Agatha The Legendary Guild Master

Flying in such an empty place was really boring, if not for the constant threat of depleting my hunger value from my spear. With time, after days of flying peacefully in this layer, I was about to get bored again even by the constant supply of pearls to my body.

It wasn't interesting to just stand there and keep eating pearls, while doing nothing but watching a clear land covered with lightning, with many loots scattered there with no time to grap.

"Sigh, I just hope Aria could grasp these loot before the apocalypse," I sighed, and my words were heard by the two demons, who just glanced silently at me.

"What? Do you still want to know more about the apocalypse?" I asked, as they kept asking me for the first couple of days about what went wrong inside the heart of the twentieth layer fort, and I just kept my tongue from telling them.

I was kind of busy thinking about which artifact to get with me at the apocalypse, and I decided to bring the prison. It had the greatest impact on my fighting, especially considering having these two with me inside it.

I didn't know anything related to the post-apocalypse state of power, would we be this strong? Would we be much weaker? What would change? I knew nothing, and that bugged me for a while.

However I decided finally to bring these two with me inside the prison artifact. After all, their strengths were much higher than mine, especially if my artifacts and theirs would be rendered pointless.

"Alright, I will tell you everything," I then started to explain what I knew about this apocalypse, according to the words of that old lizard. The more I spoke, the more shocked and stern they became.

"And like this, our enemies are trying to prepare much for that apocalypse, trying to gather as many points as possible for their higher ups," I ended my words with this.

"So, you are planning to go and kill them all?" the demoness asked.

"Sure, I won't let them have it smooth and easy as they planned."

"That explains why we are able to speak in this world," the demon suddenly said, before adding, "and it explains why there are many of my son clones here, plus all these monsters."

"That explains everything," the demoness nodded, while I was left out in the dark!

"What do you two mean?" I asked.

"This world is already changing," the demoness sighed, "and as such the enemy is throwing all the forces he will need to present in the world post-apocalypse, trying to making them gain points and prepare them to be accepted by the apocalypse," she added, and I felt more lost than I was before.

"It's the old myth of the apocalypse. You don't know anything about, but we, ancient demons, already had a clue or two about," the demon said, before my demoness further explained:

"It was said that all the ancient demons were born out of a disaster, and some also claimed that the world wasn't as we already know of today; it was a complete large endless stretch of land with no boundaries. However the witch destroyed it, gaining herself the famous nickname; the bloodthirsty witch."

"This came on the premise of our unknown origins, as some claimed we hailed from this destroyed world; remnants of a huge number of demons lived there before destruction, but only the strongest lived up till today; defying the disaster and gaining eternal life," the demon added.

"That was such a famous gossip back at the time I first walked on these lands. Sigh, this witch was really something, and she only listened and explained nothing to anyone until she was killed," the demoness said.

"So, you mean only demons like you, or bred from your bloodline, would be able to enter that world with humans?" I asked, as this was such new info I never knew about or thought of.

"Sure, but not all humans can enter that world I think," the demoness said, as she glanced at the demon who nodded. "The law of mystic art, no one without mystic art is allowed to live in that world, or that was one of the gossips of those ancient times," he said, and that cleared many veiled truths in front of my eyes.

So this explained why the witch gave such importance to mystic arts, and why my enemies focused first on secluding the mystic art society, trying to kill as many members of them as possible.

They aimed to decrease the number of their rivals in this world, while at the same time using the armies they bred from the lost sons of the ancient demons to make them gain acceptance from the new world.

My enemies were really wicked! They had their plan layered and branched out into such a complicated setting! Not only gaining a huge number of human traitors in their camp and giving them the chance to strengthen themselves, but also making their demon and monster presence there such a terrifying force.

Killing the traitors alone started not to be the utmost priority for me right now, I needed to save the trapped mystic art society! Without them, I would end up alone with a handful of players with mystic arts!

I had five million players approximately with mystic arts, and most of them seemed not able to survive alone in the post-apocalyptic new world regime. I had to take advantage of those old, very experienced, larger numbers of mystic art users trapped there in the society's hidden world; masters and mystic art users elites such as Diana.

"What are other gossips that were circulating around at those times?" I demanded for more intel, even if most would end up being twisted facts and exaggerated news, some truth would still be there in their base.

No smoke rose up without fire igniting down below!

"There were so many, for example some claimed that the world before destruction had a strange god that gave orders to everyone, organized things there, and made everyone have his or her missions," the demoness said.

"The current guardian, I also heard this rumor, saying that the current guardian was the remnant of this god, seemingly weakened and lost most of its powers," the demon added.

And I stood there speechless, recalling the last encounter with me with the guardian! They also attacked him, that was what he, Lady Nada, and my master said at that last meeting.

Had they put the guardian as a target too? That only linked the dots, making me sure this was the case. I also recalled the words of an old lizard. He said all the witch's old preparations were shattered except for one rule, the contribution point rule.

Everything started to appear clearer, much clearer to me than before! I now knew how they changed the rules, they simply attacked the guardian, destroyed what special rules the witch of old put there to help me and others when the apocalypse fell!

That was bad!

"What else?" I demanded for more.

"Well, there was also once a gossip about the nature of life inside that world, and the big contrast of it with our current world order," the demon said, while glancing at the demoness who added:

"The scattered towns and cities order, right I recall this old gossip. It wasn't that popular after all, as the world we had currently was divided into planets, but the world before destruction was said to be divided into villages, towns, and cities, scattered over the place, not united as we currently have."

"That seems quite similar to the current world," I muttered, as the current empires and kingdoms were built from planets and worlds, each consisted of large cities and big towns indeed.

"No, you don't get it," the demoness shook her head, "our current world is easier to gain control over large worlds, amassing planets together to form a small kingdom is easily done. But it was said in that pre-destruction world, things were quite messy, with those having to reign over hundreds of cities there to be called kings and emperors!" she added.

"Hundreds of cities?" I exclaimed in shock, "only this few?" I asked.

"Yes, it was this hard back there, or that what the gossip conveyed. No one had actually lived there and survived later to tell the story, except for the witch herself," the demon said.

According to their words, this world was really hard to survive at! If so, then the chances of the lot of us to survive there declined, by a huge margin. "Is there any more gossip?" I asked.

"Another one," the demoness said, before hesitating. I nodded so that she could continue. "The world was said to be filled with many disasters; not the demons and monsters alone. 

Even natural disasters were commonly occurring there. life was said to be hard to continue at many places, known to all as forbidden lands," she said, before finally adding, "it was said that the demons resting in each heart fort of the sacred lands were originally guardians at these areas, preventing anyone from trespassing. 

It was said that these sacred lands were initially the forbidden lands, shattered and rearranged by the witch to act as training grounds for players here. she managed to replace all ancient creatures and killed them, all except three."

She stopped, and I realized her meaning instantly. "The strange fog monster, the old lizard, and the monster lying at layer twenty five, right?" I said, as this was obviously the three remaining creatures of the ancient world.

And she simply nodded. "It's also said there was one at the thirtieth layer, the one controlled and known to you as mystic art society. However, that creature managed to break free from the prison of the witch, and escaped."

"Where to?" I asked.

"It went outside to reform its old own army, the army known as the wolves!"

And her reply just shook me deeply from the depth of my soul.