Agatha The Legendary Guild Master

My offer was met with extreme silence. The trees in front of me kept swaying their trunks, while I heard a strange shrieking whisper from them.

It was obvious they were discussing my proposal, and I knew my offer wasn't that easy to decide upon. After all, some stranger human like me came to them asking to move away and follow her like master.

Yet I didn't feel any awkwardness from this, I was totally confident that following me was the right decision anyone would take in their lives.

"Listen kid, I know you asked this out of good will but we don't follow anyone."

The harsh and cold response coming from the mother of Treefor. I didn't faze as she added, "and about that treasure in your hand, it's better to hand it to us peacefully. After all, you are too weak to stand against us, and your two ugly creatures back there are left alone; and we are surrounding them."

As she finished speaking, I noticed the sudden movement of many trees to surround my two pets. I sighed, it seemed I would be enemies with them.

"Empty words coming from such a vulgar person," I replied without caring about anything. "If you have the strength to take it, then come and do it!"

My words weren't loud, yet they were strong enough to make those heading to the demons pause. I didn't wait anymore, as the next moment I turned on myself, stored the pearl while replacing it with the prison artifact.

"Come inside!" I shouted while jumping off that cliff. I instantly was met with a gush of a chilly wind. The air wasn't cold; perhaps it was my nervous cold sweat over my body.

The distance from that altitude to the ground exceeded one mile, and that meant if I directly hit the bottom I would die! I didn't plan on doing that, as I had the escape route already fleshed out in my mind.

The road to the bottom wasn't straight; as the body of this cliff had a sloping nature. In the way there were many trees scattered here and there; luckily they were normal trees, not those freaking monsters.

"Let's hope this will work," I muttered before I hurriedly threw my spear towards one tree, then snapped my fingers before it came back again.

This action was always accompanied with a small recoil that I never cared about, yet this time I was hanging everything over it.

I kept throwing my spear towards the nearest trees, snapping my fingers to call back my spear and adding more recoil to me. Each time I felt my body had some shock that slightly decreased the speed of my descent.

Dozens of these attacks weren't enough to make a different, yet hundreds of them were. Just as my speed of descent declined, I didn't hesitate to turn around myself like dancing.

I was trying to get myself closer to the sloppy ground that I was initially away from. One turn, five turns, fifty turns, and finally after exceeding a hundred times and feeling my head was now split open out of headache, I touched the dirt.

Everything remaining was much easier, as I left my body to slide over the dirt, tried to control that strange and throbbing headache I never calculated for, and finally waiting for approaching the ground.

"So you don't want to give up on me, huh?" up there the tree monsters moved down the cliff. Unlike me, they had these roots which made their descent here like a walk in the park. "Sigh, I should have taken that Treefor a pet first," I regretted this as Treefor would have helped a lot in this rough landing.

The ground came fast, and I knew the impact would be strong no matter what I tried. Just as there were around a hundred meters away from the ground, I turned around and pushed my body with all my strength to the back.

"Come forth!"

The next thing was to summon my demon, which appeared just below me, acting like a cushion to absorb my forceful fall. This was much better than sliding for hundreds of meters on dirt and rocks.

"Boom!"

Despite all that, the landing hit was so violent that it caused this explosive sound. I felt as if all the bones of my body were shattered.

"Damn it, I swear to come to you later and pay this back double; no triple!"

I promised myself while pushing my body despite all the pain I was going through to move. My time was limited here, and I didn't have the option of laying there and try to deal with such immense pain.

Up there, my enemies were coming hot at me!

"Move," I hurried to order the demon, which seemed in agony from such fall, yet he followed my order and stood up. "Kneel," I then jumped on his shoulder and let him move.

I noticed he wasn't walking well, there was a wound there. "Wait a sec, if these pearls are that useful to others then are they useful to my demons?" it bolted me that made me even hit my forehead out of my dumbness.

"Take this and eat it," I said as I took one pearl out and gave it to him. He obediently took it, put it in his mouth, and the next instant it disappeared.

"Oho, it's working!" I shouted in great excitement as the next moment I noticed the body of my demon to emit wisps of visible smoke. The smoke appeared shyly at first, then it was so intense that covering my demon and me inside wasn't a joke.

I couldn't see clearly through this blue smoke, yet I was certain that the wounds of my demon were healing on a naked eye speed. "Good, heal first, get stronger next," I muttered while feeling great expectations to the upgrade in his strength and mentality.

Would he be sane again? Or he would need over one pearl?

"Roar!"

The answer to my question came as the next second my monster roared, and his body trembled. I held myself on his shoulder while observing the changes in him.

Yet the thick blue smoke kept bothering me, I couldn't see things clearly!

"Roar!"

"Roar!"

"Roar!"