Agatha The Legendary Guild Master

I said to them while knowing my pearl amount was much larger than that. In addition to this, I have more pearls coming in the way as long as my dispatched teams would emerge victorious at each quest.

However I knew how priceless pearls were in this world. For instance I still need to awaken more giants like my own, and that would consume much more of these pearls.

Besides those insects threatening my city were still a headache. If I couldn't find a way to decisively deal with them then I might need my pearls to act as decoys at some point.

Many things depended upon my pearls and I was pretty much sure my damn system wouldn't donate too much to me later on.

Yes I was going to have a load of them soon, but something told me this would be the last batch I would receive in a very long time.

"Only five?" the demon asked while glancing over the gears he had.

"I warned you," the demoness laughed in his response, "you can have as many as you wish but we would only have a limited number of them activated."

"Sigh," the demon seemed bitter about this result but he had nothing in hand to do but to comply.

"Bring me your five gears now," I said, "we'll activate them all in one go."

"Ding Dong! You can activate them all if you wish," the system didn't let such an opportunity pass without harassing me as usual.

"Shut up," I shouted at him as I already was aware of his dirty scheme here.

"Ding Dong! I'm just advising you for your benefit. After all these artifacts will be a great help for you."

"Yeah, you care too much about me… I can vouch for that," I sneered while he didn't stop at my sarcasm and kept speaking non-stop.

"Ding Dong! It's better to have more weapons of these… Those insects are real badasses. You can't imagine how deadly they are!"

"Can you stop treating me nicely? I might mistake you for my boyfriend or something," I couldn't help but say in mockery.

"We are ready," the demon urged me to act and I took this as a chance to get away from the system's persistent words.

I took out large batches of pearls and let them flood over every single gear.

"Hey, you brought seven gears, not five!" I stopped at the demon's gears and gave him a stern look.

"They are five," he defended.

"Smart bastard," the demoness laughed while grabbing one arm guard couple from the ground, "each is considered one item dumbass. You only have five thousand pearls to consume, so do you want to miss two of your precious swords instead?"

Her tone made me chuckle while watching the demon hurrying to change the gears without saying a single word.

"You are thinking yourself smarter than any of us," the demoness didn't let him off this easily, "don't try to act smart next time or else you might lose everything."

He turned to me and I nodded to confirm the demoness' threats. If he tried to pull something tricky like this next time then I wouldn't hesitate to punish him and not activate any gear at all.

"They are ready," he said in a slightly dejected tone, "all are single pieces… four swords and one helmet," he said.

"A helmet?" I glanced weirdly at his choice, "not an armor or a chest plate?"

"I don't need any defense," he arrogantly said, "my skin is thick and my body is sturdy like any good armor. But this helmet looks cool on me."

I couldn't help but raise an eyebrow at him. "As you wish, but once I did that you won't be able to renege on any of these choices of yours," I warned, yet he nodded in a firm way.

"Stupid arrogant bastard," the demoness couldn't help but reprimand him and he only grinned and watched me spreading out the pearls over the gears.

"All is set," I said, "let's wait."

The gears were all now soaked with pearls like being drowned in water. The new gears all absorbed many pearls at a fast pace at first. Then they started to be slow in taking the pearls just like my spear.

"This is taking longer than I expected," I muttered after the passage of one hour, "one hour passed and there are more than one hundred and fifty pearls for each gear."

"We can stop them there and gather the pearls together to activate one more gear," the demon said.

"Dummy demon, your greed will kill you oneday," the demoness hit him in the back like a noisy kid, "each artifact must be fully activated or else all of this would end up with nothing."

"Just wait," I said, "I believe having these will be enough for our plans."

The demon grumbled but he didn't say anything and waited.

But amidst this silence, my system didn't stop for a single second in trying to persuade me.

"Ding Dong! Please consider! This is such a rare opportunity."

I couldn't take it anymore as I turned to the sky and shouted in impatience:

"Shut the hell up! The more you say it the more doubtful I become."

"Ding Dong! I'm only caring for your benefit."

"Liar! You are a dirty bastard who won't say anything to my account."

"Ding Dong! Just hear me out and consider what I'm saying… it's a golden opportunity you have here."

I crossed up my arms as I sneered, "what golden opportunity? I feel like this is a golden chance for you to get rid of my beloved pearls."

He didn't give up hope and kept speaking and speaking non-stop for the next three hours. I couldn't stand it for the first hour and so I decided to find something to waste my time on instead of listening to that bastard.

So I got out my old spear and started to train when I realized something.

"This spear…" I paused, "it's one of the artifacts I once had."

I couldn't help but hit my forehead when I realized that. I should have used the pearls over it from the start.

"No problem then," I took out my pearls and let them fall over my little baby, "eat, eat until you are full… I want to see your former glory once more. The terrorizing spear that kept roaring all over the world, nothing could stop you, not even fate."