74 LXXIV. Red Silk.

So, these Giant Spiders faced total annihilation, and they asked Vanilla and friends for their help, calling them 'harbingers' and 'messiahs' if that had a deeper meaning to them and their strange religious practices.

But their destruction was not what bothered Vanilla the most; that was those infected eggs and spiders that spread up to the Land Residence.

If those infested egg sacs hatched before they could 'cure' them, then thousands of corrupted spiders would infest her home, kill everyone, and then would spread around the surface.

And the explanations of the Giant Spider Queen made sense, even if Vanilla was suspicious of her; They had not had any trouble in the Land Residence with spiders until this plague, and these spiders had treated Vanilla and her friends like members of the royal family.

They were even crafting her an armor made of Giant Scorpion scales. How amazing that would be? She thought.