Agatha The Legendary Guild Master

The army approached, but I was met first with the top players of my force coming with a hurry in their balloons.

"We thought you would grow restless and attack the twentieth layer," Aria said, while laughing.

"Things aren't that easy," I said, before explaining the current situation to them.

"So, we need to cut our path through their defenses without touching the central fort?" Nina asked, to make sure of what I just said.

"Sure, that barbaric demon isn't something we can handle," I confirmed, while nodding. "We need to make sure the central fort is left unharmed," I stressed over this point again.

"What if they tried to do something?" Diana asked, and her question was the dilemma I had thought of all this time.

"Then we need to first secure the fort, before doing anything else," I said, explaining my strategy to them in further details.

"It's quite risky, and we will lose many numbers of our forces, however through our way to here, we crushed endless forts, gained many medallions, and the number of our mystic art players just got doubled," Merwid said, making me not realize if he was with my idea or against it.

"I'm with your idea, let's do it," it seemed he realized my puzzle, so he expressed his support clearly and simply like this.

"We all are with you for sure, let's kill some nobles," Rendy said, expressing his support to me.

"Good, wrap things here then, and make everyone ready. Have you brought all the dead bodies of the huge soul suckers with you? We need to prepare and make all the new players' gears ready," I said, as this new addition of the mystic art force was something great indeed.

"Don't worry, we have strengthened them along the road," Rog said, before adding, "and all these huge monsters' bodies lie safely inside all of our inventories."

I nodded in content from his reply, it seemed they grew more capable and started to be more decisive and scheming. Like this the short meeting ended, as they went to lead the huge army, fanning them to attack the remaining forts here.

As for the extra medallions I had, I had transferred them all to Nina and Aria, as both distributed them over players. The blacksmiths were now more efficient in using the soul suckers' cubes and body parts to strengthen the gears, so the additional million players had their gears strengthened in a short time.

After clearing all the layers, freeing all the forts, strengthening all the gears, gathering everyone on the border; I stood there over my balloon, raising my spear up high, before pointing it towards the next layer lying behind the border.

"Kill them all!" I shouted.

"Kill them all!"

"Kill them all!"

"Kill them all!"

The reply came from all the players on the ground. All the balloons were left in the sky, as the blacksmith managed to strengthen them with the soul suckers dead bodies, making them lethal to any monster.

I didn't plan on strengthening mine, as I had my shield to protect me and my balloon. The next minutes we moved in huge momentum, with an army of seven million mystic art players, heading directly to layer twenty.

As for the rest of the players, they just stayed here, continuing to hunt down demons, while wishing us luck.

The next I saw was an endless ocean of giant monsters, filling the whole world in front of me. there was no trail of the giant demons, and that made the fighting much easier.

As planned, I let them deal with these monsters, while I went alone, penetrating all these monsters with my balloon, while attacking them with my normal spear, and its huge entourage with shadows.

I had received a huge pile of pearls, replenishing my almost to die out reserves of these. Now, I could use all mystic arts as much as I wanted, without any fear or worry.

I moved for days, and everywhere was covered with the bodies of these huge monsters. After a week, I reached the central place of this layer, where a huge fort lay there like a huge city, filled with towers and defensive shields, while a huge army of giant demons stayed there.

"My baby, you sick bastards!" my demon shouted from behind, as he and my demoness were both fighting the monsters along the way; making the death toll fall under our three hands reach a huge figure.

"Calm down darling, we will kill them all," the demoness said, trying to control the distress and anger of the demon.

"It's your turn now, use the witch sword and kill them, try not to hit the castle for now," I said, as I decided to clear the area around the castle first, before we start attacking it.

My demon didn't speak back, as he held his sword, and started smashing the whole lot of giant demons down below. The sword of the witch was something lethal to them, so any attack caused severe damage, driving many to cross the death doorsteps.

As for me and my demoness, we continued attacking the giant monsters standing around the fort. We needed to clear the whole area, and each fallen monster counted.

It took me, my demon, my demoness roughly a day to finish clearing the area successfully. In the middle of our fight, those inside grew restless, as they sent a huge army of nobles' players, all being killed by the three of us; leaving a wide ground littered with gears, medallions, and other stuff ready for me to pick.

After this disastrous defeat, no single player shade came out from the fort! If they had balls, they wouldn't have chickened inside their walls and defensive shields.

"So, we will attack the shield until it's destroyed, enter the fort and do the massacre. Try not to attack any building, leave everything intact as possible," I said, while the two just nodded in compliance.

The fight kicked off with the mighty attacks of the three of us, draining the huge energy of this mighty shield. A defensive shield of such a fort in such an advanced layer wasn't something funny, and it took hours from the three of us to crack it, more hours to finally shatter it down.

The moment this happened, we were met with a mixed army of soul suckers, giant demons, players, and even flying energy suckers demons.

The latter were so hard to deal with, and I was the one to take this toll. I used my spear, my artifact spear, with extreme care, as I only drained them, made them weak, then recalled it again, before throwing it once more to finish large numbers of these energy suckers.

As for my demon and demoness, they simply jumped off my balloon to fall inside the fort, and a huge killing spree started. Blood flowed like rivers, covering the whole land around the fort in red.

We fought for hours, and this fight could have ended faster if we used our full strength, not hindered by our fears and worries. However, safety came first, then killing everyone came later on.

After six hours, the whole fort looked desolate after killing all these players, monsters, and demons who were filling it hours ago. I stood in my balloon catching my breaths, as dealing with such an angry spear from my actions wasn't an easy task at all.

More than once my spear tried to break free from my control, not responding to my summon before summoning it one more time. it wasn't easy at all to kill all of them without using our full strength, especially for me!

However, as we were about to announce our dominance here, a sudden change appeared, not one, but two at the same time.

"Rumble!"

A deep rumble echoed from the depth of the fort, and in the next moment, a huge number of players suddenly appeared, filling the empty fort once more.

"Kill them all!" I shouted, and the task of killing them didn't take much time for the three of us, making their blood flow like rivers, drenching the whole lands, churning them into dark red color.

"Rumble!"

Another rumble and another wave of players were summoned. Someone was hidden deeply inside the fort, summoning these players, and trying to do something inside!

It became very clear after the third rumble, and the third wave of players summoned, that whoever was inside was trying his or her best to delay my advance, trying to tie up my hand here, buying himself or herself enough time to do something with the heart of this fort.

And frankly I didn't need any brilliant mind to understand what he or she was trying to pull here! this enemy was trying to set the barbaric loose!

"Over my dead body!" I gritted my teeth, while controlling my balloon to descend fast, heading straight towards the central building of this fort. "I will leave things for you two, keep killing anyone appearing with no exception," I shouted over my two demons, while going directly inside the building, vanishing there.