Under the dome of the Spider Heart Temple,
black-gray webs layered like living vines wrapped around the Legendary Mage Bren, forming a spidersilk cocoon twenty meters in diameter.
The crystal stone lamps embedded in the temple walls cast a ghostly blue glow, reflecting a dark red halo of rune patterns on the webs.
The entire space was filled with a sweet and sickening scent of blood and sulfur, nauseating yet fatally alluring.
Bren's body was wrapped in thousands of layers of webs, cocooned with only his face exposed.
His skin glistened with a blue-gray metallic sheen, and web-like runes appeared on his forehead; ghostly blue magic firelight and black-red abyssal power formed counteracting halos in his eyes.
The protective barrier flowed over his skin like liquid mercury, each ripple of magic power causing violent tremors in the webs ensnaring his body.
