Agatha The Legendary Guild Master

Chapter 404: Meeting Jen

That was the only possible reason to explain these new changes I currently experienced. Strangely I could recall certain memories of the past, but in different light and with new opinions and lessons.

The journey went smoothly as I conquered the boss of this region. The leopard moved in the lead, trying to act courageous and avoid stirring up my wrath. The two monsters and the two demons were now the baby form of my own elite force, which I planned for it to reach an unimaginable scale.

I had no limit to my greed for power and strength; which was something I occasionally had, but not this clear, not this powerful.

We took another hour in the middle of this darkness. During which I met a couple more of those bruberry trees, and I started harvesting them without any shame.

Every now and then I would take out one fruit and chew it slowly to enjoy its sweet and refreshing taste. It was a magical fruit to me, as no matter how many I ate, I never felt satisfied or got used to its taste.

"Master, the next territory is for a really strong foe," the leopard spoke, while Lilly purposefully kept her tongue silent. I was pretty sure she had done this to help him, and I didn't care as long as he kept his head lowered and his intentions sincere.

"Why do you say that?"

"It's a mutation of an elephant monster, with scales covering her body instead of skin. She had a strange thorn in the end of her trunk, making her able to poison anything she touched with it. she is ferocious and arrogant, much more arrogant than I!"

"Great, I want her then to serve under me," I chuckled as the more powerful the monster was the more beneficial he or she would be to me.

"But" the leopard got silenced before Lilly stepped in as she cleared the confusion: "What Mark wanted to say is that Jen acted like you do, master, annexing many groups of monsters under her control."

Lilly said the name of the leopard to me, but I acted like I heard nothing from her. "How many monster groups did she manage to collect?" I asked, with much more interest in this bold and smart kind of monster.

"At least fifteen groups," she said, before adding, "all aren't lower than our forces, me and Mark," again she said his name, and I just ignored her remark again.

"No problem, if you two are scared then step aside and let your master deal with things here."

"N- No, we don't mean that," Lilly said, as she stuttered in her words while glancing at Mark, who hurriedly added: "I'm pretty sure the offer master can present will be interesting to many, not only to Jen, but to anyone serving under her."

My eyes shone as I understood their point. "Good, nice trick and sly plan; I like it! Which of you two will volunteer to act as my own diplomat?" I asked, before adding, "if you can, make sure to offer a single duel between me and that Jen. Though she seems quite capable, killing her might give me more benefits here."

"I want to go," Mark, the leopard, said, trying to seize this chance to make himself useful. "Good, if you succeeded then I would accept you warmly among my trusted circle."

I swore I saw a wide grin over his vicious face, but I didn't comment or react to that. "Don't worry master, I won't disappoint you," he said, before venturing alone, to the front, before disappearing in the darkness.

"Sigh, I have to wait then. Gosh, how much I hate waiting!"

"I know of a place nearby here filled with the bruberries you love," Lilly suddenly said, and even my stomach ached in reaction to her words. "Really? That's great, lead the way then," I demanded before Lilly darted towards a different direction, heading back inside the territory we just stepped out of it.

Her words were proven right, as I found over a thousand bruberry trees lined peacefully together. "Oh my, I can already feel hunger and thirst hitting the walls of my stomach, hehehe," I laughed while starting to collect the fruits and store them into my inventory.

It took me quite some time to finish them all; as each tree was already filled with fruits to the brim. I was pretty sure that I had over fifty thousand pieces of bruberries now stored inside my inventory.

As I finished collecting everything, I glanced at all those trees in regret. "Why can't I take them with me, sigh! I have to give the orders to Den to send some villagers later to collect these gems buried here," I muttered before turning to Lilly and said, "let's go back."

"Right away master," she replied and instantly moved towards the place we left off from. As we reached there, I found a large number of monsters gathered there, waiting for me.

The front was led by a group of large elephants; large to the normal monsters, reaching five meters in height. Their number was a hundred, and they seemed quite strong.

But in front of them, with a distance of ten meters at least, another elephant stood there. the description I got from Lilly and Mark was identical to this elephant, who stood silent and steady, with a vibe of strength and arrogance brimmed from her confidence in herself.

I was quite sure it wasn't misplaced.

"So, you are the human this weakling spoke about you," she said, while examining me when I reached her. The sight of my two demons, their huge bodies and the strength emanating from them, startled her, but she didn't show much on her stern looking elephant face.

"And you must be Jen. Are you here to surrender or to fight?" I asked, as I didn't want to waste time coating my words to either a subordinate or a dead one.

"Neither," she said, shaking her trunk right and left, "I came here to speak with you."

"With me? about what?" I said, before taking my spear out, putting it on my lap, as a sign to my readiness to war at any time.

My move was noticed by her, clearly, but she didn't comment or show any reaction to it. "Mark told me about your grand plan of gathering all the strong fighters under your banner. May I ask about your real intentions?"

"My intentions?" I asked, with surprise, for her sane words that rivaled any humans.

"Like do you want to be the ruler of this region, the king?" she elaborated, and instantly I couldn't hold my laughter back, before I pointed to her in apology.

"Sorry, but your limited vision really surprised and amused me."

"Limited vision?"

"Seeing only the region and the king of such a small place is your ambition can only be described by limits, right?"

She glanced at me with her big rounded eyes, surrounded by wrinkles, for quite long minutes before she asked:

"May I ask if you can broaden my horizon then?"

"Sure, let me ask you something, where do you think we currently are? Not an area, but the world."