Chapter 31: Testing the Waters

The curse that took over the body of Arachne looked at me with its all blood colored eyes as it look flabbergasted and confused as to how can I block the sharp claws of the Princess of Poison, the curse retreated a few meters away as I started to summon some black bullets beside me, the black bullets, even though I call them bullets, they don't look like bullets at all and more like one inch balls of pitch and dense darkness that can be seen even in the dead of the night because of how dense they are.

Though I feel bad in using it to someone who is using the body of my wife for, well, it will obviously hurt my wife, I have no choice, thinking of such, I snapped my fingers casually in front of Arachne that taken over by her curse as the bullets disappeared in front of me and an explosion was made in the position in which the curse retreated making trees be blown away from a few meter radius.

However, because the curse is using Arachne's body, before the explosion even occur, the curse already retreated a few meters away from her original position as it looked at me with contempt and tried to once again move in blinding speed to reach me, however before the curse can even do so, a black one inch orb appeared in front of it, the curse looked at it for a single second as a white and purple blur was seen and the bullet, hitting the blur, passing through it and hitting the ground making another explosion that destroyed a few meters area, missed Arachne in a wide margin.

I gave a fascinated smile as I put my hands in the pocket of my pants and looked for the curse that have Arachne's body and saw her in the left side of my field of vision.

"TSK! ANNOYING!"

It exclaimed as it suddenly produced dark purple colored orbs the same size as mine and looked for the bullets of mine coming for it as the curse shoot out the poison made orbs and made it collide with my dark orbs.

Explosions upon explosions of dark purple and black masses of explosives erupted as the two orbs battled for supremacy and a mixture of purple and dark smoke littered the place.

"GOT YOU! GYAHAHA!"

Suddenly, a hoarse voice riddled with the tone of madness was suddenly heard at my back and as the voice was heard, a claw just a little distance in cutting my neck clean can be seen, I once again looked at it casually as I let out a sigh.

At this time of the game, the both of us are still not going all out and is just testing the waters in which is not evident at all for the forest already sustained damage  and a small area of the greenery of the forest was already shaved of just because of us "testing the waters".

However, it seems like the curse wants to step up the game as it finally decided to target a vital spot, in which is my carotid artery, however given how big the blade of Arachne is, instead of just the carotid, I am so sure that my head will be chopped off if it so happens that this legs that can chop of even tendons of gargantuan monsters even touched a skin on my neck.

"No, you did not."

However, of course, as a sane person (?) I will not allow my head be chopped off like that, well I am sure that I can attach it back considering my super fast healing factor that is only a little step slower than Arachne, but hey, who the hell is stupid enough to let their head fall off, right?

Thinking of those things, I immediately used my bloodline magic and made a super condensed rapier as I immediately and efficiently blocked the blade like leg that is coming for my neck, well it is not like my bloodline magic can only make super condensed weapon or orb like bullets that will explode in contact with any object, it is just that because of things like pride, will not go all out if the person I am fighting is also not going all out.

... Well, I know that's stupid but if a person who have centuries of fighting experience is to fight, there is always be pride that will be involved, so please bear with it.

Anyway, after I blocked the blade of Arachne I looked at the curse and once again manifested a pitch black colored sword in my other arm and spun three hundred and sixty degrees in the opposite direction of the blade in a span of a second, also targeting the carotid of Arachne, furthermore, because I have a rapier in my other hand, I also targeted the stomach part of hers.

I can target her vitals all I want because I am confident that she will not die for she have a super fast healing factor that can keep up with sustained and continues damage by being burned alive... Atleast according to her, because I haven't seen her being burned from head to toe even once, this is also a known fact for the curse and so is confident that it can use this healing ability of Arachne to tank any attack.

However, because the main priority of the curse is to do harm to Idun, meaning that the curse cannot expose the body that the curse is occupying in any and every way and have to be careful in anyway possible, that's why, instead of tanking the attack, the curse dodged both of my attacks and once again appeared in my back.

However, I then also immediately sensed her as I make my conciousness and reflexes be more alert by a higher degree as my "battle mode" is near to be reached for I can sense it that in a few moments. The true fight between me and my wife that is being controlled by the curse given to her unwillingly by that goddamn dark fairy is nearing it's herald.

Thinking about those things I can't help but be delighted, never in my life did I think that this day will come. That I will be having a fight with my most dangerous wife that can go rampant the moment Idun's face was presented in her eyes or even just Idun's name entering her ears making her an entity marked as dangerous even more cataclysmic and unstable than the chaos bringer herself.

Excitement, excitement that I contained with all my mental might started to exude out of my body as I started to smile and moved quickly and stabbed the rapier in the center of the spider body of Arachne in which was blocked barely by one of Arachne's metal hard leg, however with the force alone and added to the fact that my bloodline magic was dubbed as the "unstoppable force", the blade like leg that is used to block my stab attack started to crack as another shocked expression can be seen in the face of Arachne as the curse saw how my thin and weak looking rapier crack the hard carapace of the leg of Arachne.

"Wha!?"

The curse, however, immediately got back up from its stupor as it immediately used the frontal claw of Arachne and tried to stab my right chest. Seeing her move, I pushed the rapier away, causing her to also be pushed unwillingly and her attack to miss my chest.

"It healed..."

I gave a kind of shocked mutter as I saw the carapace that just got cracked a little while earlier because of my attack is already  back to normal like nothing happened, I already know what her self healing ability can do, actually Guinevere and my Mother's healing factor is more superior that this, I can't understand theirs, but it's like, their skin was already hard and when you do managed to damage it, it will just go back after you blink it's annoying.

Ah, anyway, enough of the healing factor, for I noticed something strange.

"Hm? Why are both of you hands  in your back?"

I looked at the curse in front of me with a genuinely puzzled look. What is this? Is this little shit underestimating me or something?

As I think of those words, some zipping sound started to resound in the whole forest and at the same time, a wide sneer appeared in Arachne's face that is of course, being made by the ego of the curse as it looked at me with its eyes full of confidence in its victory as threads thin enough to be invisible in my sharp eyes, but still sturdy enough to bind me, tightened all over my legs and arms as countless amount of trees started to bend and I was suddenly hung up in the air in a crucified position.

Because of the spider half of Arachne, that is a little big, about six feet in height, Arachne is freaking tall that she have to crouch when talking to others, so right now, I am, for the first time, except for times that she is in her human form, is now in the same eye level as her, though it is when we are fighting, well that is still a new experience.

But yeah, basically, I can only say. Oh shit. So this is this goddamn curse's plan.

The curse started to attack me relentlessly in a position or way that fully maximizes the advantage of her spider half's super strong and sharp blade like legs, making it seem like she is focusing on attacking me using those, distracting me completely from Arachne's other half in the top of the spider body completely making me unaware of the webs that she is wrapping around my body in the most sneaky way possible, making me trapped in an intricately made webs without  me even realizing it.

And now, I am here looking at the jeering of the curse that uses the face of my wife.

"GYAHAHAHAHAHAHA! LIKE I SAID, I GOT YOU!"

The curse said in a very ear churning voice, it was hoarse, maniacal and screeching at the same time and I am sure that any people not as great as myself will have the insides of their ears explode because of this very unpleasant sound.

Eh? I was trapped without me knowing so how can I call myself great? Well, the trap was successfully set up and also successfully caught its target, but the question is, did the trap worked to the target in the first place?

However, The ego of the curse didn't think of anything like that at all, as it just emersed itself on its victory against me and started to summon large amounts of poisons that was shaped into a meter length orbs and started to shape themselves into spears, the spears, as a common trait into Arachne's attacks was purple in color, though it was darker for it was made into a more potent poison that will sure to kill anyone and make me completely incapacitated in this fight.

"[POISON SPEAR]"

A chilling silent yet hoarse mutter was heard as the spears made of lethal poison shoot out to me, however, I only gave her the usual confident smile as some spears of darkness also appeared in front of me and intercepted the poison spears of Arachne, as I also gave a bone chilling and stomach wrenching mutter.

"Like I also said, no, you did not."

Suddenly, black colored flames started to engulfed the threads that are entangling me, they count in hundreds as I looked at them casually as the flames started engulfing the "Universal Threads" of Arachne and burning the ever sturdy and unbreakable threads of hers without any efforts.

"[Black Flames]"

[Black Flames] is a spell that was made up by me just a moment ago in experiment that basically asks "Will the flame or fire attribute  and my bloodline magic will mix together?" And surprisingly, it does and the results was also what I expected, it burned anything and everything in its path without any exemption and my will is the only thing that can make them stop and as a side note, I also made the black flames not to burn me and my clothes, also the trees of the forest because I am sure that Idun will annoy me if I ever did so.

After a minute, all the webs was extinguished and I walked out of the black colored flames casually, however this time is already different as the white of my eyes turned completely black and my bat wings fully erected in my back together with the sleeves of mana in my back that looks like a cape, I gave a wide and wicked smile in front of Arachne.

"Guehehehe... Now that the warm up exercises are complete, how about we show the Heavenly Stars of Idun, what will Loki Darkbringer and Arachne Darkbringer will look like, if they fought with all their might."

As I said those words, a black blur was seen as I immediately appeared in front of her and then clenched my fist and punched her in the stomach with all the force I have.