Agatha The Legendary Guild Master

Things were complicated, I got that, but what I didn't get was the benefit of these players. I had angered one man and now I had to face the attack of these players like I insulted them instead.

It seemed I needed to be more careful next time, not to let a man like this live any second longer. If I killed him back then, I wouldn't face these relentless attacks right now.

Sigh, I needed to be more decisive next time.

'Stand by, the first ambush is ten minutes away,' Rog sent to me, alarming me and my three other friends of the ambush. I looked towards Gen as I narrated what was going to happen. he looked at me with his beautiful eyes as he asked:

"Aren't you worried?"

"No, it's fine to have some action from time to time," I replied.

"I think someone is desperate to see you dead," he said.

"Don't worry, it's not easy killing me," I said as I looked towards my personal army as I added:

"You will move with me, even if we go deeper alone, you will follow suit. Don't worry about others, I will arrange things with them."

My words made Gen more surprised. As far as he got from my explanation just now, we were faced with many enemies in succession.

If it was anyone else, he might have considered fleeing, or trying to fight one battle at a time. However, I didn't like such an approach. I knew my main enemy wasn't these players but the demon army behind them.

Something kept bugging me, these demons weren't easy to deal with. So the aim of these players wasn't just to wear me off, but to buy some time to finish their preparations.

Either gathering more demons, or making something that would put me in more danger, I needed to fasten my move and crush these plans before becoming mature.

So, I needed to move alone deeply in the enemy territory, and I didn't like going there alone. My personal army was enough to secure me, so I would bring them with me.

As for my players, I would leave Diana with them. I will try and trap as many players as I could to relieve the pressure over them, however I intended to finish the demon army first then come back to aid my players.

That was the best thing to do, or else I would be faced with more variables that I didn't feel optimistic about.

I sighed.

'Five minutes to meet the enemy,' Rigo sent again.

'Listen up, I will exterminate all players here then I will delve deeper with my personal army alone. Your task is to wait and handle any enemy attacking you,' I suddenly announced my plan to my friends.

'What?! That seemed risky,' Elyo said.

'Why take this risk?' Rody asked.

'Is it because of the demon army?' Rog asked before adding, 'if you want I can move alone inside and tell you the news.'

'I know that seemed the most logical approach, but something kept telling me that they are ready for such a scenario. The only thing they won't expect is for me to move alone towards them,' I said.

They didn't reply as my logic was realistic, but it was very risky. What they also knew was the situation must be dire for me to take such a decision, they didn't realize how critical our current situation was but they knew it wasn't good at all.

'Two minutes and you will reach the swamp.'

Rog said that to put an end to our little discussion here. I glanced at Gen and then towards Diana as I ordered:

"Stay here and protect my team."

She looked strangely at me, however I just winked at her as I then moved out. I was always the tip of the spear of my team, so my move didn't alarm any of my enemies.

The swamp was ahead of me, it was a very wide stretch of land soaked in green waters and awful odor that made me wonder what had died in this place to turn it like this.

I didn't delay as I took out my artifact, as I thought:

'Trap all the players around me.'

'There are twelve thousand and three hundred players here, do you want to trap them all?' The cold voice of the artifact came in my mind as a response.

'Trap them all,' I said as I didn't lower my speed at all. As I moved with my high speed I managed to enter the swamp, however the players lying in ambush didn't have the chance to act as in the next moment they were all gone.

'All players are trapped. The cost of this is twelve thousand and three hundred gold coins.'

I didn't bother with a small sum of money, as I knew I would pay many folds later on when dealing with the demon army.

'Kill them all and move all their belongings into my porin.'

I didn't hesitate to take this decision as I wanted to gather more medallions so I could raise more money with it. I felt a faint tremble as the players got killed.

I then looked inside the porin for a few moments as I was stupefied with what I found. There was no single medallion out there, even the pearls I didn't get any. The mystic art medallions were also the same.

In this process l lost money and gained nothing. I also knew that my enemies must have known of my weird ability, so they took their precautions this time and didn't let their players carry anything useful.

That also confirmed my previous assumptions, these players were nothing more cannon fodders. The real deal was the demon army, and I needed to reach there as soon as possible.

"I want to send some players to the front and scout the surroundings there," I suddenly said without turning to look at Gen. I lost Rog and his assassin squad, so I needed to improvise right now.

"Don't worry princess, I have already sent my men to the front," just before Gen could reply, this sudden voice came from nowhere just next to me. I was startled as I raised my spear to hit that invisible spot.

I knew who he was, but my reaction was faster than my realization, so my spear hit him and sent him flying.

He deserved that, this wasn't the first time to startle me like this.

"I had already warned you not to speak to me in this way, so you deserve this. What are you doing here Rog? Didn't I order you to stay behind?"

He was Rog, and he was as he used to be, an addict to make quite an entrance. I didn't feel bad for him or even lowered my speed as I kept running towards the front.

"Sorry princess, I and the group decided it was unwise to let you go alone. So I had to come with you. Now I can help you, right?"

He appeared just beside me as he tried to justify his presence. I knew he was worrying about me, but I also was worried about my players back there. leaving them with only one mystic art user, Diana, was risky. Leaving them without the eyes of assassins was more risky.

"Don't worry princess, I only brought ten assassins with me, and the rest is back there protecting the others."

Rog seemed to read out my mind, so he tried to reassure me. I just glanced silently at him, it seemed I was lucky to recruit that assassin in my team.

"Ok, move to the forefront and try to detect the locations of the next ambushes," I said.

"Are you going to exterminate them all?" he asked.

"No, if possible I will try to avoid them."

I didn't want to play a losing game, as if I kept trapping and killing those players now, I wouldn't be able to gain a thing from them.

So, if possible I would avoid them.

"Deal."

He then disappeared as he started to execute my command. In the next half an hour I didn't hear from him until now.

'Be careful, there is an ambush of ten thousand players at least to the east of your place.'

He sent it to me privately warning me. I felt surprised, as this wasn't the direction I was heading to.

'What about the front?' I asked.

'Nothing yet,' he replied.

'Keep an eye on them and search for other ambushes at the front.'

I was feeling more odd when he said this to me. In the next two hours, we met three more ambushes, all away from my path.

Were they trying to avoid me? that seemed ridiculous. They should be trying to kill me, so what was their true aim here?

Throughout this, I didn't meet any demon team which made me realize these players must have exterminated them. I thought about taking a detour and kill one of those players team, however as I was thinking like that Rog suddenly sent to me:

'There is something strange waiting for us up front.'

His words managed to distract me from my thoughts, as this was the thing I was looking for.

'What is going on out there?' I asked.

'I- I don't know how to describe it, but there is a huge castle being built in the horizon,' he said.

'A castle?!!' I exclaimed in shock as this was way above any of my expectations.