I Will Create a Good Ending for the Yandere Villainess

While Lillian was freeing herself, the Beetle was having trouble freeing itself.

With its legs dug into the ground, it was forced back. The ground beneath it tore apart, as well as being painted in its blood, which poured out from a severed stump.

It was missing its middle right leg, leaving it with two on its right side. And where was this missing limb?

Crack... CRUNCH!

It was in the Spider's jaws. The exoskeleton surrounding the leg cracked under the pressure of its fangs, shattering and revealing the Beetle's succulent meat.

And while it was devouring the leg, it forced the Beetle back with its face, smashing it against his horn.

Despite it missing a couple of limbs and having a hole in its abdomen, the Spider seemed to be able to keep up in terms of strength with the Beetle.

It was like a battle of titans as the trees were torn from their roots, the depressing soil ravished and scarred, and the fog grew lively quicker like excited spectators.

If a person were to witness this scene from behind the fog, all they would see were two horrors merged into one, while some parts of it glowed a mysterious, faint blue.

This was one of the reasons why the Spider had been able to contend with the Beetle for this long. Its body was more shaped to be a modern tank made for stealth...

A modern tank that could—

—SWISH! CRACK-PSH...!

The Spider whipped one of its legs through the air, transforming the tip into a menacing spike that stabbed through the Beetle's rigid armour like a forceful spear.

By enhancing itself with mana, it was able to contend with the Beetle's almost herculean strength. Capable of shattering through stone with a swing of its horn.

The Beetle was incapable of using its mana like this.

It chattered its teeth as it felt another tree pressed against its behind.

It then felt the tree bend before snapping.

It tried to wiggle itself free from the spike stuck in its side. But the Spider was persistent and bringing it down. No matter how much it tried to free itself, the spike had locked itself in place.

Its eyes then caught sight of the Spider bringing up another one of its legs. And just before it could stab it inside him; something shot through the air with a surprising speed.

The Beetle then felt the constant pressure force upon it by the Spider lessened before disappearing. Following this was a chilling screech as the Spider reeled back.

One of its eyes in its plated and armoured face disappeared. Replaced with a flowing stream of blood. Whatever that thing was, it was able to destroy one of its eyes.

And... with a terrifyingly high accuracy.

As it stumbled back, deep within its empty eye socket—something grew. It was an ominous blue "pebble". But attached to it was a long, faint wire that stretched beyond the fog.

It stretched far, piercing through the greyish fog and over the empty canopies of dead trees. It eventually reached its destination for crouched in the tree was a girl with dyed crimson hair, clothes, and a focused expression.

It was Lillian, who had decided to take a spot inside a tree. With her hand raised, shaped into a gun, a droplet manifested before her outstretched finger.

It then shaped into a spear that radiated a much more powerful energy compared to before. The spearhead then twisted before transforming into a swirling spiral.

Its form was more detailed, controlled, and ultimately far deadlier compared to what she had been able to create before.

Through the connection she had with the Beetle, she aimed in the general direction she thought the Spider was in. And with a small mutter...

"Bang..."

SWOOSH!

It shot through the air like the bolt of a ballista.

In its path, the fog seemed to become trapped in the whirlpool it had created, fusing with it in its journey. Seconds later, it reached the Spider it had just recovered from the shock of pain and loss of vision.

However, it was then left dazed again for with a sound akin to a thunderclap, the spiralling spear exploded against its face like artillery. It "danced" back like a drunken man as another wire was tethered to its face.

A wire made of water... These wires that were attached to it and Lillian was something she had invented. Something she created to discern the Spider's current location.

Constructs made of mana need a constant steady supply of mana to exist as used mana, become shaped, and stay in shape. While constructs made with elements are different.

Although it uses up more mana to manifest it into thin air, that was about it. The cost to shape it was the same unless you're adding more to the construct's mass.

The reason why you would choose elemental construct over mana ones was because it didn't constantly take a steady supply of mana.

That was because once it had been created, it would just feed on the mana stored in it—the mana that was used to create it, meaning it would have a limited lifespan.

Basically, if she were to create a spear out of water and gave it enough mana for it to last 30 minutes, it would last 30 minutes without any outside disturbances.

This was especially good for what she was doing.

By applying her parasitic element with the wire that connected her to the Spider, she would be able to leech off of its mana.

But instead of feeding it into her, she made it so it fed into the wire, essentially keeping it self-sufficient until the Spider ran out of mana.

She sighed. It wasn't flawless, though. The mana needed to keep the wire up was to an amount that her parasitic element couldn't use to feed itself, thus causing her to let it feed on her own mana as a source.

Lillian clutched a mana potion in her hand before drinking it—a small smile plastered on her face as she did this. Finally, no more flying quills to disrupt this process.

She then—without care—tossed it to the ground, hearing it clatter against the side of the tree before shattering on what she assumed to be from its exposed roots.

She then looked back towards the Spider's general direction with a hesitant expression.

"I should get closer. Just so I can be near when the Beetle becomes too heavily damaged."

And this was what she did. But only after sending another twisting spear.

As the spear was being made and sent, the Spider's remaining eyes glanced at the liquid string that seemed to stretch an infinite length from its perspective.

It then raised one of its legs and swung at the lines, intending to sever them. But before it could, the Beetle rammed into its side, cracking and shattering parts of its exoskeleton.

Just as the Beetle was about to bite down on its legs, it noticed the wiggling of a couple of familiar quills on the Spider's back. And with a hurried, fluid motion, the Beetle turned its body to the side, facing its shell towards the Spider and—

BANG! BANG!

Letting the quills collide with its shell, denting it. But not breaking it.

It then turned its face back around, only to be met with a stab through its left eye. It let out a blood-curdling scream that caused the ground to tremble.

Just before the Spider could go any deeper inside the Beetle's skull, its body was knocked slightly to the side as something exploded against its body.

This brief distraction allowed the Beetle to pull itself back—away from the spike stuck in its eye—before charging back in and crashing his horn against the Spider's armoured face and cracking it.

It then pulled itself back before moving back in, intending to break open the Spider's protective black mask. But before it could, something shot towards its face, tearing through the air and—

PSHHT!

Tearing through the side of its face. Blood rushed out of the hole in its face, tissues of skin and muscles mixed in with the flowing blood.

The Spider stood over the Beetle, watching as it fell onto its legs. It then regrew the quill it shot from its back before flipping over the Beetle onto its back.

It then revealed its dripping, venomous fangs before deliberately lowering its head and sinking them into the flesh of the Beetle's exposed underside.

A slight groan left the Beetle's mouth—a sense of weakness taking over it as its vision went blurry. And then... A feeling of weightlessness. But not one out of weakness, though.

The Spider felt its face phase through the Beetle that had suddenly cracked and shattered into a cloud of glittering dust.

It then moved through the air, transforming into a glass shard that was clutched tightly in a woman's hand.

A woman painted in blood, who flashed the Spider a blood-lusting light, muttered:

"Yo. How about round two?" Before snapping her fingers and...