked at the duo and ahead, scratching his head, walked towards Miles. Miles grabbed the sword orb and charged it.

“There is a dangerous monster ahead.” Miles started, “We can’t escape from it, as it already noticed us, and we can’t turn back.”

“What are we going to do?” Xavic asked in shiver.

“We can’t outrun the monster until we arrive at the cave entrance. And people there would attack us anyway.”

“Let’s fight. Maybe we can injure it enough to outrun it.” Xavic said with trepidation.

“It is the strongest monster I have ever seen. And I ran from a Frenzy-Rank monster.” Miles said, while watching the giant silhouette slowly floating towards them.

“Is it F-Rank?” Zall asked with fine sweats forming on his forehead.

“Probably not. But its aura is stronger than the Cloud Eagle.”

Miles looked back and saw human silhouettes forming in the cave they left not long ago. “We are trapped.”

Not long after, the floating monster appeared in front of them. Miles looked at it with his eyes wide open.

It had four wings in rainbow colors. On it, there were eye-like shapes resembling dragons, snakes, tigers and other vicious animals. What gave Miles most shock was the body. It didn’t look insectile at all. It was a woman's body, a quite hot one at that.

The woman had a voluptuous body with breasts covered with purple fur. The hair was the same color as the fur, and there were some patches around her body, looked like cloth instead of fur. The hourglass figure, wide hips and healthy skin. There was an exoskeleton covering her nether areas, stopping the three dumbfounded teens to get further enchanted.

“Humans, tch.” The moth-woman snorted as it looked further away from them, while they were too shocked with the revelation of the woman. Her violet eyes were shining in the dark cave illuminated by three wristwatches. Her pink lips looked charming.

“Who among you took the arma?” Woman asked with boundless arrogance.

“What is arma?” Xavic blurted, then held his mouth quickly.

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“The Mask!” Woman looked at them dismissively. As if they were just bugs. “Who owns the mask now?”

“I have it.” Zall stepped forward. Miles grabbed the armor orb and kept it in his hand, his sword was already ready.

“You two can leave. More pests are coming, so I will pardon your intrusion.” She pointed at Miles and Xavic, while ready to charge at Zall. Her bloodlust was so thick, it almost manifested in thin air. “You die to wash away your sin. You shouldn’t have stolen something belonging to this queen.”

“Since you are aware of Mask’s existence, and you didn’t take it before, it means you weren’t confident enough to take all those spiders on your own right.” Miles asked, while Xavic and Zall were shivering in fear. Miles wasn’t any better, but he had to keep his calm in these testing times.

“I wasn’t bothered. That is all.” Moth-woman said, but stopped in her tracks. “You humans have too many tricks up your slave. Who knows how you killed them.”

“And how do you know we don’t have more?” Miles asked with a grin barely hiding his worries.

“Fool’s errand!” Moth-woman flapped her wings and floated in the air. An invisible hand pressed on the trio and pushed them on their knees. “Do you dare to threaten this Queen?”

“I am just giving you a leeway.” Miles gritted his teeth, and said, “If you don’t let us go now, I will kill you with myself.”

“Miles no! You can’t use it for me.” Zall shouted immediately.

‘Nice!’ Miles wanted to give him thumbs up but he kept his composure for the sake of acting.

“What? Use what?” Xavic chirped in. This time, Miles wanted to facepalm, but he held it in, and looked at the Moth-woman.“What is it going to be?” M

iles said with a false bravado. “I guarantee you will die if I use it, at worst you will get injured severely. After that, those pests you so abhor will come and kill you, take away the mask too.”

The moth-woman scanned Miles's body and his gaze locked at the orb he was holding in his palm, then looked at the barrel Zall was carrying. She hated humans most because of their inventions. They could come up with many things that could threaten even her. Even when they were so weak.

There were also others coming. At first, there were only humans. But now, other monsters started to approach swiftly. If she delayed any longer, she would have to fight to the death.“I can’t let you go.” Moth-woman looked at Miles after some pondering and stated. The pressure on them lifted and

she pointed the way they came. “You brought many troubles to my nest, now you have to help me get rid of them.”

“How can we trust you?” Zall scoffed with a laugh. “After we fight together, you will kill us anyway.”

“Do you think you can outrun them all? At least if we fight together we have a shot.” Moth-Woman said, while a translucent screen appeared in front of them. On the screen, the trio saw humans and monsters running in the cave they passed through. From time to time both sides were attacking the other side or each other.

“You see now?” Moth-woman slashed the screen and it disappeared. “There are tens of humans and close to a hundred monsters.”

“We saw!” Xavic cried, and added. “We should run.”

“Lowly pest.” Moth-woman looked at Xavic with disgust. “Bunch of cannon fodders can’t even make this Queen sweat. Just take care of those humans and their weird gizmos, let me deal with monsters.”