Spider King

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And if I get more bad reviews then I might decide to put this story on hold for a while until I get enough good reviews.

Illithid

Ranma was now looking as the Drider attacked a Drow scouting party and watched as poisonous spears were thrown at the Dark Elves. With great satisfaction he saw that some of them collapsed due to the poison and immediately dashed off towards the fallen bodies. Then with a few hand movements which were an arc and a circle he focused magic into the bodies and watched as they rose again. Ranma felt satisfaction that he had mastered Necromancy. It had been twenty years when eh had first stumbled upon the Drider community. They had immediately accepted him as their Lord and God and Ranma took full advantage of it. While he couldn't have sex with a Drider woman he still found other ways to appease his lust for either blood or sex. He had discovered that he actually had a high libido compared to normal people. That must be some genetic trait that Nodoka had also passed onto him and Genma must have blocked it. But the lust for blood was overwhelming the lust for sex. Ranma's power began to grow as he began to raise an undead army. Power began to accumulate around his body and then he sent it into a fallen Drider reviving it with a shriek.

Ranma had titled himself the Drider King as he was larger then any normal Drow and a lot more powerful. He could cast Darkness into an area around him that could stretch up to a kilometre. He just made a few hand motions and focused some of his energy into it and there it was. All compassing darkness would flow from his hands.

Luckily he could switch between heat vision and Ultravision. Heat vision allowed him to track down all live but not see any obstacles while Ultravision gave him more view of the area. He liked heat vision the most since it allowed him to track his prey better. He had adapted to the Underdark within months. The Driders served him at his whim and obeyed every command he gave them. Ranma smirked as he remembered how they had taught him some of their Drider magic that no-one but a Drider could do. In a certain sense they were Lolth's chosen because they looked so much like her. But the only one with red eyes and a killer attitude was Ranma. Ranma figured that his bloodlust had something to do with it. He would charge into battle as millions of strategies flowed into his head. He wasn't loyal to anyone but himself. Lolth could just go and fuck herself. Ranma ignored her summons and other things she did to call him to her.

At the moment there was a Drow raid upon the camp of Driders where Ranma was currently. Ranma turned around to see some Drow House soldiers standing there fighting with some Driders and Ranma grinned as he saw that they were backed up by a sorceress. He began moving his hands in arcane patterns which essentially was a few waves coupled with the muttering of a spell in Drow tongue. Ranma had picked up the language pretty fast after casting a translating charm on a captive Drow and then learning the language. The Drow's blood had tasted well and Ranma craved it more then ever.

Ranma looked as the Drider retreated as the Darkness covered the area and he himself strode calmly through the Darkness. Then he grabs the leading priestess and lifts her into the air and drops the Darkness. The Drow warriors lok as their priestess is in the grasp of a massive Drider who is grinning at her and Ranma says in Drow:

"Hello. Why are you attacking this camp? I thought you bitches had learned to stay away from me, the Drider King."

The priestess stared at the massive Drider keeping her lifted above the ground and replied:

"We don't have to fear you beasts! Our goddess shall give us strength to wipe out you abominations!"

Ranma laughed at that and said:

"Your goddess has tried to make me her Avatar after a long battle between us. I am not even from this world. Can you see how she has recreated me in her image? WE have been chosen to represent Lolth on this world and beyond. She is the Goddess of Darkness and Spiders and she has cast away you filthy creatures."

Ranma internally was revolted by the words and the Drow priestess flushed red. Well as red as she could be due to her dark skin. Then Ranma grabbed her head and said:

"Your blood will taste good."

Then he crushed her head within his hand.

In Nerima most of the Nerima Wrecking Crew had come together in the Tendo Dojo and Nodoka and Genma were discussing the disappearance of Ranma and the wrecking of Nerima. Nodoka had followed the video footage on television and was happy at the manliness of her son. When she saw that the camera broke down sometime she immediately got to Nerima and when she got there she heard that Ranma had disappeared. She was now talking to the NWC as they were called by the Nerimians:

"And where is my son currently?"

The Amazon Matriarch spoke up:

"I believe that Son-in-law was fighting a Goddess of some kind. If the myths are correct the goddess he was fighting must have been Lolth Queen of Spiders. She always kills the heroes that might one day defeat her and I suspect that is what has happened to Ranma. But it could simply be an abduction to have him tortured in some hellish realm. The orb of life I have connected to Ranma says that he is still alive. So I suggest that we use an artefact called a Rogue stone to transport us where Ranma is. From what I have discerned from the ancient texts describing the Goddes called Lolth is that she is a goddess of a world called Toril and that it is populated with an array of creatures that are strong to rip normal humans apart with their bare hands. I suspect that we can beat them easily. But the only thing we have to do when we arrive there is pick a class to make our own and the knowledge should stream into our minds."

The Nerima Wrecking Crew nodded and they all looked at the wizened old mummy and Nodoka said:

"Thank you Elder Cologne. I doubt that any of us would be able to match your wisdom."

Cologne said to Nodoka:

"I was a pleasure. When Shampoo and I go to that world we will search Son in law and we'll bring him back to marry his wife."

Then they started planning their trip. Cologne said that they should go as soon as possible if they wanted to ensure that Ranma was still alive. The boy was the best Martial artist in the area but he lacked the common sense normal in humans. He would go mouthing off things to the wrong people.

Ranma stared at the brains coating his hand and wiped them off. Then he began once again moving his hands and suddenly blood began pouring from the Drow soldiers mouths as they were eaten from the inside by ravenous spiders.

Ranma began to amass his power and he began to summon up all his power and then focused it into the dead corpse of the Drow priestess. The corpse jerked and twisted as life once again shone within the eyes and as spider legs and a spider body grew from her rump and replaced the feet and legs. Ranma grinned as he beheld the creature he had created through his own magic. He had used some transformative magic to change the Dead body into a Drider completely loyal to him. It was hard for him to change the body and resurrect it at the same time.

Ranma thought about what his magic could do and immediate4ly realised that the power he commanded was not endlesws and that he could be defeated. Ut that would be prevented if he fonund some way to leech of Lolth's essence which was already connected to him.

Ranma grinned as plans began to form in his mind. He would go and seek out the creatures called Illithisd by the Drow and would ask them to train them in their mind magicks. Then he could go around making people obey him with a simple thought. He could learn what they taught because he had some experience with picking things up fast. After all he had learned his to do the Mouko Takabisha within a week after Ryouga had learned how to do the Shi Shi Hodokan.

Ranma set out with a party of nine Drider which surrounded him. He had managed to change his appearance this morning turning him into a youthful looking Drow male. He walked over the ground in the Underdark and ignored all creatures that made to attack him. He wasn't really careless and if one directly engaged him he would but up a fight. But the Drider accompanying him fought the creatures in some sort of respect they had for him. Ranma didn't bother too much. He spotted a group of armour clad Duergar on their path and he strode up to them. The leader, a young looking Duergar said:

"Hi, Why are 'em Drider following ya? You got 'em under a spell kid?"

Ranma looked at the young Duergar and said:

"No. I don't have them under a spell. They obey me and only me."

Then he lifted the illusion of him being a Drow male and they stared as his spider limbs became visible. The Duergar visibly paled as they saw the red eyes and some prayed to their gods.

Guevnog Forgestone looked at the massive Drider that stood in front of them. A few moments before the creature had looked to be a Drow warrior but now Guevnog could feel the hopelessness of the situation. They couldn't fight against ten Drider at once. If the Drider called his guards to attack them then they would be wiped out.

Ranma sized up his opponents. They looked to be young Duergar. He immediately drew upon his magical power and sent bolts of energy into all the assembled Duergar after making some hand movements. The only one he let live was the leader who just stared at him in fright.

The only thought that went through Geuvnog's mind was: I have to run! Or at least hide somewhere where he can't zap me? Why am I still alive? Maybe he wants to torture me. Or eat me. Then the thoughts were banished as he heard the massive Drider speak:

"My name is Ranma, the Drider King. You are going to lead us to the Illithid little Duergar. I wish to strike a bargain from them and you are going to lead me to their cities."

Guevnog nodded vigorously and vowed to pay the temple a bit extra gold whenever he came back for sparing him at the moment. He nodded and said:

"Yes milord. I shall lead you to the Illithid caves and tell you where to find the Elder Brain."

Ranma grinned widely letting his elongated teeth be shown and said:

"Well then lead the way."

Guevnog agreed and started to lead the Driders to the Illithid Cabves while hoping that they had some protection against the Illithid. Normally the Illithid avoided the Drider as their minds were warped and twisted by Lolth's magic. But as this was a completely sane Drider there must have been something wrong with the transformation.

Ranma looked at the squidlike creatures that were the Illithid. They looked so weak and Ranma was sure that he had some good mental defences because he felt probing once and sent so much anguish and bloodlust and insanity through the link that it made the Illithid who had done the probing fall to its knees.

Ranma had requested to be allowed entrance with the Elder Brain. It was processed by the Illithid standing guard and he was the only one allowed within the chamber that housed the Elder Brain. Ranma looked at the brain in disgust and mentally asked it if it would allow a treaty between their two species to be formed.

The Elder brain tried to get the best out of the deal but Ranma bid against the brain well and soon it was agreed that none of Ranma´s forces would attack the Illithid and that no Illithid would attack anyone affiliated with Ranma´s side. Then Ranma asked if he could be allowed to learn the workings of the mind and become trained like any Illithid.

Then the Elder Brain summoned up an Illithid clad in bright green robes and instructed it to train Ranma in the mental disciplines of the Illithid.

Immediately they went to work and Ranma discovered that he had an intelligence which could rival the smartest of the Illithid. His ability to understand any language coupled with his raw physical power made it easy to force his will through physical means and with the mind capable of forming the best battle plans for any situation in milliseconds he was a force to be reckoned with.

Ranma walked away from his mentor in the mind arts walking shakily with his eight legs shaking like he had been an old man. Ranma looked at the Drider and saw that the Duergar had been waiting for him. It seemed like a few days had passed and Ranma knew that what had seemed like years in his mind was only a few days in the real world. The mind was faster then the normal world.

When Ranma departed from the Illithid caves he knew that he had managed to gain a valuable ally in his fight against the Drow goddess. He had so far gained a Duergar who wasn't completely loyal to him but followed out of fear of being killed. Fear was a powerful tool. What would happen next would be a mystery but of one thing he was assured: It would be a bloody future for all the races on this world. The Drider King would rule with or without the Drow aiding him.

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