With how powerful Zephyr had become, it didn’t take long for him to slaughter all the spiders trying to attack him.

And once all the spiders were killed off, those shiny magical stairs disappeared one after another as if they were only meant for the spiders to climb down into the hall.

’Tch, so all those stairs were fake after all! From the previous challenge I already expected as much but to think the creator of this trial would play the same trick again...’

Zephyr shook his head and waved his hands in the air with force to shake off the blood smearing his hands.

’After awakening mana, it seems my resistance to acidic and every other type of attack has improved tremendously...’

’The blood of these spider monsters seems quite acidic... maybe it’s even poisonous. Thankfully it has no effect on me anymore...’

Before awakening his mana, Zephyr had suffered quite a bit from the acid attack out in the sea of ash.

’Almost all creatures in the sea of ash seem to have acidic or poisonous blood; it’s quite a good thing to have higher resistance against it...’

Zephyr walked over to the side of the torch and tried to pull it out, but to his surprise, despite killing all the spiders, the torch didn’t come out of the holder, and it seemed as if it was stuck in that torch holder for some reason.

*Shrrrr~* *Shrrrr~* *Shrrrr~*

Just when Zephyr was feeling confused, the same voice that he had heard when he had entered the stair trial suddenly echoed in the dark hall.

And before Zephyr could track the source of the image, a gigantic figure came crashing down from above!

The creature was a giant spider the size of a two-story house and couldn’t even properly fit inside the dark hall.

Its aura was strong enough to cause Zephyr to feel pressure, and its eyes alone were as big as Zephyr’s entire body!

"Tch! After the lackeys, the final boss has come out personally? Look at you, you can’t even fit in this place properly; do you really want to fight me in such a small area?"

"A battle here would only be more advantageous to me-"

Before Zephyr could finish his sentence, the walls of the hall suddenly vanished into thin air, and the area transformed into a much bigger boss arena!

It was a direct face-slap on Zephyr’s face and caused him to choke on his own words.

"F*ck! How can I forget I am unlucky? Obviously something disadvantageous had to happen just when I was feeling happy!"

"I swear, if I ever got to meet the goddess of luck, I would punch her in the face for making me so unlucky!"

Without waiting for Zephyr to move, the large spider attacked the torch with its sharp, pointed front leg, striking with such force that the thrust of its leg created a sonic boom in the air due to its high movement speed.

’This f*cker is going straight for the torch!’

With no time to waste, Zephyr immediately took his stance as he moved into a defensive posture.

[Shattered Firmament Martial Art: Wind Type: Flowing Wind Serpent!]

*BOOOM!*

Zephyr swung his wrist like a serpent, used the wind elemental, and hit the incoming attack from the side, causing its trajectory to change!

The spider monster’s attack ended up landing on empty ground, causing massive ripples to form on the shiny magical floor.

’Shattered Firmament Martial Art’ was more focused on offensive skills overall, but it was a complete martial art technique, so it obviously had some defensive moves too.

Moreover, with Zephyr’s ’Perfect combat sense,’ even if the technique did not have any defensive moves, Zephyr could still create new moves for himself on his own!

’But of course, being on the defensive side is not my style; I would prefer to the aggressor!’

[Shattered Firmament Martial Art: Space Type: Spatial Jump!]

Using space itself like a slingshot, Zephyr launched his body forward with an insane speed and jumped into the air!

[Shattered Firmament Martial Art: Wind Type: Rising Wind Spear!]

Zephyr covered his arm with dense wind elementals, made a rotating wind current on his fist, and did a clean uppercut on the monster’s head using the power of the spatial jump to push himself up!

But to Zephyr’s surprise, before his fist could land, the monster suddenly shrank its size slightly, causing his fist to miss the target!

*BOOOM!!*

The sonic boom created from the fist attack echoed in the dark empty hall, making Zephyr flinch.

[Shattered Firmament Martial Art: Wind Tye: Air Walk!]

Using air as his footing, Zephyr pushed himself back, opening a considerable distance from the monster.

Just as he backed away, the spider monster launched a laser beam from its eight eyes at the location he originally was at.

"D*mn! You can do laser attacks!? What are you, ’Homel*nder’!?"

The boss spider monster was more cunning and capable than Zephyr had expected.

Not only could it shrink and expand its body at its will in a matter of a mere millisecond, but it could also fire lasers from its eyes, and it was smart enough to know when to dodge and when to attack.

’Xinran did say that the spiders in this place might be pet of the ’Old Witch’ she was referring to.’

’Could it be that this one is a familiar of that ’Old Witch’ and has been trained for combat by its master?’

There were many questions in Zephyr’s mind, but the spider monster didn’t give him time to think about them as it started using its eight eyes to rain down laser beams on Zephyr from various different directions!

The monster could control each of its eyes individually, so each of the laser beams fired and attacked from a different angle!

Moreover, the monster is smart enough to try to attack the torch with its laser beams so as to force Zephyr into a defensive position. 𝕗𝐫𝚎𝗲𝘄𝐞𝕓𝐧𝕠𝘃𝕖𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝚖

’You don’t think that just having laser beams will defeat me now, do you? I never repeat the same mistakes!’