Legends: The Emerald World

This stupid dancing spider, shaking her arms and large stomach, mockingly taunted the cat woman who looked at her with a bewildered face.

'Come and get me! Wet cat.' The spider's voice echoed inside the emperor's head, and she wasn't done yet. As the cat woman took a stance and was ready to pounce, the spider started sucking the emperor's power, getting ready for a clash.

'I can feel it, the power of the Titans…' The spider grunted, sensing the emperor's physical and spiritual strength coursing through her small body. Even if he was a malnourished weak human, to a spider he felt like a titan.

As the cat woman pounced with extended claws, the spider lunged at her with tremendous speed. Thanks to the emperor's human strength and her light body, she could move at a far higher speed than anything she could achieve before. To control such a speed, her short spider nerves and fast reflexes kicked in. The spider fired her thread at the cat woman's fist and spun around her arm.

As she reached close to her face, the spider swung one of her limbs forward and smacked the cat woman on the nose, rocking her head back. The cat woman gasped, feeling as if she was slapped by a kid, this wasn't a level of power that a spider could display.

Sadly, the emperor wasn't a strong human at this point, all he had was an empty husk of bones and a cup of blood, nearly able to stand on his own due to the extended starvation.

The disparity in power was still too great, the cat woman took no damage at all and she swung her claw at the spider, smacking her to the ground with ease. As the spider gasped, the cat woman lunged forth and stepped on it with all four limbs, trying to crush it.

To her, this entire fight was nothing more than entertainment.

'I…' The spider growled as she pushed against the cat woman's whole weight, '…just defeated my bully sister…if you think…I'll give my freedom to another bully…just seconds later…'

The cat woman looked down with a surprised face as the spider lifted her. The emperor started gasping for air in his cell, blood dripping from his nose and ears. The spider was sucking power right off his body and he's the one taking burden for all of this. If she kept this, his heart might end up stopping from the stress.

'...You're out of your mind!' The spider threw the cat woman away, and glared at her, gasping for air. She quickly started bleeding from her mouth and spiracles. Like the emperor, her spider body couldn't handle so much power.

{Notice: [Master's Sync] overload, damage dealt to the tamed [Black Cupboard Spider]} While the damage dealt to the spider was due to using too much power, the emperor was exerting himself, whatever he bled was due to extremely high blood pressure as his body tried to generate enough energy to sustain the spider.

'Spider, you can't do it any longer. Retreat before you die. Your small body can't handle my power, you're over-exerted.' The emperor's thoughts rushed into her head, and the spider growled, wiping the blood off her fangs. She knew he too was reaching his limits, any more and they'll both die.

'Shut up, I'm not done yet.' She replied to the emperor as her eight eyes glared at the cat woman. She extended one limb forward, beckoning her to attack again. 'Come at me, I'll not lose.' The spider took a stance, ready to keep fighting even in her condition. She couldn't care less about the emperor.

She had gained power, and won't stand being belittled by those titans.

But it was already over. The cat woman wasn't attacking, she sat in her place, staring at the spider with a curious gaze, her mouth shaped like a 3 with her tail slowly swinging from left to right.

"So, monsters like this exist, you look exactly like a normal spider." The cat woman finally spoke, glaring at the spider. "Sorry for intruding on your home, little one. But I can't leave even if I wanted, if you want to fight, I'll be glad to kill you and end this chase."

The cat woman thought that the spider had lived in his cell for a long time and was only defending her home. Now that she understood that the spider had some power, she wasn't willing to keep treating it like a toy. Time to be serious and kill it.

The cat woman's words rang true, until now, she wasn't taking the spider seriously and just considered their legendary battle as nothing more than chasing a bug for fun. If she wanted, she could've killed the spider long ago with a single bite or a full-force stomp.

The emperor knew that well, that cat beast woman was far stronger than him or any of the prisoners, and that is why the guards threw her in solitary confinement. If the guard's captain was the strongest in the fort, she was the second strongest.

'Huh?! I'll jam my fangs into your stupid eyes!' The spider growled in rage, but the emperor's thoughts came rushing into her head. 'Calm down! It's our chance, she's willing to listen. Write on the wall or the ground, any dry patch would work.'

They can't risk the cat woman going serious, that would be a quick loss for them.

Dissatisfied, the spider still carried her orders and approached a small patch of dry flooring. On it, she slowly wrote with her blood what the emperor told her. Even if she doesn't understand human writing, she can mimic the images he shared with [Shared Thinking].

"A dragon is about to attack this place. We must escape, I'll show you how." The cat woman gasped as she read what the spider wrote. Dragons were known throughout the world as the doom-bringers of destruction, there was never a place that didn't get burned down where they showed up.

If a dragon is indeed coming here, no one would survive this encounter. In the forest where her village was, a dragon once showed up, black in scales and had a horrifying head, it burned down the village in seconds, and the imperial captured her when they were trying to migrate to another location.

"Got it, spider. I'll help you out. My name is Ase Freyja, what about you?" She extended her hand to the spider.

The spider rushed to write something else. "No time to waste, we'll talk later. Do as the spider shows you." Ase read that line and looked at the walls, if whoever was behind the spider was right and a dragon was coming, she'd better hurry.

"Got it." Ase carried the spider over her head and started following the instructions. By extending the claws of her hands and feet, she ran in circles around the whole cell as she gathered speed. As she reached her top speed, she stepped on the walls using her claws to hold on, and jumped toward the entrance hole.

This was her first try, and she hit the ceiling and fell back to the ground, growling in pain. "How is this supposed to work?" She growled but the spider insisted that she keep trying, such an acrobatic feat would be hard even for a cat woman like her, but it's doable thanks to her claws.

After ten tries, she still failed to reach the entrance hole. Ase sat down and started rubbing her hands and feet, all that stress on her claws was painful. "Are you sure this will work?" She looked at the spider with a worried face.

At that moment, the whole fortress shook as a deafening roar boomed. Ase immediately recognized it, the roar of a dragon. The spider's master was right, this place is getting attacked by a doom-bringer.

She remembers seeing the bloodied battlefield outside, the scent of blood must've attracted the hungry beast.

It has arrived, the black dragon of the end. The fortress guards all rushed outside to find a massive portion of their wall melting, countless wall guards screaming and throwing themselves down to the water-filled moat as fire melted their armor onto their skin.

The tyrant beast loomed in the sky as the sun dawned on the horizon, a large reptilian monster with two massive black wings, and four long limbs ending in sharp claws. His crocodilian-like head was decorated with two long black horns and a mullet of spikes that extended from his forehead to the tip of his fifteen-yard-long tail.

The dragon licked its sharp opal teeth, slowly landing to eat the crunchy cooked soldiers.