Boroboro no Elf-san wo Shiawase ni Suru Kusuriuri-san - Ch. 4

[Madologist]

Maybe it laid eggs and there are also tiny (in comparison) baby spiders that trap and eat the smaller prey until they grow huge like their mother and start to hunt bigger game, or there could be other spider species in that cave.

I'm definitely not a spider expert or anything though, but fantasy worlds have plenty of animals that do things outside the norm and ones that don't even exist anyways.

Bigger the predator the more they are territorial, so there wouldn't be other spider species hanging around in its nest making webs and catching strays.. As for younglings, they would still generally follow the same patterns of behaviour, except target smaller prey. Not to mention spiders aren't that good at "parenting", with quite many species being opportunistic cannibals to their own young.
Sure this is a fantasy world, but if you model your fantasy critters after real life ones, like this spider in question, then the reader can presume that they follow the same patterns of behaviour. This one even nests in a hole or a burrow, just like most hunting/ambush spiders that have the same body plan do in our world. If the author wanted to draw in some cocooned animals, then just do it, but don't hang them on the ceiling etc. if the type of spider you are going to draw isn't modeled after ones that behave like that.

 

[Ksyon]

Bigger the predator the more they are territorial, so there wouldn't be other spider species hanging around in its nest making webs and catching strays.. As for younglings, they would still generally follow the same patterns of behaviour, except target smaller prey. Not to mention spiders aren't that good at "parenting", with quite many species being opportunistic cannibals to their own young.

There are some species of wolf spider that exhibit a decent amount of parental care, and larger animals in general are more likely to employ "k-strategist" breeding strategies where they put more investment into fewer offspring. The obsidian spider being a protective parent would explain a lot of the odd behavior seen in this chapter (including the contradiction with the previous chapter that said outright that obsidian spiders were "relatively timid"). The extreme aggression is obvious, but the loosely tied and smaller prey could be justified if the spider is taking care of relatively altricial young that may not be able to hunt well on their own yet, but also might not recognize a fully cocooned animal as "prey". It's not quite like any spider known to science, but it's a believable evolutionary path that a spider of such a huge size could take (if such a thing was even possible, which it isn't due to the biomechanics of spiders).

Is that what the author was thinking when they drew that page? Probably not. But it's a lot more fun to try and "yes and" a seemingly incongruous detail and ponder if there any scenario where it would make sense than it is to insist on everything being done the "right" way.

 

[ImNotCreativeEnoughtForThese]

Always satisfying to see the mc be an utter badass. Thou I really dont understand what made him miss the first shot.

 

[ycnbm_8]

So there is that amount of magic but nothing for healing?