Agatha The Legendary Guild Master

"Help that thick headed big one," I waved my hand to her to leave.

And she just grinned and her grin was really that savage, yet I got used to her. "I missed you too, boss," she said as she vanished in thin air.

The next thing I heard was a loud boom as she landed on a group of these tree monsters before hacking them with her hands and bite them with her three heads.

I wanted to take part, yet I lacked the strong artifacts and the mystic arts I once had. Where was my large entourage of spears that kept shaking the earth and terrorizing any enemy? Sigh!

I glanced at the spear in my hand and wondered about the changes it would have after eating the pearls. Yet I wasn't that crazy to test it here!

"Roar!"

The fight kept raging for an entire hour. During which the pearl was touched several times by many, yet none could possess it. Neither side seized the pearl, but one side was easily crushing the other one.

The addition of my two demons was really superb! The little demon army gained ground and make the tree folks lose more numbers than before.

So, in just one hour, the initial startup of tree monsters of over a thousand was reduced to be in tens. I couldn't distinguish them, or else I wouldn't let that greedy old mother of Treefor to run away if she was still alive.

I stood in my place watching the rapidly retreating trees with many demons chasing after them. The scene was really refreshing, yet I didn't lower my guard.

After all, I had two problems from the start; not one.

"Roar!"

As the other demons chased down the fleeing tree folks to the edges of the cliff, my two demons moved without the need of my instructions anymore. The demoness was still the smarter, so she moved to stand on top of the pearl lying on the ground as she roared towards the others.

And this roar attracted the attention of my demon, making him move to stand beside her. The two had huger bodies than the smaller demons around, yet they were really outnumbered.

At this moment I had to interfere or else something bad would happen.

So I descended from my place, while the remaining thousands of demons kept standing around my two. My two demons appeared like two towers in the middle of this sea of demons.

"I want to make you an offer," I said loudly, attracting the attention of everyone. "As you say, these two have been with me since long time. Just now I gave them two pearls like that one on the ground, and I still have much more. Swear you allegiance to me and I promise you will receive the same treatment."

"What guarantee you have to make sure you won't trick us? Humans are vicious and coldhearted, manipulative and usually use sweet words to trick us!"

One demon, one with three eyes and giant body bigger than others, spoke up before moving to the front. It seemed he was their chieftain.

"I'm cold, merciless, brutal and bloody nature… I admit that!" I said as I walked towards him and the others while adding, "but I never renege on my words! You can ask the two giant demons of mine there; ask them if I ever mistreated them."

My words made quite sensation and stir before that chieftain moved to ask the demons about the authenticity of my words. whispers originated from them and I just stood my place motionless with no worry at all.

In fact, these demons had a long enmity with me, yet that was part of the past. If they were ready to follow me, I would be much happy to receive them under my wing and make them my own.

"Your words are true, and you are the witch descendant?" the chieftain asked. "We had a long enmity with you, despite we had no choice back then and out memories are hazy. But we know what we did in general and what you also did."

I smiled as I liked the honesty of this demon. "I know, and unlike you I recall every single battle we had before," I said before raising my spear as I added, "many of your kin perished on the swift blade of my spear. But that was in the past."

I then pointed my spear towards my demon as I added, "he can tell you the story of your birth, and you can be sure just from the similarities between the two of you how related you are to him. In fact, he is your ancestor, and so as I'm treating him as family, I promise to treat you the same."

My voice got deeper while adding, "yet all I ask is your undying loyalty. Any treason by you won't be tolerated by me. Even if I have to kill every single one of you, I promise you I won't stop until I do it."

My promises were clear and reasonable, and none were outside my personality. I was fair to those honest to me, and really harsh with those who weren't.

"Fair words, but as I can tell, you have your own human settlement. How do you plan on our residence? Will humans accept us?"

"I know you are concerned, yet I can tell you one thing," I then pointed again to my two demons as I added, "I'm building an elite army, an army that's strong and grandiose enough to shake these lands. And you will be the earlier to join, not the latest."

"Sorry, didn't understand your words."

"I mean, your home won't be in my village, but in the battlefields. You will move your village and I will establish it in my territory, yet you won't be free to live there a single second. I can promise you that."

"What about these?" he pointed to the pearl lying calmly on the ground with wisps of energy dissipating from it.