Agatha The Legendary Guild Master

"You know, Shin has passed his right for the throne to me," I simply said, trying to cheer her up. The moment I said my words, casually, I noticed a great change on her face, in a way that I never saw it before!

"What did you just say? What Shin did?" her tone was shaking, and I didn't know what was the big deal about this. I was the witch reincarnation, someone with a much harder path to cross than a mere competition between princes and princesses over a mere throne!

"He passed his right of the throne to me, that happened just before I headed to the mystic lands, didn't I tell you before about it?" I said, with a silly smile over my face as I felt the tension coming from her grew stronger.

"Are you sure?" she gritted her teeth and asked, with a very serious face that I had never seen like it before on her. "Yes, I'm," I replied, without adding any more words, as the atmosphere around me started to grow cold from tension.

"That bastard!!!" she suddenly said it, with a strange smile over her face, that turned into a very tense laugh, "good move, bastard, good move! So you didn't drop your grudge then! That's interesting, very interesting."

She kept speaking those strange words in a crazy manner while I just glanced towards her, not knowing what was going on here exactly!

"Are you ok?" I finally said it, as she seemed quite bizarre at this moment.

She looked at me with her strange excited reaction, as she hurriedly replied:

"Sure, I'm good, no much better actually. Sigh, this Shin… he always loves to do things on his way, always surprising me, always having plan B."

Her words were, somehow, typical for the Shin I knew. I suddenly thought that meeting Lady Nada was a hidden move from him, as it was such a bizarre coincidence indeed.

"If he passed his right to you, then you are now considered a throne runner, do you know that?" she glanced at me with her excited beautiful rounded eyes as I nodded, calmly, without showing any excited reaction like her.

"Don't be like that, you should be much excited like me," she said, while giggling, and frankly I didn't feel any speck of excitement like she did!

"Well, at least you are excited, and that's enough for me to be happy," I sincerely replied, as she instantly said:

"It seems that Shin didn't tell you anything, right?" she sighed, as she shook her head, while reprimanding Shin, "he is always like this, leaving the big business for others to do! He is such a lazy person that I never believed he could be a king! Can you imagine that? one of his biggest supporters and he made me not trust his abilities to rule the empire! that bastard, wait until I find and punish him!"

I didn't know what was going on inside her mind, but I was sure it wasn't a good thing indeed. she must have experienced many awful memories with Shin, and that was enough to drive her crazy like that.

She regained her composure, as she calmly, finally returning to her old self, said:

"That Shin, despite being untrustworthy at everything, had left a great inheritance behind him, he loved to call it his legacy. He had gathered many loyal followers, arranged them into a very organized force, then made them lay low, hidden from the eyes of his allies before enemies. He is the only one who can trigger them, and that means he left you a grand army as backing."

Her words were really great, except for one little thing, "He didn't tell me how to trigger this hidden force."

"I know," she smiled as she added, "he told me how to activate it before meeting up with you for the first time."

Her words made me startled, and suddenly I realized something. The moment I jumped into Shin wasn't coincidental then, he was looking for me, always trying to change things to make me live, and not get killed.

He was, and I to some extent, believing in the time loop scenario of his curse. So, his meeting up with me didn't happen without previous preparations, like what he did with Lady Nada here. "He told you how to move this force?" I asked.

"Sure, but he told me not to use it unless I got the signal to do so," she nodded, before adding, "I thought he was joking, as this hidden force was always known as rumors, and even when he told me the way, I never got into deep investigation regarding it."

She paused, as she regretted her past decision, underestimating him, "he never told me it was you, or even told me he would pass the right to the throne to you. He only told me to wait for his representative, one carrying his seal and authority, then I have to help this person with my might, and use the force he hid for the last possible moment, or until I receive his signal."

Her words were vague if thought about them alone, but they were very logical in Shin's way. I smiled as I said:

"Sounds like Shin indeed."

"Yeah, indeed," she then glanced at the peaceful looking town as she added, "this town will make a great addition to my home. I will start binding the two towns together through teleportation channels, and you need to start focusing on raising your level, and your guild players levels higher."

She stopped as if she was recalling something she just forgot, "don't forget to pursue your guild conditions, after all you have one month to prepare."

I smiled as I already planned to do so. "What do you want me to do with these town players?" she suddenly asked, "and do you want me to focus on turning this town into a trade centre? There is no such a town in this area of the game world, not yet," she added.

I knew she wanted to know my general direction in developing this town, and I already trusted her wisdom and experience in developing the town into the right direction already.

"I want this town to be a military based place," I said, while pausing as I pictured a small version of my own kingdom, "I want anything related to warfare to be established here, starting from gear forging, ending up into making specialized units and form legions of NPCs."

Lady Nada just nodded, as she heard my answer from before to the guardian, but now she was hearing it in detail, making sure of my firm resolve towards it.

"So, to do that we can't just depend on this town NPCs," she said, as she was thinking further towards my own goal, "I can open the recruit page for other NPCs from the game world to join, but this will be costly," she added, the main problem I couldn't solve at all.

"Don't worry, I was joking," she suddenly laughed shortly before adding, "NPCs here won't move outside their towns, as they still have dreams to pursue. We can ask for NPCs from older worlds to come here, but these ones won't move following money alone. We need something to entice their interest," she added.

Her previous words made me really feel somehow depressed, and I was so glad she was joking. As for what she asked for at the end I believed I had something that might excite them.

"Is a mecha legion interesting enough for them?" I asked, while waiting for her answer.

"Sure, it might be a factor, but I think your whole life story is something they would definitely follow," she said, finally expressing what she was aiming at.

She wanted me to raise the banner of the witch, call for arms to aid me, and start rising my own armies! I really wanted to do so, but this wasn't easy to handle, especially with hawks roaming around me, claiming for my head!

"Won't that arouse more enemies than allies?" I asked.

"Enemies are already gathering, knowing your true identity, but your allies aren't! Why is this hesitation then?"

I took a deep breath, silently looking at her, before she added:

"Right now the guardian is on our side, controlling this whole game world with an iron fist. We should take advantage of this, organize our lines as our enemies are doing the same. This is a very, very long war that won't end with a couple of battles.

Heed my words well, this war will last for years, with many battles to lose, and much more to win, and the final winner will be the most prepared, most to endure one. So let's start our preparations, and not be delayed than our enemies."

Her words made sense, reminding me of Shin's words. I couldn't find anything to refute her logic, and she was right in every single point she clarified.

I was already targeted by my enemies, and so why would I be afraid then from declaring my identity to the whole world?

"Alright," I nodded, "you will be responsible for dealing with these matters, while I will focus on developing here, strengthening my guild," I added, before pointing towards the town as I declared, "and this town will be an invasion centre, where I will invade one town after another after repelling the monthly monster tide."

She just glanced at me, before smiling warmly as she said:

"And I totally stand beside you, not letting your hopes and aspirations down."

I knew she meant what she said, and I was sure the upcoming days, my personal strength would grow exponentially, personally and on every single follower of mine.