System could feel Shava moving quickly between the branches behind him. Currently, Shava's speed was several times faster than it had been the st time she'd gone to the goblin vilge.

  The ability that Shava had gained after her second pupation was extremely special. It was so special, in fact, that System couldn't even accurately define it.

  "Help me kill him, Shava."

  "Yes."

  When she heard System's slightly nervous mental message, a faint white halo emerged from Shava's body, and her speed suddenly increased several times over.

  Shooting up from the ground like a fast-flying arrow, Shava swung her twin bdes at the white spider that was flying through the air.

  The white spider had obviously noticed Shava, an uninvited guest. The frequency of his wings fpping increased rapidly, creating a harsh roaring sound, and he quickly moved to dodge her attack.

  However, Shava's speed was simply too fast. Although the white spider's body managed to evade her bdes, his legs weren't so fortunate.

  Blood spshed through the air, and three spider legs began tumbling down to the ground...

  The white spider had low intelligence, so it was difficult for him to remember anything. He'd long forgotten his memories of fighting and surviving against millions of other insects and hundreds of insect beasts.

  Still, his body's instincts allowed him to quickly react and make decisions. Against this enemy who cked the ability to fly and who couldn't even change direction in mid-air, now was undoubtedly the best time to strike back.

  The white spider didn't waste time regenerating his three chopped-off legs. Instead, his chest cavity quickly squirmed and deformed. A five-centimeter-thick, half-meter-long, pink, twisted, fleshy tube grew out of his chest in the blink of an eye.

  Puff!

  A thirty-centimeter-long dark-green spike shot out from the twisted flesh tube. The green spike rotated rapidly as it tore through the air, further accelerating its speed and increasing its stability.

  The spike penetrated Shava's exoskeleton as she fell, nailing her to a tree branch.

  The white spider didn't stop. He fpped his wings and aimed his spinneret at Shava, who was already unable to move due to the needle's paralysis effect. A thick and sticky white silk thread spurted out along with a glue-like white juice, firmly sticking Shava to the tree branch.

  ...

  Between System ordering Shava to attack, three of the spider's legs getting cut off, and the spider nailing Shava to the tree with the green needle and spider silk, only a few seconds had passed.

  "Like, you...insect."

  The white spider slowly flew toward System. During his flight, the ugly meat tube that had emerged from his chest retracted into his body, and his three severed legs also rapidly grew out again.

  The mental message sent by the white spider contained some happy emotions, obviously because he was pleased to catch another of the insect beasts that his master wanted.

  At this point, System was feeling a little uneasy.

  Shava's ability was indeed very strong, but the white spider's strength had clearly exceeded System's expectations. He didn't know if Shava could still stand up after being hit by the needle's paralysis poison.

  Although he still believed in Shava, System's heart was inevitably filled with worries. He shouldn't have so carelessly ordered Shava to attack.

  [Frost Form] activated!

  System changed into [Frost Form] again. After sensing the white spider's emotions, System knew that he would soon become the white spider's next target.

  However, just as System had this thought, the white spider suddenly paused, and a snted, reddish-brown line of blood appeared across his entire body.

  The white spider slowly fell from the air. By the time he hit the ground, his body had already split into two halves...

  ...

  "King, as long as I'm here, you don't have to worry."

  Shava's thorax that had been pierced by the green spike was no longer bleeding, and the spider silk covering her body had also disappeared without a trace.

  Shava didn't continue dealing with the white spider that she'd chopped in half. Instead, she half-knelt in front of System and continued pying her favorite game of king and knight.

  The ability that Shava had gained when she'd emerged from her pupa for the second time was very strange, and the ability was also closely reted to System. The reason Shava could always sense his location was rgely due to this ability.

  If System had to name her ability, he'd call it [King's Knight].

  This ability was the type that couldn't be detected just by looking at her. It wasn't an elemental ability like wind, fire, lightning, or ice, nor was it an enhancement ability like increased speed or strength. It also wasn't an ability gained due to changes to her body's organs, like the gnds in System's throat that could spray out [Corrosive Mucus] and [Frost Breath].

  After Shava's second pupation had ended, System had originally thought that she hadn't gained any abilities at all. He'd assumed that her newly-modified body had been the only change that had taken pce.

  An unexpected incident had led to System discovering Shava's indescribable new ability. After her second pupation, Shava's physical fitness had greatly improved. She'd often practiced using the new twin bdes on her forelegs by sshing at trees in the forest.

  But even with the improvement to her physical fitness, Shava could hardly cause any real damage to the thick trees. At most, each chop would inflict some scratches two to three millimeters deep.

  However, because of a mental message that System had transmitted to Shava, her body had suddenly emitted a subtle white halo, and her bde had directly sshed nearly ten centimeters deep into the tree.

  If her strength had been greater, that tree, as thick around as a bowl, would have been completely cut down.

  Since then, System had found that Shava would dispy extraordinary strength in every task that he ordered her to complete. In addition, as System's emotional state changed, Shava's strength would also vary.

  When he urgently wanted Shava to split a stone, she would obey his will, demonstrating incredible strength, and her twin bdes would easily slice the hard stone in half.

  However, the extraordinary strength that Shava could dispy was limited to her body. Even if System wanted Shava to learn how to add and subtract numbers up to the hundreds, there was no way she could do it.

  But whenever System was threatened, Shava would become extremely powerful.

  That was what had happened just now when System had been threatened by the white spider and had needed to transform into [Frost Form] to protect himself. Shava had unleashed unimaginable strength, instantly cutting the white spider in half.

  ...

  As he looked at his knight half-kneeling in front of him, then looked over at the white spider lying in pieces not far away, his flesh and blood slowly wriggling back together as it healed, System shook his head gently.

  "Shava, let's py the knight game ter. Kill him first."

  System stretched out his tentacles to touch Shava's head, then pointed to the white spider that was healing on the ground not far away.