Agatha The Legendary Guild Master

Walking in this empty place seemed quite strange, as I didn't lay my eyes over it before now. I was pretty sure it was filled with many demons and monsters, and might have some other tricks, however my spear was really domineering, destroying everything everywhere without letting a single monster live.

As others were busy with the tasks given to them, I started to think again about the great chance that I had and slipped off my hand; the chance to take control over a huge demon army!

I was sure if I managed to reach the depth of the forts, used my prison artifact to bind them with me, then I would have gained a huge number of new slaves, just like my demon.

However, due to the sudden appearance of those witch killers, energy sucker monsters, I was forced to drop this chance, and use all my might to kill them all and survive.

"Sigh, I just hope I would find another chance again," I sighed, while watching my blacksmith working over the gears of everyone. We were already near the border, and they started to rest here and finalize everything.

I glanced at them, then at the artifacts in my inventory. I had already worked over them during the past days, fortifying them with any possible means.

I was pretty sure now that a single attack of my artifacts, my demons and my demoness' artifacts would show off new heights of strength and devastation.

"It seems they will take quite some time," I muttered before just about to take off my balloon, to find Merwid walking side by side with Aria and Diana, with another player behind them that I wasn't aware of.

"Hi guild master, planning to move?" Merwid asked the moment he approached me. this man was old and wise, always able to see through my intentions, and usually his advice were all valuable.

"Sure, was going to do a reckon and come back before you all finish," I said, while glancing at the new player as I asked, "who is he?"

"Well," Merwid paused, before adding, "I and Aria guessed you would plan to move out alone, again, so we decided to select one of our best assassins, away from Rog of course, and send him into the next layer instead of you."

"Him?!" I casually remarked, as I glanced again at him before adding, "does he know he might be killed there, and we even won't know about it?"

"He knows," Aria replied for him, as it seemed she also was on the side of this silly idea.

"But what will his death benefit us! We still won't know anything about that layer!"

"His death will be an alarming sign, so we will know the next layer would be much harder to conquer," Merwid said, and before I could argue again, he added, "you just had a huge tense war, and you kept jumping from layer to layer non-stop. You need to rest, leaders and warriors should also enjoy moments of peace and rest from time to time, right?"

His words, again, made me unable to retort back, so I just sighed, waved my hand to summon my balloon. "No need, guild master, we already gave him one of our balloons," Aria hurriedly said the moment she saw the balloon.

"Who said it was for him?" I sneered, as I went to the balloon, said nothing, as I took the balloon to the sky, and rested my body over its floor.

"I really need some rest, thanks," I softly muttered, while closing my eyes, and before falling to sleep I summoned my demon. "Stay guard until I wake up," I said.

The moment I really closed my eyes and emptied my brain of anything, I went deeply into a strange dream world. this world was somewhere I never went to ever before in my life, but strangely enough I had a melancholic feeling the moment I spotted it!

It was like the feeling of going home after so much distress and journey!

It was a huge island, suspended in the depths of the darkness of the universe, where stars were like candles hanging over a black curtain, dancing with each passing wind, and spreading a strange aroma that made me quite calm and happy.

I was on the island, feeling the globular feeling of small sand gravels touching the sole of my bare foot while walking alongside this coast beach at night.

It was mesmerizing, so refreshing that with each passing wind, my wide and loss gown would wave away, like a blazing fire, around my body, with the different direction of wind.

I closed my eyes, took in the breeze, the cool fresh breath of this great ocean made entirely of the body of the universe, and my heart and mind finally found peace.

"I'm home," I muttered, with a deep longing that really, and strangely, ached my soul the moment I felt it!

"Not now my child, not your time yet."

Suddenly this soft voice came, out of nowhere, and nowhere she was to be found! I felt she was everywhere, like she was in the depths of the island, or she might be the island.

"Go back, not your time, not yet," again she said, and this time once her words finished, I felt a soft breeze of wind surrounding my body, carrying it over the soft sand, the cold ground, and taking me over the air towards the dark curtain of ocean littered with stars, and suddenly immersed me strongly into it!

"Aaaah!" I shouted, as I opened my eyes, instantly sitting straight, while all I was doing was only one thing… drive the air forcibly into my lungs!

The next moment air went in, and my heart resumed beating, and then my chest kept ascending and descending like a horse running on a race track!

I glanced around me, while panicking from the real feel of drowning, and all I saw around was just fog! Grayish dark fog that was so gloomy to me. I turned around, but I couldn't see or feel a thing!

"Demon, what is happening? Where are we?" I asked, while I touched the ground to feel the warmness and familiarity of the wood of my balloon. I was still in my balloon, then what was this fog's story?

"Demon, answer me!" I said again as I tried to push myself up, but ended feeling weak, unable to hold my body with my hands, to return thudding heavily on the floor. "Damn it!" I cursed, while feeling the oddness of this place!

"Am I still dreaming?" I muttered, while glancing again at my clothes to find that all my armor and gears were soaked with water. Even my hair, which was free untamed all the time, was now glued together and gathering up into long shy lines of hair on my shoulders and armor.

"What is going on?!" I didn't hear any sound, I couldn't see anything, and my demon didn't answer my shouts! The next thing I did was to get out a pearl, chew it weakly in my mouth, while realizing how weak and fragile I was!

My hands were now skin over bones! That was strange! If not a nightmare, then this was really bad news, really bad news!!

The moment the pearl entered my mouth, I felt a surge of energy entering my body. As far as I could remember, this feeling only came to me when my hunger value was almost depleted, when I, Diana, and Rog were breaking through our shackles and raising the level of our hunger value to the roof.

That made me realize something, this was an energy depletion state! I didn't delay and took one after another of my pearls, each was going instantly with urge towards my mouth, and each one made me much stronger, and strangely enough my body condition improved, and with it the fog started to dissipate!

"What is going on here?!!" I muttered in shock, as the moment that fog started to dissipate around me, I noticed the outline of the balloon, with the general shape of my demon, in a smaller form, sitting not far away, and around us the fog was still present, forming huge illusionary hands surrounding all of us; filling the entire world!

I didn't act slower anymore, as I took out pearls in batches while hurriedly checking the status of my demon. He was like the state I was at; weakened, with his fur over his bones.

He was dying! I was dying! Everyone else was dying!

Damn! What was going on here?!!!

The thing I noticed next was that the more pearls I took, the lower my hunger value became, and the further that fog was pushed away!

I didn't delay another second, as I jumped over the body of my demon, opened his big jaw open, and started stuffing pearls without stopping!

He was in a coma! Not even able to sense the presence of the pearls to chew, but my pearls didn't need to be chewed, as they slowly started to ingest energy into his mouth, his body, and suddenly his body jolted awake, pushing me off the balloon, entirely dropping me in the air, to fall from this high altitude all alone!

"Damn you sleepy bastard!" I gritted my teeth as I cursed inwardly after being thrown in the air by him!!

The next moment I took my balloon back, letting this huge weak demon fall with me, before hurriedly summoning my balloon back again!

"Boom!"

We both landed heavily on the balloon, while my entire body ached! At this brief instance of falling, I managed to spot the whole world around me, it was a world made entirely of foggy hands, curling around everyone, sucking their energy dry, and killing them!!!

"I will kill you all!!!" I screamed with utmost anger, as those were my players, my army, my own people!