Agatha The Legendary Guild Master

Eliza flew for an hour before I finally spotted my target. "Go there," I shouted, pointing out towards a certain direction.

"This lake?" she curiously asked, and I just nodded. This was a very grand lake with vast boundaries that I couldn't reach an end except at the distant horizon.

A thin line of land appeared dimly there. "This is perfect," I just said before landing off her back and checking the terrain.

It was an open place with no hills or mountains to block my path. That giant was a headache to catch, with its strange ability to manipulate rocks, I couldn't risk the trap to be laid in any mountainous terrain.

It had to be here.

"Wait a moment and we will head back," I said before taking off a thousand pearl in one go, giving Eliza a scare! "What are you doing?" she asked.

"A bait," I smiled before shaking my hands as if there was dirt on them, "let's go," I then climbed back to her and she glanced for a moment at this amount before asking:

"Aren't you afraid some monsters come and make a bloodbath on these?"

"Good point," I nodded before taking out my two demons, "stay and guard," I ordered, and they nodded in unison.

"Go now," I urged, and Eliza seemed quite hesitant to leave all this wealth behind before flapping her wings and soar to the sky.

"Every ten miles, mark this distance quite well," I said as I dropped my initial plan of leaving all those pearls behind unguarded.

As we headed to the front, I heard some roars coming from distant parts of the area. "Sigh, these pearls…" I shook my head before urging Eliza to press forward.

She flew with her fastest speed this time, and in less than half an hour we reached the place of the giants. "Take me near that giant, ten miles away," I ordered and she complied.

As we headed towards that giant direction, I noticed the presence of a solitary peak away from others. "It's there?" I said, pointing out towards that peak.

"Good eyes, lady," she replied before adding, "it's quite far from others, right?"

"Yeah, far also from our trap," I shook my head hoping this glutinous beast wouldn't consume all my pearls in one go!

As she took me ten miles far from it, I selected a place with an angle with my true aim. "That's good, descend here," I said before taking out a hundred pearls first.

Yet nothing happened.

Then I increased by a hundred.

And nothing happened.

Then I kept increasing until I reached seven hundred.

"Ding Dong! You are stingy!"

"Learning from the master."

"Ding Dong! Ding Dong!"

"Don't Ding Dong me!"

"Rumble!"

Just as I laid the eight hundred pearls down, the world rumbled and I moved my gaze instantly to the solitary peak. "It's coming, it's coming my lady, it's coming," and Eliza went crazy afterwards.

"Alright, take us high," I hurried to jump over her back before glancing at my large pile of pearls before helplessly shaking my head. "What a loss, I hope for better gain," I said to myself trying to console it for this loss.

"Take us ten miles there," I pointed towards a second place to form an arc with this one here. Like this the giant will move behind me like a good boy, hoping he would listen to me in the end.

As she kept flying at high speed, I turned my eyes to the rear and saw this unforgettable scene! A giant, a real giant that reached the height of the entire mountain was walking towards my pearls.

It wasn't broad, considering its height, yet it was gigantic to me at least. "That's nice," I started to lose interest over my loss and focused entirely over the giant.

Then I turned my gaze upon the others. "Tsk, one giant isn't enough for me," I mumbled, hoping one day I would have an entire legion of those.

Despite its huge body, I thought he moved slower than I thought! Initially we reached our second point before it reached the pearls. "We are here," Eliza said.

"Just keep us in the air, ok," I said while my focus was entirely over this giant.

It had a giant mouth and a set of eyes that looked quite smaller than his body. For me everything it had was gigantic, in a way or another.

Once reached there, the world rumbled as it roared. Its roar made even my heart shudder. "Amazing! I want an entire legion of those!" I never was so much excited about something like this since I saw the Mechas back at the Frod empire.

"You can have them with those pearls," Eliza said, trying to give me more encouragement.

"Tsk, except my precious pearls," and yet she did totally the opposite, reminding me of my pearls.

The giant stretched out one of its group of hands that reached five pairs to the pearls, grabbed them like it was doing nothing and then put them in its mouth in one go.

"My pearls," I yelled at it, and strangely enough my voice was heard by it. It gave me a glance, a very dumb one.

"Lead us down, we need to keep it hooked," I resisted the urge to go and kill that giant, or else I would be the one losing my life here.

As we reached the ground, I hurried to put down more pearls, and the giant just noticed them the moment they reached eight hundred.

"Go," I ordered while trying to forget the bitterness in my throat.

The giant followed the path I created for it until we reached the last place. When I put the last pile of pearls, I noticed the changes in this area.

Many monsters, literally endless streams of them were running towards the pearls guarded by my demons. "My demons!" I shouted before urging, "hurry, go and let's check the two."

I was worried over my demons, yet when I neared the place, I found the two fine and the pearls lay beside them.

And a stranger scene appeared there.

All the monsters here, all of them, stood motionless and obediently to the side where my demons were acting as their leaders!

"What the hell is going on here?" I asked, while reaching fast to my two demons.

"Our lady returned," as I approached the demons, the demoness shouted and instantly the entire place turned its gaze to me.

Yet another shocking scene followed! A series of rumbles appeared while the giant was following me like a docile pet!

This shocked everyone, even my two demons.

"Come back," I instantly recalled them before the next moment the monsters glanced at me, knelt to the ground and the system just sent me his regular message.

"Ding Dong! Congratulations! You gained the recognition of the entire monster pack in this region! As this feat is the first to occur in this world, you gained one hundred thousand pearls as reward."

"What? Are you sick or something?"

"Ding Dong! You gained over a hundred thousand monsters to follow you, surely you deserve these pearls! If you don't want them, then give them to me."

"Shut up! I just lost over ten thousand pearls so far!"

I had lost that much already, and it pained me.

"Ding Dong! And your efforts paid off."

"Tsk," I shook my head before shouting, "retreat, go far from this lake until I settle things with this giant."

My shouts just gave them the excuse to leave; none remained behind. "Cowards," I cursed, as there wasn't a real bloodthirsty fight between them!

"It's coming," and Eliza shouted to distract me from these thoughts.

"Take us high, now," I ordered, while she went up, not knowing what my trick would be.

This giant was really dumb! If it had a little brain inside, it wouldn't have followed me all this distance! It was a trap, any child could tell so in a mere glance!

"Yet it's working," I tried to encourage myself, while standing over the lake watching the giant coming near.

When it approached me, it stopped for a moment, seemingly hesitated. "Is it intimidated by me?" I muttered, yet the next mighty roar came to make me realize it was trying to scare me off!

"I'm not moving, these are my pearls, damn it!" I shouted, and cursed loudly at it like it would understand me.

And strangely; it did!

It pointed one of its arms towards the pearls. "Roar, pearls, mine, roar!" and weirdly enough it spoke two words that I could get from its roars!

"They are mine, yet I can give them to you," I started to play according to my plan. "If you want more, you need to follow me."

It glanced at me like an idiot. Thanks to my previous dealing with my two demons, I knew exactly how to deal with idiots!

"My lady, it's dumb with no brain. It's pointless speaking to it."

And just as Eliza said these words, the giant roared.

"My, roar, pearls, roar."

"As if you can get more except from me."

I teased it, and the next moment I opened my arms wide and let two thousand pearls fall off to the lake.

"My lady!" even Eliza was speechless, not just my giant.

"Be mine and these will be yours," I said, in the simplest words ever I could say. "Be mine!" I shouted while letting another two thousand pearls fall to the bottom of the lake. "My pearls," I inwardly screamed in pain and agony, waiting for my sacrifice to pay off.