Agatha The Legendary Guild Master

'That damned Respon! he was a puppet, a real puppet in the hands of his harem!' I cursed inwardly my useless fiancée and contender to the throne for his incompetence. "What is my role in that? I have no power in the council," I said, as I didn't understand his meaning at all.

"I know you have no saying in the supreme council matters, my lady, but you must know that the first direction known to the army about the incoming forces is the different game worlds here."

His words really startled me, as I never saw this coming. "Isn't the esteemed guardian already aware of this news?" I suddenly asked.

"Not yet," Bruce shook his head, before adding, "and even if he knew, he wouldn't be able to order the army around, or put any kind of pressure to our supreme council. The status of the esteemed guardian and our supreme council is almost equal, making the relations between the two somehow tight and nervous all the time."

I suddenly understood the reason behind the sudden peace treaty! I clenched my two fists, as for my enemies, this entire game was already a lost cause, and sacrificing it for the sake of giving me the delusion of peace was the right and smartest move to make.

"That's quite bad," I muttered, as my face was so grim right now. "Indeed it is, and that's why I have urgent advice for my lady," Bruce said, and his tone wasn't that dejected at all, making me realize something.

He warned me with the intention of giving me advice, and that meant he had a way out of this predicament. "Tell me what I should do and I won't hesitate to do it."

"The only way to secure the game is to find a way to force the supreme council's hands to follow your orders. There are some ways that I know, but your master and the esteemed guardian might know of many more ways to do it," he started his solution with this logical introduction. I just nodded, and motioned to him to continue.

"The first way is the simplest ever, and that by you winning the race to the throne, however it's not a realistic one. Though I don't know the exact date of these enemies' arrival, I believe you have not enough time to win this long and hard race.

So, there is another way I recommend, which is regarding the grand achievement of the game. you need to make the guardian issue the most sacred quest ever in the game, and you need to fulfill it before the arrival of the enemy.

Though this quest is famous for being impossible, it didn't require much time like the other solution," he spoke, explained his two options, and stopped. I sensed there is another option he didn't say, and so I asked:

"what is the third option I currently have?"

"It's for you to kill him," he vaguely said, with a very low tone, however I realized to whom he was referring to by his words. I was taken aback, as I never thought about doing this.

However just thinking about the logic behind this option made me realize how simple and effective it was. If Respon was gone, then his nasty hideous harem would lose everything, all the enemies schemed to do would be pointless, and the road to the throne would be opened and clear to me.

Despite that appealing, I didn't agree on it, or even refuse, as I simply remained silent, while looking towards somewhere else. This reaction of mine was caught by Bruce, and he didn't open this topic with me again.

If all routes were blocked, and I was about to lose everything, then I would prefer to kill that useless clown instead of losing everything, my life included.

As there was nothing else to say, I looked at everyone standing here as I said:

"You wait for me here, I will go inside for an hour or more then come back to you."

"My princess, please wait," the leader of my kingdom's dark witch small army stopped me as he added, "I have a message from your father."

I suddenly felt some warmth inside me when I heard the word father. I just nodded, while trying to control my conflicted emotions right now.

"He is wishing you success, and informs you of his readiness to support you at any time you might need his help."

I just glanced at Erick, the leader of the dark witch army, as I asked:

"Is that all?"

"Yes, my princess."

I sighed, as my father wouldn't change, not here, not there. I turned and entered the mansion again, and this time I found Lady Nada was writing something, busy in it that she didn't notice my presence except after reaching the middle of the damaged hall.

"Oh, have you forgotten something?" she asked, while only raising her head once, then returned to look in concentration towards the pile of papers in front of her.

"I know what happened, or yet to happen, and made my enemies quite restless and asking for peace in such a way," I opened my mouth, and told her the brief of things I learnt from Bruce. The more I spoke, the more dark her face became. As I finished, she stood up, said nothing as she waved her hand to me, gesturing to me to follow her, and then we entered the room of the heart stone of this town.

She then took out her precious stone, the emergency way to call the guardian, as she muttered:

"I knew something was fishy about this, but I thought it was just me being pessimistic as my nature."

I didn't comment, as I felt she was lamenting herself for not being doubtful. I knew she meant good for me, but right now things were really dangerous, and the guardian must be informed with everything.

The next moment of the cloud came out and the guardian's boat appeared in the room.

"Why are you keep calling me so often lately?" he asked once he appeared in the room. I sensed his impatience, but this time I was so sure he would be really appreciating what we were going to do.

"There is a grave danger this time, a very deadly one, and it's coming straight towards the game," Lady Nada started her words with this strong opening.

"Danger? What deadly danger are you talking about? Everything is peaceful here and the empire didn't inform me about any approaching enemy!"

He was still unaware of what was coming to him, and it seemed he was depending on the empire, to serve as an early alarming source for any future threats.

"The empire has betrayed you!" I suddenly spoke up, as his trust in the empire made me feel disgust for him. "They came to you asking for a peace treaty here and didn't inform you about the incoming threat," I added.

"Who said that?!" the guardian bellowed with extreme rage. "The army knows about it, the supreme council knows about it, the emperor, the crown prince, and all the nobles know about it!" I instantly replied, and my words came to make him silent.

"Tell me everything you know!" he asked, with calmness that was so intimidating.

I started to narrate what Bruce had told me, and the more I spoke up, the colder the environment was here.

"I see, so those bastards are coming again to attack us? And this time the imperial traitors are thinking only about their gains? Great, really great," he replied with a very cold tone, before adding:

"Agatha, I want you to do something for me."

"Anything," I instantly replied, without any hesitation.

"There is another way to force the hands of the empire, or at least its army," the guardian said, before explaining further, "the army responds only to three beings, the emperor, the supreme council, and a missionary."

"A missionary?" I asked, while Lady Nada hurried to say:

"You don't mean…?!!!"

I saw the shock in her eyes, while the guardian replied:

"It's the only way, the fastest way. I can help her through this way, but I can't guarantee any of the other two ways," he said, before adding, "even if you killed Respon, the supreme council will select another one, the next in throne line succession, and this person will be much worse than Respon. leave Respon alone for now, and let's think about how to make you reach the missionary rank."

I knew nothing about missionary rank, but I felt his words made quite sense. "Tell me, esteemed guardian, what should I do, and I will do it!"

"Sigh," he sighed, a sigh that made me realize how hard the missionary rank was, "this rank requires some impossible requirements, and gladly our goddess of luck stands by our side, as two of these requirements are already fulfilled by you."

He then paused before adding, "a missionary rank meant you are a chosen one from heavens, and that rank isn't so easy to acquire. Throughout our long history, only less than ten managed to acquire it.