Agatha The Legendary Guild Master

The road back to the village seemed longer than I recalled. I rode on top of my demon for hours. "These necromancers are slowing us down," I complained, while feeling they were the reason behind taking this long to reach the village.

My personal army accompanied me, with no signs yet for Omad and Dredly. I reached the pass leading to my village and didn't even glimpse a shadow of them. "What took them so long," I was impatient to see what these two would bring to me.

As I ascended the pass, I found the small village I once left brimming with noises. Many buildings were already built there, out of wood of course. I wasn't much offended by this scene now, especially when there was such a strong looking wooden wall built around the village.

It was two stories high, with three primitive watching towers and one large wooden gate. I knew Jack wouldn't do miracles with what he got, but what he did seemed quite nice so far.

I took out one bruberry and ate it while my demon took me to the village gate. It was closed but I could see through the low walls and gate the shape of my demoness standing there.

"I thought she would come to me after delivering those demons," I muttered as I noticed the bodies of smaller demons standing around her as well.

"The lord is back!"

This shout suddenly came once I got near the gate. It was almost dark, yet that man standing on watch had some good eyesight.

The next thing happened was for the gate to open causing such a loud noise. I sighed as this noise was enough to be heard from a distance, plus that meant the mechanism of building this gate wasn't much.

"Welcome back, lord."

Jack was the one to meet me, while I glanced behind him to the inside of the village. It had many buildings constructed and much more still being built. "You did a good job," I commended while entering the village. "Find a place for my necromancers to settle," I said, referring to the long line of humans marching behind me.

"This…" he seemed quite troubled, yet I didn't care. "Don't worry, I'm going to build two more villages today," I tried to reassure him, yet his face didn't ease.

"What's wrong?" I asked while making my demon stand on the side of the wall, creating enough space for others to enter.

"We were under attack during the past hours," the demoness came hurrying from far away while saying that.

"Attacks?" I was so surprised, "who is foolish enough to attack here?" I asked with much doubt.

"A strange race that looked much interested in humans," she said without explaining much. I gestured at her to continue, and she added, "they are long, with pale faces and long nails. Their eyes are red and have four long canines. They captured humans and sucked their blood dry."

"Suck our blood dry?" I repeated her words before asking, "how many are they?"

"Too many," Jack replied with a look of fear over his face, "during the past twelve hours we lost around a thousand humans already."

His words startled me for a moment before he nodded to confirm them. "A thousand you say?" I was really furious this time, even my own body trembled. "Where are they now?"

"They retreated behind the pass on the other side of the river," my demoness replied. "They can swim?" I asked if crossing that river is much of a hurdle even for me.

"Well," she seemed quite hesitant before she added, "they didn't swim, they flew!"

"They can fly?!" this was new, and she nodded as she waved her giant fists around, flapping them like wings, "they have two thin wings but they are enough to carry their bodies for short distances."

"Interesting," I muttered as I recalled the balloon I once had. "This might be problematic," I said as I glanced at my far behind personal army. I had two hundred giant bodies that needed to be transported to the other side of the river.

"I have a suggestion, but…" Jack said, yet he stuttered in his own words.

"Say it," I said while waiting to listen to his words.

"Dore suggested building a big and stable bridge to cross the river. We once used bridges made of wood, but they were crushed first by these creatures in their first waves of attacks."

"So?"

"We need ores, Meck found many ore mines nearby but we can't risk going out right now and extract them," he paused before adding, "we fear going outside these walls."

"Tsk," I shook my head as I was very annoyed with this state of fear in my base. I was the mightiest being here, and now my home village lived under such a fear? I couldn't accept that!

"Gather who can work and come with me," I said before turning to my demoness, "can you secure it here on your own?"

"I wouldn't refuse some help."

"I will hand over fifty of my personal army to lead," I said before turning to gaze behind me and instantly fifty volunteered to stay behind.

I waited for Jack to come back while thinking about this problem. "First humans summon bones and feed on death energy, and a new species sucking human's blood dry! What is left out there to amaze me then?"

I shook my head while marveling this new world's cruelty.

"Ding Dong! I warned you, overusing the pearls would instigate the wrath of the world."

'Shut up already, these are my pearls from the start and you and the world stole them from me!"

I wasn't in the mood to listen to this system's rubbish words. Building a bridge would be inevitable, but this threat here made me realize I neglected securing this place.

"I need more fighters, bigger armies, sigh!" I was now feeling shorthanded despite having all these strong fighters under my command. "This world is big, quite bigger and far dangerous than I thought!"

I need to take things far more seriously right now! Leaving my villages to Jack wasn't a great idea, especially if he couldn't defend them properly. "Should I leave one of my armies here then?" that wasn't a nice thing to think about, yet it was the only solution I had in mind right now.

"Ding Dong! If you have access to the market, you could have ordered many defensive things to aid you here."

"Just shut up!"