Agatha The Legendary Guild Master

The thing I didn't yet know was the average consumption of these cubes in the process of upgrading the gears. So, I took out a large amount of cubes just in case.

As they started working, the first thing all were cared about was to check these strange shaped cubes, then they started fire. They started working on each player's gear, as every player took out at least a dozen of gears, and many took over twenty!

I didn't judge, as I had already a very huge amount of the souls sucker cubes inside my porin.

I watched their forging process, while giving some pointers to them from time to time. The first few attempts were lousy, and they wasted two to three cubes when only one or two were needed.

I didn't judge, as I knew how hard it was to work outside the studio for them. The fire process was really challenging, as many ruined their cubes in the first few tries.

However with time, the mistakes got lesser and lesser until everyone managed to pull it successfully without any mistakes. I watched them all with pride, as from this moment forth, I was really hoping to meet more of these monsters to obtain a huge pile of cubes.

"Princess, what is the use of these?" Diana left her gears to some group of blacksmiths, and came asking this with Alfonzo.

"These cubes are the remnants of that huge scary monster. they grant out weapons additions bonus effects, toxic to these monsters, facilitating our fight against them."

My reply made them all nod in understanding, as gaining a bonus against such a scary monster was something good after all. I waited with them for a few more hours until everyone had already their gears ready.

In the middle of this, I replenished the supply of cubes one time only, making me sure that the current amount I had would be more than enough to cover up the needs of five million mystic art players, which was a number greater than what we originally had!

"Let's go back, enough to level up gears this time," I said, as the army had marched for a long distance already away from us.

We ran towards the front, and it took us ten hours to catch up with the army. In the middle of this, the one hundred thousand players left us to attack a nearby fort controlled by demons.

As I reached the army, I found nothing had happened while I was away. I was trying to not worry much about them, as a training so I wouldn't be so overprotective again.

The remaining distance to the border required four days from us. Just the next day, Diana and Alfonzo came to see me, with a big smile over their faces.

"What happened to make you two giggle like that?" I asked, as it wasn't a normal thing for Diana to smile.

"What have you done to our gears exactly to be this mighty?" Diana asked, with a short laugh, as she added when she noticed my weird look, "we attacked many demons, and players. demons started to act weird, being much submissive to us, like they were fearing us. We managed to kill them like we were having a training session with rabbits!"

Her words made me startled, with extreme delight of course, while Alfonzo added:

"As for players, the moment they got near us, it was like a weakening spell fell on them. they all, everyone without exception, had soft legs, let down their weapons, and were standing there like idiots, waiting for us to kill them."

This was great, really great news! I never expected the monster corpse to be so effective, not at all! This extra benefit made me very happy, and reassured that the upcoming layers wouldn't pose a great threat to my players.

This also made me want to hurry and apply this monster corpse over everyone's weapons! This wasn't an easy feat to do right now, but if we managed to kill a dozen of such monsters, I was sure my whole army would have their gears covered entirely with this material.

I opened the general chat, to be met with many questions claiming their share of the treasure as Diana and Alfonzo. I shook my head, helplessly, as I glanced at these two while saying:

"What have you two had done?!"

They smiled, embarrassedly this time, as they knew they might have stirred everyone against me by their bragging. I sighed, as I could cover everyone's weapons, but this would take quite some time.

'Let's meet up at the border, where we will have everyone's gears covered.'

My words were met with extreme celebration, as they all were delighted with my decision.

I was pretty sure that the next layers would be quite hard to deal with, especially from layer fifteen. So finishing up our preparations now was a gain not a loss.

The remaining distance was crossed with nothing to happen there, and once we reached the border of the next layer, I found everyone was waiting for me there, with their shining eyes and greedy looks.

"Sigh! Let's get the blacksmiths ready first. We will do it right there."

I pointed towards a distant area, so spacious enough to make the gears ready. "you will stay here, organize things, and Diana, take this porin and take out batches of cubes once the previous batch is almost depleted. Arrange your players, one hundred thousands at a time, and I will go to scout the next layer until you wrap things here."

They all nodded, and this was the first time they didn't try to stop me from going out alone. "Sigh!" I sighed again, as this cold shoulder treatment was unfair!

I summoned my balloon, jumped over and went towards the next layer. It was layer fourteen, and as I entered it, I was welcomed with a scene that made my heart palpitate!