Agatha The Legendary Guild Master

Also Rody, the Cleo cousins, and Elyo were busy all the day, arranging everyone into smaller teams, establishing the chain of command and selecting team leaders.

These tasks were easy to tell, but hard and took a long time to perform. As we crossed the second layer, we were destined to meet the first batch of small posts here, which couldn't be said to be forts at all.

Rog was the first to report the presence of these posts, and he also reported that all of them were under the control of the noble players. He sent saying that there were many new faces, and all seemed to be veteran normal players, with no mystic art users among them.

That made everyone realize that my previous words and warnings were real. These nobles amassed large contribution points, and started using them to summon players.

However I wasn't worried at all, as reconquering these posts would grant us the same contribution points of conquering them.

The only difference here would be the missed contribution points coming from killing the guarding demons.

Without saying any more words, Rendy's team started to act. Rendy became a very close friend with Alfonzo, and that wasn't surprising. After all, both of them were ex-nobles, and both had very deep grudges against nobles.

I trusted them to defeat these weak posts in no time, but before they headed out, I gave them the final instruction:

"No prisoners, no surrender, kill them all!"

They thought I was stating my common famous slogan, and thus they and all the players with them, moved out as they repeated the slogan again and again.

"No prisoners, no surrender, kill them all!"

"No prisoners, no surrender, kill them all!"

"No prisoners, no surrender, kill them all!"

I sighed, helplessly shaking my head, as I was speaking seriously and not just saying my slogan! I had to send a private message to Rendy, explaining in it my warning in detail.

I was afraid that nobles would give instructions for their summoned players to surrender, so they could spy out for them, or betray us at stressful moments later on. we didn't lack numbers, and we also started to summon our players as well from the stele.

'I know.'

He simply replied with that short sentence, making me wonder if he really knew this from the beginning, or his pride prevented him from confessing.

Anyway, I left the task of taking back all these posts to them, while me marched in the front, with my main army walking behind me, while singing my new slogan over and over again!

The third layer took us three days to march, and in the middle of it I sent more reinforcements to Rendy, helping him out. He wasn't in need for these, but I needed not to waste a single moment here.

Our enemy was trying to delay us, so he could reach the distant layers, and join their huge armies stationed there. despite knowing that the forts must be lost, but the armies wouldn't, or that what I just hoped.

Crossing the third layer went smoothly, and also the fourth layer, but starting from the fifth, thing started to get complicated.

The forts started to show up in huge numbers, and many of them were already under the rule of the nobles. As we just crossed the border to the fifth layer, Nina hurriedly sent to me, warning me of this layer and layers beyond.

'Starting from here, many forts were already under the rule of nobles, so be prepared, it might take longer then expected.'

As she sent this to me, Rog sent his intel reports.

'Ten forts, fully prepared, with much more armies there.'

I sighed, as it seemed the real battle of attrition would start from here onward.

I didn't delay as I relayed these news into the main chat of the upper echelon of my force, while sending a private message to Rendy and another to Rog.

'If you need any help just ask, this time speed won't do us any more help.'

'If there is a highly defended forte, inform me of its location directly.'

I had to act, finally, as during all the way to here, I never acted after the introductory battle.

There was only a one day difference between us and them, but they managed to reach the places where their supreme rule stretched over with many armies, forts, and defenses ready.

The more they went deeper, the harder it would be for me and my army!

So, I had to step in, crush any hard rock thrown on our path, so we wouldn't lose many players here.

I also knew that any mystic art player wouldn't be stationed here. the main force of the enemy must be formed mostly of them. they already guessed my intentions, if they weren't stupid, and they wouldn't let me have their medallions so easily!

'Listen up, from now on, we won't press onward fast. We need to kill every single one of them in each layer, kill all the demons in our way, and control all the forts as we step forward.'

My words carried the new instructions that we would use till the end of this crusade. Hastening things wouldn't help anymore, and we needed to kill all the forces stationed here, salvage all the gears and war provisions we could have, and then start moving to the next layer.

Even if the worst case scenario happened, and they reached the sacred land of the mystic art society, they would reach a dead end, without any place else to run to.

I just hoped the guardian would do his task perfectly guarding this area from any external invasion from the empire. or else things would deteriorate fast, and the outcome wouldn't be guaranteed to our victory.

I didn't wait for long, as after two hours, Rog sent me the coordinates of a fort, while saying:

'This is a heavily guarded one, acting as the centre of their forces in this layer.'