Agatha The Legendary Guild Master

As I stood amidst all those great and venerable masters, I realized how I was so low in the general status ladder of this society, yet here I was, standing there like one of them.

Camilia, that lady who wanted to toy with my poor demon and kill it, looked at me as she calmly asked, in a serious face void of any humor:

"Tell me, what exactly happened?"

I noticed that all the masters were now looking at me attentively, and at this moment I felt some nervous, as I tried to be as calm as possible:

"I went to conquer the castle of the fifth layer, and after conquering it, three mystic art masters came to sneakily attack me, and when I killed one of them, the other two escaped, threatening me with their master, and here I am, being trialed for a crime I didn't do, and on hands of the criminal himself!"

I started speaking with some nervousness, but the more I spoke, the more anger I became, and I totally forgot any anxiety or nervousness at all. All I cared about was to get my right back, and that thief would be punished, properly punished.

"May I ask why you chose that castle?" One of the venerable masters politely asked.

"I just wanted the biggest castle with the best defenses on layer five, and that castle was fulfilling all what I dreamt of," I replied.

"You didn't know anything about the importance of the castle or how difficult it was, or impossible, to obtain it?" another venerable master sneered as he said, in a tone that didn't please me.

"Antoine, don't let your feelings for your former disciple cloud your judgment," another venerable master said, and I learnt why I felt some hostility from that master, that Terik was his disciple after all.

"I just want to hear her answer," that venerable master seemed to be fixated on hearing my answer.

"Ok, I will answer you, venerable master," I said, as I didn't like the attitude of being under accusations like this, "I didn't know its importance until meeting and hearing you now. all I knew about was it's hard to acquire a castle, and that made me want it more back then," I replied on his questions without any stress or worry.

"Then how did a little girl like you manage to acquire that castle? How did you bypass that nasty sword?" he seemed to be really determined to ask me all his long list of questions. Though I could answer him, his attitude didn't suit my taste at all.

"Why are you asking me and not asking your precious disciple?" I suddenly asked, making everyone look at me in an astonished way.

"Do you have a death with a kid?" that master sneered as he said that.

"Are you threatening me?" I replied back, feeling much more anger towards him than that terrible hideous disciple of his.

"Can we both calm down for a bit?" one of the venerable masters intervened, while I added, "Why don't you threaten that criminal you have as your precious disciple?"

"Enough!"

That venerable master shouted, and he seemed to have a certain position among them, as Terik's master hesitated, before stopping what he intended to do.

"Hey kid, it's not manners to talk back to your mentors like this, so you will have to answer his question first. How did you do it?"

Though it was the same question, I had no issue replying to him, as I said:

"I used this artifact to defend myself," I took out my heavy shield, lifting it up, with some difficulties, with one hand, "this shield is strong eno…"

I didn't even complete my words when a sudden flash of light arrived in front of me without any warning at all. All I did was to hide my own body behind the huge shield, subconsciously, without knowing what just happened.

"Stop!"

A sudden shout appeared, as I heard a clang sound followed by the disruption of this strange light. I heard some ruckus and then everything quieted down. I raised my head to peep on what was happening, and I was astonished to see that the Terik master was already surrounded by three of the other masters, while they were threatened by the rest.

"What is the meaning of that?" one of the masters asked, the one who seemed to be their leader.

"What? I was just testing what she was saying, after all my sword was just inferior to the famous sword of calibre," Terik's master said.

"Even if this is true, you shouldn't have done such a thing," another master said.

"I don't care about him, I just want his disciple to be severely punished," I suddenly interfered, expressing my own desire.

If it was up to me, I would have chosen for that distasteful hideous master and the three around him to be killed, but that was impossible. They were so freakishly strong, and even with the presence of other venerable masters here, it seemed there was no threat on them.

So, I had to get out of here, killing Terik, making that vulnerable master of his suffer such a loss. I thought Terik was acting on his own, but they were all paws of that venerable master and his gang.

So, acting realistic now, I had to put my grudge down for now, as things seemed much more complicated than I initially thought.

"No one is going to touch my disciple!" that master bellowed with some anger. He seemed to be pissed off at my declaration, but he didn't know, I couldn't touch him, but I can touch Terik.

"Ca…"

Before anyone of them could speak, I suddenly summoned the one artifact they were all afraid of, that sword of calibre, I took from the hands of that demon, and with it in hand, and the shield in another, I attacked Terik, who was standing with confident smile just a moment ago, bathing him in the burning light of my sword, vanishing him from this realm.

I killed him, just like that, and when his master tried to hit me with his sword, my shield defended me again, and that strike did nothing but push me a couple of steps to the back, with the angry looks of this master.

"I killed Terik, as he is obviously manipulating the rules of the society for his own benefits, and I demand for him to be expelled from here, and be hunted down for his medal," I said, as I wasn't intending to cower away after claiming his life, I planned to go further beyond that.

"Are you done?" Terik's master simply said, as his breathing was racing. Before he could add anything else, that leader of the venerable masters said:

"I declare Terik to be expelled from society, and you to be punished for your misbehavior. You won't be able to access the sacred lands in any mission of the society for two years from now."

I opened my eyes at maximum, then I realized what this master just said. away from punishing Terik, as I requested, he gave me a slight punishment, as forbidding me from accessing any other mission for two years, which meant I couldn't level up or upgrade in two years.

That was harsh, somehow, but I felt he was trying to protect me, though. I knew I had my territory there, so I could just go to the sacred land by using the castle, but I couldn't access any other lands, not now at least.

"Thanks for your mercy, venerable master," I said, while bowing my head to him. He had helped me, and I had to show him my understanding and gratitude.

As for Terik's master, he just harrumphed, before pointing out to me as he loudly said:

"Listen to me, witch descendant, watch your back, as you won't see me coming."

I knew he wasn't bluffing, or saying any meaningless words, but I was astonished to see the others looking in vigilance towards him, like they were ready to attack him if he did a move on me right now.

"Let's go for now," my master said, as he sensed it was dangerous for us to stay here. I walked following his lead, as I looked back towards that venerable master, the enemy of mine, as I sneered without showing any signs of weakness to him.

Master took me downstairs, towards the heart of the room I was brought to at first. He was followed by other masters, who were with him along the beginning.

"Listen carefully," he suddenly said, while moving towards the exit of this room, "this door will lead you back to your world, but be careful out there, as that man is a snake, and you challenged his authority in the public," the master added.

"Don't worry master," I said, "I was his enemy from the beginning, at least now me and him can battle face to face without hiding in the shadows, after all snakes love shade, hate light," I added, with a sneer, as I wasn't the loser in this challenge, but I was the winner, by knowing who exactly was my enemy, and how strong and authoritative he was.

"Good luck then," the master just smiled warmly as he wished me luck. He didn't say another word, as I went towards the door, opened it and turned to look at them, bowed my head while saying:

"I will be indebted to you my whole life, thanks."

I then passed through the door, closed it and was bathed in a blinding white light.

Let's Make An Array

"Good, continue and never stop then," Arthur said, patting Ron on the shoulder before adding more meat to the already exhausted reserves. He then went to check the new seedlings, those who would be put to further tests, and be granted many opportunities.

"Who, among you, is afraid of being killed, step out and return home now," Arthur said once he stopped in front of these youths. Most of them were present when he reached here with his small group of mages, summoned those huge monsters and took over the clan head title by his own hands.

He didn't know that, but inside all those seedlings' souls, he was already a legend.

No one moved an inch, instead they all raised their chests in pride, even if it took them to die, they would be dead under the teachings of their legendary clan head, some honor many were preparing to take any risk to obtain.

Arthur just nodded, commending all of them silently inside his mind. It wasn't the first time for him to teach new disciples, he had a sect before, and he taught those youngsters until they became masters.

And he intended to do exactly the same here, however the only problem he had was that he was exposed, totally exposed to any stranger eyes watching sneakily from far.

There was no time to look for another place, hidden from eyes, secluded, for training, so his only option now lied in one thing, the arrays!

Arrays were one great tool to affect mother nature, using the energy of heaven and earth, channeling it into a modified way that would cause certain results. What he needed now was an illusion array, not an advanced one of course, as advanced arrays would take much time and materials to be ready.

He could build a simple yet effective disguising array, which would be one of the lowest arrays in the illusion category, one of the lowest he ever made in his entire life.

To make an array, he needed various materials, like a special kind of wood to form poles, pillars of any array, and if he had a special type of clothes he would go further to form flags, but he lacked that right now.

He had the wood material, that charcoal he gathered from the burning forest from before, he had a lot of it. These burnt down trees were really unique, as they absorbed a lot of energy dissipating from the heavenly garden.

He thought if that didn't work to use the trees inside the garden, but he didn't want to do so, so he hoped this would succeed using this charcoal.

The second thing he needed would be a special ink, and he already had three unique blood reserved to be used as ink, one of that scorpion, which was kept alive, and even was given a chance to eat some meat from time to time to recover part of its strength before continuing its bleeding.

The second would be that flying monster's blood. A five horned flying monster that had a really long neck, a crocodile-like head, and sharp and thin needle-like feathers, grading in red colors to orange, with a black fanned tail. Arthur also kept it in a wounded state, and never let it heal, treating it the same way he treated the scorpion.

The third, and the highest and most precious type of ink would be that was gathered inside the heavenly garden, forming a large pool, came from the killed ancient demon.

Arthur was skeptical to use that ancient demon blood, after all it was so rare to meet one, and even much rarer to kill one. So, he decided to go with the scorpion and that bird's blood.

He knew he couldn't use different types of inks in making the poles of the array, unless he was doing a complicated array that was formed by other smaller arrays. So, he chose what he had much of, the scorpion blood.

The third thing he needed was to know how to draw the general and specific diagram of the array, where to distribute the poles, forming certain diagrams, matching heaven and earth energy flow.

He had this knowledge already, deep enough so he could teach others, and was considered by others as being a master. He looked at the youths, as he said:

"I want you to keep eating this meat, each will take only one hundred pieces until I come back," he said, as he threw a huge pile of meat in front of them.

His move seemed unnecessary to others, but he knew how deeply malnourished these youths were, and how bad their bodies needed energy. If he wanted to form an elite force as fast as possible, then he must start with what he started with for himself, nurturing his body in the right way.

And also he needed some time to make the array. He then left Randy with the new youths, as he loved the idea of being the head of them, and started to yell at them for no reason at all, but Arthur didn't say anything, as these youths needed some harsher treatment than the care he was giving them.

And Randy seemed to be the perfect candidate to do this role.

He then returned inside again, with his mind busy by the array he intended to do. He didn't doubt if that array would work here or not, as he stopped asking himself such questions since he met that venerable mysterious dragon being.

Without knowing it, Amelia was walking, silently, behind him. She didn't mean to sneak on him, as she noticed how deeply immersed he was, and she didn't want to disturb him.