Agatha The Legendary Guild Master

"Just be ready beforehand or else we might find ourselves in a very deadly situation," I said before adding, "just grab a large tree and arrange a bunch of rocks here and there as a safe measure."

He stood in his place for a couple of minutes as if he didn't know what to do. "See those large trees over there?" I pointed to one direction away from the direction we were heading to, "go and grab a tree for you to use."

"Would trees help?" he asked while moving like a dumb towards the direction of the forest at the horizon, "I doubt any would kill insects."

"They would," I firmly said, "and they would help you kill more in a short time."

He didn't speak again before reaching that far forest in ten minutes. "A single one isn't enough," he grabbed one thick tree and weighed it in his gigantic arms, "I need more."

"Then get more," I shrugged without much care, "get whatever you want and start gathering rocks."

"You are dealing far too seriously with this matter."

I heard his complaints and didn't answer them. He didn't know how wicked my system was. If this was the system's scheme, and I was too sure it was, then we would be facing a huge problem.

Much more serious than what my dear giant thought.

"I prepared some," he said while pointing towards a pile of rocks that could form a small hill.

"Not enough," but I wasn't satisfied, "go and make at least one hundred like this one," I pointed towards the direction we came from, "scatter them with a few miles separating each pile."

"This is a war preparation," he said, "you look too nervous today."

"Just do this and we will be safe either way."

I waited while he kept gathering up rocks by demolishing the mountainous ground. He took a couple of hours to form a long line of rocks connecting between the valley and the place we stopped at.

"I'm done," he said, "Can we go onward now?"

"Believe me when I say I expect a big thanks from you soon."

His tone expressed how annoyed he was about doing this. I didn't explain, but I was sure soon he would be grateful for me to be this cautious.

"Can we go there now?" he was getting closer to the place we stopped at.

"Along the way gather up rocks," I didn't give him my full permission without such conditions, "and be ready to stop at least two miles away from that place."

"I'm sure we will find just a hive of small harmless bees," he said while starting to pass the point we stopped at, "I love honey, and those bees would be a very good addition to your city."

"Who doesn't love honey?" I laughed, "but if it will bring death with it then I prefer to burn it entirely alongside the bees making it."

"Who said anything about death?"

"Just consider me pessimistic sometimes," I said while taking out my spear as a precaution, "are we there yet?"

"If not for me to gather rocks without purpose then we would have arrived there by now."

I ignored his useless remark and kept my eyes over the horizon. This area we were at seemed to be a joint between an ocean of forest and the mountainous nature that surrounded my village.

"Where are you hiding?" I muttered while squeezing my eyes to see as far as I could. He said to me that the insects loved to be at places with dampness and shade, something that was very identical to the entire area here.

"Are we close yet?" I asked again as I couldn't see anything suspicious at all.

"Calm down my lady, the insects we are looking for can't be seen from the top of my shoulders."

"Why is that?" I found his answer quite disturbing and unrealistic.

"Because these insects won't live on the ground or on top of the trees," he said before hitting the ground with his gigantic feet, "they will place their hive deep under the ground, where moist and shade existed in abundant ways."

Just as he said that I couldn't help but feel a deep shiver again. "Don't tell me we'll have to go down there, deep under the ground."

"Hahaha, why would we do that?" He seemed to take this crisis far too lightly, "except if we needed honey or bees, we can only take a general look and let you feel satisfied."

I clenched my fists and felt my heart starting to pound heavily like a hammer. Damn! How much I hated bugs and insects!

"We are close," he finally said, and yet I couldn't see anything.

"How do you plan to make them show themselves to us?" I asked while glancing at the long stretching line demarcating the forest off the mountains, while the river that went through my village was twitching right and left, gaining more space and becoming much wider than ever.

It finally found its place to expand, the soft soil of the forest not the sturdy ground of the mountains.

"We don't need to do anything," he said with a laugh, "despite me being very annoyed with their loud noise, I can still live with it."

"I won't move from here until I see them with my two eyes!" I firmly said while crushing my fear and hesitation along with it.

"Then we should look for an opening for the hive," he said while glancing around, "something like an underground cave or deep groove, something that could link to the underground space they live in."

"Start looking then," I said with much anxiety, "should we look by the river? It's the most moist place here."

"That's a good point," he said before waving the bunch of trees he held like a giant wooden club, "I promise if a single bee came to you I'll strike it instantly to keep you safe."

"I'm much safer now," I lied while holding much more to my spear. In such dreadful times, my spear was the only source of comfort, the only pillar I could lean on without much worry.