The Spider Queen

The most important skill of a hunter is not strength, agility or even stealth.

These are all necessary traits but there exists a characteristic that is perhaps the rarest of all…

Patience.

Sophie kept her body low to the ground and slowly crawled over to the nearest foot of the giant while taking care not to make a single sound.

Despite hearing the loud argument occurring between the different heads, not for one second did Sophie let her guard down.

When closing in for a kill… it was quite easy for the predator to become the prey.

Perhaps Sophie lacked something that her fellow high nobles possessed in abundance…

Their arrogance.

Not once did Sophie assume that she was the strongest due to her secret cultivation method or her Insectoid heritage.

The universe was far too vast with powerful beings lurking within the shadows. Compared to them, she was nothing more than a speck of dust.

Hell… she even had a missing arm, ear, and eye to prove her beliefs.

Sophie slid her body across the uneven surface of the ground and ignored the pain when tiny pebbles became embedded in her flesh.

This pain was nothing.

The foot of the titanic alien loomed in sight as Sophie shuffled her way towards the main body of the creature.

Once again, Sophie was in awe of the colossal size of the 'God' she needed to face.

The foot of this creature alone was twice her body length.

Unfortunately, the giant beast was laying down in the middle of a clearing so there were no trees or bushes to provide cover.

It was not a short distance but to Sophie that narrow gap between the shrubbery she was concealed behind and the creature's foot was insurmountable.

Sophie gripped her dagger and carefully positioned her body into a crouching position. Her posture resembled a snake laying in wait to strike.

Not yet…

The minutes ticked by one after the other as the loud voices continued to shout and yell furiously.

"Settle down you idiots! For the love of…"

The middle head tried desperately to calm down his impatient brothers, but his calm words appeared to do nothing more than spread gasoline on an already burning fire.

"Who made you the boss? I should be the ruler of the body!"

"I hate you stupid bastards!"

"Well same here you unpleasant oafs! Do you think I want to be connected to morons?"

Now!

Sophie leapt forward with all the strength she had in her body and the ground beneath her feet cracked under the immense force.

This sudden noise attracted the attention of the quarreling heads but when they saw the humanoid shadow…

It was already too late.

Sophie stretched out her arm and slashed a thin cut into the flesh of the giant's pinky toe. The dark flesh was easily sliced into, and soon thick greenish-purple blood spurted out of the wound.

"Arghhhh!" the heads let out a synchronised shout of pain.

The two floating eyeballs with wings immediately flew towards Sophie's location with their pupils already glowing a scarlet colour.

Sophie quickly extended her fangs outwards and with great trepidation she bit the exposed flesh of the giant.

The filthy greenish-purple blood entered Sophie's mouth and almost caused the hybrid girl to throw up.

Unlike the other times she had used her fangs, Sophie was not under the control of her berserker state, so she was very much aware of the unpleasant fishy metallic taste that was filling her mouth.

Still when it came to cruelty to herself…. Sophie was second to none.

She ruthlessly tore into the fleshy area of the wound and injected milligram after milligram of highly concentrated venom inside.

Sophie's venom glands had fully converted and enhanced the contents of the vial she had swallowed and now the giant was experiencing the full agony of an Arachnais' wrath.

Bang!

Sophie's instincts took over and her body moved faster than her mind could react.

Her bladed appendages shoved her body away just seconds before two red laser beams arrived at her location.

The giant let out another groan of pain as two bucket sized holes opened up in his leg. Sophie hurriedly adjusted her posture and looked up at the sky.

Fuck.

Sophie glanced at the still hollering giant and felt a headache coming on. There were two explanations to why this creature had the ability to stay alive.

The first was that poisons in general or maybe this particular type had no effect on the giant which meant that she could only try to wear it down through numerous cuts until it bled out.

Or the second was that the sheer size of the creature meant that the venom injected into its body would take a long time to reach its major organs.

Hopefully, it was the second option but either way Sophie needed to stall out for time.

"You little worm! Eons have passed but we have never suffered an injury like today!" the rightmost head roared in fury.

"We will rip you apart and then use the destructive energy of the universe to obliterate every last atom of your pathetic remains!" another head shouted.

"Bring it on," Sophie said defiantly. She flung her dagger at one of the floating eyeballs that dodged almost instantly.

Good reaction time.

Shame it wasn't her real blow…

The other eyeball that was preparing to fire another blast at the hybrid girl suddenly paused in mid air as a thin needle penetrated its sticky flesh.

The area where the needle entered turned a sickly black colour that spread through the rest of the thing's body.

Sophie did not allow the giant even the slightest time to react and launched another poisoned needle into the center of the other floating eye.

Both floating appendages crashed to the ground with a dull thud as the blackish colour spreading across their surface hid the deep corrosion that was happening inside.

"WHAT DID YOU DO?!" the leftmost head cried out in pain and gripped its temples.

Sophie bared her fangs as a bloodthirsty aura surrounded her body. She may not have her qi but the killing intent that had been growing insidiously inside her psyche was not so easy to ignore.

Even the giant alien froze for a moment under the cold chill of death.

This tense atmosphere was shattered as the middle head growled in a low baritone that made the earth tremble,

"Very good Khul's creation, it is clear that you are truly his finest work."

"But how can a mortal face the wrath of a god?"

Boom!

The enormous creature got up from the ground and the sudden pressure almost caused Sophie to drop to her knees.

She could only watch as the self proclaimed 'god' raised his right arm to the sky and gathered thick reddish energy that crackled with fearsome power.

Death had come.

Sophie's danger sense went haywire and every cell in her body was begging her to leave now before it was too late.

It was difficult to move under the coercion, but Sophie dug her fingernails into her arm and used the pain to restore her lucidity.

Now it was time to show off the technique that had kept her alive through all the dangerous situations she had faced since leaving planet Gaia.

"NOW YOU SHALL PREPARE TO…. err… what?" the middle head froze as he saw the hybrid girl turn around and immediately flee from the scene.

"COME BACK HERE!"