Agatha The Legendary Guild Master

As I watched Gen retreat away, I looked at Prino as I asked:

"Why do I have this feeling Prino?"

"what feeling princess?" he replied back.

"The feeling that the way to control the castle isn't that simple," I said before looking deeply into his eyes before adding, "like a precious price that has to be paid."

His looks instantly changed as he was about to think of some sort of a lie to say before I interrupted his thoughts:

"Don't misunderstand me, I'm not that interested in your sacrifice. All I want to know is why you are doing it in the first place."

His reaction to my words confirmed my first guess, he would sacrifice himself in the process of doing so. I wasn't interested in him, after all it was his life and his sacrifice would end up to my benefit.

The issue was the true reason behind his sacrifice, after all we were strangers to each other. I had to know his true intentions, or else I would end up being in a trap without even knowing it.

"Look, I know this might sound absurd but I have this feeling that you are the true nemesis of these demons," he said after a pause. It seemed he was struggling to tell me what he knew or not, and I presume he didn't tell me the truth.

"C'mon Prino, you are risking your life for me, at least let me know why," I said, trying to pressure him to reveal his own secret.

He looked at me again with his weird silence before he shook his head. It seemed he was yet struggling for his own reasons.

"I-I just can't tell you, but all I can say is all this for the sake of helping my own people, and I'm sure one day you can help them."

His reply wasn't the one I expected, and I doubted if I pressured him more he would say anything different, so I gave up.

At least I knew the reason was related somehow to save his people, and this strange loyalty made me think of another possibility. He was born inside a capsule, but that didn't mean he had no family.

It seemed his family was kept hostage inside that empire, and he desperately wanted to help them. that explained his sacrifice, but it didn't explain his silence.

Before I could think further about this matter, Gen returned with one player who was holding a golden spear with green inscriptions and thin red circular lines that decorated the spear.

The look of the spear alone made me have goosebumps. It was a strong spear indeed, and that was logic as this was a spear for level one hundred players.

"This is Robin, and he is the player I spoke about," Gen said before looking towards Robin as he said, "I want you to teach our princess the necessary moves about your skills."

Robin looked at me as he bowed his head while saying with respect:

"I mean no offense, but generally the moves for any skill require a lot of time to practice, and I understood from you that we have limited time."

His words had their own logic, however I replied:

"I don't care, just show me the moves of your most powerful skills and I will handle things from there."

I had the feeling that despite learning these moves would require a long time, for me I would grasp them easier than others. My hopes weren't groundless, as I had a previous record with my own spear tricks.

If the moves were like that trick, then it would be much easier for me to grasp them rapidly.

"Ok princess, tell me what are the skills you learnt so far? If you have a high level skill then it would be better to focus over it first," Robin said.

"I think my strongest skills are the dragon head spear skill and the tempest of lighting skill, plus my auxiliary penta skill as well."

I narrated my strongest skills, in addition to the skill that helped me a lot. Robin shook his head in disappointment as he said:

"Forgive me princess, but all of them are considered low class skills. perhaps that dragon head skill might be considered as a medium class skill."

His reply didn't annoy me as he feared, in return I was excited as that meant I would learn a new skill today, and this skill was something out of my league for my current leve.

Returning back with this skill would make it worth the effort I would put in learning it. I nodded my head in appreciation as I said:

"Then teach me one of the most powerful offensive skills you ever know."

He stayed silently in his place for a few moments before saying:

"Spearman class is a straight forward offensive class. Traditional players might mistake that swordsman class is the best in offense, however that's wrong.

Putting two players in comparison, one swordsman and one spearman, and make them both fight a higher level monster separately. You will be amazed to find that the spearman would kill the monster faster than the swordsman. Do you know why princess?"

"No, please inform me," I said as his words were somehow similar to the words I long heard from my master.

"It's because swordsman class has some defensive skills in their skill tree, and that makes their mindset have some defense in their line of thoughts. However for us, we have no defense at all, so when we are facing any opponent the fight becomes a race against each other, who would end up killing the other faster.

So all our skills are offensive with very minor defensive skills that could be literally neglected as their defensive effects are really minimal, like that dragon head skill of yours. It only has one second immunity, and that makes it a non-practical defensive skill.

Based on this, in my opinion the most powerful offensive skill is the one that could kill the enemy faster than others, and so I have just the right skill for that. What do you think of princesses?" he said with shining eyes from excitement. I didn't know why but he reminded me of my master, was every spearman crazy as these two? would I end up being as crazy as them?

"I can find anything to say to oppose your words, so what is this skill?" I asked.

"It's called a star descent spear skill, and it's considered one of the strongest pVp and AOE skills in the spearman class."

The name of the skill gave me sudden inspiration about how strong and deadly it was. I hoped I could learn it fast and bring forth its full potential. I nodded in admiration for Robin's choice as I turned to look towards Gen:

"Inform the men about the nature of fighting here."

"I have already informed them, princess," Gen immediately replied.

"Good," I said before I looked towards Prino, "How much further before reaching our destination?"

Prino looked around him and then inspected the flying speed of the balloon before saying:

"We have around six hours maximum to reach there."

"Good, you have six hours to teach me, let's start," I said to Robin who said at once:

"Princess, there is something I have to tell you about."

"What?"

"The skill I'm going to teach you is risky, so training on it here might harm the others," he said while looking around him towards all the players here.

"Do you want us to stop and train here first?" I said with some surprise as I didn't expect him to say that.

"Well, if not then training here would be impossible," he said.

"But waiting here is also bad, as there are many eyes fixating on you right now. being in the sky is a privilege as they can't easily attack you here. if you descended then they will attack you in a try to capture as many as possible," Prino suddenly refused as he expressed his thoughts.

He was thinking right, and the reasons behind attacking us were already guessed by me. This world's inhabitants couldn't excavate treasures on their own, and so they needed our help.

With us being here, they could finally get as many treasures as they could. I was once tempted in doing a trade with people here, as I would help them in finding treasures, and they help me in killing their guardians, but I soon let down that thought.

There was no guarantee they would stick to our agreement, besides they would have the absolute advantage over us, then why would they listen to us in the first place?

"Then we can't train on this skill then, do you want me to look for another skill princess?" Robin said as he was trying to find a middle solution that might suit all of our interests.

I looked towards Prino, then Gen, and finally towards Robin as I said my decision:

"We both will descend on the ground to train, and the balloon would stay up here in patrol and guard. If anything threatening comes to us down there, then you will notify us and we will ascend up again."

"Princess, this is…" Gen said as he tried to change my mind, however I raised my hand to stop him as I said:

"We aren't in a picnic here, we need to find that pond and use it to leave here fast. Any delay would end up in a worse situation than we already are in. Just stay here and guard me well and there would be nothing for you to fear."