Agatha The Legendary Guild Master

This time I chose to use that old cape of mine to hide my features and my details, so my journey towards the gate was smoother than I thought. Just as I reached there, I was amazed by the number of players passing through the gates.

In my first estimates, there were tens of thousands of players in front of me, and that meant these players had exceeded level ten, which was unbelievable. I hoped most of them would join my group, but I knew this was just a mere dream of mine.

'Where are you?' I sent this message to Aria, who replied instantly:

'I'm outside the gate, almost a kilometer to the east.'

'I'm coming now.'

I passed rapidly through the gate of the town amidst the sea of players. Once I exited, I moved to the east at once. I noticed that this was part of a huge forest, which was a perfect place to move unspotted.

I entered the forest to find a large group of players waiting for me there. They were all wearing capes, so it was hard to identify any of them.

"Is this our sweet valiant princess?"

I looked at the direction where the voice came from, and I found a small group of ten players coming towards me. the voice was for Aria, so I removed the cape as my figure appeared while saying;

"I'm sorry for taking all this long, but you know arranging all these players isn't an easy job."

Aria and Drina removed their capes, as the first stood amidst her small group of players while Drina literally jumped to hug me while screaming and saying a lot of words without pause.

"You are crazy, far crazier than my big sis. How did you kill all of them with that spear? Can you teach me your trick? Are you really a princess from a far away kingdom? How did you learn this spear move? Does it consume any stat? You killed a player per hit, that's awesome. Can you teach me the spear trick? Please?"

I looked to her without knowing what to say, then I looked towards Aria who laughed while saying:

"Don't mind her, she always gets hyper when she finds anything interesting, and believe me many things here fascinate her."

Drina turned sharply towards Aria as she pouted:

"Big sis you are so mean, I want to know this trick so I can go back and teach that Rick bastard a lesson."

Aria looked towards her silently as her words touched something inside her, as for me I patted over Drina's shoulder as I said:

"Don't worry, you don't need to learn anything, I'm here and I will help you teach that distasteful person all the lessons you want."

Drina wasn't yet convinced as she said:

"But it would be nice if I taught him a lesson by my hands, I hate him, really hate him."

This time it was Aria who literally rubbed her head with the palm of her hand messing up her long hair as she said:

"Don't be silly, you aren't a spearman after all. Let's stop wasting time, what do you plan to do now Agatha?"

I know playtime was over, so I spoke seriously:

"I will get the general location of their operation, then we can scout the area behind them and pick a suitable place to ambush them."

I intended to ask Shin about the approximate location of Solaris and Lelican players, however Aria said at once:

"Don't bother, I already know their exact locations. About that ambush thing, we don't usually use that tactic here."

I looked at her strangely while asking:

"Why? The element of surprise is usually great."

"That's the issue here, there is no element of surprise. Any group of them would spread out their spies everywhere, and believe me they will spot us no matter what we do."

Her words made sense, so I asked:

"Then we need to divide them and try to kite them one by one."

Aria shook her head again as she explained:

"It's not practical, as their numbers are higher than us, and there are many good players there, they won't fall easily for your trap."

I didn't give up my idea as I said:

"Even if the bait is worth the risk?"

Aria seemed to be waiting for that opinion of mine, as she said instantly:

"To do so, the bait must be you and me with only a handful of players only. Also any attempt to move away from them would appear suspicious, and that also applied to moving with a small group of players."

I got her idea so I said expressing my thoughts out loud:

"So we must move to attack and hit to kill. Our entourage must not be large enough to make them try to group all of their players to kill us, nor so small to make them suspicious and avoid us, right?"

"Exactly, so we need to move with fifty player only, and the rest will be waiting at different places," she added.

"That means we have to strike and retreat, attracting a group of them into one of our players' places, right?"

"That's right, however that requires a lot of modifications, as if we did that every time they would suspect us more and would then move with greater numbers to handle hunting us. They might even send separate large groups of elite players towards places where we hide our players to eliminate them," she said.

Her words were logic, and that made me understand playing here wasn't that simple. My tactics couldn't be applied here, and it seemed I needed to learn this game hidden secrets and twists to better adapt.

"Then we can change the players' places all the time. We also can move in a penetration way," I expressed my own plan.

"What do you mean by penetration?" Drina asked. I looked towards her in doubt, as she wasn't that noisy or shy Drina, she seemed different. How many personalities did this little girl possess?

"Don't get surprised, although she is a lousy person, but regarding plans she is really the brain and I'm the muscles," Aria said with a chuckle motioning towards her little sister. I felt the strong bond between the two of them. Oh how much did I miss my little Agatha!