“Looks like the Guild Creation was a success,” Hazel noted, still staring at the panel that declared her as a Guest of the newly made Valiant Guild.

  Zoe nodded. “It would appear so. I’m already getting bombarded with message panels related to my Valiant Guild. There are so many that it will likely take me a while to understand everything.”

  That made sense. Now that Zoe officially became a Guild Leader, the system was likely showing her all of the duties and privileges that come with the role. Then there was the issue with taking in members and how to properly manage the guild.

  Right now, the only members of the Valiant Guild would be the people currently following her. But that could change in the future to where the number of members would expand. And that in itself would be a hassle if Hazel was the leader since she would need to keep an eye on all of her people while doing other things as well.

  Needless to say, Hazel did not envy Zoe’s current position. If anything, she only felt pity because of what was in store for her in the future. Being a leader was not an easy job, and Hazel had no plans to become one herself.

  “I’m going to head back to the Jetport base and study all of these panels,” Zoe declared, turning around in an instant. “You guys can stay and help out with the other players. In fact, Kane and Anais, can you show Hazel and the other two around the place?”

  Hazel arched her brow curiously. Was she planning to give them a tour of the village?

  Kane and Anais nodded after receiving Zoe’s orders.

  “We’ll show them around while you deal with your newfound responsibilities,” Kane declared with a smile.

  Zoe nodded then walked away. As she did, she waved at them as a way to say goodbye. Hazel and the others watched the newly appointed guild leader head back over to the Jetport base with a new objective of understanding her current responsibilities that came with the role.

  Once the Knight was gone, Kane and Anasis faced Hazel, Astrid, and Chegyaeyi.

  “Alright, since our leader will be busy with the Valiant Guild, we’ll be giving you guys a brief tour of our little village.” Anais declared. “Follow us, and we’ll show you around.”

  Upon declaring this, Kane and Anais turned around and walked a couple of steps away from Hazel and the other two before they started following the duo. Thus, the village tour had begun.

  “At the moment, only a few houses within the village are suitable for living while the rest are required to be repaired from the planetary fusion,” Anais explained, pointing over at the village buildings around them with her staff.

  Hazel spared a glance at the structures, taking note of the severe damage inflicted on them. Some had holes in their roofs and walls, while also were either completely demolished and nothing more than scrapes of wood and stone or partly destroyed like a split house or a missing wall being present.

  Walking past the group, she spotted players carrying supplies, likely to fix the damaged houses and make them suitable for living. Glancing around, Hazel also noticed that several players were gathering supplies like wooden logs and the like to possibly build more houses and expand the village.

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  Knowing that Zoe was planning to take in more members, expanding the village was the right call. Even though the Jetport was capable of housing hundreds of people, Hazel knew that having a proper settlement where people could live and survive was the ultimate goal for them. It’s likely chaos out in the city because the people from both worlds had just returned.

  It was the same within the Valiant Guild’s territory. Aside from the monsters invading the base, several dozen players survived the Tutorial Dungeons and managed to return home. Those same survivors were currently taking residents within the village and Jetport.

  This also included Chegyaeyi. After everything that happened, Chegyaeyi decided to stay within the Valiant Guild’s territory until she knew what her next move was. Hazel figured that the Lizardfolk warrior was going to return to her tribe, but something told her that wasn’t the case.

  It had something to do with what Astrid had discussed before. Cheyaeyi stated that she was a former member of her tribe. Did that mean she left or, worse, was banished from her home? But that didn’t make any sense because of what Astrid said about her tribe being honor-bound.

  Hazel couldn’t help but find all of this as nothing more than a major hassle. Instead of worrying about the lizardfolk warrior, she should focus on her issues first. And after everything that happened today, she had plenty on her plate to deal with right now.

  Hazel and the others continued to explore the village, taking note of its current conditions due to the various factors that put it in that state. While it wasn’t all that homely or welcoming, she knew that this place had plenty of potential to become a great settlement. Of course, whether she decided to stay there for that to happen or not was still in the air.

  While this place was nice for her to live in with her mother, Hazel couldn’t forget her other duties like finding her brother and bringing Astrid back home. Then there was ensuring that her world meets all the requirements to become an official world among the multiverse and avoid being fodder for the other planets currently eyeing this one.

  “This place is progressing nicely,” Chegyaeyi said, calmly scanning the current state of the village. “Your leader was certainly wise to take advantage of the territory she procured upon returning.”

  “She is,” Anais nodded with a smile. “At first, our main objective was the Jetport building because of what John told them about this place. However, upon seeing the forest after we finally made this place our territory, we took a closer look around before stumbling across this place. With the Jetport, this settlement, along with the rest of the land around us, it was possible for us to slowly rebuild our society.” Anais’s expression soon turned grim. “Of course, there are plenty of obstacles for us to overcome before we can achieve that dream.”

  Hazel could more or less tell what the mage was referring to. Those obstacles were not just the monsters roaming the world...but also the players who planned to turn this world into their own personal playground so they could do whatever the hell they wanted.

  And now that Guilds were going to be a thing, there was bound to be some kind of turf battle going to happen soon. And Zoe’s guild was most definitely going to get caught up in the war, especially if the fate of their guild was at stake.

  Which was why they needed to prepare as much as possible for the upcoming conflict between guilds. Aside from that, there were other problems to deal with like the Dungeons and their current quests, like the spider queen’s curse.

  Speaking of which, the second stage was bound to start soon. Once it did, Hazel and the others were going to be dealing with even more problems then.

  As if sensing Hazel’s dread...a new panel appeared alerting the witch in an instant.

  [The Second stage of [The Mark of the Spider Queen] will now commence! The spider queen is currently able to sense you within a One-Thousand-Meter radius! Within that range, she will send Infant Spiders, Spider Sentinels, and Web Weavers to attack and kill you! The curse can only be broken when either the players marked by the Spider Queen or the Queen herself dies!]

  Hazel stared at the new panel, displaying that they were on the second stage of the Spider Queen’s curse. That meant there were three more stages to go before the Queen decided to deal with them herself.