It was the right decision to come to Germanis after all.
　I was able to learn more about their lives than the book of Nikolaos written by hearsay.

　According to Adalbero, once a military spider has built a web, it becomes untouchable.
　At least within a one-kilometer radius, they become very dangerous.

　Therefore, the webs must be removed and exterminated, but....
　It is said that the queen spider has a hundred soldier spiders in tow, and that she digs a large hole in the center of her web, where she lives, and fortifies it with a large number of trees and threads to make it look like a kind of fortress.

　Therefore, crushing a nest would require at least a thousand troops.

　Therefore, the web must be crushed when it is being built.

　Fortunately, the queen spider itself is not so strong.
　Well, it's only about the size of a ten year old child, so it's not surprising.

　In the early stages, there are only about ten baby spiders at most, and they are not a threat.

　By the way, there is no such thing as the Daioo spider.
　The male spider dies after mating with the female in the pre-breeding stage.

　The female, that is, the queen spider, is said to mate many times, and accumulate a lot of sperm from the male spider.　
　I'm not sure, but it seems that the Cilician people may have mistakenly learned about this aspect of the spider's ecology during the course of their history.

　The other aspects of its life were almost identical to those of the honeybee.

　To be honest, this was a bad idea, but I think it's beginning to show its true colors.

　So, how did your ancestors come to be domesticated, Mr. Adalbero?　And how did you fail?
　"This is the story of my great-grandfather's generation...

　When I asked him about it, Adalbero told me in a matter-of-fact manner what happened a long time ago ... about a hundred years ago.
　As you may have guessed, there was no industry in the Germanic region.
　So long ago, Adalbero's ancestors turned to the military spider. They wondered if they could somehow remove the fibers of this spider.

　At first he thought of attacking the webs and extracting the threads that were strung around them, but that was too risky and impossible.
　So they came up with the idea of locking the queen spider in a cave and extracting the fibers from the baby spider that the queen spider had given birth to.
　But.........

　"The baby spider only obeys the queen spider's commands. That's why he couldn't get it to spit out its thread.
　Yeah?　I think spiders always produce thread from the end of their buttocks. We can reel it in. It would be easy.
　'They're pretty smart for being so big. 'They cut it off easily. By themselves. And spiders produce many different kinds of thread. Strong thread is very strong, but brittle thread is brittle. The threads they stick out of their bottoms are brittle threads.

　Well......
　That doesn't sound like a straightforward task.

　Even though the baby spider is a herbivore and can survive on a small amount of mushrooms, the queen spider is a carnivore and requires a lot of meat.
　The burden was so heavy that it was withdrawn.

　If you want, I can sell you the results of my ancestors' research.
　Are you sure?
　Yeah, no problem. It's just useless.

　It's a pretty good deal to get information, albeit for a lot of money.
　I was happy to take the deal.





　It had been a week since I left for the Army Spider's Web.
　I can't see ahead at all because of the trees in the forest, and I feel like I'm circling the same place... but Adalbero says I'm moving forward.

　If it weren't for Adalbero, I would have been lost for sure.

　
　You see, that's because....

　Pshaw!

　A sound like carbonation leaking out of a plastic bottle suddenly emerges from the bushes around us.
　I found myself with sticky threads snaking all over my body.

　This is the third time, I've gotten used to it.

　I threw off the linen cloth I was wearing and drew my sword and rushed into the bushes at once.
　Then I cut down an apple-sized spider at random.
　Occasionally a thread flies in from a blind spot, and he relies on his hearing to catch it with the linen cloth and make sure to kill it with a stone throw.

　The struggle with the spider lasted about a minute.

　It seemed that everyone except me had succeeded in getting rid of the spider.
　They were all covered in thread, though.

　"Did you catch it, Alice?
　"Yes, Your Majesty!

　Alice shows him a web made of her own thread, dangling with one hand.
　There were more than twenty spiders there, goose-stepping on the thread and being caught.

　That's what a mummy hunter does to a mummy.

　But it's really a dangerous creature. This army spider.
　We're a couple of hundred soldiers, so we can handle them now, but....

　If there were less than a hundred of them, the spiders would have taken some of them away, and if there were fifty or so, they'd be wiped out.　
　Even if we bring them back, we have to handle them carefully.




　After that, we continued onward, keeping a careful eye on our surroundings.
　After advancing some distance, Adalbero suddenly stopped.

　"Halt.

　Adalbero controlled him with his hand and told him to stop.
　Then he pointed in front of him.

　'Lord Almus. Look at this.'

　I walked up to Adalbero and leaned forward to look closely at where Adalbero was pointing.
　There was a single thin thread there.

　

　So we've arrived at last.
　I'm gonna cut the thread with my sword.

　Let's move on.

　The words must not have been understood, but Adalbero nodded quietly as he understood the nuances.

　He cut through the threads everywhere with his sword and set them on fire to burn.
　I guess it's still flammable, but the threads burn and fall off in a flash.

　We just keep burning the threads.
　We kept burning the thread, because we wanted to attract the queen spider.

　Even though the queen spider and a few soldier spiders are weak, it is still very dangerous to attack the center of the nest.
　It's also threaded, albeit in small quantities.

　So what to do?
　It's easy. All you have to do is lure them in.

　The only natural enemies of army spiders are humans and fire dragons, according to everything.
　The threads will burn with fire, and if the spider is not careful, the fire will follow the threads to its body.

　Therefore, when the army spider feels that the human or the fire dragon is attacking it, which is one of its few natural enemies, it will go out of its web and try to kill it with all its strength.

　And it was at that moment, about ten minutes after they had built up the fire.




　Gasp, gasp, gasp!

　Suddenly, the trees shake.
　We stop burning our strings and take sides.

　And then .....

　Upstairs!

　A large number of spiders attacked from above.

　At the same time, another huge object rushed in from the front at a furious speed.

　''Me and Alice will stop the front!　Take care of the rest of the soldier spiders!
　"I understand! Okay.

　I said and pointed my sword at the black and red striped creature that rushed in front of me - a giant spider.

　Gakin!

　A high metallic sound echoed through the forest.
　The tip of the sword was caught by the spider with its fangs.

　I can't understand the spider's expression.......but it must be surprised, perhaps.
　The human being in front of me I didn't blow up, despite the fact that I rushed into it at full speed.

　It must have been a shocking event from the spider's point of view.

　However, I didn't bother to slow down my attack for the sake of the spider.

　You can't get away from it.
　The spider lets go of the sword and dodges the spear away from the spot.

　Both sides lacked offense.
　But enough was enough.

　'Now!
　Yes!

　I thread my way out of the side of the spider that Alice is confronting me with, towards its legs.
　One side of the leg is taken and the spider rolls over.

　Alice didn't miss the opportunity and at once used the thread to restrain the spider in a goose chase.

　Nonchalantly, Alice wraps the spider's body tightly around the thread.
　Now, all that's left to do is bring it back.






　After that, we put the spider on a huge cart that we had prepared beforehand, and we traveled to the Cilician colony.
　All that was left to do was to put it on the huge ship we had purchased and take it to the Adelian peninsula.


　Thank you, Adalbero. "Thank you, Adalbero, for making my days so worthwhile. I will be sure to have your reward, the silver, brought to you later.
　"We had nothing to do with the spider's capture but we'll be grateful. We'll send the rest of the eggs in the nest to you later.

　I shook hands with Adalbero, firmly, and we shook each other's hands.





　From there it was a week of sailing.
　I came back to Romalia.

　I would be away from Romalia for about a month.

　"Julia, Tetra. Is everything ok?
　Not really.
　'Hmm, is it about as good as Raimondo's back healing?

　It seemed nothing had happened.
　Well, I had told them to let me know immediately by seagull mail if anything happened, so I could fully expect that nothing would have happened as long as the seagulls hadn't come.

　'Did the amulet help?'
　'We didn't come across any situations that would have been useful, and I think our thoughts worked.

　I answered Tetra's question with a bitter smile.
　'I'm glad you didn't have to risk your life at all on this trip.

　Well, it's a good thing you're useless, because it's best to be useless. It's best not to be of any use to them.

　Julia said with a relieved look on her face.
　For what it's worth, she seemed to be worried about me.

　'By the way, what about the spider?'
　Yeah, I'll move it downstairs.

　I answered Julia's question.
　I had dug a large hole beforehand and placed it in a certain part of the Romarian forest to study the spider's thread.

　I asked Adalbero directly about the Nikolaos diagram, which turned out to be about 70% solidified with false exaggeration, but it was the same in terms of building a web in the hole, which was really good.

　Thus began the long, long breeding process.
　 The trouble with breeding and fiber extraction is.

________.

　The Life of the Gunther.

　There are two types of spiders, the queen and the unguarded one.
　The Queen's life expectancy is five years and the Heitai's life expectancy is about two months.

　Let's have a look at the Queen's life.

　February

　It will be February before the queen is raised in the nest of the gumtay spider.
　The queen's egg is no different from most other fighting spiders.

　When the normal offspring hatch from the queen's eggs and get meat from the queen, they become the queen.

　At this time the queen also gives birth to a male spider.
　Male spiders are not the same eggs as the military spiders.

　The male spiders are different from the male spiders because all the military spiders are female.
　They also grow up with different flesh.


　March

　The queen and the male spider emerge from the web at once.
　This is when the queen and the male spider go on a beauty pageant.

　The queen visits with about 20 to 30 male spiders. It is said that the queen will nose the spiders for the rest of her life.

　All the male spiders that were sited in the same place had different mothers.
　It is said that the reason for this is to have more genes than the next generation.

　All the male spiders who failed to go into the arena were killed.
　In a few cases, a few male spiders fail to perform their duties and return to the nest.

　and most of them don't want to be wasted.


　Once the queen is finished with the spider, she returns to her nest.
　すると、古い女王は　三分の一　の　へいたいクモを　つれて　巣をでてきます。

　新しい女王に　すでに　つくられていた　巣を　たくす　のです。
　古い女王は　元の巣から　一キロほど　はなれた　場所に　巣を作ります。

　遠すぎると　ほかのクモと　こうび　ができなくなり　近すぎると　なわばり　がかぶって　しまうので　場所選び　は　大切です。

　古い女王は巣を出ていき、よい場所をみつけると　まず　土をほり　入口をたくさんの　木と葉っぱ、糸でおおい　かくしてしまいます。

　こうして　新しい　巣が　作られるのです。


　四月

　いっぽう　新しい女王は　新しく　へいたいクモを　うみはじめます。
　一か月ほどで　すべての　へいたいクモは　新しい女王　の　子どもに　置きかわります。

　五月～十月

　女王は　へいたいクモたちに　たくさんの　葉っぱを　集めさせます。
　葉っぱを　腐らせて　キノコを　さいばいするためです。

　キノコは　冬の　だいじな　しょくりょう　になります。

　またへいたいクモは　えものを　つかまえて　いきたまま　巣に　はこび　しんけい毒　で　動けなくさせて　巣に　ためこみます。
　生きたまま　ちょぞうすることで　えもの　の　数が　少なくなる　冬の　女王の　しょくりょう　にするためです。

　November - January

　In the cold winter, the two sides huddle together to spend the winter.
　The soldier spider eats the mushrooms, and the queen eats the meat.

　February

　After the winter, the JoOu begins to prepare for the birth of a new queen.　
　In the middle of January, he builds a special cellar and spawns an abundance of meat and five to eight eggs for the queen candidate.
　The first queen to be born would then kill her unborn sisters.

　Only the queen who can survive the gruelling competition survives.

　March.

　The new queen becomes the new master of the old queen's hive.
　And so the hive is reopened.


　-National Textbook of Romalia, Grade Two, Life in the Elementary School
　　　Excerpt from