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Kumo Desu ga, Nani ka? (LN) - Volume 14 - Chapter 4




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4 Showdown: Spider vs Robot

The muzzles of the robots’ guns all start blasting.

As far as I recall, Potimas prefers not to waste bullets and avoids using firearms like these.

But now, they’re spraying ’em out like crazy, rules be damned!

A wall of fire closes in on me like a bullet hell game, leaving nowhere to run.

Seriously, if this were a shoot-’em-up, I’d be demanding a refund!

No waaay did the developers expect anyone to beat this!

What is this, an unbeatable boss?

Well, I’m not gonna get beaten here!

So yeah. I activate a spatial conjuring.

And I pop all those bullets right into a separate dimension.

Or rather, I just open up an entrance for them to fly right in of their own accord.

Sent into an empty space, the bullets just whiz around aimlessly, never hitting anything.

The end.

Ha-ha-ha.

Shooting attacks won’t work on a master of spatial conjuring like me!

Oh, unless I got shot too fast to be able to activate a conjuring in time, I guess.

But that’s probably not gonna happen!

Even the most powerful shooting attack will never reach me if I pop it into an alternate dimension.

How’s it feel, huh?

You finally use the bullets you’ve been refusing to use, saving ’em up like a stingy old miser, and they all get totally nullified?

You mad?

Yeah, you mad.

Ahh, my only regret is that I can’t see the look on Potimas’s stupid face for myself.

…Okay, I guess there’s no point trying to piss off robots, huh? They’re not gonna lose their cool no matter what I say.

Not that I was saying this out loud for anyone to hear anyway!

What, you think I should try actually saying it?

Get outta here! Are you telling me to die or what?!

While I’m getting carried away with a one-man comedy bit in my internal monologue, one of the robots actually charges at me instead.

What, they figured out after just one volley that shooting isn’t gonna work on me? But they’re just robots!

Damn, that’s some pretty impressive AI they’ve got installed there.

But getting closer to me isn’t gonna make them any more of a threat.

I’d estimate their speed stats to be no higher than five thousand or so.

With that kinda speed, they might as well be standing still as far as I’m concerned.

And their defense is low enough that just a teensy little hit from my dark conjurings would blow them to bits.

If I take ’em down before they get any closer, that’s the end of that.

But since I went to all the trouble, I might as well try out a different strategy to counterattack them here.

Come on out, battle clones!

Several battle clones from my spider squad pop out between me and the robots.

Well, now’s as good a time as any to explain the specs of the battle clones.

They’re right around the size I was before I became an arachne, and the same shape, too.

As for their battle power, I’d say their equivalent stats would probably be around ten thousand on average.

Like me, they actually exist outside the scope of the system, so there’s no way to Appraise them and find out for sure.

Also, that’s just an estimation of their base stats. Depending on the circumstances, I can provide them with some of my own power to beef them up, which means there’s no real point trying to guesstimate their stats anyway.

Their main attack methods are evil eyes, dark conjurings, spatial conjurings, thread, scythes, and poison.

Frankly, aside from my being human-shaped instead of spider-shaped, there’s not much difference from fighting the real me.

Obviously I’ve got more firepower, but they’re fully loaded with high combat capabilities.

I call them “battle clones” for a reason, y’know.

The battle clones shoot thread at the robot charging toward me.

The thread wraps around its legs, and sticks to the ground as well.

The robot topples to the ground, legs completely bound.

And my battle clones don’t waste a second before they swing their scythes, slicing the robot into pieces.

Mm-hmm.

Not bad, if I do say so myself!

Looks like they can wipe out robots with thread and scythes alone.

Because of the nature of their specs, the battle clones’ direct attacks with their thread and scythes aren’t particularly powerful.

Those are really just sub-weapons.

Their main weapons? That’d be evil eyes and conjurings.

So let’s wrap things up with those!

The battle clones fire a volley of black bullets.

They pierce right through the rest of the robots, blowing them to bits.

Bwah-ha-ha-ha! Behold! My army is invincible!

Huh? If it was going to be this easy, I should’ve just done that in the first place!

I mean, yeah, but isn’t it better to be sure they can fight with just their thread and scythes, just in case?

Verification is important, if you ask me.

Huh? Pride?

…Come on, it’s like what that one swordsman said:

“This isn’t pride, it’s confidence!”

So allow me to show you why I’m so confident now!

Battle clones! Full-power operation!

I temporarily stop the information-gathering clones that are off spying and such in other areas.

The information that usually feeds into my mind nonstop from thousands of spy clones all over the world temporarily cuts off.

In exchange, I can focus on using the battle clones to their full potentiial.

There are around ten thousand battle clones in total that I summoned to exterminate the elves.

While I was running the information-gathering clones at the same time, I could only give them basic commands, but what happens when I can focus my full attention on their performance?

I know the number of robots caught me by surprise, but I’ve got big numbers on my side too, you know!

Now let’s wipe the floor with them!

All over the elf village, fights break out between battle clones and robots.

But the battle clones are a whole lot stronger than the robots.

The robots might have the advantage of numbers, but while they’re scattered all over the elf village, the battle clones are concentrated around the residential district.

I’m not going to end up getting backed into a corner on my own, at least.

We can just exterminate the robots—beginning with the residential area—and then expand our circle of conquest outward from there.

So, we start advancing, destroying robots along the way.

There are robots out near the imperial and demon armies now, too, so I’m going to head that way to back them up.

Neither army has made contact with the robots yet. I should still be able to get there in time.

I’m sure Vampy and Mr. Oni would be fine, but Mera would have a hard time taking on more than one or two robots by himself.

What, the taratect troop?

You really think they’d need my help when they have a queen?

The queen’s breath attack could raze a whole row of robots to the ground, y’know?

Seriously, queens are way too strong…

So yeah, I think I can trust the queen to take care of that area.

Thanks to my battle clones turning the tide of battle back in our favor, the puppet spiders are going all-out again, too.

They’re gleefully charging at robots, blocking bullets with swords and slashing them in half at the torso.

Right, I guess the four of them can take down a single robot without a problem.

Even one-on-one, the puppet spiders are stronger—I don’t think they would lose.

They retreated because they were outnumbered, but now we’ve got that advantage, too.

Still, what a calculating bunch, only giving it their all when they know we’re going to win…

As I roll my eyes at the puppet spiders, the ground in front of me suddenly opens up, and something new emerges from below.

What is it, more robots? Wait, that silhouette doesn’t look right.

I mean, at first glance, it’s not that different from a robot’s silhouette.

But the size seems…wrong.

It’s huge.

This must be the powered-up version of these robots!

Still, I feel like I’ve seen this particular robot somewhere before, for some reason…

But the one I saw was a lot messier, and busted up all over…

Then it hits me.

It was a few years ago, when we were still traveling toward the demon territory.

The time when a UFO, an ancient weapon that was hidden underground, suddenly reappeared!

With a final-boss robot inside!

This thing looks just like that one!

What did Potimas say when he saw it, again?

Something about a “Gloria.”

Then I guess the final boss robot was made based on an adapted version of the blueprints for his “Gloria” or whatever.

Which means the one I’m looking at now is the properly made version of that.

So that’s a little scary.

I remember what Potimas said at the time.

“The original could easily destroy even an upper-class dragon. Ah, I mean the fakes, not the originals, of course.”

The only upper-class dragons I know are the ones like the wind dragon Hyuvan, who fought alongside us against the UFO. While Hyuvan wasn’t as strong as Mother, the queen taratect, his stats were easily over ten thousand on average.

Hell, his speed was over thirty thousand.

That’s higher than the puppet spiders.

And Potimas bragged that his original “Gloria” robot could easily destroy such a dragon.

That’ll be tough for the puppet spiders.

Even my battle clones would probably need to face it in a group.

But still, it wouldn’t be too hard to win.

…If there were only one, that is.

But based on the visual information I’m getting from my battle clones all over the vicinity, even more Glorias are popping up in other places, too.

Oh come on, you can mass-produce these things?! You gotta be kidding me!



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