Chapter 50: Vampy Father!
Like worms, these spiders swarmed up the walls with incredible speed, reaching the soldiers at the top in moments.
"Protect Lord Ronandt!" the sword-wielding soldiers roared, charging into the black tide of the spider army.
Their sharp longswords struck the spiders' bodies, making sounds like metal hitting metal. These spiders' carapaces were surprisingly tough!
Screech... Splat...
The soldiers at the front, once injured or exhausted, were instantly overwhelmed and devoured by the spiders, reduced to piles of clean-picked bones.
The remaining soldiers gasped in horror. Normally, seeing such a gruesome sight, they would have turned and fled.
But now, with adrenaline coursing through their veins, they no longer knew what fear was. Many, though grievously wounded, continued to fight bathed in blood, no longer even feeling the pain.
This was because in states of extreme excitement and agitation, senses like pain are suppressed.
While it helped temporarily, after the battle ended, that pain would return, magnified manifold.
But... no matter how fiercely they resisted, humans were ultimately no match for the sheer numbers of the spider army.
The defensive line was quickly breached. Even the catapult operators and crossbowmen were slaughtered on a massive scale.