(POV Narrator)
'The bug's sex doll and the target are kept safe within that little shield box contraption it crafted in a hurry. It's not like it matters all that much in the first place. All I would need to do is rush him in a single attack and rip his heart out of his chest. Even the bug's shields are super fragile in my eyes. A light tap from my hand was all I needed to crack his shields.
My lady had warned me against playing with my food or toys... But these bugs were too weak. It's not like they can do anything to me.' Rachnee thought as she started to weave a white blanket for her master while she was relaxing and enjoying the show the clown so graciously provided to her.
Suddenly a massive tower of cursed energy appeared engulfing everything in the domain, only the shields protecting Emma and Lucas were safe.
To handle the massive influx of cursed energy gotten from sacrificing 175 years of his lifespan his body adapted. James didn't know the reverse cursed technique or ever experienced it himself. But, to handle this pressure his body used the energy in reverse to heal and strengthen his body to beyond its limits, and beyond those limits, and so on.
With the binding vow's gift of unlimited cursed energy and minor adapting throughout this fight, James was theoretically immortal.
'I heard of the legendary abilities of the ten shadows in Japan in the past. I know these binding vows can only imitate what is already possible in another cursed technique. But the divine general is the only creature I can think of imitating at that moment.' James thought as my body was filled with a maddening amount of pain, but his family was the only thing that kept him going along WITH HIS RAGE AT THAT BITCH!
James's rage fueled his willpower, and overpowered any sense of pain he previously felt.
"Sequence four…. HOW. HOW. HOW. HOW!!!!! THIS IS IMPOSSIBLE HOW DID A BUG LIKE YOU GAIN THAT MUCH POWER? Sequence four levels of power…" Rachnee backed up as she was only sequence five in the visionary pathway under her master's influence.
'I am a servant of the ((Witch Of Greed)), why must I..I...I fear a bigger bug. James, yes, James doesn't know how to handle that level of power, and cursed energy doesn't have the advantages of the pathways.'
I ca…can win this, yes I can win this as Arachneras Rachnee servant of the witch of greed.' Rachnee thought to herself.
Rachnee had instantly regained her composure by using her abilities, on herself. But by that point in time, James had already adapted to the sudden changes within the body. All of the scars he had on his body faded as he grew more muscle.
The rusty floor below them faded as the ground made of rusty weapons revealed its golden form. The sun in the sky turned dark blue with golden flames. The sounds of a blacksmith hammering away at a weapon at a steady pace could be heard throughout the domain every three seconds.
A massive array of golden weapons appeared in the air over James's head. From spears to axes, swords, hammers and more appeared in the sky. Golden guns could even be seen from the crowd of weapons in the sky. They instantly launched at the spider before she used her magic to counterattack.
{{"Fura"}} She screamed as a gust of wind gathered in her right hand to form a massive wind blade.
*~Whizz~*
*~Whistling~*
*~Hiss~*
James was able to summon a shield in time to protect his head and chest, but the blade still cut off his left arm entirely.
*Clank* *Clank* *Clank*
*Ugh*
James needed two arms to activate his domain's weapons attack system as a binding condition to buff his attacks. Soon enough, all the weapons floating above him fell from the sky to down below.
A crashing sound was heard as all the golden weapons fell to the floor. James used his right arm to pick up the golden shield that protected him earlier.
*Thud* *Thud* *Thud*
*Crash*
The infinite cursed energy was still flooding all his items so the shields protecting himself and his family were essentially unbreakable.
Before long, Rachnee was casting spells one after another trying to kill James. Yet every time she landed a hit he survived.
Even with his abilities useless due to their harsh conditions, he was still alive and adapting!
*Slash* *Slash* *Slash*
James mostly focused on protecting his head and chest as he faced waves of fire, wind, shadow, water, earth, and many other magical affinities from the endless stream of magical attacks from Rachnee.
The infinite cursed energy acted like a divine shield, making it impossible to spiritually attack James's mind or soul with Rachnee's abilities. Rachnee would have simply mind-controlled him and been done with it, but her spells were one of the only ways to attack.
'HOW THE HELL CAN HUMANS BE THIS STRONG!' Rachnee's internal voice was screaming as she kept blasting the monster of a man in front of her with magic.
Yet it was all useless, as he kept regenerating, and her spells kept doing less and less damage over time. It was almost like his body was developing a resistance to magic, and he was even getting faster like he was getting stronger every time he healed.
It was almost like James was adapting with every wound inflicted upon him.
'I need to end this now and fast, but how? Oh, that's certainly a way to finish this.' Rachnee thought as she suddenly smiled.
Soon enough, she was inflicting both magic and spiritual attacks into her spells. But, the spiritual attacks weren't meant to harm, they were merely going to alter his perception when activated.
. . .
Ten minutes had gone by like that. James's regeneration and resistance had grown to the level where spells that blew off limbs only, broke off his skin.
With both hands intact, James clapped his hands as his fallen golden weapons rose again.
"I've had enough of your bullshit, you fucking spider. Die in pieces, you web-slinging piece of shit." I said. All the while, my weapons started firing off like crazy targeting the spider.
Yet Rachnee was smiling this entire time while James's weapons launched at high speeds.
"Once a bug, always a bug." Rachnee said as she started laughing like crazy.
{{"Love & Protect"}} Rachnee whispered in a loving tone. Her form started to shift and James's eyes started to widen in shock as he looked between the shields and the sudden change before his eyes.
It worked like a charm as the weapons being launched at high speeds turned away at the last minute and missed her. The bullets warped around her, from swords to spears they all turned away with James's precise control.
'I can't even hurt my wife even if I know it's fake.' My love for my wife was turned into a weakness via mental manipulation or transformation spell from that spider.
The most she could do currently was to make herself look like a loved one and imprint the feeling of wanting to protect instead of harm. She couldn't even take a hostage as the shield boxes protecting his wife and son got incredibly strong with the infinite amount of energy flooding them. It would take five hours of constant attacks to make a dent in the shields.
The instant the gap in attacks was noticed by Rachnee.
{{"Accelerate."}} She said as her speed quadrupled instantly due to activating her blessing of the wind. As a gift from her lady, she should use it well.
She instantly rushed the opening James made unknowingly while trying to shift the weapons away from her, due to her mental guidance powers making her impossible to hit on purpose.
Rachnee's human hands turned into dragon hands as they gained scales and claws as she rushed James. James's back grew a new clawed limb that very instant. In the palm of that dragonic hand laid James's, fleshly ripped-out heart that still was beating every so often.
'I guess my cursed energy reinforcement technique was useless after all, her hand still ripped out my heart just easily. Even the physical resistance my body built up was like butter to her claws.' James thought as his body started to grow colder and colder by the minute.
"A bug is still a bug James, you did pretty well, but that half-ass conviction of yours killed you." Rachnee laughed as she started eating the heart in front of James before his blood-filled eyes.
With her bloodied hand, she was treating James's heart like an apple. She savored every bite as James's body fell to the ground.