Chapter 56

Picking up her injured brother to take him back to his living area so he could start the healing process, the female spider took a quick final look at Leo to memorize his face before finally carrying her brother away.

The last thing she wanted, was for her mother to reprimand her even more than she already had. The female and the Spider Queen did not have a very good relationship. The female spider was born with a weak body, and only was able to develop and evolve to where she was now, thanks to the poison-based techniques she developed.

The Spider Queen only truly cared for her children that showed peerless strength, because it would be those children who would help her successfully accomplish her goals. Why would such a monstrous creature that had monster blood running through her veins, care about anyone or anything that lacked strength?

Allowing that daughter of hers to leave, the Spider Queen started to wrap Leo in just enough webs to escort him without much effort back to her lair. She passed many of the lower tier spiders on the way back to her lair and they all bowed in her direction to show their appreciation and worship.

"I do not know who this kid is exactly, but if I made him my servant, he could end up being extremely useful. With his current strength, he is no threat to me, but it may be enough for him to infiltrate that nearby village successfully." Thought the Spider Queen as she arrived back to her lair.

At this point, the Spider Queen hung Leo up covered in webbing and just sat there on her throne waiting for Leo to wake up. She used enough poison to greatly harm Leo, but the type of poison technique she used had a more short-term effect and would fade away soon. This worked similar to the paralysis that lower tiered spiders were all capable of using, and Leo would wake up very soon.

-Several hours later-

Waking up, Leo realizes that he is covered in webbing but unlike the others he found, the webbing around him covered only his arms and legs. Looking around, Leo only sees an endless number of webs, but that all changed after his first breath.

Instantly, the feeling of death surrounded Leo, causing his face to sweat. Trying to calm himself, Leo started to smell the stench of blood, as he finally looked towards the throne. On the throne sat a peerless beauty, but she was chomping down a human's arm.

"So, you are awake? It only took you several hours to recover your mind. I am not sure how your body was able to heal so fast from my attack, but that is not something that needs to be discussed right away." Looking towards Leo, the Spider Queen's eyes were dark red as she finished the human's hand with a single bite.

What was strange, was that the Spider Queen licked the blood off her lips in a seductive way. Keeping calm, Leo just watched the Spider Queen's movements as he struggled to free himself.

"If you could break out of my webs with only your physical strength, I would bring shame to even that weak little spider race that I used to call my home. That is, because I am already at the Elite level of power. Even at the executive level, I would be able to bind you even with the thinnest webs at my disposal." Seeing through Leo's movements, the Spider Queen responded with ridicule in her words.

"Now little one, I would like to tell you a story. In truth, I want you to join me on your own accord without the fact that your life indeed is in my hands. I hope that what I tell you, will stir you in the correct direction and on a path destined for greatness under my tutelage."

"This may come as a shock to you, but I was never a strong spider when I was back in my clan. I struggled to gain any kind of foothold and was always ridiculed since I was younger. Unlike you humans who can grow your strength just by training hard, us tribes have to rely on the blood of our ancestors and seek out new power."

"I was born in the most powerful clans of our race and I was always taken to be a Spider Queen destined to help our race continue evolving. However, because I always fell behind when it came to my strength compared to other Spider Queens my age, the elders did not look to me with kindness."

"Where I lacked strength, I made up in my political career. I would gain the trust of those around me rather quickly and expanded my influence throughout our race much swifter than my sisters. Although they had the raw strength to defeat me in combat, I had an army of allies who would respond to any call."

"Knowing that I would never be able to surpass my sisters or those damnable elders of my race, I started to plan. Since raw strength mattered more to the spider race, my sisters were able to receive more backing until we were just about equal even in the political world. If I failed to do something drastic, I would only live to be a servant, instead of a true Spider Queen!"

"After reading many books in our clan's great library, I discovered a group of rebels that were formed from different tribes in many different races. These rebels would increase their member's strengths by injecting them with monster blood. Even now, no one understands why these monsters or how these monsters appeared."

"Seeing this as an opportunity, I sent word to all of my allies to find these rebels and to deliver the message that I wanted to join them. A month later is when I would receive a reply and would meet with one of the leaders."

"The deal was simple, I would instigate a civil war between my side and my sisters and elder's side. The rebels would supply me an endless supply of monster blood that I could give my forces to eventually slay my enemies and become the true heir to the spider race."

"I hate to say it, but that is when everything started to change for the worst. Only a small fraction of my sisters would use the monster blood to increase their strength, while the rest joined the other side due to their differences and disbelief that injecting monster blood in their veins was a good idea."

"I was hunted down alongside the rest of my allies, until each one of them were slain or were forced to retreat far away from the battlefield. You humans actually took this as an opportunity to make the spider race weaker by assisting them in the battle against me and my forces!"

"Well, here I am now, ready to begin my expansion once again but this time, I am waiting on the organization I joined to send us even more reinforcements. Using the sheer number of our combined army, we will not only wipe out the nearby village, but our real target is that human city." Finally finished with her story, the Spider Queen stood up and walked slowly towards Leo.