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Within the depths of a dark lair, countless bug-like critters crawled everywhere, from the ceilings to the walls, their countless eyes glowing bright red, the only faint light within this dark and deep nest of monsters.
And on its deepest depths, within the lair's very end, a gigantic entity with the shape of half a giant spider and a beautiful purple-skinned woman rested, glancing at a crystal orb, a powerful artifact that allowed her the ability to see from within the very skies.
Her eight bright red eyes glanced at the scene within the crystal orb, showing armies of giant bug-like monsters marching across the Northern Area of the Atlanta Continent, massacring everything on their step while multiplying their numbers constantly.
A smile surged in her lips as the continent of the prideful elves was slowly being overrun by her Endless Swarm...
"It is progressing smoothly." She smiled. "The Endless Swarm that Lady Lolth has given to me, this power... This Divine Power. It will bring victory to us Demons, the victory we've been seeking for the last thousands of years."
Her eyes seemed obsessed, filled with both desire for more power, endless greed, and also... anguish, pain, sorrow, and even a slight regret.
As she saw the bodies of countless innocents pilling up in front of her vision, her very determination seemed to grow stronger.n0velusB.c0m
"Necessary sacrifices for a greater good..." She thought. "This is the only way we can bring this to an end, this is the only way... I can make them pay for their sins. Their sins... cannot go unpunished. The elves have lived too happily, too comfortably. They need to learn that this world is one of war and bloodshed, one where people die constantly, and they, even with their long lifespan, will know the suffering of death, bloodshed, and pain... If they don't want to come to the war in my own continent..."
She looked into the crystal orb, grabbing it with her gigantic claws, as her demonic powers were imbued into the orb, making the visions distort and glitch...
"I shall bring the war to your doorsteps."
As she contemplated in silence her actions, and what brought her to do these atrocities, the same atrocities that killed her family and made her an orphan, a voice echoed behind her.
"Milady Arachne, I have come with a report."
A Spider-like Demon appeared behind her, similar in appearance to her own, with an upper humanoid torso and a lower body of a gigantic black spider.
"I hope it is not just yet another failed attempt at capturing those two pests." Arachne spoke with a harsh tone, her furious eyes glaring at the Demon that served her.
"I fear it is not that, milady." Laughed the Demon. "This time, we've managed to capture them... well, only one of them.
"Oh?" Arachne smiled. "But these are great news! Why did you not say it sooner?!"
"It merely happened half an hour ago, my apologies. The squad that captured the girl had just arrived. They have tightly wrapped her in their web, and she has been paralyzed with poison, unable to move nor conjure magic." He said. "It is only one of the two, but it is progress, nonetheless. Shall we bring her to you, milady?"
"Bring her immediately..." Arachne smiled while cracking her mandibles. "She is too precious to just kill or eat yet though..."
A horde of giant spiders and other bug-like monsters arrived mere seconds after her order, bringing forth the small and unconscious body of the girl.
"Oh, this is... The Saint of Spirits, is it not?" Smiled Arachne. "What a beautiful, sleeping face. Such a child this is... Blessed by the gods. I bet they must be screaming in frustration as I hold her in my sharp claws, is it not?"
The demons around her began laughing maliciously.
"Ahhh~ I would love to just bite her into bits..." She smiled, licking her lips. "The so-called heroes of this world... So pathetic and small, so helpless... Is this what the gods rely on? Is this their ultimate weapon against us demons? Pathetic... So pathetic."
She quickly placed the girl at the side of her throne, sticking her with her own spiderweb.
"Sleep tight, my child." She smiled. "As long as you're embraced by these spiderwebs, you shall not die from hunger nor thirst, fufufu... Sleep until I can find your friend, and then, I shall offer both of you to Lady Lolth as sacrifices, and steal your powers, all for myself."
She looked into a large statue in front of her, in the shape of a gigantic spider with an humanoid upper torso... Lolth, an Evil Goddess that many Bug And Arachnid Demons prayed to. Her doctrine taught her children to be merciless, cold, and to feast on the weak.
In the arid, and desolate lands of the Demon Continent, sometimes this was a valuable lesson, and a powerful doctrine that quickly unified many into a single tribe... a single religion.
Arachne, once she reached her adulthood, became the head of this religion, and received a divine protection from Lolth, alongside a divine message.
"I shall give you the power to bring an Endless Swarm. Bring war to those that have had it all since the beginning, and offer me their lives and souls... If you do so, I shall gift you unparalleled power."
Those words changed the desolate, lonely, and sad life of Arachne since the defeat of the previous Demon King, and the death of her master and only figure of authority, Beelzebub by the hands of the previous Heroes.
FLASH!
A crest shone brightly on her right hand, shaped in the form of a spider, with several bug-like traits such as wings, praying mantis scythes, and the sharp tail of a scorpion. This was the Crest of Swarms, the Divine Protection that Lolth granted to her chosen ones, a power that Beelzebub once held, but never properly used...
"Avenge your family, avenge your mentor... Avenge the Demon King. My child, you're the last hope of our kin." Lolth said, before vanishing.
"Yes... I will... I will, lady Lolth." Arachne smiled with a wicked smile into the dark skies. "I will bring justice to our kin... They will pay... with their blood."
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