Agatha The Legendary Guild Master

"Yes," I nodded, like a little girl having candies, "those big awesome gruesome mechas out there. I want to build my own mecha legion," I added.

"Oh, that might be troublesome," she said, thinking for a while, and I sat there, silently, watching her comforting face. It was great having someone like her trying to help, thinking about my problems and proposing solutions.

"To be able to do mechas here, you need a bunch of skills to arm yourself with. You have now forging skills, but you need machinery, potionology, rune making, and finally a mind to process all these," she summed what Shin once told me from old. I really didn't recall all these stuff, but I hurried to say:

"I have all the skills of these, but what do you mean by a mind to process this all?"

"That's because there is no known blueprint to make mechas, you have to make one on your own. To do that, you need to process everything, and try to mix them up. That's hard work, and also needs a very long time to be done. Are you sure you want to do it? I can propose another solution for you."

Her words carried heavy meaning and priceless suggestion, as I hurriedly accepted her offer to help, as I said:

"Sure, tell me."

"I can arrange some masters in each category you need, but there is no one with the mind enough to process all this, so the leading role will be yours, and of course the critical assembling role. In return, we will gain half of what you make, plus we will provide you with all the materials you need. That's the offer I can present to you now, with my limited abilities."

'Limited abilities?!!!' I thought to myself, wondering what would happen if she wasn't a town mayor and became a city magistrate? I was sure Lady Nada's ambitions weren't less than mine! at least in this game.

Who was she really? This can't be some random person, was she a noble? I was about to ask her about it, but instantly had cold feet. What if she had a bad old memory in her life? I wasn't that close to her, not yet, to ask her about personal details, especially when I was just a mere disciple to her.

"What? Didn't you like it?" she asked, with some stress in her tone that I strangely could detect. She needed these mechas, just like I needed them.

"Sure, that would be awesome!" I simply replied, "Your help is much welcomed and greatly appreciated. When can we start?"

I wanted to start now, but from the look over her face, I knew that would be impossible.

"Give me a week, during this week continue rampaging the dungeons, raise your players' strengths, and be ready to welcome the next monster tide," she said, making me recall this condition from the quest I got.

"Is this tide that bad?" I asked, with no clue about how severe the situation was.

"Bad?" she smiled palely, "it's not an exaggeration to say if we don't handle this right, each monster tide is enough to make this town with no existence at all," she added, expressing how dire the situation was.

I thought for a moment, my initial plans to make players get out of here wouldn't be right to use right now, not until I had enough support from players to stand firm and strong against all these tides.

"Don't worry, we aren't that weak," she said, trying to reassure me, "the problem is we would be prevented from helping you directly, but, well, not indirectly of course," she mysteriously added, which gave me some glimmer of hope. "Let's postpone this for the grand meeting at the town mansion. Now, I suggest you make gears for your members, and try not to think much about anything."

She left her seat, while adding without turning to me:

"Stay here as much as you want, I already gave my instructions to Lary. This studio will always be opened for you, for anytime you want, and to any extent you desire."

She then left the place, leaving me here speechless. This wasn't the simple studio from before, but it was a higher version of it. I was sure this might be the finest studio here in the entire guild!

"Sure, I need to clear my mind and focus on making gears for now. let other things on the side, and focus on the main task in hand."

I muttered to myself, trying to shake off any unneeded thoughts here.

The first thing I did was to think about the level of gears I would make. I decided to make all kinds of gears, and thus I needed to think hard about the level of them.

I decided to stay here for one whole week, immersing myself in forging the new gears. During this whole week, my players would go out for leveling, and for the least expectations they would all reach level thirty, with top players might reach level thirty five.

That meant I needed to make gears for level forty!

That might seem crazy, I knew that, but I put in my calculations the time between the next monster tide, give that three more weeks, so my players would be at least level forty.

Plus, even if I was here, I had left my pet out there helping them. All I needed to do was to give it some instructions, using my prison artifact, and then it would move with my players from dungeon to dungeon.

Level forty might be an underestimation of the levels they would reach, but it wasn't that bad either. I didn't want to make higher up gears, ending up storing them in the inventory!

So, level forty it was, now I had to start inspecting the designs, and start modulating them.

I opened the interface, and by habit, I waited for the face of Lady Nada to appear for a brief moment, before shaking my head, joking at myself.

The moment the interface opened, I found the designs available for me to select. There were so many of them, much more than what I usually see, and when I observed closer, I really got a scare!

"There are graded designs here! not just the standard designs granted by the system anymore," I muttered, in disbelief and shaking voice, as I looked at the long list of many designs with their higher grades, presented in front of me to choose.

"Let's pick this one and see."