Super Spark of Duper Pride [OB] - Act I: Motivation

3-O: Monster Theory (Summoner 1)

Summoner 1:

For the past few months, there has been a Monster migration in the Great Elroe Labyrinth.

The main trade route through it was flooded with Monsters, and some even attempted to leave the cavern via the entrances to the labyrinth.

Fortunately, those entrances have fortresses built on top of them, with guards at the ready to shoot Monsters down.

More importantly, the cause of this migration is said to be a strange spider Monster.

A Zoa Ele according to one of the knights of the investigation task force.

Sightings of these supposed ill omens average around one every 50 years.

But instead of a suicide assassin that kills without mercy, their report depicted something right out of a tall tale.

Not only did the Zoa Ele not use [Rot Attack] when it had the chance for a sneak attack, which would end up killing itself in the process, it didn't chase down the task force at all, seemingly uninterested.

Only special Monsters have that kind of behaviour, but Zoa Eles aren't part of that category, which could only mean that it is part of a different, more concerning category, Legendary Rank Monsters.

Creatures far too powerful for humanity to stand a chance against, with our only saving grace being their disinterest in hunting down humanity like normal Monsters.

It is extremely worrisome for a Legendary Rank to appear so close to where Humans frequently traffic.

But the situation is even stranger.

The Zoa Ele also apparently had an Elroe Kolift sleeping in a sack on its back, but the very nest the task force found it in had a corpse of an Earth Drake.

I didn't believe it at first, along with the related case of Adventurers being saved by the duo of Monsters.

The spider killed the attacking Monster while the Earth Wyrm healed the injured.

Impossible, is what I want to say.

What do Monsters gain from helping people? Nothing.

What do they gain from killing people? Experience, lots of it.

Humans, Demons and Elfs give proportionally far more Experience than Monsters do.

This fact has infamously driven many to become serial killers.

My point is, this is utterly outlandish.

No doubt a story invented for a shallow moment in the spotlight.

Except, after interrogating each member of the task force and the adventuring party, I am less inclined to call it a fake story.

They all give the same answers, which would be hard to coordinate between so many people, especially the task force, and more importantly, I don't see why they would actually go through all the trouble of making all this up for basically nothing in return.

So it is safe to assume it is true, and there is a lot to unpack here.

Both sightings of this powerful spider involve an Earth Wyrm that is seemingly accompanying it.

Unbelievable, Monsters of different species never get along in the wild, so this is a first.

If anything, I am suspecting these two to be owned by some mysterious creature trainer, thus explaining their coexistence.

The report claims that the Earth Wyrm is the one to heal the Adventurers, not the spider, which is puzzling.

Spider Monsters often use Poison, which leads to them gaining the [Poison User] Title, granting [Poison Synthesis] and [Poison Magic], which would later derive [Medicine Synthesis] and [Healing Magic] respectively.

So it would make more sense for the spider to be the healer, and yet the Earth Wyrm was the one to do it.

How did it learn Healing Skills?

Skill Points? That would require a trainer to instruct it to do so.

Did the spider...no no no, too ridiculous.

Although I suppose this spider is also said to be able to teleport, in other words, use [Spatial Magic].

Most Monsters can't use Magic, mostly because they lack the necessary Skills for it, them being [Mana Operation] and [Mana Perception].

Even if they do, Monsters often lack the intelligence and more importantly, interest, in using Magic, sticking to using simpler Skills.

One needs to train Monsters properly for them to be able to use Magic.

High-ranking Monsters are known to use Magic.

For spider Monsters, they usually have [Poison], [Healing] and [Heresy Magic], the last one coming from the [Kin Eater] Title as they often eat their own siblings right after birth as they are cannibalistic by nature.

That said, only Arch Taratects are recorded as being capable of using Magic as advanced as [Healing Magic].

And this spider can supposedly use [Spatial Magic], an even more advanced form of Magic.

So costly to obtain via Skill Points and so difficult to raise the Skill Level of that there are less than 10 confirmed [Spatial Magic] users among Humans.

That would imply this spider to be absurdly powerful, and yet if it is friendly or at least docile towards Humans, taming it might actually be possible.

And since the Earth Wyrm is likely the same, it would be a nice bonus to earn some prestige having another Wyrm under my ownership.

And what luck that I am chosen for the subjugation mission, a chance to investigate such an odd phenomenon among wild Monsters.

Technically, I am forced, but I want to partake in this mission anyway.

The only problem is that my child will be born soon, and I will most likely miss out on such an important occasion, worried that something will happen while I am away.

Still, my wife encouraged me, telling me that she and my child will be fine, that I have nothing to worry about.

Well, it's not like I have much choice in the matter in the first place under the orders of the empire.

I will just have to make sure I return alive.