Master and I parted ways, he hurriedly started looking for a skill that suits him while I just kept walking around.... After 15 minutes I noticed a statue of a woman in the corner so I tried to get closer...

When I was near I got a good look at the statue, she was beautiful she had her hair all down to her waist, she wore a dress of the eastern kingdom called "kimono".

On her hand, she held a book with an eye-catching spider at its cover so I unconsciously touched it and it opened.

[Inheritance of the Black Spider queen]

Passive

~can not be received by any species except the arachnids~

This book contains the essence of the last spider queen.

Turns the web into black improving its resistant to all elements.

You shall also receive the dark element allowing you to use skills that are in the darkness element

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The last part could barely be read, but isn't this fate? I ask myself as I looked at the statue in front of me. I finally decided to take this skill but unexpectedly I was teleported to a dark cave...

Good thing I have my [night stalker] ability or else I would just walking blindly in the dark. Infront of me was the statue from earlier but it moved and looked at me with its blood red eyes

"Who disturbs me the black spider queen Mia?! "[Mia]

she roared shaking the entire cave...

What master said was true, you will have to pass a trial in order to receive the skill... I manage to compose myself and prepare for battle.

"You!"[Mia]

Mia screamed as she spun her web into a whip and sent it snapping at me, I barely managed to dodge it while weaving a spear out of the web and threw it at her. She caught it in her arms and dropped it on the ground before she made another whip on her other hand and started barraging me with her attacks...

I managed to dodge most of them but I received a few shallow cuts on my arms... I weaved a shield and used it to protect myself. Seeing that her attacks can't get through my shield, she wrapped a boulder with her whip and tossed it at me.

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The narrow cave plus the boulder was a good combination, I barely dodged it by climbing up the ceiling and sticking my body close to the walls... She wrapped a larger boulder with her web and this time used it as a morningstar. I couldn't dodge in time and was struck hard... If it weren't for the shield I would've suffered more serious injuries.

I struggled to get back up but then she asked me a question

"Why go so far? Give up and don't disturb me ever again! " [Mia]

"I wish to be of use to my master so I won't leave until I that skill! " [Arachne]

I shouted as I weaved a bow and arrow, pulled the bowstring and attacked her

"For a Human? " [Mia]

she said the word human with a tone filled with disgust

"He's not just any man, he's the man I..l-lo.. I lo-... I like" [Arachne]

I can't believe I kept stuttering to say one word...

"What?! Listen girl take it from me that man will betray you! " [Mia]

"...... " [Arachne]

I looked at her and stood my ground clearly ignoring what she said

"You.... *sigh* let me tell you I also once fell in love with a man.. I gave him everything I could offer but when he discovered I was an Arachnid who managed to fully transform into a human, the look of disgust in his eyes I could never forget it, he even sold me out causing thousands of soldiers to chase me for 6 days! " [Mia]

she grit her teeth as she finished her story

"Master is different, he accepted me for who I am! " [Arachne]

I refused to listen to her

"Then die! " [Mia]

She shouted as she attacked using her morningstar. Before it could hit me I jumped backward hiding in a net that covered all sides which I secretly weaved earlier.

The boulder hit the net and bounced back at her.this caught her by surprise and was unable to dodge in time, she struggled to rise from the rubbles and could only sit down, her body filled with cracks. I thrust my spear into her chest.

"Haha... You can never... Find happiness as long as you're still part arachnid... He will only look for a human to mate with... He will throw you away...sooner or later... " [Mia]

She laughed as her body crumbled. A blackish energy came out of the rubble and entered my body... I felt most of my wounds heal and was transported back to the temple... Her final words kept repeating all over my mind and due to this I only listlessly stood on a corner. Rona and the others tried to talk with me but all I can say is

"I'm fine, I'm just tired" [Mia]

Then master came out of the portal with his body riddled with wounds... My heart ached whenever I saw master wounded so I threw what Mia said to the back of my mind. But what I didn't expect was that it would come haunting me back so soon.