Agatha The Legendary Guild Master

"Good, just in time, lead the way then," I said, as the demon stepped forward, while me and my team passed through this scorching hell, with many worms' bodies littered on the side of our walking path, to finally reach the first oasis here.

And there I spotted a great number of monsters, killed, with none alive, even its boss monster.

"Good boy, you even killed them as well, great," I patted on my demon's shoulder, while looking to Rog, "go and check the place."

The oasis was formed of many small sand hills, surrounding a central well that had water pouring magically out of it. The area adjacent to the well water was green, a strange existence in this yellow scorching desert.

Rog moved to the front, scouting and checking the state of things, before sending in team chat:

'All clear, there is no monster here.'

I knew my little demon could be depended upon, so I moved inside the oasis, and headed directly to the well.

"Go and collect any material we can get, then come and drink from the waters of th…"

I was about to finish my words, when I suddenly saw a huge pillar of water coming out from the well's direction. Even before I could speak, Rog hurried to say in the chat:

'Princess, there is still a monster here, seemed to be the boss of this oasis.'

I looked, in a blaming way, towards my demon, which just shrugged his shoulders. This monster was well hidden to be honest, but it should have found and killed it.

"Alright, let's gather around and go to kill this monster."

I threw my spear high up in the air, then I didn't wait for my team to gather around, or for the monster to show itself, as I threw my spear to hit it.

My spear's attack caused the monster to roar from pain, as it moved backward, away from the water pillar, showing its strange body, full of scales.

It was a long python, which stood, weirdly, inside the water pillar. The moment it left the water under my spear attack, all the scales on its body shone in bright light, with pillows of smokes rising from its huge body, like it was burnt under the scorching heat of the desert.

At once, it roared in more pain before it tried to enter the water pillar again.

"Don't let it reach the pillar, all attacks focused to cause pain and knock it off balance," I suddenly shouted, as I snapped my fingers and then threw my spear towards it.

This time I was supported by the skills of my team, while my demon pet didn't stand still, as it understood my words and moved to grab that monster, lifted it from the well, and threw its huge body on the scorching sand.

The monster kept roaring, and I kept pushing it away from the well.

"Secure the well, and keep pushing it away," I yelled again, as my target wasn't to kill it directly with the skills, but to keep its huge body away from the water, so it would get grilled with the hot sun and sand.

Just as the battle raged on, the monster finally realized how hard it was to bypass our tight grasp of the well, so it started to attack viciously, spraying out venom towards every single member of my team, but luckily we all managed to evade this strange AOE attack.

As this failed, it tried to attack us one by one, using its huge opened mouth, with those freakily dreadful looking fangs, or using its huge tail, using the advantage of its high agility, and its unpredictability, to hit us one by one.

Some of us got hit, but most of us didn't get any considerable damage. These physical attacks seemed not the speciality of this monster, or it might be under huge pain, so it wasn't fighting with its full power.

Whatever the reason, this monster was doomed to be killed after the passage of ten minutes, setting the record of the longest monster killed under my hand in the dungeons so far.

Once it fell on the ground, I felt a strange vitality going on the oasis, as the part of sand around the whole oasis changed, forming a place full of green plants, with the mild refreshing atmosphere of any garden.

"Wow, that monster was eating this place's vitality," Diana muttered as she stood beside me with some wounds over her body. This battle wasn't easy, and the most difficult part of it was the element of surprise that the monster used perfectly to hit us.

"Rest for two minutes, and start collecting the materials, then we will move out," I said to my team, before looking at my demon, "you would have caused us a great set back here. go up ahead, and make sure you kill all the monsters properly this time."

My demon roared, as it was trying to justify its failure, but I didn't consider any of its roars. It moved then, in a wide strides, like it was angry or something, towards the distance.

"Is it wise to let it go alone like this?" Rog asked, "this monster was tough, and the next would be much tougher," he added.

"Don't worry, it is stronger than these ants here. it was just a sloppy move from it, and I'm sure this wouldn't happen again."

In fact I wasn't worried over my demon, as I knew how strong it really was. This battle was just a mere mistake from it, and if we didn't attack and kept in the way, it would have simply finished it sooner.

In less than five minutes we were again on the burning sand of the desert, heading towards the second oasis. Alone the road, the dead bodies of the worms were thrown here and there. my team kept gathering materials, until we reached the second oasis.

The oasis' boss monster was killed already, and the whole area was now covered in green. My demon wasn't here, which meant it went ahead to kill more monsters.

"Gather the materials fast, and let's go to the third oasis."

We didn't wait there for two minutes before we hit the road again, following the dead monsters' trail along the road. When we reached the third oasis, the battle was still raging between my demon and three boss monsters at the same time.

"This oasis is the last one, the hardest one. Let's use any distant skills and help my demon," I shouted while sending my spear towards one of the three monsters.

I thought the battle was in its hottest moment, but it turned out the monsters were about to die. My demon had already caused them severe damage, and with our attacks, they all fell on the ground, dead, releasing the curse over this land, turning it into a piece of heaven.

The demon stood, in pride, before the bodies of the three monsters, while I just nodded to him in satisfaction. Without its great aid, we couldn't even finish the dungeon in one piece.

"Let's go out now," I said, after resting for a couple minutes and collecting the materials. Once we exited the place, I noticed the presence of a larger audience around the dungeon.

I didn't care about them, as I looked up to hear the ranking of our dungeon run.

At the same time I heard two notifications, telling me about leveling up twice, and most of the team leveled up thrice, or even four times.

I didn't wait long, as the announcement came at once:

"Regional Announcement: Congratulations to the Bloodthirsty adventure group finishing the hell difficulty Lvl twenty dungeon scoring first place. the group leader will receive a scroll as a gift."

It was the same reward as clearing the previous dungeon, but the announcement caused a stir in the distance. The groups of players there had already heard the announcement, and that caused them to be shocked with it.

Two dungeon runs in a row, with two shortest times scored so far. I was proud of myself, and I knew that would be a start of a legend, with everyone either wanting to join us or envying us.

"Guys, let's go to the next dungeon," I said, raising my voice so the whole place would hear me, "Rody, lead the way," I said, asking Rody to lead the road, side by side, with my huge pet.

Our move, coupled with my sudden declaration, made the whole world around us unsettled, as all the players moved, following our lead, towards the next dungeon.

Dungeon level twenty five was already considered the highest dungeon defeated among players up till now. The defeated difficulty there was the high difficulty, with no hell difficulty being knocked down yet.

I learnt about this along the way from the loud whisper of players following us. This was just perfect, as we can now have the title of being the first to beat the hell difficulty dungeon.

Thinking about it made my blood boil. I was sure my enemies were now hidden amongst the crowd of players, waiting for a moment to attack, but I didn't bother.

What I was doing now couldn't be removed by just attacking us, they needed to find a way to beat our dungeon run, or else they would be still defeated forever.