Chapter 78: Let's go! (Edited)

After confirming that he couldn't find his way back, Fish simply stopped thinking about it.

Minerva would still catch him and lecture him when he got back anyway, so why not enjoy the moment?

In a kitten's head there was no such thing as planning ahead, just having fun while it lasted.

Fish swiveled his ears, then cocked his tail and walked quickly in a direction with the most movement.

As he followed the sound, the noise around him grew louder, as if large creatures were moving quickly through the forest: it was a strange sound of footsteps Fish had never heard before, and it was accompanied by a clicking sound.

Fish twitched his nose, and a strong fish smell came to him on the wind blowing in front of him.

The smell was familiar to Fish, it was the smell of carnivorous animals.

Before Fish learned to brush his teeth, he and his kind had a similar odor, but due to the nature of cats, it was not as pronounced as that of other carnivores.

In addition to the fish odor, there was also a slight stench of decay, suggesting that the other party was not only a carnivore, but also a scavenger.

As Fish analyzed the habits of the unknown creatures based on the smell, the main culprits emerged from the forest, six giant horse-sized spiders, with the eight long legs that all spiders have, and a pair of short pincers under their mouthparts, which made the clicking sound.

As soon as the six eight-eyed spiders emerged from the forest, they quickly formed a semicircle, surrounding Fish in the center.

"Meow~ (=ΦωΦ=)?"

Fish gave a friendly greeting to the large spiders.

"click-click-click..."

All the spiders moved the large pair of pincers under their snouts in rapid succession, and the pincers emitted a continuous sound.

However, the clicking was not in the language of the Acromantulas, so Fish did not understand what they meant.

It didn't matter that he didn't understand them, Fish leaned toward the large spiders with a wide grin.

There was a pause in the sound of the pincers and one of the spiders suddenly spoke...in English.

"Get out of here!"

The talking spider took a step forward, showing its teeth and claws, and the other spiders followed and began to shoo Fish away.

"Get out of here!"

"Get out of here!"

They waved their two front legs and continued to emit clicks.

"Meow?" (=ΦωΦ=)?

There must be something good behind them!

Cats are the kind of creatures whose curiosity gets stronger the more you stop them.

So, instead of being deterred by the big spiders, Fish picked up the pace.

Fish ran in front of an Acromantula. He didn't choose to go around it or run under it. Instead, he jumped high and ran directly over the opponent's largest pair of eyes, landing on the Acromantula's back, and then advanced without stopping.

After crossing the large spider, Fish turned and waved his paw at them (=ΦωΦ=)?

"Meow~" (Goodbye).

"Intruder!"

"This is a provocation!"

"Kill him! Kill it!"

The spiders roared furiously and chased after Fish.

At the same time, the frequency with which they clicked their pincers increased again, and soon in the distance, the same clicking sound echoed faintly.

Fish's animal affinity was working, otherwise the Acromantulas would not have tried to chase him away, but that was all that affected the brutal Acromantulas.

The animal affinity spell is not omnipotent, since, if Fish had attacked other creatures, they would have chosen to fight back, the spell would only increase Fish's initial affinity on strange creatures, and the more emotional the creature, the more it would be affected.

Cold-blooded predators, such as Acromantulas, which even eat the carcass of their own kind when it dies, are not affected by a simple animal affinity spell.

Therefore, when Fish offended them, the Acromantulas showed no mercy.

As the Acromantulas screamed and thrashed their pincers, more and more of them came from all directions, the incessant snapping sound causing Fish, a lawless little guy, to feel a little tingling in his scalp.

"Meow!" ∑(=ΦДΦ=)

Finally, sensing that something was wrong, Fish stopped moving forward.

The sound of footsteps and clicking in front of him told him that there were a lot of spiders, and although he was confident in his own fighting ability, it seemed to him that he could only fight five or six of them at most, not that he couldn't fight more, but it wasn't very profitable.

Obviously there were more than five or six spiders here, but from the looks of it, there were hundreds.

Hundreds of spiders...they would quickly wear Fish out.

A cat's curiosity has a limit, so Fish turned and ran, and as before, jumped on the head of one of the first six spiders.

The spiders became even more furious, and not only chased Fish, but also spat occasional jets of venom that landed on nearby plants and soil, instantly corroding a large hole.

"Meow!"

Fish's fur bristled at the sight, and his four paws moved even faster.

But the enraged Acromantulas were unwilling to let the innocent kitten go and chased after it, causing such a commotion that the other animals in the area scattered and fled.

"Meow meow meow meow!" ?(=｀Д′=)?

As he fled, Fish turned his head and cursed at the spiders, most of which he had learned from the tin man named Sir Cadogan in the knight's portrait, many of which he didn't know exactly what they meant, but he knew it wasn't enough.

And the Acromantulas apparently understood Sir Cadogan's swear words, because they seemed to get even angrier.

So Fish kept meowing and cursing as he ran quickly through the forbidden forest.

He had already offended him anyway, so naturally he had to curse.

And so, with a pack of Acromantulas behind him, Fish cursed and made his way through the Forbidden Forest, alerting all the forest creatures.

After running through the Forbidden Forest with the pack of spiders, Fish suddenly heard the sound of horse hooves ahead of him, the scale of the sound suggested that the number of horse hooves was not as great as the number of spiders chasing him, but it was certainly not a small number.

At last!

Fish was relieved. It was annoying to have the spiders chasing him, but they were so determined that they wouldn't give up, and spells like 'Soft Stone' and 'Immobilize Animal' would only stop them for a moment before they caught up with him again, so he had to keep running away.

But Fish wasn't just running away, he was guiding the spiders with the intention of luring them into the territory of other animals in the Forbidden Forest.

Both cats and other animals fight with their own kind or other animals for territory, and Fish didn't think there were any exceptions in the Forbidden Forest.

So that's what happened.

Before Fish could see the hoofed creatures daring to fight the eight-eyed spiders, a dozen arrows flew out of the forest, stabbing the spiders behind Fish.

The wounded spiders let out a loud cry and stopped dead in their tracks.

"Go back to your lair!"

A group of half-human, half-horse creatures with bows and arrows emerged from the forest ahead, shouting at the Acromantulas as they stretched their bows and aimed their arrows at them.

The Acromantulas hesitated for a moment and then slowly retreated as they snapped their pincers.

"Meow!"

It was the first time Fish had encountered a half-human, half-animal creature, and he ran excitedly toward the Centaurs, circling around them curiously.

"It's a pleasure to meet you."

The leader of the Centaurs slung the longbow over his back and bowed slightly, looking at Fish with a nod and a smile.

The other Centaurs followed suit and said in unison, "Son of Nature."