Agatha The Legendary Guild Master

"Such smart boy," I chuckled before turning my gaze to the forty-seven captives, "joining me isn't that bad. I won't be stingy and will support your growth with all my power. All I ask is to be loyal and to be useful."

This time my words had such weight that they exchanged silent glances between each other. I bet on my pearls to gain their allegiance, and I won it.

"Ding Dong! Congratulations on gaining allegiance of forty-seven vampires. You gained twenty thousand pearls and a vampire lair blueprint as a reward."

"Vampire lair?" I muttered while watching those vampires kneeling to me. "So you are called vampires?"

"Yes, my esteemed lady," one of them replied with much respect. After gaining their loyalty, I could speak freely with them.

"Tell me more about your kin."

"We hailed from humans and demons, had the physique of demons, the fertility of humans. To maintain our strength we need to suck blood of any creature on a daily basis. Humans are our top chain food, then monsters and lastly demons."

I now understood more about them, "Do you know what a vampire lair is?" I asked.

"It's a treasure for us, my esteemed lady. We have high fertility, a single female vampire can lay a thousand eggs in a month. Yet most will die out of poor nutrition and not a suitable environment. The vampire lair is such a place to support our eggs and make sure most of them survive."

My eyes shone, as this was really such a freak fertility rate! "How many females do you have in your own village? You came from a village, right?"

"We have a village on a big hill far from here. We need three hours to fly there, and we have around a hundred female there."

"A hundred… that means they can lay a hundred thousand of eggs monthly, right?"

"My esteemed lady is right."

"Who is your leader? Is he thick headed or smart like you?" I asked as I intended to turn them all into my subjects.

Yet my question just landed and I noticed a change in the atmosphere here. They looked quite tense and nervous like I asked about a taboo matter. "What? Tell me and don't be afraid," I said trying to make them speak.

"Well, my father was with us before you… my esteemed lady's spear is strong and merciless."

I understood what he meant, and that made me exclaim in surprise. "Are you his only son?" I asked.

"He has many, but I'm the oldest," he paused for a moment there, with hesitation drawn clearly over his face. "Are you afraid I would kill you?" I laughed, as this vampire misunderstood my meaning.

"Kid, you are worth more to me than your entire body weight of my precious pearls," I laughed while adding, "so as you are now serving me, will the village follow me as well?"

"Well, I think many will do, but many will resist."

I understood his meaning, "Your brothers?"

"And mothers," he said before hesitating for a moment, "they are such arrogant and enjoy high places in the village."

"And they will have such a place in my village," I grinned, as this was a fact! They would have such a high and prestigious place they never dreamt of!

"May I suggest something for my lady?" he suddenly said, distracting me from my own thoughts.

'What's your name?"

"Derky."

"Speak freely, Derky."

"As those escaped from here will return to the village, I believe a large army will come here to rescue me. Let me speak with them first and convince anyone to join. Those who resist will be either my brothers or those supporting them and my mothers."

I nodded in satisfaction, "Alright, good plan," then I took out one pearl and casually threw it to him. He caught it so careful as if he was holding his life there! "Use this to convince them, and if you managed to get me their loyalty, then more of these will be handed to you."

He showed a very strange expression, a vicious one, yet I knew he was smiling. "I won't disappoint my esteemed lady," he said.

"Now go and scan the area. When they come, send one to inform me and then start the negotiations."

He nodded, and I then turned to glance at the villagers. They were standing in their places doing nothing but watching my conversation with Derky.

"What are you standing here for? We need that bridge regardless of the vampires," I shouted, and then the next moment Jack started to shout, ordering them to return to work.

I felt a change in the way they looked at me; I gained more of their respect and trust! That was expected, after all I was their mighty lord, and I just dealt with the dreadful vampires so easily.

The world started to have noises of them working hard to extract ore. The ore they extracted was dirty white in color, with thin hair-like branches all over its surface.

I wasn't an expert or that much interested in ores, yet I turned to ask Meck: "Have you found any good ores to make weapons? Like steel?"

"This ore is harder than steel, my lady."

"Really?" I smiled as I added, "do we have blacksmiths in our village?"

Jack was the one to reply, "We have a mix of races now with many forging abilities and rich experience."

"Good, once we return home, I want you to make an entire village dedicated only to craft weapons for my army."

"Swords and shields?" Jack asked with some doubt and surprise for my arrangement. He thought building an entire village for this was a waste, yet he didn't know how large my true army was, or how big it would be in the near future.

"Spears, swords, helmets, shields, claws, needles, hammers, anything my army would use," I replied, while stressing on spears as this idiot didn't notice I used spears not swords!

"Sure, sure," he nervously replied, and then Meck added, "If we need to do so, we must take much more of the ores here."

I understood his meaning and fears. This world was filled with such vicious and strange creatures! "Don't worry, I will keep your company for days! Just send back to the village to send more workers," I said to Jack as I gestured to the demons, "make them send all the demons to here. These are monsters in extracting ores!"

He nodded and then I watched him arranging for a couple of demons to go back and call all the rest.

As for my army, I left it stationed, ready to fight at any moment. I waited for the vengeful vampire army to come, and wondered how more vampires I would have in the end, and how many female vampires would I seize.

"I won't mistreat you ever, my precious vampires laying such golden eggs for me, hehehe."

I laughed as these females would form the real infrastructure of my empire in this world. With necromancers leading an army of skeletons on the ground, and vampires leading a giant army from the air; who would stand a chance against me?