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Lower West District .

Amidst the rubble of broken buildings and scattered carca.s.ses, a pungent smell of sourly acid permeated the air like noxious fumes, making people feel extremely repugnant and nauseous .  

After the sealing of the rifts, the three districts, excluding the east side, had moved onto the offensive to sweep the remaining crawlers . City guards, palace guards and n.o.bles alike, paraded the streets in search of stragglers that were still alive, while the rest had went to a.s.sist the east .

During this night, the east side had received the least help and had suffered disastrous losses . Apart from the palace guards that were completely free from harm, there were many deaths among the city guards and n.o.bles .  

At the same time, the group parading the west all wore a wet clothe over their faces to stifle the smell to a bearable level .  

If not for a person with weaker const.i.tution collapsing earlier, the group may have discovered too late that the smell produced by the arachnid's carca.s.ses were toxic .

"This smell is so bad . I highly doubt there would be any survivors . " A middle-aged n.o.ble said with disgust as he pinched his nose through the cloth .

He was used to the luxurious clean life of the Upper District . He had never been so unclean in his whole life . His entire body was covered in blue blood from top to bottom .  At the same time, he strongly doubted anyone could survive hiding in the lower district after it was swarmed by the creepy crawlers .  

"There's still some people over in this building!" A city guard hollered not long after the n.o.ble made his comment .

The crowd looked at the middle-aged n.o.ble with both contempt and amus.e.m.e.nt, while the middle-aged n.o.ble felt like he had lost face and glared at the loudmouth city guard . His face burned with anger and embarra.s.sment .

It was beyond his expectations that his words would be corrected immediately . If he knew this was going to happen, he wouldn't have made the comment just now . No one wanted to slap their own faces unless their heads had been kicked by a donkey .

Inside the building, there was a bas.e.m.e.nt floor, where the family of five; a father, mother and three children of two boys and one girl had hid during the chaos .  

The family of five were weak and spastic with yellow and green complexion when they were found . Although they were safe from becoming meals for the crawlers during the chaos, they were poisoned by the noxious fumes that seeped into the bas.e.m.e.nt .  

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"Don't worry! You will all be okay . We will get you to safety, where the Saintess will heal you back to perfect health . " Owen a.s.sured .  

By now, even the people on the frontlines had heard about the Saintesses and the miracle wood ability of the Greene family .  

Seriously injured guards and n.o.bles from the frontline were also sent to them with great urgency . The venomous bites of Deadeye Spiders leave paralyzing effects and disables them from continuing to fight .  

When the family of five heard the cityguard captain's a.s.surance, the father moves his lips weakly, but was unable to form any coherent words . He could only feel grateful in his heart and flash the captain an emotional look .  

The cityguard captain, Owen was able to read the father's feelings and a peculiar uplifting feeling of gratification swelled up inside him . He nodded and ordered his men to take them to them away to be treated, before wearing a heavy expression filled with guilt . He didn't deserve such grat.i.tude .

He had been living his life in vain! The cityguards had a duty to uphold law and protect the commoners, but they haven't been doing that all these years . It was only until now that he had discovered the sense of self-satisfaction and happiness in being able to help others .  

Owen silently swore to turn over a new leaf and be a proper guard if the prince does not execute him for his past crimes after this ordeal was over . He would not touch alcohol and women through improper channels again . He would become someone the people could look up to, someone who could walk down the streets proudly with his head held high .

"There could be more people in other bas.e.m.e.nts! Search them!" Owen ordered .  The cityguards quickly got to work when the captain gave his orders .

It was around this time that they began to feel the ground rumbling .  

"Silence!"

Isaac raised his hand gesture and commanded . He brows creased as he bent down to feel the earth . He could feel the earth shaking . An unprecedented feeling of apprehension and foreboding swelled inside him .  

What is happening underground? Why does it feel like something terrible is about to happen?

. . .

Lower East District, 

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The level of destruction here was far greater than any other districts . Practically every building and homes had been razed to the ground . The chances of finding survivors in the bas.e.m.e.nts of the Lower East District was low and chances of saving them, even lower .  

The people fighting on the eastern side fought hard and pushed back the crawlers .

The Duke and general marquis worked hand in hand to reduce the pressure on everyone else, while the Shadows Guard sealed the final rift .  

Their bodies were soaked in sweats and great exhaustion could be seen on their faces . They were nearing their physical and mental limits .

However, until the final closing of the rift and the complete eradication of the crawlers from the surface, they would not rest .  

Old man Kasif was completely drained and left the work to the rest of his men . Even if success was in sight, he wore a grim expression on his tired age-torn face .

The rumbling ground had been going on for some time and no one knew what it is, nor did anyone wanted to know what it is . Whatever it is, it couldn't be good .  

The rumbling continues to grow stronger and the earth began to shake . . . no, tremble? The earth was trembling!

Boom!

The rift that was about to be fully sealed with everyone's hard effort, exploded once more .  

An inexplicably large shadow shot out from the reopened rift and made its way to the surface! The ground shook one last time due to its landing .  

"Oh my G.o.d . . . what is that thing?" 

Everyone paled at the giant creature that was hundreds to a thousand times larger than the average crawlers .

Its lower body shared a similar appearance to the Deadeye Spiders, but it had an upper body of a woman . It was the mother of all crawlers, Queen Arachnia . It was an ancient creature at the Transcendent level, one that could instill fear into the hearts of men simply by glancing at them .

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"SCREEEE!"

It issued a powerful and deafening screech that echoed throughout the land and shook the people to their core . Behind it, another swarm of crawlers began spewing out of the rift and made the people feel despair .

"Humans! You have gone too far! How dare you kill this Queen's children!" Queen Arachnia scream .  

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"Retreat!" 

Everyone in the eastern side began to panic and fall back due to the dominating presence of the arachnid mother .

At the same time, in the royal palace, Elizabeth stood up in shock, before she swiftly recovering with a serious and cold look .  

"Your children are too rampant and are abominable existences! They all deserve to be killed on sight!

In the face of a Transcendent-level monster, Elizabeth did not back down . She projected her own powerful voice over . It rang with a metallic tone .

Leon, who was rus.h.i.+ng back to the Capital at his quickest speed, was surprised by his mother's skill . It was similar to his [Lion's Roar] through the usage of energy to amplify his voice .

"That audacity!"

Queen Arachnia's anger rose another level . She couldn't accept the disrespect . She was used to commanding millions with zero disobedience .

"Go, my children! The surface dwelling will be your new home!" Queen Arachnia decreed .

Unlike her children, she was not blind . The surface was much more beautiful than the darkness of the underground world, thus her greed for the land was ignited .

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The crawlers received their Queen mother's order like it was the edict of heaven and their numbers sp.a.w.ned from the rift with greater ferocity .

The general marquis and the Duke were forced to retreat helplessly . They didn't have the strength to keep fighting and required rest .

Elizabeth sighed at the sight of her retreating subjects . Crazy Don was still in seclusion and the people were too exhausted to do anything . Only she could put up a fight against the Transcendent monster, whilst not being at the Transcendent level herself .

She took a final look in the direction of the king's bedchamber with tenderness like she was looking at the king directly, through the palace walls .

"Guard the king well . If anything untoward happens to the king, all your heads will roll . " Elizabeth said heartlessly .

"Yes, your majesty!"

Lily and the other maids complied without any change in expression .

Lily had long returned to the queen's side as per her word, when the north side was quickly settled .

Elizabeth looked back at spider queen coldly for forcing her hand . She began to float in the air .

"Rise!"

She made a lifting gesture and a building in the palace; a metal tower began to rise from the ground . A throne was formed at the top of the tower and Elizabeth seated herself on it .

The metal tower soon flew towards the spider queen . It didn't stopped until it was within two hundred yards of the spider queen and at an alt.i.tude where she could look down on it .

Numerous windows opened from the tower as hundreds of swords flew out and formed a sword formation around Elizabeth .

Queen Arachnia watch everything unfold both growing interest and anger . Interest that a puny human dare to challenge her! Anger because it dared to look down on her!

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