This is delightful! I was afraid Kumoko was getting too strong with that immortality, but it seems there's still need for clever tactics, because the situation's complicated enough even with op abilities. Nice!
Would spraying puppets with poison or attacking their bodies with corruption even do anything? I think that they won't even receive any damage since the puppet's bodies aren't technically alive.
The only part of them that can actually be hurt and killed is a small spider in the middle of a puppet's body, and the rest is just a human-sized mecha made out of Ariel's thread.
@Clad95150
Demon Lord says "Hey, can you please stop killing Mother?"
Kumoko *crossing hands and shacking head as "I don't understand what you're saying".
Demon Lord *interpreting this as "no" "Well, okay, I guess I'll just kill you".
@MrFakoff That wouldn't work. Those are literally puppets. There's a tiny spider in the chest area that's controlling them and the rest of the insides are just threads so injecting poison won't do anything.
The puppets likely have some sort of core or main piece that has to be destroyed or damaged enough to disable them or they are biological and then it's just chop into enough pieces.
Puppets did actually exist in WN too, but they played a much more minor role. They were mentioned as early as chapter 170:
https://turb0translation.blogspot.com/2015/09/kumo-desu-ga-nani-ka-chapter-170.html
And one of them, Ael, reappeared much later in an already remodelled body, making her similar to the LN's puppet sisters.
https://rtd.moe/kumo-desu-ga/kumo-desu-ga-nani-ka-266/