Infinite Mana In The Oasis

Chapter 248 The Last Spider’s Origin Story

"Hahahahaha! So you are that damn Last Spider that fucked both sides in the ass and ran away with one of the biggest loots from Spiders.

Hahahaha. Boy… you have no idea what you have done, do you?"

Malcolm laughed like a maniac and slapped the poker table so hard that it threatened to break. The bald man had gotten too excited after listening to Eren's story.

Malcolm felt like he should ask Eren to retell everything from the start just so that he could enjoy listening to it once again. The fabled Last Spider's backstabbing saga was a highly entertaining audio treat for him.

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Gilaahan is full of interesting incidents. So there was always something to talk about within the communities of the world's original denizens as well as rankers from other worlds.

However, the House of Spiders' downfall had become a huge topic of discussion in the Shaikai kingdom because of one man– The Last Spider. The term was meant to be used for a person who had run away with some of the rarest resources in Gilaahan.

Eren himself wasn't aware that the warehouse he had looted was more significant for all the Spiders than he had thought. In fact, it wasn't just Spiders. The resources stored inside the warehouse were significant for the Shaikai kingdom as well.

That's right. The Last Spider was said to have run away with the most precious resources the House of Spiders had robbed from demonic rankers. Demonic rankers had robbed them from a mysterious location, incidentally. The Shaikai kingdom's forces were on the trail of these resources which had been passed around from one demonic rankers' group to another.

14 years ago, the House of Spiders was given the task of cleaning demonic rankers' bases. The guild was on a downward trend and had to listen to everything the kingdom's administration ordered it to do.

Opportunities often disguise themselves in the form of misery. Something similar happened to House of Spiders when it started hunting demonic rankers. The guild struck a proverbial jackpot when one of its guild members Behlam Dorian attacked a certain demonic rankers' base.

Behlam Dorian was starstruck when he first saw the kind of resources that the supposed low-life demonic rankers were hoarding. He couldn't believe that such a ragtag band of demonic rankers would come to possess the kind of treasures they possessed.

One had to say that Behlam Dorian wasn't as greedy as people thought him to be. He could think for himself and knew that the resources he had seized couldn't be digested by him alone. They were sure to carry heat that would eventually be tracked back to him.

Thus, Behlam Dorian contacted his guild and asked for his next course of action. He divided the loot into two parts after he had finished his official raid. The first part contained some of the rarest and most precious ranking resources while the other part consisted of relatively common resources.

Behlam Dorian had done so because he had received orders from above. He knew that he was about to get attacked by members of the Stardust guild while on his way back. So he was instructed to carry the second part of the loot which consisted of relatively normal treasure and resources.

The House of Spiders had done that to protect its precious resources not only from the Stardust guild members but also from the kingdom's grasp. At that time, the guild was still not completely out of the system. So anything too precious could be claimed by the kingdom for various fabricated reasons if it knew that the guild was in possession of them.

Even if the House of Spiders managed to keep the kingdom's eyes off the precious resources for months on end or even years on end, the secret would eventually leak out. And sooner or later, the kingdom was going to know that the House of Spiders had looted loads of top-tier resources from the demonic rankers by accident.

Therefore, the House of Spiders wanted to appear as if they had been robbed of all the top-tier resources by Stardust guild members. Hence, they let Behlam Dorian get robbed by Raina Regan and her team of rankers associated with the Stardust guild. So that if the kingdom manages to track down the resources, they'll hold the Stardust guild responsible.

House of Spiders then sent the first part of the loot containing precious resources using a different route. Those resources eventually ended up being stored in the guild's warehouse. The very warehouse Eren had looted along with Lagartha and Ariadne.

The detonation Eren caused at the warehouse was how the kingdom learned that the resources had ended up in the House of Spiders' hands. When the kingdom used its forces to shake things up, the story about the incident began to leak. It wasn't long until everyone in the kingdom knew what had transpired at the warehouse.

House of Spiders got thoroughly destroyed after the kingdom's forces found out that it had tried to keep the resources hidden from its reach. Eventually, however, the kingdom learned that the Spiders no longer had the resources.

The kingdom started interrogating the Stardust guild as well. The guild was not aware of the treasure the Spiders had come to possess at all. So the kingdom's forces couldn't prosecute the guild right away.

The Stardust guild was spooked by the kingdom's unnatural interest in the Spiders' robbed treasure. It tried to do its own investigation and found out that there may be a ranker from their guild involved in the whole incident.

The Stardust guild wanted nothing to do with the investigation or the treasure because of the heat it carried. It attempted to portray one of the Spiders' guild members as having betrayed the guild and taken its treasure with them.

The Stardust guild shrugged off responsibility for the robbed treasure by pinning everything on the Last Spider. To save their own hides, the stray rankers from the House of Spiders supported this theory as well.

The Shaikai kingdom's forces were then sent on a wild goose chase to locate the so-called Last Spider. The search dragged on for almost a decade before it eventually died.

This was the origin of the term "The Last Spider."

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AN : Behlam Dorian was first mentioned in chapter 188. The subtle details about things mentioned here could be found in the subsequent chapters.