Agatha The Legendary Guild Master

From my first experience dealing with that vampire, I moved with care, using my spears first to go deeply into the darkness, hitting everywhere with my growing entourage of spears, until a sizzling sound was heard.

"There!" I shouted at Diana and everyone, as I pointed with my other hand towards the place the sound came from. Diana moved, unsheathing her sword, as a halo of fire appeared around it.

She used a fire based art to attack, a very wise move indeed.

Supported by my spears, and my players lightning, fire, and light skills, we managed to kill the second vampire, but the darkness didn't retreat after it fell, making me sure of the reason.

"Stay put, there is another m…"

I was about to warn them when someone screamed at the side of my players group. I hurriedly turned to find a long thin branch was rolling around its leg, like a snake, before it violently pulled him back into the darkness.

The next moment we all heard a crunching voice, followed by the abrupt silence of this player's screams.

Scary!!

I really felt how hard this place was!

"Stay put, the trees are cursed!"

I shouted, as my spears plunged into the darkness, heading straight towards the place the player's creams ended at. The next moment I heard a shaking sound, and then the darkness there vanished, showing off an ugly shaped tree, with a hideous face at the middle of its heavily wrinkled bark.

The moment I saw it, I knew I wasn't in a normal dungeon, I was like in a nightmare of my own. I also noticed that the darkness only retreated one third from the area around us, that meant we still had two more monster trees to kill.

I didn't hesitate and sent my spears far longer than I did before, targeting areas covered in darkness. After many trials, I heard the same shaking move, and the darkness slowly dissipated, and a hideous faced tree appeared in front of me.

This limited greatly the places I could search for the third tree, and in less than two minutes, I managed to kill it, totally clearing the area around us.

"So it's an evil dungeon princess," Diana suddenly said, which attracted my attention at once. "What do you mean by that?" I demanded.

"Some dungeons here would be cursed, we don't know how or why, but all we know is these dungeons are so hard to clear, and the boss at its end would be a really hard one. However, clearing it would grant us many rewards, especially mystic art medallions," she explained, and her last part already enticed my excitement.

"Then we should aim at clear everything here," I declared, while glancing back at the five hundred players of my team as I added in a loud, clearly audible voice:

"From now on don't move close to any darkness area. Stay ten meters at least away from it, and anyone with fire, lightning, or light distant skill can freely join the fight."

"What about others?" one of the players asked.

"It's your lucky day, you will all be carried along by me and the others," I said, with a chuckle, and my reply helped in driving a smile over their stressed faces.

The next thing was a direct venture of me and Diana on the front, while others were kept just behind the two of us, with enough safe distance so we didn't lose another player.

The next monsters we faced were a mix of vampires and trees, and again after killing the vampire, the darkness didn't withdraw, and I kept firing my spears towards the trees, killing them one by one.

Diana acted to kill the vampires, and I acted behind her to clear the trees. Our duo really acted in sync, making our performance go better after each fight.

However, after walking for one hour in this cursed dungeon, we faced our next challenge.

"Flying bloodsucker bats!" Diana screamed the moment a shadow appeared from the darkness, venturing out without any fear or pain. I saw its face, it had the face of a pained human, like someone just portrait a face of a man in the middle of torturing him.

Each bat was two meters in length, and their wings were longer than five meters in span. They moved very fast, very comfortable in the light, not affected by the skills of fire, lightning or light. My spears welcomed these group of bats, while Diana hurriedly said while killing the vampire in front of her:

"They are extremely weak to wind based skills, also water skills might help as well."

Her words helped in greatly shifting the tide of this sudden battle, as players with these two skills started to join the fight, making the number of bats falling growing faster than when I attacked them with my spears.

It didn't matter who managed to kill them, all I cared about was to kill them all!

As my players were doing great fighting the bats, I started to clear the trees first, and sometimes joined the fight if one bat managed to slip past the barrage of skills, heading closer to the heads of my players.

That sudden hurdle was passed successfully without any losses, except for many skills needed time to reset. We waited for one minute for all skills to be available again, while the darkness retreated enough distance after killing these bats, vampires, and trees.

The next hour we kept killing these waves of monsters without stop. After one hour, another change appeared, and that gave me a clear view about the rules of this dungeon.

This time, a new type of monster appeared, a giant shadow loomed in the darkness in front of us. Diana, again, spotted that and recognized its identity at once.

"It's a troll!"

Her sound reverberated fast to everyone, and I once understood how hard it was to deal with such giant, thick defenses, brutal strength monsters.

"You, make yourself helpful and go kill it!"

I shouted at my demon, who did nothing since the moment we stepped in here. I jumped off its shoulders, while the demon was enraged by my words, and went ahead in great strides towards that troll, engaging with it.

The troll was huge, but compared to my demon, it seemed smaller. Our team got divided at once, part killing bats, Diana killing vampires, my demon killing the trolls, and me killing the trees.

We kept doing this before the next hour passed, and with it I knew a new change would happen.

"Stay sharp, another monster will appear soon."

My warning helped in raising the vigilance of my team again after they felt secured by our current rhythm. Just as we killed two more waves of monsters, we were welcomed by the new addition here.

Loud howls suddenly erupted from everywhere around us!

"Wolves?" one of my players asked in surprise, while I had a very bad feeling about it. "Retreat, everyone retreat!" I suddenly gave the orders, as these weren't wolves, they were werewolves!

My sudden shout startled everyone, Diana included, but they all retreated for tens of meters, pulling themselves away from the harm path.

Or that what everyone thought, like myself, but the next moments we were proven wrong! many bats started to come towards us, while over fifty werewolves appeared from the darkness, heading straight towards us.

"We will pull these two monsters first, kill them, then we will start killing the rest," I shouted, in a try to push some new morale into my players.

"Werewolves are weak to earth based skills. use them without restraints, and all defenders be ready to welcome their sudden bursting attacks," Diana shouted, as the strategy of this fight was determined, simply like this.

As she said, these werewolves had a very great agility, in a moment they were standing on two legs, away from the player, and the next second it used its legs and arms to jump fast, suddenly attacking the player.

They had no fixed trajectory, as they might be moving forward, then jump left or right. Their teeth were really sharp and their jaws were really mighty, making us lose tens of players in the first clash with them.

However, with time, my players started to gain foot, recognized this weird style of fight, while my spears hit everywhere, helping in reducing the numbers of these monsters, or at least halt them in their steps.

As we managed to reduce their number to less than half, dealing with them proved to be easier with time. After ten minutes, we managed to completely kill them all.

"Diana moves to the vampire, you go and kill these trolls, and leave the trees for me. everyone, stay vigilant to any bats or werewolves coming from the shadows."

I hurriedly gave my orders to them, while we had the last step from killing this hard wave. As we dealt with our familiar monsters, we managed to completely kill them in less than five minutes.