Agatha The Legendary Guild Master

Chapter 229: When I sleep, Everything Went Wrong

My reply, even when it seemed natural and not faked, wasn't met with a satisfied look in his eyes, as if he was fixed on gaining benefit from me, this benefit, and now he lost it.

"Saying that," I continued, "leaving the armies here under the three of you must be regulated, as I appoint Richard as the leader, and Rendy as his vice."

My last appointment made Randy's face flush with anger, though he said nothing. Standing there, he wasn't spotted except by me, and I couldn't risk ejecting him out of the ship, my ship, or else I would risk losing his brother too.

One loyal and anti-noble brother, and one dirty and noble supporter, as it seemed. It was a delicate matter, with my hands strongly tied in here. arranging things like this provided me with some security, as after all leaving anything under that twisted brother might endanger things here, though I suspected he would be narrow minded this far and try to do something stupid here.

"It's quite an honor, thank you princess."

Richard led the three on thanking me on their behalf. While standing here, I just sent him a short, private message, with few words in it.

'Be wary or Randy.'

His eyes didn't change, like he suspected the brother from before. I nodded in content, as things here were already settled.

"Now, let's go back, and I will leave in one hour."

The meeting was done like that, as each one returned to his or her balloon. As for me, I dispatched my top players to gather everyone from the huge armies down there, as for those who already died, I intended to summon them when I got hold of the castle in layer five.

Reaching this far, and seeing everything was heading according to schedule, I felt some relief and started to have some rest. The journey from here on wouldn't be that stressful, not to me.

I lied inside the balloon, watching the players coming to and fro, like I was watching someone else's players. Once the hour ended, I learnt about it from the noise that Nina was causing from her balloon, just next to me.

I stood up, unwillingly, as I wanted to have some rest, which I totally deserved, but I had to deal with Nina. I liked her, but right now I hated everyone and everything that stood between me and my sleep.

"Let's go, sis, let's go and spread our names!"

She was holding a long, big flag, with a picture of a spear on it. I marveled at that flag, which was clearly made for me.

"How did you get that?" I asked with much interest, as I forgot the sleep I dreamt of right now.

"I ordered one of my craftsmen to make, and now he just finished making two flags, one is here and the other I gave to Gen," she said, as she pointed to one of the ends of my balloon, finding a similar flag poled into the balloon. The color contrast, the way of drawing, and the general look of it was just perfect.

"Thanks a lot for this amazing gift," I said, in gratitude, as I really loved this touch.

"Don't mention it, we are sisters after all. Now, let's arrange our men and start moving. We can always chat along the way," she said, giving me the opportunity to ask for a leave to sleep, as I yawned, for real not fake, before saying:

"I will also go and rest for a while."

She noticed my exhausted face, as she waved her hand to me before saying:

"You were exhausting yourself back there, go sis and sleep. Don't worry about things here, I will get your back covered."

Her words reassured me, as having such a girl here, with her leading personality, made me quite relieved about our journey.

Before I returned to my rest, I adored for a bit the fine craftsmanship of the player who did this magnificent flag. I thought we could only make specific things in the game, limited by moulds and designs, but it seemed the only limitation was my mind.

I went to sleep, losing track of everything, as exhaustion had its toll over me. I slept for hours, and when I woke up again, I sensed the tension in the air around me, like I was surrounded by enemies, not my subjects.

Just standing from the floor of my balloon, looking around in vigilance, to find the source of this tension, which didn't come from the balloons, but from the ground down there.

I looked around, to find the balloon was almost empty, except for two players who were now standing on watch, looking with a stern, solemn face towards the ground. I moved, to stand beside them, before asking:

"What has happened?"

They both jolted, shocked from my voice, but when their eyes fell upon me, they relaxed a bit before hurriedly saying:

"Princess, please, hurry up and save Lady Nina."

I looked in a strange way towards that player, before I realized he was speaking about Nina. I turned to look, but I couldn't find her balloon nearby. I raised my head, observing the ground down there, to see the strangest thing I never expected.

There wasn't a fight, despite the presence of enemies standing proudly in front of my players, who were standing in hesitation.

"What is going on here?" I weirdly asked, as I started to count the numbers of the enemies here. they weren't demons, but players, with numbers in thousands. Their number superiority seemed to be the reason for their confidence.

"They suddenly appeared out of nowhere, and they had five balloons with them, but Lady Nina acted as decoy and faked the presence of you with her, and then she ran away, taking all the balloons with her."

One of the two soldiers said, and I felt extremely angry at these players. it was stranger, though, as I seemed they were tracking us, and somehow they had some reliable info regarding my presence here. I noticed the disappearance of the flag, which meant Nina ordered them to remove it, to make the lie more acceptable.

"Why didn't you attack them after their balloons disappeared? Why didn't you wake me up?" I asked what confused me, but the second player said:

"These are the orders of Lady Nina, she wanted to take the balloons as far as possible before waking you up."josei

Nina was trying to give me the chance to escape, silly girl. She forgot I was her only way to solve things here, and help everyone to escape safely. Just as I was thinking about getting my spear artifact, one of the players said:

"They also spoke with Lady Nina about the players we left behind, as they are also surrounding them right now. if we don't deliver you to them, they won't hesitate to kill our players."

I stopped, turned to look at the players down below, with anger boiling deep within me. I smelled a foul odor, as a treason was issued here, and I knew who did it.

Without any second thought, I took out my spear, which caused a stir once I took it. Everyone here raised their eyes and looked at me, astonished, as they thought I would be sleeping while they risked their lives for me.

"Come here now," I simply ordered Rog and the others to come to my balloon. Just as they started to move, one of the thousands of players moved to appear alone, showing his big, strong, muscular figure in front of his army of players, standing in pride that disgusted me.

"Stay there, or else your players you left behind will be killed."

I snorted, loudly enough for everyone to hear me, before raising my spear to the air. The appearance of my spear had made everyone tremble, especially my enemies, as they realized what I intended to do, and they were sure if the spear was launched, they would be killed.

"Stop, halt your attack, or else we won't let your players live."

"As if you will live to see it come true," I snorted before I threw my spear towards them. things ended just like the way I imagined, with the destruction of everything.

I didn't stand in my place to see the results, as I sent a short message to Nina, 'Send me your coordinates.'

Once I sent it, I received a reply from her. It seemed like she thought about this carefully, and knew what I would think of and do once I woke up.

'No, I can't, or else our players would die.'

I sighed, this silly girl was still thinking our players were safe or alive.

'They are dead,' I simply sent these words to her, before adding, 'we have a traitor in our ranks, someone has caused all this trouble.'

She took a moment before sending to me, 'Are you sure?'

'Sure.'

'Fine, come northeast, thirty minutes in flight, and I will be luring them there.'