Agatha The Legendary Guild Master

One of them took the lead as he replied explaining:

"There are many ways to gain coins here. any demon we slain can be harvested for materials. These materials can be used to forge equipment, and usually they can be sold with high prices at the stele. If you want to play it big, then you have to raid over the demons' posts.

Demons in each layer here have sentry posts, checkpoints, strongholds, castles, and small territories like towns in our game. raiding any of these would grant you many benefits, gold included.

Demons also have caravans that move supplies between their posts and their armies, so raiding them would grant you some gold coins and extra equipment and supplies."

For me this was a very detailed answer that held a lot of new information for me. I looked towards that swordsman as I said:

"Good answer Gen, from now on you will be the vice leader of my personal army. Now, does anyone have a map for this place?"

I intended to start hitting the monsters' posts hot without delay. I needed money, as more gold coins in my pocket meant more ex-players to buy. In addition to that I felt that my artifact would be like a bottomless pit, I had to prepare a great amount of coins if I wanted to gain the full power of this artifact.

"May I recommend passing this layer, after all the first layers are weak and have limited resources. Places under demon control are scarce and will be crowded with many players," Diana said from behind.

I turned to look at her as I said:

"I agree with you, but our small numbers can't grant us access to higher layers, right? We also need to adapt to the fighting pattern of demons."

"Our numbers are fine if we aimed towards sentry points and not strongholds from the beginning. I recommend we head directly to layer three, as there will be more chances there," Diana said.

"I agree with the berserker's opinion," Gen joined her side as he expressed his support.

For me I wanted to head directly to higher layers, but I had to be wise not blinded by greed. My hesitation was obvious, so Rog said:

"I agree with them too, we need to fight for better chances, and our numbers aren't that bad. Besides, we have that trump card that we can use."

"What card?" Gen asked with surprise as he didn't think I would have a back move.

"I can't depend entirely on it, after all it needs a lot of coins to show its true value," I ignored Gen's question as I replied on Rog.

"You misunderstood my words, what I meant was to use it to trap demons, only trap not flip," he said while winking.

I didn't know why he winked at me, however his opinion was worthy to be considered. If I used the artifact only to trap, then the cost of money over my shoulders would be greatly lifted. I could fight this way, especially when I understood the potential of his plan.

I smiled as this assassin was really something, he wanted me to use the artifact to absorb most of the demons guarding a sentry post. Doing so would eliminate most of the pressure over my players, and give us a chance to control that sentry post.

Such a plan with no risk, and less expenses plus great gain was a plan worthy of my admiration.

"Good plan indeed, let's then head to layer three then."

As I gave the order, I began to move. Once we moved out, the whole army began to be divided into five parts, my personal army led the way with three teams following Rody, Gabri, and Elyo from the sides.

As for Rog, he took roughly fifty assassins and began to scout the way up ahead. I created a new team chat and invited my one hundred players in it. as for the four pillars of my group, they were still in the same chat as before.

'Do any of you know what a demon looks like?' I asked out of boredom after we walked for an hour without meeting a single person so far.

The area was nearly empty, however we followed the direction Gen gave to us heading towards layer two.

'I wouldn't say you have a mouth, but I just spotted a small team of twenty demons coming towards your location from the north east. They will arrive in less than one minute. Stay alert princess, as you will be surprised by them.'

Rog suddenly sent this tip to me in the chat, which I relayed to my personal army as the other three did the same to their teams. I was eager to meet these demons, as I wanted to know what they looked like.

Just as I waited, I was shocked to see what was coming towards us from the direction Rog just gave to me.

In front of me I spotted twenty human-like shapes coming fast with a small cloud of dust behind them. Once I saw this I felt some weirdness, as I thought these demons would be more monster-like than humans.

"Are they demons?" I muttered with more shock as their features became more clear to me. they were like humans, however their heads had no hair at all. Their body size was approximately double to triple the size of an adult human.

"Be aware these demons had a protective invisible shield that protected their bodies a few centimeters away from their skin. Without using mystic arts on this shield, nothing can break it. no skill can damage them, so we need those who can use mystic art to act immediately and create a window for us."

Gen words weren't loud but they were clear. He managed to clear my doubts regarding the dominance of mystic art players over these lands, as without them these lands would be under total control and dominance of these demons.

As he finished speaking, the features of these demons became more apparent to me. their skin was colored with black that had some strange luster to it. I managed to detect multiple white silver spots and irregular lines over their skin.

They used equipment like we do, and their movement was fast with great rush towards us like they feared nothing. I realized from where their confidence came, as once they appeared near us my original players started to use their skills over them.

One hundred and fifty elite players used their skills over twenty demons without causing single harm to them. all attacks were stopped a few centimeters away from their skin, which seemed from my position like they could receive hits with no damage at all.

Who wouldn't be reckless when he had this absolute advantage?

Then it was my time to shine, and also to experience how much I would consume when dealing with them.

Without delay I threw my spear up in the air. Once I did that, I felt some resistance exerted over my body.

So, the restrictions here were exerted over the movement when I use my mystic art, that was ideal for me as I didn't need to move at all when I use my trick.

Once my spear rested over my fingertips I threw it at once towards the nearest demon while yelling:

"Follow my spear and attack demons that I hit."

The distance was close, so in a fraction of second my spear was inserted into the demon's protective shield. Like an egg shell being broken, the shield crumbled under the tip of my spear to shatter loudly and violently causing some disturbance to the nearby demons.

I didn't wait to check the results of my attack, as I snapped my fingers and then threw my spear again, and again, and again. twenty demons were coming fast towards me, however after a few attacks everywhere they stumbled in their tracks and fell on the ground.

Like sheep ready for slaughter, I didn't let this chance slip by as I sent my spear to destroy their shields. Any demon that lost his shield was an easy target for my players. without any suspense, all of the demons were killed without any losses from my side.

The only loss was my hunger value, which was elevated from zero to fifteen in these short periods. I didn't use my spears over twenty times, and with that I lost all this value.

That was unbelievable! What would happen if we met hundreds of demons in one go? or fought successive waves of them in a short time?

That was an impractical way to deal with these demons. As I was silently lost in my thoughts, Gen suddenly said:

"These are low grade demons. Their shields can be broken luckily by one hit of your spear. Demons at layer three might need a couple of hits for their shields to be broken."

I turned to look at him as I muttered:

"That's not a fight, this is a suicide mission. If this keeps up then I won't be able to hold them back."

"That's why these lands were never conquered by us even after this long. The consumption is always tricky, as there is no way to stop it. ah, there is only one way, but it's insane so no one ever used it before," Gen said as he suddenly lost in his thoughts.

"What way? Tell me," I eagerly said. If there was a way to neutralize these stressful conditions then I would be glad to do it no matter what.

"It's that witch curse that she left behind," he replied simply like that, however what he said made my eyes widened. Not only me, as the other three pillars near me had the same shocking expression all over their faces.

Gen mistook our reaction as he said:

"I just said it's an insane way to deal with this problem."

I hurried to ask:

"I looked inside the stele but I couldn't find this artifact. Has someone already had it?"

He sensed my eagerness, so he looked at me in a strange way as he said:

"It's still present in stele however you need to cross layer five to gain it. it also requires some gold coins to be acquired, as I recall it was two million gold coins. This is a small amount for experienced players, but no one is crazy enough to buy it.

I have to warn you, playing with this mad woman curse isn't something to be taken lightly. It won't affect you alone, as it will affect anyone related to you. Don't think about it, just forget it."

He was speaking logically, but he didn't know who I was. Suddenly Gabri laughed as he yelled to the sky:

"Yes, our luck is really endless."

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