Agatha The Legendary Guild Master

Waiting there wasn't that boring, as not a single minute passed without having an attack, with a brutal counter, filling the whole world with sounds of explosions.

What was weird, though, was the presence of demons, they still came on us, trying to attack our group every now and then.

When I just used my spear to kill the first of them, I recalled my buttler. As far as I know, she wasn't that easy to be killed.

"Do you know where Diana is?"

"Last time I saw her facing a couple of teams solo, but after that I lost sight of her."

Rog's reply wasn't the one I expected, as he didn't know if she was alive or not. I just sighed as I hoped she would be alive, as she was the third mystic art player in my team.

"Can you send someone to search for her?" I demanded.

"I will try," Rog replied after a moment of silence, as he didn't like that request, especially when we were short of hands here.

"Don't worry, she is worth the effort," I said.

"I know, however I'm worried she would end up dead, and so our efforts would be wasted."

I just nodded to him in a gesture for my persistence on searching for her. Diana was someone I hated at first, despised her presence later, but now I was feeling lonely, for her absence.

I thought letting her here would help, but it seemed I underestimated my enemies. the words of that guardian were still refreshing ringing in my ears. My enemies were really resourceful, with many capabilities under their disposal.

All these efforts were made just to stop me here, wasting my time and effort. I had to admit they were doing a perfect job, but as I underestimated them, they also made the same mistake regarding me.

I waited for three hours, during which the frequency of attacks decreased obviously until half an hour passed without a single attack. I waited for another half, and when I made sure everyone had lost hope, I muttered:

"Start delivering the news, Rog."

"Ok."

He simply replied before he went into silence, as he started to communicate with players, those who were still alive, and ordered them to start.

I knew spreading the news alone wouldn't help, as no one was fool enough to believe a false hope, especially through these desperate times, so I intended to demonstrate my true powers soon.

I waited, as I had to make sure my message, my war declaration would be well heard by as many players as possible.

The number of players stuck here was enormous, putting in mind this was the passageway towards all the layers above. Each force had their players and preparations ready, and most of them were now pissed off as they were forced to pay a hefty price to pass through this low layer, which they never put in the eye before.

"The message has been delivered my princess," Rog said, extracting me from my moment of thoughts. I didn't know how long it took for his players to do their job, but I believe they didn't take longer than I expected.

"Good, now I want you to follow me," I said as I started to move the balloon towards the castle. Gen approached me as he asked:

"Are we going to attack the walls with our numbers only?"

"No," I shook my head before adding, "your role isn't to fight alongside me."

Gen and Rog looked confused, while I added, "Your mission is to wait under the walls, wait for the players to come, and then lead them in my name into the walls and castle."

"What about you princess?" Gen said after he exchanged silent glances with Rog. Both seemed stressed, and didn't like my arrangements it seemed, but I had no obligation to follow their wishes, or even explain to them what I had in mind.

"Just do your part well, or else everything I will do will be wasted."

I directed my words to none of them, as I was looking away, outside the balloon, towards the nearing gloomy walls and castle. I was, in fact, addressing the two and the others behind them, as they had in their mission, which seemed simple at first glance but I knew how hard it would be.

So I prayed they both could handle things, and control the players as hard as they could.

The flight towards the walls took longer than it looked from the balloon, as it needed an hour to reach there. I thought I appeared in a place near this castle, but I was mistaken.

Just as I felt there was less than five minutes between me and the walls, I began to descend with the balloon to the ground. The area wasn't empty, as many players were already gathering from everywhere, coming to see who was insane enough to challenge the castle with the brutal walls.

The appearance of my balloon wasn't alarming, as it seemed many already had seen balloons like it or even better. That helped me to avoid spying eyes, and rude players who might pump over and interfere.

I let Gen and Rog lead the players out of my balloon, before I soared again to the sky. The two had a very simple task to do, however how they would do it was entirely left to them.

For me, I had a battle up ahead. Once I approached the walls, I heard a sudden loud shriek like scream that ached my ear drums. I put my hands over my ears to protect them, wondering what was going on.

This unpleasant scream didn't last for a couple of seconds before it faded away, abruptly like it appeared, however what followed it made me surprised. In front of me, atop one of the defensive towers in the distance, a huge dragon like creature was there, fanning its huge wings lazily, like it wasn't in the mood to fly over right now.

Its head was long, covered with strange thick scales, each seemed enough to make a fine armor out of it. The head was like a tiger, full of fur and had two rows of three long spike-like teeth in the upper and lower jaws, opened wildly in a warning, and a threat; both were targeted at me.

"Interesting," I muttered when I noticed that creature up ahead. I knew this monster, either if it had sentience or it had a master riding on its back or nearby, must have the courage to appear like this, in such a provocative way, as my enemies already knew I couldn't use my prison artifact.

Or else, this nice dragon like monster would form a very fine addition to my collection, what a waste! I preferred not to kill it, hoping I could capture it once I destroy this castle, but I knew deep inside my soul that this was just my fantasy.

Whoever sent this monster, he wanted to attack me, and thus killing this monster or hurting it badly wasn't a thing I could avoid. I moved my sight away, as I looked towards the walls, which were now just a couple of hundreds of meters away from my balloon.

It was time for me to act, and it was time for these distasteful walls to be crushed under me.

I put my spear down, making it stand over the edge of the balloon in an oblique way, and then I straighten up myself, standing alone in front of everyone watching, either a friend, a foe, or even nobody.

I waited for a whole minute to pass before I began to act. Yes, I couldn't use my witch artifact, as for some unknown reason this castle and walls could counteract its effects, however I had another, better suited artifact, that could make me easily breach these walls.

The spear artifact!

It was a small version of a spear, with nothing special about it in my opinion, however once I took it out, I felt how mistaken I was.

Just holding it in hand made me feel like I was holding on to a bolt of lightning in my tiny little hand, a bolt that had such destructive power that made my hair stand to no end.

I wasn't holding a simple small weapon like I thought, I was holding a mass destruction weapon, if used wrongly then it would lead to many souls losing their lives, and much destruction that would go beyond repair.

Holding it, feeling its true power, made me content and afraid of its power, so I didn't delay in showing off as I intended earlier, and threw my spear like I was ditching a cursed object away.

The spear once left my hand; it started to accumulate strange colored arches of energy, which danced around it like it was worshipping it. The distance was small, so I couldn't fully capture what was going on.

For those who were watching me from far, I was sure they must have been laughing at me right now, laughing at my naivety. I didn't care, as in the next moment I was sure their minds would be blown off, as they would end up facing the shocking reality.

This little girl here, with her little spear, managed to tear apart the whole walls that kept you scared from even getting close to.