The cavern air vibrated with deafening fury as the Spider-Mother's face twisted into a mask of pure demonic outrage.
Black corrosive ichor sizzled where it dripped from her severed front leg, eating away the bedrock beneath her trembling bulk with noxious hisses.
The foul smoke billowed toward the cavern rafters, carrying the stench of scorched bone and decomposing marrow that made the eyes water.
"Cessy!" the Mother shrieked, her voice reverberating through the underground labyrinth like grinding boulders.
"You dare mock me after the sacred oath you swore beneath the blood moon upon the abyssal altar?" the ancient beast screamed, her remaining seven scythes digging violently into the floor.
Each chitinous leg struck the bedrock with tectonic force, sending tremors radiating through the deep subterranean fault lines.
Standing quietly behind the protective perimeter of his golden aura, Hajin absorbed the revelation with grim, analytical detachment.
