Agatha The Legendary Guild Master

The trick was to replace the consumed energy of the spear with the energy in the pearls; yet the pearls really had a much greater amount of energy than ever.

The moment I consumed five of them, I noticed that my body couldn't take more. "C'mon, take what you need so I can give you more," I shouted and my spear seemed to listen to my calling.

The next moment it started to get deeper through the strong defense of the giant. It went closer to the mark and my energy started to be obviously depleted.

"More," I chuckled, knowing that it was time for me to press on this chance. The giant was dumbly searching in the bottom of the lake, not feeling any threat by my spear it seemed.

The next couple of minutes I kept consuming pearls one by one while my spear kept pressing forward; slowly yet steadily coming closer to that mark.

"Rumble!"

The moment my spear touched the mark place, I heard a rumble coming from the giant. Its body jolted couple of time before it corrected its body and glanced at me in its dumb look.

"Kneel or I will kill you," I threatened, and the reply I got was a massive roar.

"Run around, fast," I urged Eliza who didn't need my shouts to move. The giant was totally enraged and I consumed another pearl while it kept chasing us, waving its giant hands like trying to catch a fly.

To it, we were really small to be considered a fly, and we were agile and annoying as hell. The spear kept pressing forward and the giant roared until it suddenly stopped moving in its place.

"Is it dead?" I said, while glancing over the giant.

"I don't think anything can kill this giant," Eliza replied.

"Take us around its back," I demanded while feeling my spear being freed from any resistance. "Snap," and I called it back.

I noticed the presence of brown color over its tip and shaft. "So you managed to hit that place after all," I said while Eliza took me to the giant back.

A scene I never expected was there!

"Is it … a flower?!!" Eliza wasn't less shocked than me, as she muttered while watching this large flower with brown petals growing slowly from the place my spear just penetrated.

"What is it?"

"Ding Dong! It's the mind of the giant; the most sacred place in the giant's body. Thanks for asking, one hundred pearls were deducted from your account."

"Damn you!" I cursed, "this question wasn't directed to you!!"

"Ding Dong! You asked and I replied, not even a thanks to my help?"

I clenched my spear tighter, trying to control my rage upon this greedy spear. "What help? Your answer is worth nothing right now! Gimme something I can work with, not some trash info!"

"Ding Dong! You asked and I replied, these are the rules."

"Screw you," I wasn't in the mood to change the words with that filthy system. I looked over the petals again, where I found something weird.

In the heart of these petals, a space was there. It was small, so small to be easily missed. Yet I managed to spot it.

And that wasn't thanks to my eyesight, or observation keen senses; it was due to the shape of that space.

"A pearl space?" I managed to recognize the shape of this space and linked it to my pearls. And a crazy thought popped up in my mind. "Go, take me there."

"Where?"

"To that large flower," I pointed my spear towards the place of that flower.

"What? It's not dead yet! We could die!!" and Eliza was shocked.

"Just take me there and we won't die," I replied while thinking of nothing else but that space and my pearls.

"So the giant was looking for pearls not to consume, but to replace the missing part in his mind. What would be the result if it had that pearl?" That was the question that I looked for its answer.

"Are you sure of this? Being this close to this giant can kill us with a sneeze!"

"Just go over there, and if you are afraid just throw me over and move away."

"I…" she didn't know what to say, yet I repeated the offer in an ordering manner.

"Just take me there and retreat."

"O- Ok!"

She took me fast towards the giant. Actually seeing it so close felt strange, and being on its body felt much weirder. It was really gigantic, much more enormous and huge than I initially thought.

And its height, sigh! I felt like standing on a giant mountain peak with all the wind howling around me.

I watched Eliza retreating in the distance while moving cautiously over its neck to reach the flower. The petals were much bigger than I thought, with each accounting to five times my size at least.

I bypassed the petals, and they weren't toxic for my luck. The space I glanced at from far was now in front of me.

"This…" and my scalp went numb. This space wouldn't be filled with one pearl; it could accommodate hundreds of them!

"Eight hundred pearls, tsk," I shook my head while taking in great pain the pearls from my inventory. I had to complete what I started, praying to the lady of luck to grant me more pearls as reward.

In this operation alone, I lost huge amounts of pearls counting in thousands! Yet if the result ended up with this giant being my pet, who could stop me? Who could threaten me? I could be the ruler of these lands, and this would give me what I sacrificed with extraordinary interest.

I started taking the pearls and throwing them on the space. Strangely this wasn't a normal space. The moment my pearls touched it, a strange will controlled them and began to arrange my pearls to fit each other.

And gradually the space began to be filled.

As I kept taking the pearls out, the space started to show the picture of a giant pearl, and another thing started to show up as well.

The pearls coalesced together showing me lines that kept interacting between each other; a diagram it was. "What for?" I asked, while keeping the space filled and exposing more of this diagram.

The moment I finished filling the space, the diagram showed itself to me. It was a hexagonal star shaped diagram, with a central hole that didn't exceed the size of the tip of my finger.

"Should I put my fingers there?" I muttered, yet I didn't want to risk losing my finger to some crazy flower.

"Ding Dong! Drop your blood and fill the hole for the diagram to be activated. Thanks for asking, five hundred pearls are deducted from your inventory."

"…"

I didn't know what to say! Despite my deepest anger, I appreciated its answer this time; it was helpful to me or else I would know what to do.

I cut my hand and squeezed the blood out, letting it drip over the hole. The hole looked small, yet when I let my blood fill it I realized how large it was!

It wasn't a simple hole, and it took ten minutes to be filled. "Sigh, even I have to bleed!" I sighed yet the next moment of filling the hole, the entire world rumbled.

And the giant's body started to twitch vigorously, like it was trying to throw me off its neck!

"Damn! You are such an ungrateful thing," I shouted while stabbing the spear deeply into its thick skin and holding both hands to it; trying not to fall!

The convulsions kept on for the entire five minutes, before finally everything calmed down and the giant's body regained its calm.

Yet this wasn't the end of this.

The petals started to close over its glowing red center before returning again deep under the giant skin.

"Master," and the next thing happened was for the thick voice coming from the giant to call me its master!

"Are you talking to me?" I asked while stabilizing my body, climbing up its skin creases that looked like rocky ridges to me.

"Yes, master. Thanks for saving my mind and waking me up," and the words it said made me quite speechless for a moment.

"Were you sealed?" I tried to understand its meaning.

"You can say that! A large number of pearls are needed to awaken me, and this unfortunately isn't a permanent awakening."

I suddenly recalled my two demons, they needed pearls each day to stay sane! "Don't tell me you want to eat all these pearls daily! If so, then go back to your dummy clan!"

"No master, I want these pearls on a monthly basis. Please don't let me go back to slumber, it's scary there."

"Scary?!!" I didn't know what would scare such a giant and mighty being!

"Yes master, I don't want to go back ever again. I will do anything, I promise."

"Oh, if so then you should work for your pearls then," and my eyes shone brightly while imagining what this giant could do. "Wait a minute, are others like you as well?" I asked, while this thought flashed by my mind, even my body couldn't resist to tremble out of excitement.