Chapter 40 - Battle against my mother?

I've been busy the last few days. I'll be posting chapters every day at the same hour (when the readers receive power stones).

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Twelve hours have passed, and I can finally make a new edit. I'll acquire the [ Dimensional Maneuvering ] skill to get back to where Kumoko is. I'm too far away to go back without this skill.

So, after editing the [ Throw ] skill to [ Dimensional Maneuvering ], I finally used it to get back.

But...

'She's not here.'

I could see Kumoko's cobwebs, but her house was partially destroyed, and she was nowhere to be seen. 'Something must have happened to her. I need to look for her.'

Kumoko can be close to here.

'I wish I had a skill that would help me look for her, like a good perception skill.' I'll need to get one in the future.

I edited my speed to 30,000 and started looking for Kumoko. After running for a few seconds, I found something. It was blood, the blood of some monster.

It was a tremendous amount of blood.

Moreover, the labyrinth walls were broken, and there were signs of a fight everywhere.

'It wasn't Kumoko who did this. Other monsters fought here.' Kumoko isn't strong enough to cause it. She hasn't even done her special evolution yet.

Speaking of which, I would like to know if she can make her special evolution. If I'm correct, there were some requirements for it.

'I'll have to take care of that later. Now, the important thing is to look for her.'

And then I kept running. As I couldn't shout for her, I started to break the walls to make noise to draw the attention of anyone nearby, including Kumoko.

Despite being scared easily(for now), Kumoko is a curious person. She could come out of hiding to see what's going on.

And after almost two hours of searching, I found nothing. Once again, I used the [ Dimensional Maneuvering ] skill to return to where she was before, and this time, I went the other way.

There were only two paths, one to the left and one to the right. I had gone the right.

'Besides these two paths, there are other narrow paths over there.' I looked up at the ceiling. 'But I don't think she went that way.'

I started running again. Even though I haven't edited my strength and defense, my SP is dropping a bit fast... It's probably because I'm running non-stop.

Because of this, I had to take a few rest stops.

At these stops I was taking, monsters attacked me, but I always dealt with them quickly.

'Where are you?' I reached a place that was more like a labyrinth. It was a place where there were several paths to follow. Before, I had passed this place and chose the middle path, but Kumoko could have gone anywhere.

'Oh, true!'

I killed some monsters before... So I decided to do it:

I revived six monsters I had killed before and then gave the same order to everyone.

'Look for a spider with some orbs on her body. If you find her, don't attack her. Try to get her attention, get her to follow you, and bring her here.'

With my order, the monsters split up, and I moved on.

'Maybe she went to the same place as me.'

However, after I ran for another 10 minutes, I found something I hadn't expected.

'What are you doing here?

There was a considerable amount of cobwebs everywhere. And on top of the web that supported her weight was her, my mother. I don't know what she's doing here, but that explains the signs of a fight I saw earlier.

She faced a strong monster.

'I must get out of here before she realizes I'm here.'

It's like she's chasing me. How many more times am I going to run into her? I'm still not strong enough to deal with her.

If I make edits that are too high, they don't apply.

Just like in the fight against that giant snake.

When I edited three statuses to 20,000, it was as if they hadn't even been edited, even though when I looked at my status, they were at "20,000".

In other words, it's hard to kill this monster.

'The limit should be around 60,000 if I add all the stats. Her defense stat is around 20,000, right?'

If I put 30,000 into strength and 20,000 into speed, won't I be able to hurt her? That's possible. The big problem is that she's also very fast, and I can't be hit.

I don't know how I got out alive last time, but miracles will not happen two times in such a short time.

'System, remove the edit I made to my speed.'

'Now set my strength to 30,000 and my speed to 20,000.'

With that, I didn't exceed the limits.

As my body felt much lighter, it was working well.

'I don't know if I can kill her, but I think I can hurt her. While my children look for Kumoko, I will have fun with our mother.'

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*Change of POV*

After running away and hiding for a while, Kumoko found herself in an unfamiliar place, and the only thing on her mind at the moment was survival.

Now that she had separated from her friend, she didn't think she could manage well in this place.

However, that changed when a group of monkeys suddenly attacked her, and she managed to deal with them all easily.

Her skill with poison, which had gone up a level after her evolution, made her a monster-killing machine—at least the weak monsters.

'If I were to fight that dragon, would I have a chance of winning? Nai waaa~~'

And while she was resting after a long battle, a monster approached her. Kumoko, who had just bitten off a piece of meat from one monster, almost attacked, but...

The monster in front of her, one monster called Elroe Randanel, started trying to communicate with her.

'Ah!!!" Kumoko's eyes lit up when she remembered the giant spider's unique ability.

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