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And even though the situation was extremely grim, Emerald Sparrow still maintained her composure.

In the midst of a headache that was intense enough to make her eyes blur, Emerald Sparrow was still thinking continuously. She watched the behavior of the Remnant Beasts in front of her closely, piecing together clues that might be useful in her mind.

She could feel that the Remnant Beasts in front of her seemed to be following some sort of special behavioral pattern, which was why they repeatedly forced her and her comrades to retreat and regroup. What exactly was this pattern?

As she pondered everything that had happened since the encounter with the spider, Emerald Sparrow always felt that the answer was hidden within.

At the beginning, she and the lantern had ambushed the spider, and she had sneak-attacked it from behind with her magic-power gear. That attack should have been effective; otherwise, there was no reason for the spider to endure her interrogation.

This attack should have successfully disabled the spider's normal combat capabilities. The Magic-Sealing Arts rendered it unable to use Magic Power, forcing it to connect to the beast's viscera to regain its strength.

Emerald Sparrow began to think in the spider's shoes. If she were the spider and knew that only by transforming into a Remnant Beast could she possibly turn the tide of battle, what would she do?

Without a doubt, it would be to make a series of arrangements for the subsequent battle as a Remnant Beast while she still had the rationality of being human.

The spider was willing to endure Emerald Sparrow's interrogation and kept stalling for time, probably for this very reason.

So, what could he do under Emerald Sparrow's watchful eyes?

The answer was already clear: it was the white spider Remnant Beast that obeyed his commands completely.

A turning point in the spider's counterattack was when he summoned the white spider to attack from the air, drawing Emerald Sparrow's attention and buying him time to transform. Before that, he must have commanded the spider in the air to do something.

The air?

As this word flashed across her mind, Emerald Sparrow suddenly felt a stroke of inspiration.

Because she suddenly remembered what the spider had been doing before the battle began.

—He was looking at the sky.

What exactly was he observing? And what did he see that made him think the timing was right?

These two questions made it seem as though Emerald Sparrow had grasped the thread of the problem. Amidst the chaos, she looked up: all she could see were cobwebs.

Besides that, there was the lantern, who was approaching the likes of Tail and others, attempting to use Spell Techniques to peel Tail off the flesh-and-blood spider web.

It seemed like she was about to succeed.

The threads that bound Tail and the others were the products of rules and not easily dissolved, but the flesh-and-blood spider web in the air was clearly not.

The lantern just needed to sever the connections between the flesh-and-blood spider web and the investigation team to remove them from the air, preventing further extraction of their Magic Power.

However, this action had clearly not only been noticed by Emerald Sparrow.

As the master of the cobwebs, the Remnant Beast surely understood the condition of its own web better than Emerald Sparrow did. When the lantern reached the vicinity of the investigation team and was about to start the rescue, even having lost most of its intelligence, it knew what this meant.

It meant that the prey it was about to kill would be stolen away.

Within its own lair, as the master of this space, the Remnant Beast would not tolerate such an act.

So, after only a brief pause, it abandoned the seemingly tough nut, Emerald Sparrow, in front of it. With an angry scream, the spider silk contracted, pulling its body up high, intent on stopping the lantern's actions.

Emerald Sparrow instinctively wanted to fly up after it, but after the outbreak of Magic Power, she realized that her feet were also stuck to the ground by a mass of spider silk.

She couldn't chase after it.

And the lantern next to the cobweb, distracted by the scream of the Remnant Beast, realized when she saw its target had switched to her. She began to condense Spell Techniques, bracing for a fight, ready to battle the Remnant Beast.

But this was absolutely not acceptable. Emerald Sparrow was very clear about this.

The lantern in the air would likely be no match for the Remnant Beast. Her injuries had not healed, and her mastery of the magic realm was insufficient. If she were to simply watch the lantern battle the Remnant Beast, the likelihood of the lantern's victory would definitely not exceed twenty percent.

What should she do? What could she do to draw the attention of the Remnant Beast back to her?

Her brain was rapidly thinking, but she still couldn't come up with anything. As she saw the Remnant Beast getting closer and closer to the spider web in the air, Emerald Sparrow's eyes widened, and she finally made a decision.

She had to take a gamble.

As for what the rules of the Remnant Beast were and what the spider had done before it transformed, she already had an answer in mind, but she couldn't be sure it was correct.

But to handle the battle as well as possible in what followed, she needed to take a gamble.

"Lantern!"

So Emerald Sparrow raised her voice and called out to the lantern in the air, "Forget the Remnant Beast, attack the cobweb above my head with all your might! All your might!"

"Eh?"

The lantern, whose Spell Techniques were about to be unleashed, was slightly taken aback.

She didn't understand why Emerald Sparrow would make such an instruction, as the action seemed entirely unrelated to the current battle situation.

If Emerald Sparrow had asked her to ignore the Remnant Beast and prioritize rescuing the investigation team, or to protect the investigation team and battle the Remnant Beast, she could understand those orders, but attacking a cobweb that had nothing to do with the situation was beyond her comprehension.

While she was taken aback, Emerald Sparrow on the ground had already spread her arms. The masterpiece that had been condensed around her returned to its original form of Magic Silk, climbing up the exterior wall of the nest.

This Magic Silk swiftly intertwined in the air into another network, stopping the Remnant Beast that was rushing towards the sky and blocking it mid-air.