After Miranda tried out her new body, the spider legs we were boiling were already done. The smell wasn't so bad, although it didn't smell exactly like crab, but it had a close enough scent.
We were going to eat them with some salt, pepper, and butter, which I had placed over the table in front of us.
"It's time…" I said.
I grabbed a long leg, which actually turned red after boiling, and then I cracked it lightly using bit of my strength, opening the tip, and slowly taking out the meat inside, which was like a long white, soft, and meaty tube.
Hmm, hahh, the smell wasn't so bad. I decided to give it a bite without anything first.
Chomp.
The meat was soft, it crumbled inside of my mouth, even. It was rather juicy, and there were no traces of the former disgusting green blood the corpses had, maybe the blood got evaporated or something, but there was only a whitey milky juicy pouring out of the white and tender meat.
It was sweet and a bit savory, it had a tiny bit of bitterness on it, but it was not bad at all, in fact, it tasted just like the crab I used to eat back in Earth when I went to eat in restaurants of port cities with my family.
"Oooh! This is nice!" said Yuki.
"I didn't expected it to be so tasty, seeing how disgusting those spiders are…" said Miranda.
"A-Amazing! Drake! Drake! This is like crab! You ate crab, right?!" asked Yukihime.
"I did! And yes, it tastes just like crab… Ahh, takes me back…" I sighed in relief as I looked into the bonfire in front of us, which was warming the atmosphere and making it as if we were camping in the night.
I shared some legs with Huginn and Muninn, Frost, and Kuro, and all three of them ate them happily, they had tasted the raw ones, but then boiled legs with the meat boiled inside seemed to be otherworldly for them.
"Woof! Arf…!" Frost devoured the legs in an instant, and so did the other monsters.
Without realizing it, I had completely emptied the eight legs I had boiled for myself, taking out the meat like tubes out of the exoskeleton was also fun to do, and almost made it addictive. I didn't even put any spices on them and had eaten them raw. The taste was way too flavorful by itself.
"L-Let's boil some more! I want some more! Eight is never enough!" said Yuki.
"Me too!" said Miranda.
"Mikoto wants sixteen more." said Yukihime.
"Eh? You're the one that wants more! …Well, actually, I want some more too." Said Mikoto.
"Haha, don't worry, there's more for everyone, let's eat some more before going down again." I said.
I quickly cut off another dozens of legs and put them to boil, a few minutes later, they were ready.
This time around, I used the delicious spices I had at my disposal, the pepper, the salt, and the butter, all of them together over the delicious meat in tiny quantities, of course, to not many the harmony go down.
Chomp.
An explosion of flavors engulfed by mouth, I felt so happy I almost groaned like a dragon, well, I am a dragon. The flavors went so well together it felt surreal. The meaty white flesh of the spiders boiled with some salt was already nice, with some pepper it became even better, but the butter? The creaminess of the butter was the breaking point. After that, it was a paradise of flavor…
"W-Wow, this is insane with butter!" said Yuki.
"Oh my… The pepper is good with the butter as well…" said Yukihime.
"I can't stop eating!" said Miranda.
"Hmm… I never thought I would taste such flavors in my death." Said Mikoto.
"Oohhhhh…! I never thought I would find tastier things than blood in my life, but I guess after death, such things are possible…" said Rose.
"I can also eat now! This is nice!" said Skadi.
"Hmm… Chewy… Though I can barely perceive flavor, the warmth is comfortable." Said Uller.
"Arf… Woof…"
Frost suddenly looked me with puppy eyes, moving his bowl with his snout.
"Oh! You want more? Agh, fine… Let's make a last batch for you guys and we are done." I said.
After preparing some more legs for the beasts, and let them eat it, we were done and ready to continue, with our bellies full to boot.
We swiftly moved through the floor, and we quickly inspected the corpses left by the spiders before descending further. I rescued the ones that were alive, which were a few ice giants that were captured and saved for later consumption. I should had rescued them before eating now that I think about it… Oops.
"Ahh… T-Thank you!"
"Ugh… I was so scared… you're our savior!"
"Thanks! Thanks!"
There were only three survivors… the others surviving were just normal monsters that rarely spawned here and were captured by the spiders as food, we decided to kill those because they were just more meat for us. Although we gifted them to the survivors to carry home.
"Go tell Mikohime that you're the three survivors, here, this friend will protect you if anything happens in the way there." I said, as I created a large 3-meter-big Slime Clone, which carried the three ice giants over its wide cushion-like head and began bouncing around out of the dungeon.
The ice giants seemed exhausted and malnourished, so they'll probably go eat and then sleep for an entire day. They were all Rank 2, the last survivors, they looked traumatized, but ended looking happier than sorrowful, mostly because of the happiness of being rescued.
"Well, that's that, let's go down now." I said.
The moment we stepped into the second floor, we were greeted by another swarm of spiders right midway through the stairs, the annoying spiders crawled upwards, hissing, and roaring back at us, but we were mostly unfazed by their intimidation at this point, as we began massacring them in masse…
