Fabre in Sacheon’s Tang

The lantern flickered violently inside the tent, as if mirroring the shock of those present.

A flurry of urgent questions followed.

“What… what is this? It doesn’t seem like the blood creature you mentioned!”

“So-ryong, what exactly is this? Do such bizarre insects really exist?”

“It looks absolutely grotesque!”

Elder Tang Mu-seong, Tang Cheolsan, and Taeheo all stared at me, their eyes wide in disbelief as they looked at the drawing I had made.

Their expressions clearly conveyed the same thought—Does such a thing even exist in this world?

Well, I couldn’t blame them. The camel spider’s appearance was truly monstrous.

It looked like something straight out of an alien horror movie.

With two pairs of pincers protruding from the sides of its face, an elongated oval-shaped abdomen, and spindly legs, it resembled the kind of parasitic alien creature you’d expect to see in a sci-fi film.

If someone had told me it was a creature from Mars and not Earth, I might have believed them.

But that wasn’t the problem.

The real issue was that my expert prediction had turned out to be slightly off, making me look a little foolish.

Avoiding their stares, I coughed and rubbed my neck.

“Ahem… well, you see…”

I had confidently declared it was a scorpion, only for it to turn out to be a spider.

Those bastards from the Five # Nоvеlight # Venoms Clan really screwed me over this time. They had Deathstalkers, so why the hell would they send a camel spider?!

If you’re talking about iconic desert venomous creatures, the Deathstalker scorpion is the gold standard! These guys had no sense of grandeur.

And to make matters worse, the camel spider wasn’t even venomous!

My frustration spiked.

Never mind anything else—this was an outright crisis for my credibility as an expert.

Just then, Tang Hwa-eun’s voice came from behind me.

“Is it a Wind Venom?”

She entered the tent, shooting Bini a slight glare.

It seemed Bini had sneaked out and brought something back.

But my ears perked up at the term Tang Hwa-eun had just used—the camel spider’s alternative name in the Central Plains.

That was interesting.

After all, this was a spider that wasn’t exactly a spider, and yet they were calling it a scorpion.

“Wind Venom?” I repeated.