Template:Kumoko/Volume 3

Kumoko yearns escape from the Middle Stratum and out of the labyrinth as she yearns to eat better-tasting food. She contemplates about what to do if she escapes out of the labyrinth. As Kumoko walks around the labyrinth, monsters run away from her due to the intimidation effect of Fearbringer. She worries that she would run out of red SP. As she continues to explore, Kumoko encounters a large hole and senses/sees Mother climbing down. Suddenly, the fire dragon, Rend; along with an army of monsters tries to fight Mother but gets obilterated by a single breath attack by Mother. Seeing this, Kumoko is terrified of Mother and stays at the same location for awhile.

After some amount of time, Kumoko starts moving but encounters an injured Rend - which survived from Mother's attack. Kumoko faces and fights Rend. As she has the advantage due to utilising Heresy Magic, Spider Threads, Poison Synthesis, Rot Attack and Abyss Magic efficently, Kumoko eventually kills the fire dragon Rend. She basks in victory and quickly carries Rend's corpse away as there is incoming magma due to a large hole created by Kumoko using Abyss Magic. Meanwhile, an administrator finds out that a dragon is dead and decides to investigate it...

While exploring in the Middle stratum, Kumoko uses Skill Points to purchase Heavy Evil Eye and decides to utilise it on herself. Suddenly, an extremely dark person teleports in front of Kumoko and speaks an alien language that she does not understand. A smartphone randomly appears and D speaks through the smartphone. After talking to the dark man, the dark man unhapily teleports away. After D talks to Kumoko via reading Kumoko's mind and speaking through telepathy, the smartphone teleports away.

Kumoko continues to explore and eat in the Middle Stratum for some time and it is shown that she gains some skills such as Medicine Synthesis, Jinx Evil Eye and Clairvoyance. She questions the motive of the administrators as well as the System. After more exploring, the delighted Kumoko eventually finds the path up to the Upper Stratum using Clairvoyance. Kumoko sets up a home between the Upper Stratum and the Middle Stratum. She laments that she has to go to great lengths to find monsters as all the monsters are intimidated her. Eventually, Kumoko encounters and kills an earth wyrm and she decides to teleport to consume the earth wyrm when she gets hungry.

After several days, Kumoko encounters a group of adventurers struggling to fight an Elroe Baladorado. After a dilemma, she eventually kills the Elroe Baladorado with ease, and is now able to evolve. She then heals the injured adventurers with Healing Magic. Upon healing them, Kumoko finds a fruit named Krikita laying on the ground and she is excited to eat it. She teleports away along with the Elroe Baladorado corpse and the Krikita. Kumoko then tries the Krikita fruit and enjoys it. She proceeds to evolve into an Ede Saine after some thought.

Upon her awakening after the evolution, Kumoko gains Taboo LV 10 and is vexated due to the information installed in her for obtaining Taboo LV 10. She finds out that the world is collapsing, the motive behind the creation of the System and the reason for the skill n% I = W. The raging Kumoko decides to teleport to the Lower Stratum to kill monsters and level up. When exploring and killing monsters of the Lower Stratum, Kumoko encounters Gehre and Kagna together. She laments about their strengths and decides to avoid them and teleport to a large passage near the pit where she encountered Araba. Kumoko sees an Elroe Baraggish moving to the pit whlie hiding. Araba suddenly appears. It fights the Elroe Baraggish and kills it with ease. Upon seeing this, Kumoko is determined to eventually kill Araba; she trembles with fear and excitement. Kumoko continues to kill monsters in the Lower Stratum for a few days. The terror from spectating the battles between the Elroe Baraggish and Araba as well as encountering Gehre and Kagna sinks in and haunts her.

Kumoko is now at her home and is approached by an Arch Taratect, 3 Greater Taratects and many more spiders. It is explained that the reason the spiders approached her, is because Kumoko used the mental path between Mother and her as a pathway for the Parallel Minds to travel to Mother in order to erode her soul. She fights the Arch Taratect and teleports it to the Middle Stratum. Using Repellent Evil Eye and some magic, she eventually forced the Arch Taratect to fall into the magma. Kumoko proceeds to repeat the same method with the Greater Taratects and then kills the rest with ease.

Kumoko is planning to defeat Araba and teleports to the pit where she encountered Araba. She massacres the Finjicotes and destroyed their hive in order to prevent the the Finjicotes from interfering with the fight between her and Araba. Kumoko teleports back to her home and is met by Ronandt, Burimus and the Empire Knights. She finds out that her home is burnt down and becomes furious. Kumoko obliterates the group of all the knights along with Burimus' familiars swiftly with magic. She almost kills Ronandt and Burimus but both of them teleport before Kumoko could kill them. She discovers that the 4 Labyrinth Guides has ran away and decides to mark them down via Wisdom with the hope of them being able to escape out of the Labyrinth so she is able too as well.

Kumoko is prepared against Araba and teleports to the pit. After awhlie, she encounters Araba and fights it. After an exchange of breath attacks from Araba and magic from Kumoko, Kumoko and Araba chases each other vertically up in the pit in what is seeimingly a checkmate positoin. With the efficient utilisation of Poison Synthesis, Spider Thread, Black Magic and Heretic Magic; Kumoko eventually takes the upper hand and traps Araba with Spider Thread. Unexpectedly, Araba uses up all his Skill Points to obtain Inferno Magic LV 1 and other skills that counters Kumokos' style of fighting. Araba proceeds to use Earth Magic as a platform to chase her along with the use of Fire-related magic. Due to this, Kumoko almost dies but successfully manages to drain Araba out of its' Red SP with Sloth in which Araba response is such of completely accepting its' death gracefully; she proceeds to kill Araba bitterly.

Several later after killing Araba, she teleports to the entrance of the Great Elroe Labyrinth through Wisdom thanks to the Labyrinth Guides that made it out and Kumoko is elated due to this.