It was another busy day, like always I had to check everything by myself because my helpers weren’t competent enough. I looked through the window, at the rain enveloping the city. It wasn’t a beautiful sight, I yearned for nature, and all I could see here was concrete.

Today another one of my students didn’t return. He was with one of the best teachers, and was supposed to only shallowly enter the forest, and yet, he was dead. Monsters got stronger in recent period of time and it wasn’t a good omen.

I could only hope that incidents like this one would never happen again, but it was the third incident this month. I had to take some countermeasures to prevent it from happening, and yet I did nothing. I can’t do anything when higher ups always stop everything i try.

They say there is not enough funds to give better equipment to training groups, and it is impossible to increase their size because efficiency would fall. I am doing my best trying to make sure every one of my students stays alive, I train them to the limits, but only training won’t make anyone strong in this world.

To become strong you need to kill, monsters or humans, it didn't matter who you killed, you just had to do it. Because of stupid rule like that, my precious students were the ones to be killed. I don’t know why the system was created, but it is definitely a curse on the mankind.

Suddenly I heard knocking on my door that interrupted my train of thoughts.

“Bad news principal!”

One of my helpers stormed the room even before I could respond to his knocking.

“Calm down, what do you mean by bad news? Did another group go missing?”

I was worried about my students, and this bad news were almost sure to be about them.

“Everyone returned safely, but they were attacked by an albino spider!”

Now that shocked me so much that I almost stumbled over my feet. Did he just say albino spider? All of our training trips was done in the forest of darkness, and there was only one albino there, the queen that could easily destroy a couple of human nations by herself. How could students be attacked by her and return safely?

 “How could they return if the queen made a move?”

I was sweating a bit, I needed to know the whole story.

“It wasn’t a queen, it was most probably her child. It was an inferior species but still managed to almost get Arthur.”

I stopped myself from sighing, if queen wanted to fight humans, it would spell our doom, but if it was her child it wasn’t that bad. Unless…

“Please tell me that they didn’t hurt the spider.”

If her child was hurt, or even worse killed, she wouldn’t hesitate.

“Arthur’s group tried to avoid harming the spider, and ran away when queen appeared.”

Then it really wasn’t that bad. All we had to do now was to stop this information from reaching the ears of higher ups. If they found out about it, they would try to organize a large scale invasion on the spider’s territory which was a dungeon floor. It would probably end up in a siege, and since would need a lot of time for necessary preparations, the albino child would get strong enough to protect the weakened queen.

Dungeons were a great source of various materials, and conquering one gave even more benefits than just them. Blessing from a god was one thing, but money gained from exploiting the floors was even greater temptation for humanity. The one guarded by the queen is still unexplored, so it should be filled with a lot of riches and maybe even unknown monsters. Still, a whole spider nest commanded by a divine beast is on the way.

A lot of humans would die if an invasion came to be, and we shouldn’t let it happen. I let my helper hear my thoughts and gave him instructions. After he left I fell into thought again. Why was the spider child inferior? If it was a child of the queen, it should be close to her on evolution stadium, and yet it was only on the beginning?

Maybe it wasn’t surrounded by necessary conditions when it was born? Maybe it was separated from its mother? If it was true, was it possible that he succeeded? Did he really steal an albino egg to transfer his consciousness into it?