Agatha The Legendary Guild Master

Shin looked at me with fake irritating innocent charming eyes of his as he said:

"At least I betted on your success, am I?"

I didn't know what to say to this arrogant cool bastard, but his luck was high this time, as I didn't have any space to think, suddenly a loud announcement came from the game to all players, including me.

"Game announcement: Player Agatha has applied for the legendary adventure group quest. Anyone who wants to aid in her quest can volunteer by going to the nearest adventure hall and apply for that. For more details, check the forums."

This came out of the blue to me, as I didn't think the game would announce something like that. I looked towards Shin who had a strange smile on her face, a smile of a kind that would push you to kick him on the face.

"You knew about this, right?" I asked, pressing on every word I said.

"Who knows, this quest was centuries old since the last one took it, how come I know something that old,��� he said in a tone that seemed natural, but to me I knew he was lying. That bastard cool swordsman, I wouldn't forget this act of him.

"And now we are finally safe," Shin suddenly said that.

"What do you mean by safe?" Goda looked at him with wonder in his eyes, he wasn't alone, as everyone looked towards Shin, me included, waiting for his clarification.

"It's because we are now famous, very famous, everyone will try either to join us or wait for their chance to strangle us. So, we are safe, for a while of course," Shin explained while crossing his both hands in a confident way. 

I understood his meaning, as the challenges I and my team had to take were very dangerous, and many variables included within them.

"So that bitchy Leli won't hunt us down?" I asked.

"I would say no for now, as the battle now changed from the personal level to the group level. Each adventure group would act as rapidly as they can to recruit their members and raise their levels as fast as possible. 

After all, the first dungeon to open will be when we reach level 15," Shin explained slowly with his irritating cool smile on his face. Oh god, how much I hate and like him.

"Level 15? That's a couple of levels away," I said while thinking about this simple step that I had to take.

"No, you are thinking wrongly, you shouldn't think about your own level at all. One person can win a fight, but not the entire war. 

You know better than anyone how hard our next year would be, so our main job isn't to raise our levels only, but to form a formidable team and make them unbeatable," Shin said while looking seriously in my eyes. 

Sometimes I felt like this cool swordsman was enjoying lecturing me every here and there, but I didn't mind as his remarks were always on the spot, unlike Respon. 

When I remembered that bastard, I felt great anger at him, at least Shin was with me, and trying to make me stronger, but Respon only cared about himself. 

He didn't even call me to check on my condition, or even make sure who sent to help me really helped me and didn't cross him like always. That was, of course, if he wasn't the one behind all this. I looked towards my team as I declared:

"To bring everyone's attention, we need to create a myth of our own, and this will start from here. Anyone has good ideas besides going out and leveling up?"

Shin seemed ready for my question, as he turned to look at me with his stupid cool face while saying:

"You know you didn't use one of your cards, although this particular card will be a life saving for us in the near future."

I didn't like him when using this vague way of telling me something, he should either tell me directly or keep his mouth shut. I controlled my frustration of him as I asked:

"What card?"

"The blacksmith class that you have, you obtained it and never used it even once," he replied simply as if what he was saying was a universal fact.

"What is the relation of this with that?" I asked with a little impatience.

"It matters the most, as to create a powerful group you will need a lot of equipment, unique high-end equipment like the ones we got. To stabilize ourselves during any guild wars, we need massive amounts of gold coins. 

Blacksmiths will solve both problems, as weapons and equipment you make will be sold for a high price all the time, and any special thing you make will be kept for our boys. 

It's a win-win situation, but you need to work on it from early on, or else you will lose a lot of the advantage you have," he explained.

"What advantage?" I asked.

"Having a lifestyle class without the need to pay a lot of gold for it, that time you have is priceless, and you shouldn't waste it here with us anymore," he replied. I knew he gave good point here, but I still couldn't agree with it, as I said:

"If I do so, I will lose my level advantage."

"No, you are wrong again, practicing any lifestyle class will give you a lot of XP, bigger and much safer than doing it with us here in the wildness," he replied with the same irritating look on his face.

"Fine, where should I train then?" I asked.

"It's not training, it's called practice, and you need to go to the blacksmith hall in the town, where you will apply to take a small test to identify your current level and most importantly your rank of talent. After that you will be eligible to practice blacksmithing there as much as you like," he explained.

"Where is this blacksmith hall in this town? Do I need any gold coins with me?" I asked while looking at him with a blank expression over my face, I didn't want him to feel more arrogance by teaching me the knowledge he had.