Chapter 59

Some time went by, and then it happened, Leo instantly regretted making this decision. Unfortunately for him, the Spider Queen's webbing was not something that Leo could physically rip apart for several seconds with the help of the fire.

So, he just screamed at the top of his lungs for several breaths of time until he was able to finally become free of the webbings. Rolling on the ground to try to put out the fire on his clothes, Leo was now in a miserable state.

Now in an extreme amount of pain, Leo quickly withdrew some of his vitality potion as he drank two drops instead of one. In what seemed like an instant, Leo's burned body started to heal at an extremely swift pace until it completely disappeared.

Once he could feel his peachy skin again, Leo looked over his shoulder towards the Spider Queen's location which was clearly the massive webbing on the other side of the cave. Since he screamed so loudly, there were now an endless swarm of spiders rushing towards Leo's location.

"This seems a little too familiar." Annoyed about the new set of circumstances, Leo quickly grabbed the tiger cub as he sprinted towards the entrance of the tunnel to exit the cave after all this time. For Leo, it was much easier this time since the Spider Queen's children were either outside of the cave, or inside the cave but in a deep slumber.

After two minutes, Leo finally found himself in the outside world once again. Kissing the ground and praying to the heavens above him, Leo spent some time worshipping mother nature. It was not clear whether he would be able to escape in one piece like this, so Leo was extremely grateful.

At this point in time, the Spider Queen called out to her army of lower tier spiders to halt their advancement towards Leo's location as she called upon all her children once again. Now standing in her lair, her ten children seemed rather on edge now.

"Looks like you are healing up rather nicely. Mother worried about your future in her army." The Spider Queen told her muscular son who fought against Leo earlier. Although it was able to grow back its arms using a technique handed down by its mother, it was still in a very sorry state.

"Thank you, mother, I wonder who escaped this time?" the muscular son responded to the Spider Queen's motherly love. When the Spider Queen spoke positively towards her children, they would usually be safe from any harm no matter what they said.

Hearing this, the Spider Queen swiftly landed a slap onto this son's face, sending him flying against the wall of her lair. "You dare ask such an insignificant question when I summoned you all?" she asked as she took a moment to scan the faces of her children.

In truth, she was an extremely loving and caring mother to these children, but it seemed as of recent, that all her children only feared her wrath on small occasions. How would she live up to her reputation as being bloodthirsty and domineering if her children did not treat her as such?

"That human boy escaped after refusing my proposal to join our ranks. No matter, if I cared that deeply about such a small child who was unable to slay my child, how could I face the future?" the Spider Queen told her children as their faces were covered in admiration.

"If my assumptions are correct, that child will be retreating back to that small village not that far from here. Since it is like this, we may be facing yet another raid soon. Either way, I see that child returning one day, and if he does, we can all share that meal!" shouted the Spider Queen before she dismissed her children.

In a war, all was fair, and she did not care about Leo's decision in the slightest. Only she knew how formidable the Centaur King was, and soon he would arrive to assist her expansion in this region. What made her feel unsteady, was that Leo was able to clearly escape alone. "Was his physical strength strong enough to untangle himself from my thick webs?" she thought as she ordered a feast for her dinner to several underlings.

-An hour later-

"Praise the heavens! Leo I am so sorry but after rescuing this member of my raid party, I had to slowly drain his blood and replace it with my own to rid him of the poison!" Christopher cried out as he saw Leo enter the waterfall area, hidden from the outside world.

"At least you are also alive, and we have another helper now. How far is the village from here?" hugging Christopher, Leo asked both men this question. He was hoping that they could make their way back quickly so that he could release the thirty or so warriors from his inventory screen.

"We could make it there in about half a day if we hurry right now and do not run into any troubles along the way." The man next to Christopher said after both men pondered how long it would take to arrive.

"Good, because I have over thirty warriors with me and we need to head back to the village immediately so that we could save them all before it is too late!" Leo with an excited look on his face told the two men.

Without hesitating, both men in front of him understood his words. If they were to waste any time, then their comrade's lives would be at stake. Unwilling to allow any more sacrifices to occur because of the Spider Queen and her children, both men stood up and quickly led Leo towards the direction of the nearby village.