Agatha The Legendary Guild Master

I stood in my place without a clue what I should do. The two sisters were hugging each other while Drina was patting Aria on the back. I couldn't see the face of Aria anymore as it was hidden within Drina's chest, however I could see Drina's face.

Drina was seriously looking at me, as she was warning me from something. I didn't guess for long as she sent me a short private message:

'It's complicated.'

I knew that, but that short message meant this wasn't the right place nor the time to discuss this. As the two sisters were busy with their own things, I began to watch everything around us.

Aria's arrangements were strictly defensive, as she spread the whole team over eight groups forming a huge circle. She knew there were enemies coming from behind, so she assumed we were totally surrounded and decided to defend it here.

This wasn't good, as if we kept ourselves here we would be like sitting ducks, easy targets to be shot, however I couldn't interfere now and change this setting.

First of all these players wouldn't listen to me, and most important of all even if they listened, this would create chaos. As the situation was settled like this, I stepped towards the empty center as I said loudly:

"I want four swordsmen or other melee classes who love to fight and come with me now."

The two sisters were busy, so they didn't notice my movement away from them, but now they were alarmed by my shout. Everyone looked at me then towards Aria. 

Their hidden faces gave me a vague impression, everyone here was aware of what happened to Aria, and I felt deep sympathy from them.

Aria, on the other hand, pushed Drina to the side as she turned sharply to look at me with tears flowing from her eyes. She wiped her tears, however the bitterness over her face was still there.

She moved slowly towards me as she took out her sword and pointed to me, I felt sudden tension in the place as I didn't know what was going on.

"You…" she just said that while her face twitched like she was in deep pain, yet she was struggling to withstand it. her tears were about to come again, but she wiped them again with her sleeves, before turning her back to me while saying with dejected tone:

"Go, do whatever you want to do. Anyone who wants to join this mad girl has my permission to do so."

She then moved back again with slower steps towards her sister as she sat beside her and leaned her head on Drina's thighs. Drina patted slowly over her head, at the same time I was feeling bad, like I did a horrible thing without knowing anything about it.

'Just leave her for a while, she will get over it. don't put this into your heart, you have nothing to do with it.'

A longer message came from Drina this time, this little magician was kind hearted, as she was trying to make me not feel any bad, but I was already feeling so.

'Just tell me one thing, is any of this related to that bastard?'

I sent her after some hesitation, as I didn't want to know the details for now, instead I wanted to make sure of the root of all this. Seeing this lively flower withered away like this pained me deeply, and I wanted to vent that pain out.

After some time of exchanging silent looks between each other, Drina finally replied:

'It's all because of him.'

I didn't need more than that answer, so I turned without looking back. I decided, this was only a battle for my adventure group to be well known and become famous, however now it became personal.

I swore to tear that bastard apart and not rest until I killed every player he sent after me, including himself. That bitch also would suffer the same fate as well; things were already personal with her long time ago.

Just as I stepped outside the circle of Aria's players, I felt the presence of some of them behind me, so I turned and found two swordsmen, one berserker, and one knight following me. I looked towards the knight as I said straight forward:

"This won't be a defense game."

He paused for a moment before continuing to walk outside the players area following my steps while saying:

"I'm not a defensive person."

"Huh."

I snorted then I moved away heading straight towards the back of our little group. If we wanted to move forward, we needed to first remove the back headache first, or else we wouldn't be able to run far before being entangled every now and then with them.

"I will be your guide, if you allow me."

Suddenly the sound of Rog appeared out of nowhere beside me, that damn assassin had already mastered the way to startle me.

"Where are these enemies?"

I didn't comment on his behavior, as it seemed he was used to behaving like this, this mysterious assassin wasn't cool at all.

"There are three groups of one-hundred players coming towards here. they are all under the same banner, Rick's banner."

His information was surprisingly short yet detailed, so I grasped the whole picture easily. I asked:

"Which group is the nearest?"

"Go ahead, five hundred meters from here and you will meet them."

I looked towards the front, as everything was covered by thick layers of trees and long weeds. I didn't faze as I started to move forward while saying:

"What about you? Will you still be hidden?"

"I will go on and slay every single assassin of them, after that I will come and help you."

He was such a decisive person, had a plan in his mind and he intended to see it through. I began to like that assassin, so I said:

"After you finish your little feast, come and take a snack over their healers."

He laughed suddenly like he was standing over my head, which really startled me again. That damn assassin, when would he stop doing that?

"Thanks, I will make sure to eat until I'm full. See you later, princess."

His voice then disappeared. From the start till the end I couldn't even get a general sense of his presence. Such an assassin was someone I aspired to get, as I had a secret class dagger suited for such an assassin. Although I liked him, I didn't plan to give that dagger to him as he was loyal to someone other than me.

I moved towards the front with rapid steps, after a few moments I managed to spot vague shadows up front. They were moving slowly, without causing any sound at all. Without the previous guidance from that assassin I wouldn't be able to notice them.

I raised my spear, threw it in the air and left it falling over my palm calmly before grabbing it with my fingers, while saying softly:

"It's now the time for anyone who wants to retreat. Move a single step forward and then you must follow my steps and don't fall behind, or else you will die."

I didn't wait for them to reply as I started to run towards those players up front. My spear was ready, and once I neared them I didn't say anything as I threw my spear out towards one shadow of them.

'First one to fall, ninety nine left to kill.'