Agatha The Legendary Guild Master

"Wow, we were just about to set off," the moment the two giant demons appeared in front of me, the demon said in a surprise tone while the demonesse calmly asked:

"What do you want?"

"I have a hunch that the artifacts we once had can be used once again in this world.

My words fell as the faces of the two changed before the giant demon screamed in shock and joy. "For real? Tell me you aren't bluffing!"

I couldn't help but laugh at his expected reaction. "I'm sure, but I can't find any artifacts to test the theory."

"Well…" the demonesse looked at the demon before adding, "we lost all the artifacts we once had when we came to this world."

"Me too," I nodded, "but I have a feeling that there are many artifacts out there in the large number of gears we got from the last expedition."

"Then take them all out and let's test them now," the demon was overly excited that he stopped using his brain like usual.

"Dummy one, did you forget we have not much time to waste here?" the demoness reprimanded him before glancing at me, "I bet their number is too much to scan in a few days, right?"

I nodded and she went into deep silence while the demon seemed like a kid promised a toy in the next store but his parents were short on money.

"Is there a way to spot an artifact?" I asked as this was the reason I called both of them here. "Like instigating them or making them show their true colors?"

"Well… as you said it this way then there is a way to do it," the demoness slowly said, "using the pearls."

"My pearls?!" I was surprised to hear that before realizing something. Out of anything else, the artifacts were all hungry for energy and that was always replaced by my precious pearls. "How can I use them?" I took out a handful of pearls and asked.

The moment I took my pearls out I felt their strong power and their energy wisps danced around my hand.

"Just pass them over the gears," the demoness said, "if one gear absorbed them then it's a hidden artifact."

Her way of doing this was something I liked instantly. The next moment I tried to do this to the gears inside my inventory, yet I failed.

"Let's go outside then," I hurriedly ran to the outside, but my demon was even faster than me to reach there.

"Come out," I started gushing out large hills of gears all around, and this was just a tiny part of what I had.

"Wow, that's… a sh*t load of gears!" The demon was shocked before realizing how impossible his previous plan was.

"Go and make them fill the ground evenly," I calmly said while the demon moved at once and smashed into these hills, making the artifacts fall to the ground with a loud ringing noise.

But no one came to check here, as if Jack already informed everyone about my training.

"Good, let's try the pearls then," I threw a group towards the two, 'come, help me with this."

"What should I do with these?" the demon hesitated for a moment, "I feel a strong urge to eat them up."

"Do that," I laughed, "and you won't get a single artifact tonight."

Once I said it, the demon's face changed all of a sudden and he seemed to ditch the thoughts of eating them up. "Should I throw them?" he asked.

"Just run over the gears and pass the pearls slightly over them," the demoness said before adding, "if a pearl is gone, you should be able to know it, right?"

Her words made me laugh alongside her while the demon glanced in silence towards us. "Let's start," I said amongst my laughs while starting to run.

And the two ran as well over the gears.

I was pretty much sure some gears would be ruined by this, but I didn't care. A single artifact worth much more all this pile together, or even more.

A single artifact could change a war.

"Ding Dong! I have never seen someone as careless as you!" the system suddenly said in a mocking tone, "Ding Dong! Throwing off all these priceless gears and letting your two pets crush many of them… I can't say but I'm very disappointed in you."

"Humph," I sneered before throwing his words over my back. I knew he wasn't someone I could rely on, and his words also carried one meaning… at least one artifact was present in this pile of trash gears.

That made me hold more to the hope of finding the artifact. I kept my focus over the few pearls in my hand while I leaned to the front and kept running as fast I could. The area measuring in hundreds of meters around was completely filled with layers upon layers of gears.

And I had to be sure I wouldn't miss my trophy due to my negligence or its presence so close to the ground, far off my hand.

"Swoosh!"

I kept running like this for long minutes that seemed like days. Yet just before five minutes passed, the pearls I held suddenly vibrated before they all vanished.

And I instantly stopped.

"I've got one," I said with a loud pure laugh, "c'mon, let's search this area thoroughly."

The next moment the demon appeared next to me, causing many gears to be thrown in the air.

"Dumbass! What the hell did you just do?!!" The demoness was much faster than me as she instantly shouted in rage, "are you out of your mind? You just threw some of the gears that the artifact could be among them all around!"

The demon looked very embarrassed and I just gave him a deep look. "The first artifact goes for me," I said as I had to punish him for this foolishness, "the second is for the demoness, then the third for me and then the fourth is for the demoness."

"W… What about me?" he said in puzzlement and fear of being deprived of the artifacts.

"If you are lucky, and I greatly doubt that right now, then more artifacts would be found and you'll have your first after me."

His face was red but he didn't open his mouth. My face told him for sure what I intended to do if he opened his lips and said a single word of objection.

"Let's start searching dumbass," the demoness came and hit him from the back, "you should be grateful our lady isn't cold hearted and punished you for any artifacts."

"I… I'm grateful for your… kindness,`` he said, but I felt some satisfaction with this punishment.

And now I turned around with another small problem I had to solve. "Where did you throw that gear then?" I asked while turning around. "No time to waste," I instantly took a large number of pearls and threw them all around, "pay attention, the one to eat the pearls will be our first artifact."

Yet just as we were about to look closely to all the pearls around, a strange unexpected surprise happened.