Agatha The Legendary Guild Master

I accepted them all. My system put a dirty trick there limiting the time of each quest up to two weeks, but I never cared. I did have a lot of forces to spare, and I planned to get all of them done before this week ended.

"Ding Dong! Are you happy now?" the system said and I felt a very vengeful tone in his voice.

"Sure, I can sleep in peace and enjoy my days to come," I laughed before heading directly towards the library.

There I found a long line waiting inside before a large group of people. The process seemed to be based on personal interviews and seeing what each one of them preferred as his or her future profession.

It was a long and tiring process, but they needed to get used to it. After all, I planned to grant every single one of my future empires a chance to decide what to be.

"My lady," Jack noticed my presence slightly late before releasing himself from what he was doing and coming directly to me. "We are trying to speed things up but…" he paused while glancing around, "this is considered our fastest."

"Not bad," I smiled, "bring in the main ones and send immediately for those hot headed boys out there to come home."

He glanced strangely at me as he felt something seemed off about my tone for sure. "Any good news?"

"I carry some," I smiled, "but mostly they are all bad. Hurry and send for everyone, I don't have any time to waste here, neither do any of you."

"Right away," he said with a face that made me realize he didn't get the gravity of the situation.

"Don't slack," I said before seriously adding, "this is far too serious than you might think."

His face changed and the look I waited for appeared finally. He nodded before watching him leave to the large crowd while I took my leave towards my mansion.

The sight of that poor mansion was still getting on my nerves. Gosh I swore at that moment the first thing to do after clearing all those dangers would be to demolish it and start one anew.

Or I should better build a grander one beside, leaving this as an old relic to remind me from where I started.

I sat over my primitive seat and waited. My mind was trying to think about ways to get oil. "Animals would do," I muttered to myself but I knew this would be a very long and tiring process to accomplish.

"I recall my father once told me about an ancient technology based entirely on explosive oil," I had such an old memory that popped up out of nowhere and served me right at this point. "I should seek that, as according to him they used to dig deep in the ground and find the oil stacked there in great quantity."

I waited for roughly an hour before all my big leaders appeared in front of me. Their faces were plain as they totally were oblivious to what I was going to say.

"I have just discovered a great threat drawing near us as we speak," I said before starting to narrate what I saw and experienced in extreme detail.

I spoke about how I found these insects, their weaknesses and my plans to stop them. The more I spoke the more their faces went darker. Even talking about my plans to respond didn't get them any better.

"I plan to stop them using these two methods besides," I turned to Dredly and Omad who seemed to be the only two in this room having a good response about my bad news, "I will send you two off to accomplish four hundred tasks. Each will get us more reinforcements, resources, and other rewards."

"Do these resources have oil?" Meck asked with anticipation, but I shook my head as this was the achilles heel in my plan.

"We need to look for oil," I said, "or else we all will die."

"Getting oil isn't a problem," Jack was the one to speak as all went into dead silence, "but the amount needed for such an operation will be… a big disaster."

"I heard of a way to get a huge amount of oil without the need to squeeze each monster we meet dry," I said before pointing to the ground, "it's buried deep under the ground."

"My lady… you can't possibly mean the ground oil, the primitive oil, right?" Meck said and when I went into silence and didn't respond he took a deep breath before adding, "This… seems a bit impractical to be honest."

"Why is that?" Enly asked, "it's my first time to hear about such oil."

"Me too," Jack said and others nodded.

"It's something formed from the decay of ancient beings," Meck started to explain, "it's usually so thick in nature, very explosive and volatile, and it presents in large quantities under earth."

Everyone glanced at each other in daze while Enly asked:

"If so then it can solve our current problem."

"It has a problem, one I doubt we can solve in less than a week," Meck shook his head before adding, "it's deeply buried under the ground, we can't get to it with our current equipment or technology."

"Then we should aim to start working to solve that today," I turned to Jack as I added, "declare this order, anyone interested in being a miner and an engineer would advance first. As for the one to lead them, no one is better than Cal."

Cal glanced at Jack before the latter smiled. "We have little time to do that, plus we need a lot of ores to test things up."

"And blacksmiths as well," Meck said, "engineers would invent some machines and tools but blacksmiths are the ones to craft it on a wide scale."

"Then do it now," I casually waved my hands towards the outside, "what are you waiting for? It's not a problem we can run away from, it's either to win it or to be killed. No one is going to be safe, neither me nor you nor anyone out there!"

My words made them sigh before they left the mansion.