“Snake, you’re tougher than I thought. Now I’m kinda curious—what’d you get your hands on to evolve this fast in so little time?”

  Arachnethos says, already kicking himself a bit. Shouldn’t have agreed to hand over half this snake’s loot. Maybe the stuff on this snake’s super valuable to him too.

  “What I got’s none of your business. I’m pretty curious myself—what’d you lean on to master the Fate primal rune?”

  Oliver shoots back with a grin. Translation: I’m looking forward to killing you too.

  “Hahaha, I’m starting to like you, damn snake. I’m going all out—a real fight to send you off!”

  Arachnethos laughs, roaring. As he talks, he swings his giant legs, and his rear starts spewing dark purple, sticky threads!

  Those threads instantly weave into a terrifying net spanning millions of kilometers! This massive spiderweb’s no joke—it’s shimmering with a special glow, the power of a law! The legendary spider’s finally tapping into his Fate power!

  “Word is, once you’re caught in that web, Fate locks you down—you can’t move a muscle. Fate’s power’s almost undetectable. Unless you’re way stronger, there’s no stopping it…”

  The deer-headed deity sighs. Fate’s power is so terrifying, it feels impossible to defy.

  Rumor has it, deities studied this—probably only a level 17 deity, two levels above this 15 spider, with a decent primal rune, could counter Fate’s power. Anything else? No effect on Fate. Basically, this millions-of-kilometers-wide Fate web rolling toward Oliver’s got a special “untargetable” trait. Regular attacks don’t touch it.

  Normal deities hit with this move? They’re done—bound tight by Fate, can’t budge. Weaker ones might even lose a sense or ability until the web’s gone. And scarier still? This Fate web siphons the trapped deity’s power, juicing up Arachnethos, making him even stronger for a bit. That’s why Arachnethos is called the Fate Hunter. Anyone he targets? Good as dead.

  But facing this horrifying move, Oliver’s chill as ever. “Fate’s power, huh? Try my Darkness and Death!”

  Oliver opens his snake jaws wide and blasts forward!

  Boom!

  A dragon-breath-like wave of darkness bursts out. At first glance, it’s crazy similar to the dragon breath Queen Níemogr spat out. Difference is, Oliver’s breath is way bigger—this dark cloud’s over 500,000 kilometers wide! And scarier? It’s packing both Darkness and Death primal rune power!

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  Darkness and Death—top-tier primal runes, just as high-level as Fate!

  Zzzzt!

  A terrifying corroding sound kicks in. In the face of Darkness and Death, even Fate hits a wall. That giant spiderweb gets burned right through by the breath. Starting from that blast, the web catches fire—dark flames!

  Boom!

  The sound of exploding flames hits. In a flash, the millions-of-kilometers-wide web’s ablaze, dark fire looking to torch everything. It races along the web’s tail, heading straight for the spider’s body!

  “Damn it—you… you… what is this power?!”

  Arachnethos loses all his earlier swagger and calm, shrieking in panic. His body locks up, sensing massive danger.

  “Break—break it, break it off!”

  He roars, frantically trying to cut the silk from his rear off the burning web. But too bad—even though he moves fast, strands of dark fire still latch on, igniting his tail!

  “Aaagh!”

  The spider screams bloody murder as it burns. He’s not dying yet, but he’s looking rough.

  “Damn… that’s the Darkness and Death runes, and your mastery of them’s way deeper than mine with Fate…”

  Arachnethos yelps, disbelief all over him.

  “Now you still think you can kill me?”

  Oliver sneers.

  “You… don’t get too cocky! You really think I’m out of moves?”

  Arachnethos’s voice drips with rage. “I admit, I underestimated you. You’re not just a foe—you’re a real threat. Looks like to kill you, I’ve gotta use this…”

  “To avenge my brother, to snag your treasures, I’m willing to pay a price…”

  Arachnethos roars, and his spider body’s core explodes with blinding white light, like it’s gonna light up the whole millions-of-kilometers chaos space.

  In that dazzling glow, a jaw-dropping scene hits everyone. The spider’s 5-million-kilometer body doubles, then splits—two more identical giant spiders appear! Three 2-million-kilometer spiders… No, more precise—one’s smaller, about 3 million kilometers, and the last one’s bigger, pushing 7 million.

  “What the…”

  Tempestriax and Thalassorath snap their heads up, staring at the sky, eyes full of shock.

  “The projections of past and future, plus the present me—together, we form Triple Fate. Now, can I kill you?!”

  Arachnethos roars, hyped as hell!

  Right then, the whole chaos world goes quiet. Pretty much every deity’s staring, gobsmacked. Sure, everyone knew this spider had the Fate primal rune, but nobody thought he could pull off a move this wild.

  Primal runes are crazy complex, packed with chaos truths. Oliver’s got a bunch—Darkness, Death, Life, you name it. But his understanding of them? He wouldn’t say it’s super deep. If you put a number on it, Oliver’s mastery of each rune’s maybe +1 or +2. But Arachnethos, pulling this Fate move? His grip on the Fate rune’s gotta be at least +3.

  This is extremely rare in today’s chaos, especially since the higher the rarity of the primal rune, the harder it is to comprehend. Fate rune at +3? That’s truly shocking to every deity.

  Weird thing is, he just admitted his Fate mastery’s weaker than Oliver’s… So what, he’s got some item that can temporarily juice up his rune power?

  “I’m getting way more curious about the loot I’ll snag after killing this guy,” Oliver can’t help thinking.