Meanwhile\----
Piercing Needle went towards the tavern where his teammates were waiting for him.
His teammates were lying here and there in the tavern like someone had killed their wife, of course expect the female player.
"Ahh, We were so close to becoming the first team to clear the Spider Queen's Cavern. Now that we have increased our strength, with the Fear Negation Potion; we would have a guaranteed chance of clearing the dungeon this time." complained a random team member.
Piercing Needle arrived at the tavern, his face full of smiles. Once, inside the tavern room, he started to laugh like crazy and went to hug his teammates.
"Back off! I said back off! Don't you dare to hug me while laughing so crazily." Falling Blade, straight away distanced himself from him.
"Crazy?! This is the laugh of joy." retorted Piercing Needle.
"Joy? Did someone kick you on your head? You were looking like a bona-fide lunatic a while ago." Said Falling Blade.
"Stop it! Just tell us what made you so joyful?" Asked the female Berserker.
"Hahaha, THIS made me joyful." Said Piercing Needle who was grinning like a fool while taking out a glass bottle from his inventory really slowly.
He had only taken out half of the bottle from his inventory bag, when he was tackled on the ground by Falling Leaf who was shouting loudly, "No, Nooo! What have you done my friend? What have YOU DONE! Why did you start taking drugs? Why? Tell me WHY? No, No, this isn't the right time to ask these questions. You can still be saved, Yes, Come with me, I shall take you to a counselor...."
Everyone one was stupefied at Falling Blade's sudden outburst. Piercing Needle who was getting pulled by him, freed himself quickly and pounced on Falling Blade while delivering a rain of punches upon him.
"You....You are..... taking drugs, Your....whole.... family is on drugs. Your.....father is the drug dealer."
"Wait!" cried out Falling Blade.
"How did you know that my father is a drug dealer?" asked Falling Blade curiously.
You.....bas**rd,....." Piercing Needle himself didn't knew that he could spew so much profanities, until today.
After three minutes of straight up beating, Piercing Needle felt his shoulders aching from exhaustion, so he finally let go of Falling Blade.
"I was just worried about you. If you had started-" Before he could say anymore, Piercing Needle sent him a glare which shut him up.
"Now, back to what I was going to show you guys." Piercing Needle took out the bottle of Fear Negation Potion from his inventory.
"How did you get that?" His teammates asked in astonishment.
"Hey hey, You're leader is so cool that he could get whatever he wants." Said Piercing Needle.
"Profanities and now narcissism. Even we are starting to believe that you are an imposter?" This time even his teammates were starting to doubt him.
"No, Drifting Leaf didn't sell all of the potions. As promised, he kept some for our team to buy." explained Piercing Needle quickly before they his teammates could come to anymore weird conclusions.
"Not is he only good looking but also such a gentleman. A perfect partner for me. Huh! I wish there were more people like him in this world." said the Female Berserker lost in her fantasies.
"I don't know about nice looking. But I can work with the gentleman thing though." Said one of her teammate.
"Nah! You are just jealous of him." The female berserker teased him.
"Jealous? I am not jealous." he tried to defend himself.
Hearing all this bickering Piercing Needle felt a headache. "Cut it out. We are going to the Spider Queen's Cavern to get that first clear."
"Yeah, let's do it." All of his teammates agreed.
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Cao Huang changed to Death and went out of the town.
"Hey Vilariun. Why didn't the Council contact me?"
"Although your name is red but it isn't enough to attract the attention of the Council Of Darkness. You should try to kill some more players to see if that helps." explained Vilariun.
Cao Huang nodded and went to search for a suitable prey. After ten minutes, he found the players or prey he was looking for.
"These players are really unlucky." Chuckled Cao Huang.
The players he was saw were Crimson Fire and his guild members, who were hunting a Level 4 Armored Wolf.
"Pipsqueak, keep the monster's aggro. Rolling Sloth, divide your team in two flanks and attack from left and right simultaneously. Far Glow, Keep your [Vine Sprout] Spell ready, and cast it as soon as it goes berserk..." Crimson Fire was directing his guild members in attacking the Armored Wolf.
"Boss, we are here." After a while, a group of dozen or more players arrived before Crimson Fire. Cao Huang immediately recognized them as the players who demanded him to hand over his potions and recipe.
"What happened to the task I gave you?" inquired Crimson Fire.
"Boss, the player who was selling the potions was the one who had previously rejected you near the poison store."
"Oh, that one. What was his response this time?" Asked Crimson Fire while casting a fireball spell at the Armored Wolf.
"Boss, that person straight off rejected us. He didn't even give you a little bit of face." explained the leader that was tasked with this responsibility.
Before he could speak more, another person of the team said with exaggeration, "Yeah Boss. Not did he blatantly reject us, he also insulted you very severely; when we mentioned that our boss took a liking to his items."
"How did he insult me?" asked Crimson Fire raising his eyebrows in doubt.
"He said that we should send the red haired monkey back to the zoo." lied that player again.
"And how did you conclude that he was insulting me?" Asked Crimson Fire trying to control his anger.
"Well Boss, among us only you have red hair and a monkey-" He was about to say 'monkey like face', when his mouth was blocked by his team leader.
"Boss, we concluded that he was insulting you because the only person by who's magnificence he is jealous of is you, of course." The team leader quickly tried to minimize the damage done by his subordinate.
Crimson Fire wasn't a fool. He understood what his subordinate wanted to say. But he didn't lash out immediately as he knew that his subordinate was just trying to impress him. He decided to give him another chance. "Being my guild member, you must have defended me right?"
"Of course Boss, I was the one who defended you the most." said that player again.
"And how did you do that?" asked Crimson Fire in expectation.
That person puffed out his chest, adjusted his glasses and spoke while smiling proudly, "Well, I simply said that our Boss's face isn't like a monkey. It's just that he likes to remain low key so he usually likes to wear the mask of one. Wasn't I extremely clever?"
Crimson Fire's mouth twitched spasmodically. At the same time, the Armored Wolf entered berserk condition. After hearing this:
Far Glow, who was getting ready to cast [Vine Sprout] to restrict the Armored Wolf's movements; forgot what he was instructed to do. His mistake caused the Armored Wolf to unleash the [Fatal Bite] skill, which caused the team's MT Pipsqueak to die. Rolling Sloth who was about to deliver his final strike while standing on a tree branch, fell down from it. Cao Huang who was standing at some distance started laughing so hard that his stomach started to ache.
"Hahaha, With subordinates like these, even if I don't die from nervousness; I will surely die from laughing." Cao Huang said.
"GET OUT OF MY SIGHT!!!" Crimson Fired roared in fury.
"Yes, yes. I will take my leave." Seeing their boss so furious, all of them ran away.
Rolling Sloth recovered and finished of the Armored Wolf after suffering many wounds. He came to Crimson Fire and started to calm him down. "Boss relax. Forget about that player. If we want to take something from him even the heavenly emperor won't be able to stop us. For the time being, we should try to find out the player who attacked us in the fields. He is far more dangerous than that guy from the town."
Crimson Fire calmed his anger after hearing this, he very much wanted to tear the player who attacked them from limb to limb. "Instruct all the players of the Crimson Draught. I want them to find the whereabouts of that scythe wielding player in the next three hours. If they are unable to accomplish this, I will have to reduce their salaries."
"You don't need to find me. Death will always find you." Said Cao Huang as he emerged from the shadows.
Seeing Cao Huang coming towards them, Crimson Fire was elated, "Ahh, Do you want to beg for forgiveness by coming here? Even if you kneel in front of me, I still won't spare you."
"Forgiveness? I am afraid that what I want from you; you won't be able to give me."
"What do you want from us then?"
"Same as before; your souls." Cao Huang smiled faintly.
"You won't be able to anything. Attack him. Don't let him get away." Crimson Fire ordered his guild members.
"If I remember, it wasn't me who ran away but you guys. Ahh, Sorry, I forgot that you were wiped out." Cao Huang chuckled.
"These are my guilds elite members. We shall tear you apart. Rangers, fire your arrows."
"Then their souls should be even more delicious." Cao Huang said while licking his lips.
Cao Huang activated the Reaper Of Souls abilty of his Emperor Of Death's Successor title. This allowed him to reap one soul from every living being he killed.
Dozens of Rangers let their arrows loose at Cao Huang. Seeing this Cao Huang smirked and activated his Phantom Steps to dance through the rain of arrows.
Even though, he had previously seen Cao Huang's movement speed, Crimson Fire was still surprised.
"He must be using some sort of artifact to increase his movement speed. Acquiring it would make me even more powerful and I could get better benefits from the Beiming Industries. But first I have to kill this player. His name is blood red. If I could kill him now, he is bound to drop all of his equipment including the speed artifact." thought Crimson Fire in his head.