Those pills were actually pills made of Leggy’s paralytic poison and a few other ingredients that further intensified its effect, making it useful, even when used against someone on the tenth level. Although the paralysis wouldn’t usually take effect this quickly, after each one of Guo’s gang took several pills at once, the paralysis would naturally happen much faster.

As Zellin created the pills himself, he was able to both name it and set a description of it as he’d like. People of Guo’s level wouldn’t be able to see through it unless he had the Appraise skill, which gave an automatic description of an item. For a faked item like these pills, the skill would be able to see through it, revealing its true function. These pills were conveniently named ‘Version 2’ just in case Liu mistook them for the actual HP Pills Zellin gave him.

Liu snorted in disdain at Guo and his gang’s unmoving bodies. “Serves you right.” Liu said. He turned over their bodies before beginning to beat their faces with all his strength. “Who’s a baby now?” Liu called out, throwing punch after lunch, while letting out all his frustration from the previous day. “Just call me daddy today.” He says with a smile.

He thoroughly beat each one, completely letting out his frustration and draining his stamina.

As this happened, Zellin went to check out the boss fight. He sneakily went into the entrance and hid behind a large rock, watching the Level 10’s approach deeper into the cave with their conjured light balls revealing the interior of the room.

A large web was revealed as they went forward and eventually, a huge, 4 meter-long lump of a spider. It seemed to be sleeping. Damn, Zellin exclaimed within his mind. Spider Queen...

Bo gave a signal, and the group began to prepare all their long-range skills, which they released with a wave of Bo’s hand. Lightning bolts, ice spears, and flaming arrows all flew forward at the huge lump of sleeping spider.

As the spider was bombarded with spells and arrows, it let out an ear-piercing shriek, expressing its extreme displeasure at these intruders. As the shriek sounded, the spider queen jumped to the ground with a heavy thud, and little spider hatchlings began to crawl out the cracks in the cave walls, flooding out; hundreds of them. Though they were all either level 0, the only ten or so people in there couldn’t be bothered to deal with them and the Level 10 Spider Queen at the same time.

Actually, the only reason this group of spiders had been so defensive, was because of these recently hatched spider hatchlings.

This is bad, Zellin thought to himself, quickly rushing back toward the entrance. “Quick, everyone! Bo and his group got swarmed by hundreds of spider hatchlings! They won’t be able to beat the boss unless we help!” Zellin announced loudly as he reached the entrance.

The Noob Village players immediately looked to each other, seeing the determination in each other’s eyes. “FOR NOOB VILLAGE!!!” Someone cried out. “Forward, Noob Originals!” Someone else yelled, leading the group into the large cave room.

Zellin could only sigh in admiration. I’ve never seen such proud noobs before. He thought to himself.

With the appearance of the spider hatchling swarm, Bo’s group were quite disordered. Bo could only yell at them to avoid the spider queen at all costs. Thus they spread out, running around as they stepped on spider hatchlings, trying to take out as many as they could.

Unfortunately, no one had any good AoE skills to use; the most useful were the higher level fireballs, which could affect about a meter radius with its flames, but the size of its AoE effect wasn’t much considering how many spiders there were.

During this time, one of the level 10 players was already picked out by the spider queen and became covered in its thick web. He was left to struggle on the ground, suffering endless spider bites, and slowly losing his ability to move.

At this point, the reinforcements arrived, somewhat relieving the current situation.

For 10 minutes, they ran around with their senses heightened to the max, slashing and stomping on spider hatchlings as they avoided the spider queen. 4 of the unlucky, lower leveled characters were devoured in front of everyone, and even more were helplessly tied up in webs or paralyzed with poison. But after those grueling ten minutes, only about 50 spiders were left, who hurriedly retreated back in the cracks of the walls, seeing only death if they continued.

“All under Level 7 retreat!” Bo called out urgently. The true battle was beginning and Bo knew the lower leveled players wouldn’t be up to this fight. Bo didn’t mind too much that the level 9’s and 8’s were joining the fight, but he was somewhat worried about the level 7’s.

Unfortunately he needed them, considering how much level 10’s they had lost to poison. Without those level 10’s, the group’s overall capability was shot, thus requiring the other players from levels 9-7 to fill the gap.

There were currently 12 Noob Villagers that were incapacitated with either webs or poison. After they were dragged out from the spider queen’s range of attack, the true fight had begun. There were about 25 Noob Villagers prepared to fight to the death; most of them with injuries.

Zellin’s natural mentality in this situation would be to say, ‘Fuck it, I don’t want to die. Who needs to kill this spider queen anyway?’ But here on this world, the people held the words, ‘what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger,’ to heart, and if you hadn’t guessed it yet, the greatest desire in this world was to become truly strong. Thus, people sought out situations like this, in the hopes of nothing more than to get stronger.

The spider queen had jumped up on its web, intent on fighting from above. It immediately targeted the archers and spit a glob of white out its bum which spread to a 20 meter web. About 4 archers and two warriors were either too slow or were too far in the center of where the web was aimed and were caught in the thick web.

The web weighed down on them, and they struggled to escape. Many of them escaped quite easily, but unfortunately the web was coated in poison, and as the archers and warriors struggled to escape, it had seeped into their wounds, quickly infecting their body with a paralytic poison. Thus, the group, in a flash, had been incapacitated and could only hope for their fellow guild members to save them.

“I’m tired of fucking around with this bitch.” Said the flame elementalist. He lifted his hand and a fireball with a foot long diameter shot out of his right hand and flew at the spider queen.

As the fireball couldn’t be considered fast, the spider queen easily dodged it, but the fireball hit the web instead, and traveled along its entirety, quickly burning it into nothing. The spider queen had no choice but to land in front of the group with a thud and let out a loud, threatening hiss. It wasn’t looking good for the lumpy spider queen.

There was a small hesitation from the group, coming from the fact that they knew they were now facing up against a cornered animal. But with the sound of rattling armor as a warrior took a step forward, the other warriors instinctively charged out. Bo also charged out, along with a shapeshifter who turned into a werewolf.

The archers, enchanters, and the flame elementalist also began to assist from a distance. The spider queen was in a frenzy, receiving damage from all ends, and frantically lashing out with its spear like legs.

As all of this went on, Zellin watched from the behind the rock as he had since the beginning. Not too far from Zellin was a white-haired girl, simply watching the battle with bored eyes. Is that the same girl from the Summoner’s College? Zellin wondered. No, she seems a bit older and her hair is more silvery than white.

The spider queen’s HP was quickly depleting, and unfortunately, taking down a couple Noob Villagers along with her didn’t seem possible. Though it was able to deal a lot of damage, after becoming too injured, the warriors simply stood back and popped a pill to heal their wounds. In a helpless situation, with its HP nearing its end, it chose to flee, and jumped with its powerful legs toward the exit.

Shit, it’s coming this way! Zellin thought in fear. All he could do though, was stay behind the rock and hope it wasn’t seen. Shit! Zellin suddenly thought. That little girl’s in trouble!

Zellin watched as the spider queen jumped, calculating it’s landing to be a small distance away from the girl. As a man, Zellin naturally wanted to save her, but as a natural coward, he wanted to hide behind the rock. After a moment of hesitation, determination arose onto Zellin’s face. Screw cowardice. I’m earning my balls today! Zellin thought boldly as he charged out from behind the rock, spear in hand.

Unfortunately, in the time for Zellin to think this out, the spider queen had already landed, and was currently charging at the white-haired girl. The girl simply snorted as she waved a card in her hand. A white light shot out of the card, transforming into a 4 meter tall polar bear that swiped its powerful claws at the spider queen as it appeared.

The claw swipe savagely ripped into the spider queen’s eyes and dragged along until all its eyes were beyond repair. The spider queen shrieked and attempted to skewer the bear with its legs, in the hopes of dying with this bear. The bear grabbed one leg and allowed the other leg to stab shallowly into its shoulder. This only increased the bear’s savagery as the blood-stained, white-furred polar bear pulled with all its might and ripped out the spider’s leg.

The bear didn’t stop there and pulled out the other leg that was stabbed into its shoulder, before relentlessly beating down on the spider queen’s head for several minutes, until the spider queen stopped moving altogether. The bear licked its ooze-stained paws before disappearing into the summoner girl’s habitat card.

In this time, the other Noob Villagers and Zellin had all gathered round and watched this savage beating. Zellin was slightly embarrassed, holding onto his manhood by reminding himself that at least, he had charged out from behind the rock. I’ll earn my balls tomorrow… he thought in defeat.

After a moment of silence, Bo snapped out of his trance, and gave the order to butcher the corpse.

After the dirty business was done, Zellin and the others met up with the rest of the Noob Villagers and also Liu, then headed back home.

During the trip home, Bo asked Liu if he knew where Guo’s gang was, and Liu simply told him that after making up and giving Liu a gift, Liu separated from them and he hadn’t seen them since.

In reality, Liu left Guo and his friends paralyzed on the ground of the cave. He didn’t mind too much about the repercussions of thoroughly beating them, as Ultimate Super Fighter City was pretty big, and it wouldn’t be too difficult to stay hidden unless Guo’s gang paid for the information.

Liu had decided to not join the guild, as he really couldn’t stand Guo and his friends, and had only come today for revenge.

Back at the Noob Originals headquarters…

“So, have fun?” Bo asked Liu and Zellin as they sat at a round table having drinks. This time, Liu ordered some apple juice.

“Yeah, it was kind of eye-opening. I’ve never seen fights with groups that big before. Everyone was pretty disciplined, and very organized.” Zellin commented.

“Yeah, we’re still learning.” Bo replied modestly. “Anyways, that’s what you guys can expect from joining the guild. Dungeon clearing can only really be done in a big guild like ours, unless you were multiple levels higher than the general level of the cave. So what do you guys say? Ready to join the guild?”

“Hmm…” Zellin replied, as if in thought. “We’d really be better persuaded if we had an incentive of some sort.” Zellin said shamelessly, knowing full well that they weren’t going to join the guild.

Bo let out a light laugh. “Okay then. I can offer Liu a Level 8 claymore, and for you, I have something a bit more special.” Bo said mysteriously as he opened his inventory and pulled out a brown sack. Something seemed to be squirming inside.

Bo let it out onto the ground, revealing that it was Level 3 Poison Spider Prince Hatchling.

“Hmm…” Zellin responded in thought. “I don’t know, I already have a spider, and I also only have one cave Habitat Card. I don't know if they'd get along.” Zellin said, his thumb and index finger on his chin. “How about you give me the spider queen’s energy core instead?” Zellin said with a mischievous grin.

Bo could only smile wryly at Zellin’s greediness. This kid really knows how to take incentives to the limit. He thought to himself. Energy cores only appeared in monsters Level 10 or above, and for Level 10 monsters, the only real chance to get one is in a boss-class creature.

Bo hesitated, but eventually forced himself to say, “Fine! But only after you join the guild.” He said firmly.

Zellin sighed in disappointment, and just as he was about to tell the truth about their intentions, Bo exclaimed, “Shit,” as he saw a notification appear before him.