Agatha The Legendary Guild Master

My question was met by complete silence, I was about to unleash my rage upon them. were they thinking I was joking just now? My hunger value had escalated to reach ninety-five value, five more and I would die!

'I have one package of chocolate cakes, do you want some?'

I looked towards the one who saved the day, she was Elyo. Never trust men, and always ask girls like this angel right here. I didn't reply with words, as I hugged her at once while saying out loud:

"Thanks, you really are trustworthy."

"Oh, I didn't know this would mean that much to you."

Elyo was honest in her words, however I didn't care if she got lucky to have extra cakes or she went to get some herself, she gave me the cakes at the end. Luck was one of a person's strengths after all.

She took the cake package out, they were smaller in size, bigger than cupcakes made entirely out of chocolate. There were half a dozen there, so I didn't delay in taking them all while saying:

"From this day onward, we are close friends."

Elyo's face changed from anxious over me taking all the cakes into excitement. Getting the good side to your leader, especially a rising star like me, was something good after all.

"Wait until I introduce you to my other two close friends."

Elyo looked at me strangely when Rog appeared as usual from thin air as he said:

"Aria is coming now, it's as you suspected."

I didn't say a thing to him, yet he managed to guess everything. This cool assassin was really dependable, not like the two crippled that I knew.

"See, we will meet them soon."

"Y-you don't mean…"

Elyo's eyes widened when I gave a hint about who the two close friends to me were. Just as I winked to her and was about to move towards the restaurant again, Rog said:

"Aria wants to ask you a favor."

I paused and looked towards the front. I already guessed what this favor was like, so I didn't hesitate to say:

"Make her come fast, and bring enough cakes with her."

"Sure."

Everyone was looking strangely to me, however I said to clear things up:

"Let's wait for a bit, a friend is coming and I need to see this friend."

To enter the restaurant, any group or guild must face the challenge which needed mystic art to pass. Solaris group had their leader replaced, the old was mystic art player, so he must have known about this circus or whatever from before.

And now Aria was coming, with no mystic art player at all. Passing the test would be impossible, however it would be possible when I interfere. This time, I would take my full commission up from the start. If the cakes she brought me didn't suit my taste, I was ready to leave her behind.

During my wait for my cakes, I started to eat these cakes I took from Elyo. They weren't as good as the cakes I tasted from Aria, however they were enough to raise my hunger value below eighty five, and that was satisfying to me.

As I finished eating my cakes under the silent observing looks from everyone, Aria appeared coming from far in her bigger entourage. She seemed to be busy, however she would never miss that circus, which was apparent over her serious face.

"Hi, we didn't part for long and now I find you able to enter A circus."

She greeted me once she neared the place. I smiled while pointing to her two hundred players behind her:

"It seems you are doing better than I thought. Where is Drina?"

"She is busy arranging the group," she replied.

"That little girl is a mystery to me," I said with a laugh.

"And to me too," she said with a chuckle before adding, "Are these the only people who you would bring with you inside?"

I didn't get her point, so I asked:

"What do you mean?"

"Oh, I forgot, you must be oblivious to this, right?"

I nodded, then she took out a larger package of well made cakes and she handed it to me while saying:

"Let's eat while speaking, as we don't have much time, in my guess."

I didn't refuse her cakes, as the package was divided into three layers, each layer had four cakes neatly arranged together to form a small star. That was really fascinating, with multi colored cake, mainly silver, with a small group of five small red cherries over the surface of white creamy smooth layer.

Each cake was a single piece of art.

"What is the name of these cakes?" I asked while taking one and eating it with extreme pleasure.

"T-They are the lonely starry cakes," Elyo muttered with amazement.

"Huh, the girl knows her stuff well, now let's talk about business," Aria said while pointing towards the restaurant as she added, "this isn't just a normal gathering of mystic art players, this is a golden opportunity for any player to join their ranks. Some even called this as the lost mystic art carnival."

"Carnival?!" I asked with a loss, "first it was a circus, and now it's a carnival!"

"Don't belittle these names, do you remember Rick?" she asked.

"That bastard? What about him?"

"His mystic art is what I want to talk about," she said after a moment of pause. It seemed that the bastard had left behind many disasters to make her mood like this.

She should be happy by killing him and taking over his position, however I didn't feel any speck of happiness from her, instead worry.

"His mystic art was lost, as he wasn't killed on the hands of a mystic art player," I replied to her words pointing to her as she was the one who killed him, "so what about his lost mystic art then?"

"As I just said, it's the lost mystic art carnival, which means any lost mystic art like Rick's would be here available for any player to grab."

My eyes shone as I said:

"Are you telling the truth?"

"Yes, it's a well known thing to old players here. Anyway, this is also a chance for mystic art players to gain more arts for themselves as well."

I thought about gaining some arts for myself, which was something worthy dreaming of.

"Do you mean I can participate in the carnival? Is it some sort of a competition?"

Aria motioned to her players to head on towards the restaurant. They wanted to trigger the test, at the same time Aria said:

"It's a competition, however only players with no mystic arts can participate in it."

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