Agatha The Legendary Guild Master

'Demons are higher and special, being bound by a special curse, the prison can't trap them, but in comparison to that, the prison can infect them with a curse to cause certain damage for free.'

The response I heard made my eyebrows jump a little. I never thought that whoever was inside this prison speaking to me had such pride in herself!

'Sure, what effects can be applied here?'

'Poisoning effects, the prison can poison them all, but the effect will vary according to your will. You can choose to weaken them, slow them down, make them stupider, confuse them, or even affect their armor and weapons.'

I was about to choose to make them slower, but I halted! They were already slow, and adding more to this wouldn't help my trapped players back there!

I suddenly thought seriously about the options I had. Making them weaker seemed good, but it was vague as well. How much weaker? Would it be enough to kill them from a single blow? I really doubted that!

So, I excluded this, with the effects on gears, and so I had only two options.

"Making them stupid might seem nice, but my demon is already stupid."

The demon suddenly turned to glance at me with shocked look, and I added without any shame:

"What? You already are a puppet in the hands of that demoness! Don't look at me like this! You are really stupid!!"

I then shook my head, helplessly, while returning to think again about my other option.

"Making them confused, this seems interesting. Let's go with that! I choose to confuse them," I loudly declared to my prison.

'Effect will be added now, if you want to change it in the future, you will need to pay contribution points for that.'

The next moment I leaned my head over the edge of the balloon, closely observing the huge, endless stream of giant demons down below.

I didn't know if this choice was right or not, but at least I could change it at any time if needed to.

Nothing happened in the next hour, and that made me quite depressed. My cheeks get swollen like two small balloons from irritation and anger! That lying prison thought it could pull a funny trick on me like that!

I tried to ask the prison soul inside many times, but all I got was complete silence! That ignoring attitude made me much more enraged already! So I took out my sword, and started attacking the border with my demon, venting down my anger.

Two things suddenly occurred at the moment I did that; the first was that the border finally showed some response to my sword! The moment the slash fell, the border as a whole shook!

The second thing that happened was the demons down there had some disturbance for the first time ever! I glanced hurriedly to see a large group of them were already fighting each other, making a big ruckus already. They were fighting each other as if they were archenemies, not allies in one army!

"Confusion, this is confusion!!!" I shouted out loud in surprise and joy, as this was something I didn't even think about before!

I thought this confusion effect would make them less aggressive when dealing with my players, or make them go in a wrong direction, causing the march to halt entirely for that.

However this had an even better effect than I initially imagined! Just as I turned to look at my demon, I noticed that his attacks didn't even cause the slightest damage to the border anymore!

"Strange!" I muttered, while waving my sword again. this time the attack didn't only shook the whole border, it also created a shock wave, despite being weaker than the ones caused by my demon from before, but it was enough to push the demons backward with the hidden soul sucker army.

This was even better effect than before, and it highly highlighted the main trick here; this border wasn't fortified by the soul suckers' energy, but from the giant demons'.

That meant this border was susceptible only to my witch's artifact! To the sword only, away from any other artifact we had, me, my demon, and my demoness.

"Here, stop using all your artifacts and use this only," I hurriedly threw my sword to my demon, and he instantly grabbed it before nodding. He understood my meaning, and thus he started hammering the border with the sword like crazy!

And finally my retaliation started against this combined army of demons and soul suckers, combined with the shock waves of my demon attacks, and the great confusion poisonous effect that was now spreading like fire in a huge area underneath me.

Let them kill each other, stop their advance, and so I could give a big helping hand to my players back there!

And so I continued to fly over, with extreme calmness and with no much worry, while observing the ongoing slaughter down below.

The whole world was filled with the banging sounds of my demon's attack, while the ground started to be littered in dead and severely injured giant demons, creating a vacant area already in the centre of this huge march, and this area was getting bigger with each passing hour!

I kept flying like this, unhindered, unthreatened by anything for hours, for days, until I passed five days here. During this long period, my demon never stopped using my witch sword in the attack, which made the soul sucker's energy inside be depleted a long time ago.

Despite that, I didn't rush to fix it. My main goal wasn't to stop the soul suckers army, as my players already had a way to deal with it, but the main problem would be in the giant demons.

So I let him continue hitting the border, while my prison kept infecting the demons down below, making the area of confusion escalate to reach towards the centre of this layer.

The moment I reached the centre, I was shocked to see what was waiting for me! I was here to destroy one fort, but what welcomed me wasn't one, but hundreds!

I now realized why the enemies kept me away from here all this time. they needed much effort and time for preparations! Also I realized how come all this huge, endless stream of demons came from!

The number of these forts were enough to support this huge production rate of the giant demons! That also made my task here quite challenging, as I would need more time, much more than I initially thought!

I gritted my teeth, as I muttered:

"Even if I had to destroy thousands, I didn't care! I just hope when I finish, my players wouldn't be all extinct!"