Agatha The Legendary Guild Master

I didn't wait for long, as after two hours, Rog sent me the coordinates of a fort, while saying:

'This is a heavily guarded one, acting as the centre of their forces in this layer. There are many mystic art players here, and a huge number of balloons and defensive reinforcements. I also spotted a couple of masters as well, so be careful.'

I smiled, evilly, when I received this message. It seemed the main force of the enemy wasn't that far from us after all, and they had to leave behind all these forces combined to delay us.

I took back my demon without a warning, before I took out my own balloon, while letting it appear in front of everyone here. I jumped, before sending a message in the combined chat:

'I will head out, continue sweeping the place here.'

I then went ahead on my balloon, while putting my huge shield artifact on its front, holding my spear on the other hand, and heading directly towards the coordinated Rog sent.

The fort was day and half walking time from our current location, but in flight the time got greatly shortened to half a day only.

When I reached there, it was almost night, but I managed to spot many torches in the distance, with a huge number of shadows walking around these torches.

I spotted at least hundreds of thousands of players there, and that gave me a clear picture on how important this fort was.

In fact this fort lied in the centre of the layer, where no one could bypass it, guarded by mountains on both sides, making it lie at the neck of this place.

I didn't delay, and controlled my balloon to head downwards, where I summoned the demon on the ground. "Go and kill them all!" I softly muttered, as this was gradually becoming my most familiar phrase recently.

The demon didn't delay and started running towards the front, while I went also with him, moving my balloon in the air.

Two people only moved against this huge army of players at the same time, making us look quite insane, or having a suicidal wish.

However we two were enough to deter these enemies, causing enough chaos and stir in their ranks, as many shouts came from their place, after spotting my demon and my balloon.

They didn't wait this time for me to come near them, as endless streams of attacks erupted from this fort, taking advantage of the many tall towers lying there.

Also their masters joined in these combined attacks, which were mainly focused on my demon. I didn't delay and made the balloon lose altitude fast, used my shield to answer all these attacks at the right time, while my demon started using his artifacts, sending enough devastating attacks towards the fort.

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

Sounds of explosions occurred, with large flashes of light followed by the huge tongues of fire ascending to the skies, illuminating the faces of everyone there, killing endless players in the process.

"Again!"

I shouted at my demon, who didn't delay and sent more attacks towards the forte, while the forte replied with a less concentrated wave of attacks. It seemed the first attack of my demon caused great destruction to the fort, causing many to lose their lives.

I shielded all the attacks again, and again, while my demon kept sending enough attacks to demolish the whole forte. The forte had some defenses running to shield it partially from attacks, but it couldn't shield the attack of the calibre and the witch two swords.

In one hour, the whole fort was left in ruins, with fire mighty enough to lighten the whole valley and great part of the two huge mountainous walls. As for players and masters there, they were either killed, or hastily retreated, leaving only a place littered with dead bodies everywhere.

As the place went into dead silence, I descended with my balloon to the ground, jumped off it, while my demon was running here and there searching for any survivors to kill.

"Stop already, they are either long dead or long gone!"

I said to my demon while my tone showed how upset I was. I was sure many masters here ran away at the last part of the battle, and the inability for me to chase them made me quite upset.

I started searching everywhere for the medallions, but I couldn't find many, only a handful of one hundred something ones.

'Come to this place and sweep it clean from loot,' I sent to the general chat, while sharing the coordinates with them.

'Princess, there is another forte that is much more fortified.'

Rog sent these words to me instantly, like he was waiting for me to finish this war here. he didn't say another word, which made me send to ask:

'What's wrong? send me the coordinates already!'

'It's your forte,' he simply replied before sharing the coordinates of the forte I once conquered.

The moment I saw these coordinates, I recognized them, feeling much enraged.

These bastards didn't aim only for their forts, but they also went ahead and attacked forts that belonged to players, like my own crown jeweled heart of this layer forte!

I knew the forte had weaker defenses from the time I attacked it, but it was heavily fortified. It seemed the guardian kicked out all players and forces stationed inside any forte and territory, making my players defenseless against the huge army of nobles.

I gritted my teeth, as this was a loss I had to accept. I also had to accept the fact that any forces at the later layers would be entirely lost!

The only consolation in that would be the armies wouldn't fall without a fight, and that would cause considerable damage on the long run!

It was a lose-lose situation for everyone, where we all lost something, in return for gaining another bigger benefit. I had to accept such fact, as my enemies had to.