Agatha The Legendary Guild Master

Chapter 372: Was I Tricked?

"Three is a very low offer, I can't take it."

"And I can't offer you anymore than that! take it or leave it."

"I will leave then!"

I had it enough from its shamelessness! Even my little peaceful weak demon of the mere fifth layer had four mighty artifacts over its body! and this one here was trying to trick me, by giving me only three!

"Wait, wait, I can give you one more thing," it paused, and its face showed its pained expression. "What? Just don't be this stingy old lizard and spill it out."

"Old… lizard!" it seemed quite shocked before it laughed, in a crazy way, "Oh gosh, it passed a really long time since your last witch called me this! What, did she already tell you this name about me?"

Strangely, and weirdly enough, that stupid lizard found it amusing, and even stood there proudly acknowledging this nickname!

"Sure, I can always call you an old lizard from now on. Now, stop fooling with me and tell me what is that you can offer to me?"

"Sigh, you witches are really ruthless, especially when dealing with a poor old lizard like me."

"…"

The corners of eyes twitched, as I turned around ready to leave. "Wait wait, I will tell you, the last item will be this whole place."

"This fort you mean?"

I asked with doubt as this fort was really strong and vast, but would it be helpful to me in facing the upcoming apocalypse?

"No, not the fort, the base of this labyrinth."

I glanced at it with questioning look, as it added:

"This labyrinth is built upon a special large board, a very ancient design that would make anyone stepping over it lose its powers except one. This could be used to build… ahem, to help you facing the upcoming apocalypse."

Its words seemed to go towards the direction of telling more about this apocalypse, yet it stopped its tongue from proceeding more. "Built what?" I asked.

"Can't tell, too weak to know."

"Fine," I stamped on the ground like a little child as I added, "if you don't add info regarding the upcoming apocalypse, I wouldn't do this deal with you!"

"I can't, you are unworthy to know, too risky to learn about things you can't protect yourself from."

I didn't buy its reply this time as I stressed hard on this point:

"Aren't my enemies aware about this apocalypse?"

"Yes, but only a handful of their leaders knew, and only the outsiders' enemies had such info. You sh…"

I interrupted its talking, as I stubbornly said:

"Fine, then tell me what they all know! They didn't just know, they are also preparing for it, am I wrong?"

"But…"

"No buts, I want to know, it's the least help you can give to me to face these cunning enemies!"

The dragon glanced silently at me for a while, before finally sighing. "Alright, stubborn little witch, I will tell you a single piece of information, the one that everyone of your enemies know about."

I smiled, in triumph, as I finally had the chance to know what it was referring to from the beginning as the apocalypse.

"And what about the other three things?" I demanded, as I wouldn't forget about its promise.

"One is a weapon you can use there, the second is a token that will greatly help you establish your new power in the post-apocalyptic world. as for the third item, it would be a thing that would enable one item you currently have to be used in that new world."

'So it's a new world,' I muttered to myself, as I learnt a piece of info about this apocalypse. It wasn't ruin and destruction only, it had a new world in it, One that forbade the use of anything currently used here.

"Ok, I can live with that," I replied, before adding with a long tiring sigh, "So, what is it that you want me to do in that new world of the apocalypse?"josei

It showed an astonished expression for a moment, before sighing as well. "It's hard to deal with you without spilling out a thing or two, sigh! Alright, what I need is simple, in this world there will be huge battling grounds, scattered in special order. I will be ruling one of them, acting as a slave for my entire life. come and conquer that ground, and release me. it's that simple, right?"

Why did I feel it was tricking me somewhere? "Is this all?" I asked.

"Yes, it's all the truth about the help I need."

"And what will you do next?"

"I wi… I will do whatever I want, why do you want to know?"

Again it stopped itself from telling me the truth! "See? You are hiding something!"

"I can't tell you everything, can I?"

"Then what guarantee you won't turn on me later on after freeing you?"

"Who? Me? no way!"

"Yes way! You have a grudge against witches like me, so you may think to take your revenge."

"Sigh, you know nothing about that world's rules, but I can put another condition to make sure you are satisfied, ok?"

"…"

I went silent again, not knowing the apocalypse or what was going to happen after it made me unable to reply back. "Alright, I agree," I replied in its own words.

"Alright, here is the pact," it said then a large piece of paper appeared, with words written on it in large font! I glanced and read, to find it was like the game contracts, however it refers to the great system as the witness on this pact, not the game.

"What is this great system?" I asked.

"It's the name of the absolute ruler of the new world after the apocalypse," it replied, "all you need to do is to sign with your blood, and it will be effective once the apocalypse occurs."

I glanced at the contract again, and reread it a couple of times just to make sure this old lizard wouldn't trick my young witch. As everything seemed fine, I touched my already bloodied hand over the paper.

In the next moment, the lizard put a huge drop of blood over the paper, while grinning in a very strange way. "Alright, everything is settled, now I will tell you the story about the apocalypse."

I didn't know why, but with how happy it was I felt I was tricked, some way or another!

Curse you old lizard!