Agatha The Legendary Guild Master

Gen looked at us like he was eyeing crazy people, and I understood his reason however I wasn't intending to explain anything further.

After all he would be able to witness everything with his two own eyes soon, very soon. That shield ability of these demons was really something, imagine if I owned an entire army from them on the front?

I wasn't planning to establish a post first, as conquering a fort without having the ability to defend it was foolish. The first thing I needed to do was to start planning to have a mighty army of my own, army of demons.

Army of demons on the front, with mighty mechas on the sides and huge player army on the back, that would be a scene to behold.

"Let's dissect them and extract what we can salvage," Gen ordered his men at once while shaking his head. He still couldn't understand why we were this excited about something everyone was fearful of.

His order brought me back from my daydreams, as I had also to secure a way to gold. War was costly, this was a fact I couldn't deny. If I wanted to obtain my army, then I had first to secure my wealth.

I watched the men moving towards those giant demons as they extracted their knives. They seemed to know what they were doing, so I sent in the team chat:

'Order your players to open their eyes and learn. We need every skill here to survive.'

As I ordered, all the players who were distracted began to focus. The ex-players I bought didn't focus too much, which made me know they were already aware of how to extract precious materials from these demons.

As for me and my players, we were totally immersed in watching the ex-players of my own army dissect the bodies of these twenty demons.

The first thing to get was the hearts. Twenty big hearts the size of a group of five fists were extracted one after another. Their color was silver with some black luster to their surface.

Once they were out of these demons' bodies, the hearts began to crystallize fast to end up shrinking in size into half, with more black luster and minute grainy texture. The hearts were delivered to Gen who handed them to me as he said:

"The hearts of the demons are the most useful tonics out here to replenish the mystic art users' exhausted powers."

I received the hearts and began to examine them. I stored all however I kept one in my hands as I asked:

"Should I have to eat them?"

"Yes, in fact they are very tasty like the sweetest pie. I know of many players who got addicted to their taste, and so they couldn't leave here."

His reply astonished me, however I resisted the desire to try one out. After all I only lost fifteen hunger points, and I was still far from my danger threshold.

After the hearts, they began to extract the bones. Their work was very fast like proficient surgeons. After they ended, long and short white bones with black luster were left in front of me.

"These bones can be sold for a good price. These demons were lowly grade ones, so their bones are just white in color. The higher the demon grade was, the more colors we will see away from white," Gen explained.

I just glanced at him as I stored these bones. The sight of them made me feel disgust, after all they were like our bones. After that I said:

"I want to know, is there any place of demon gathering where I could find around two thousand demons there?"

Gen looked strangely at me as he muttered:

"This number is way too much for us."

"I agree too princess, we should play it safer," Goda said as he was following Elyo's team right now.

"Just answer my question."

I didn't put the two's objections to my mind, as I had already planned it out already. Two thousand demons would cost me two hundred thousand gold coins to trap, and the same amount to turn their loyalty to me.

Gen sighed helplessly as he thought he was insane with much bad luck to end up following the footsteps of a crazy girl like me. I didn't intend to talk this out with him, as actions were always stronger than words.

"If you want power of this size then you will find it after level three. Level one is full of militia demons. At level three, long range demons would be added. At level five, cavalry would be added. At level ten we will begin to see flying demons. I suggest we go straight to level four."

His words expressed how well he knew these lands. For me when I heard the word cavalry I got very excited. Cavalry was my favorite fighting unit in any war, although back in my kingdom their numbers were scarce.

However now I had a chance to form my own power. Level five would be my aim, but I had to think wisely. For now my own strength couldn't support that level yet, and the number of my army was small.

I would head to level four first then I would aim for the five when I become satisfied with my own strength.

"Level four then, lead the way Gen. everyone be sure to follow suit."

I then sent to Rog privately telling him about the change of plans. He was my eyes and ears out there, so I needed him to know what was on the stake here.

Rog didn't say anything except expressing his support to my bold plan as he described it. I was sure if Shin was here he would find a way to make fun out of me as usual.

Damn, how much I miss that bastard!

This time we moved with less fear and more confidence. The next demon team to meet needed one more hour, and they were a group of twenty demons as well.

As we all got a grasp of the nature of fighting in these lands, we managed to kill them easier than previous time. I led the lines with the help of Diana who did marvelously by killing more than half of the demons alone.

As I let Gen and his men take care of the dissection process, I gave Diana five hearts as I said:

"Keep them with yours, you will need them."

She hesitated for a moment then she accepted them as there were another twenty hearts added to my collection by Gen. After I stored the hearts and the bones we started to move again.

I began to feel how weak this level was to me. I might be the tip of the spear, however the main reassuring factor here wasn't me, but the presence of another two mystic art players with me in addition to my big army.

After all having this thousand plus players was way better than having only a handful of twenty like any other normal player out there.

Six hours passed, during which we managed to kill eight more teams like the two we just killed. Diana helped to share my burden a lot, and that made me take that time till my hunger value hit my critical limit.

The hunger value was now ninety four. If I waited until the next fight then I would definitely die. So, I took out one heart of the lot that I had in my Inventory and I didn't hesitate to eat one.

Once that crystallized heart entered my mouth in a small bite, I felt a sweet taste I didn't even feel back when I ate cakes. This small bite was followed at once with a couple of big bites as I finished the heart in no time.

I felt my body got suddenly refreshed, as the fatigue and exhaustion I already had were washed away. I checked up my hunger value to find it surprisingly hitting the twenty mark.

One heart did all this, what the hell! I had now over one hundred and seventy hearts in my possession, that meant I could go all out then without any fears.

So far I only used my spear alone, as I didn't add any skill to it for fear of increasing my hunger consumption. But now I wasn't that afraid anymore, I was eager to see my full power in these lands.

Risky? These lands were way outside that word for me.

"Is level one this huge?" I suddenly asked Gen, as I considered him my personal advisor regarding these lands.

"We have passed nearly one fifth of its space. Level one is the smaller, as each level above would have double the space of the previous level," he simply replied as we picked up our pace once again.

My players weren't tired after all, as I and Diana and Rog's team were the ones doing most of the work. For a second I thought I was working for them, not the opposite. However this was my test, and throughout this way I could only prove my worth.

Test laws, sacred lands laws, and I had to obey them.