Agatha The Legendary Guild Master

The moment that guarding NPC greeted me, the whole place stirred up and greeted me as well. This wasn't as bad as the players' reaction, which was really hard to deal with.

I passed into the gates, simply like that, while I entered the mansion. The first one I saw there, was someone I never expected at all to be there.

"Master!"

He was my master, and he seemed quite worried and concerned by something when he pumped into me and Diana.

"Oh, it's Agatha, how are you doing?" he said, in a simple, yet casual greeting that made me feel how much he was worried and distracted at this moment.

"I'm doing great," I said, before Lady Nada came from behind him as she said:

"Oh, Agatha, what brings you here now?"

"I just have a meeting with players' groups representatives in the town, to discuss the means to repel the monster tide tomorrow, so I was asking f…"

I wasn't able to continue my own words, as suddenly the sky above the town dimmed, like a storm was coming. My master muttered beside me, in a very soft, yet heavily worrying tone:

"It has already started."

"What started, master?" I asked, as the sky just dimmed, but there was no single cloud in it.

"The monster tide that's being prepared by your enemies," he replied, making me flabbergasted!

"Isn't it supposed to be tomorrow?" I asked, with disbelief!

"It should, but after their defeat at the witch's grave, they were enraged, so they did something to the incoming monster tide," my master said, as he turned to look at Lady Nada, who shook her head with regret while saying:

"There is nothing you can do, or I, or any other NPC here. she had to face this threat alone," Lady Nada said, a very distressing word, "and she had to survive this ordeal using her own powers!" she added, making me feel the monster tide to come wasn't that easy at all.

"There is no time, my precious disciple," my master suddenly turned to look at me, as he took out a scroll, a strange scroll, covered with ores like gems, while he added, "use it at once, and you will gain the knowledge of another mystic art, a very deadly one."

He paused, as he glanced again, trying to confirm Lady Nada's decision, and her face never changed, "I hoped I would give you more help, but my hands are tied, all of our hands are so," he said, before patting on my shoulders, making me feel the heaviness of the burden I was now carrying.

My enemies, my treacherous wolves didn't accept their defeat back at the witch's grave so lightly, and they came for me!

"Don't worry," I said, to him, to Lady Nada, "I won't be defeated easily, I would never be defeated at all!"

I then turned to Diana as I walked outside the palace, "Diana, go and gather everyone up. We will meet at the front gate of the town!"

I said, while going straight, seeing nothing in front of me but the distant town gate getting closer and closer. The closer I walked towards it, the more dim the sky became. I didn't know what was going on, but I was prepared for the worst, for the hardest fight I had ever entered!

The look of my master, that grim look gave me goosebumps already. My master wasn't anybody, so to be worried and concerned like that made me realize how hard the incoming monster tide was.

"What do you hide out there for me? just bring it on, no matter what I will shatter it like I always do!"

I had already reached the town walls, where I found a nearby staircase. I climbed it, while seeing all the chaos happening inside the town more clearer than before.

Everyone was running, some were trying to gather up with others, while some were trying to escape. I also saw some punks who just spoke up very loudly, calling players to abandon town, as this was punishment designated for me.

"Noisy!"

I said, calmly muttered from my place, while my spear traveled in lightning speed towards these traitors, killing them in one hit.

That spear, that familiar snapping sound, my presence, all were acknowledged by players in the town! As I climbed higher, reaching the higher flat end of the wall, I saw many players coming towards me, running as fast as they could, while trying to stand before me.

I wasn't just a normal player, I was already a symbol in their hearts! Rody once told me that many players had already migrated from many towns to come here just based on my name alone!

I stood there, with my spear above my fingers, my back to the outside, while glancing calmly towards the swarm of players accumulating here in great numbers, batch after batch without stop!

Players of this town didn't abandon me! the players of my town didn't leave me behind!

That was enough to boost my morale, making my heart drum like a huge drum war, exploding it's mighty sound in my ears, reverberating my whole body with it, with energy, with desire to fight!

I then said nothing, just keeping my spear up in the sky, while looking towards the outside. I waited, waited for my enemies to appear, to this monster tide to come.

The more time elapsed, the more dim it got, until it was almost pitch dark, with nothing to be seen, nothing but the shining light of my spear, breaking this darkness for players, acting like a beacon.

"System notification: Monster tide is about to attack the town, be ready and defend the monsters' attack till the last one."

This system prompt came with sudden silence afterwards, a silence that was broken, loudly, by massive lightning bolts appearing in the sky.

The sky seemed to be ripped open, by a mighty force, as the game seemed helpless against it.

"System notification: the game is under attack from another external force. The game failed to prevent the intrusion. The players have to deal with this attack, and repel the intrusion."

Just moments later, the sound of thunder started to echo everywhere, while a globe shaped object started to fall from that rip in the sky. This object was so massive that even the huge rift in the sky wasn't enough to make it pass through.

It took a couple of minutes, and more tears to the sky, for that object to fully descend here. It was a piece of land, a huge piece of land, with a semi globular base, and a flat surface.

The moment it fell on the ground, a massive collision force erupted, like a mushroom cloud, while the waves of its aftershock kept coming and hitting the town walls one after another.

Just as I stabilized myself on top of the walls, I couldn't believe myself as I felt a very familiar aura around me. I turned around, with the sky starting to light up again, but it never returned to its formal shining, and the rift was still there, present as a deep scar on the face of the sky of our world.

"System notification: part of the witch's cursed lands has fallen in the town. The town is now locked up, no one to enter, no one to exit. The town is now connected to the witch's cursed lands, following the same rules there. the game has no power to stop it. The monster tide is now forcibly replaced by the demon tide.

All players have to work and defeat all the demons in the piece of land, and the reward for that will be tremendous by the game."

The system notification came to make me, to make everyone realize how terrible this would be. I now realized why my master came to offer his assistance, and why he gave me this scroll, to learn at once a mystic art!

I was sure, such a scroll was indeed priceless. I didn't flinch, or feel fear, as my mind started to assess the current situation.

That piece of land that fell here was like a whole layer from the mystic art sacred land I just returned from. The layer fell on the ground nearby my town, flattened the lands there, while it still formed an elevation above the ground.

So, they already had the advantage of height, like being on the top of a hill or on top of walls. This wasn't boding well, as I only had one option, to defend, only defend.

The next thing I noticed was related to the rules itself, we were now inside the mystic art sacred lands, which meant only mystic art users like me could have a chance to destroy these demons' shells, then other players could simply kill them.

But here came the main problem, I had a small number of mystic art users in town! That number might grow a little if other groups, those who had enmity with me, decided to join hands with me for now, but I was pretty sure that would never happen.

So, my choices were limited, and my enemy was endlessly superior to me and powerful.

However, I could use my artifacts! That was, alone, enough for me to face any army without any fear!