Chapter 266: Let the Meeting Begin, Let the Blood Flow!

My words were instantly understood by her, and her two amazing eyes got widened, filled with worry. I appreciated her reaction, and I also appreciated her help so far, but this road must be tread alone, on my own, with no one beside me.

"Well," she said after a long moment of silence, "if you ever needed help from me, I won't hesitate to do so."

I just nodded, as this wasn't a simple offer for help. Asking her to stand against these wolves was like asking an ant to stand against an elephant!

I knew these wolves couldn't enter the game, not yet, or else they would have come to me and eliminated the threat I was representing.

I stayed calm for the next half an hour, and she didn't speak with me at all. I felt her stress, and worry over me, but I didn't reopen the matter again.

My only concern was to use this opportunity created by my past self, and try to strengthen my own powers, make me a force not easy to reckon with.

I was sure, whatever this game world had to prevent the incoming of these wolves, it was thanks to the witch's arrangements. As for the sacred lands, I didn't know if they were also protected like here or not.

I suddenly realized something, I didn't know a thing about the witch, about my past self! I never knew what she was like in her age, how did she die? And for what?

I doubted she could be taken down this easily, and without good reason, she wouldn't be easily defeated.

So, if I learnt about this past forgotten history, then I might find some clues helping and guiding me here.

What I had in memory about her came from Shin, who had his own hardships in getting these scarce info. I turned to look at Lady Nada, as I wasn't alone anymore, and I could ask for her help.

"May I ask for a favor?"

"Anything you need, dear," she said, before adding, "but I can't really help you regarding the game quests."

"I want something away from the game, I want to know any info related to the life of the witch."

"The real witch?" she asked, trying to make sure of what she heard.

"Is there more than one witch?" I asked, as her reply aroused this strange thought in me.

"Sure, there were many false witches along the history since the fall of the real witch," she nodded, saying what seemed to be a shock to me, "these imposters made the situation quite messy after the witch was gone, and so certain organization hid all the relative information about the real witch, keeping these data safe, storing them for the arrival of the real successor," she added.

"Oh, never thought of that before," I muttered, while being lost in thoughts, she added, "Don't think about it, you are the real successor of the witch, I know that!"

"What makes you so sure?" I asked.

"Because no one before had all the witch's prophecy to be completely applied to them except you, plus the artifacts already recognized you, and this alone is enough proof for your authenticity."

I glanced at her and nodded, before asking again:

"So, how can we get the witch's information from this organization? I'm in desperate need for anything related to the old witch."

"Don't worry," she mysteriously chuckled, "though I and a lot more believe now you are the real successor, this organization still doesn't approve of you, not yet."

Her words were mysterious, and vague. I felt she had some connections with this organization, and I was now being tested. "What is this organization?" I asked.

"In time," she chuckled again, "everything will be revealed in time, my dear. Just have faith in yourself, and patience," she added, before looking towards the outside, like she was able to see through the walls, "they are here."

She then stood up, and vanished without a trace in front of me. instant teleportation, a very unique and fascinating skill, only available to the higher ups of the players and NPCs. I wanted it, hopefully one day I would grow up enough to learn it.

I waited there, in front of the fire, while my mind was busy thinking about this mysterious organization.

'Is it the mystic art society?' I thought to myself, as this was the only big organization I know, with enough power to protect such an important secret.

She talked about recognition, so should I reach a certain level in my mystic arts? Or should I increase my ranking in the society?

I felt kind of lost, as I didn't know what I had to do. Amidst my own dilemma, many NPCs started to step in, with one of the dozen guards that were assigned the mission of protecting me.

There were ten NPCs in total, including Lady Nada. She sat at her seat, while others sat on theirs, surrounding the two of us.

"Let me introduce you all to our new esteemed hero of our town, player Agatha is the one who applied for establishing a guild here," Lady Nada said, introducing me to these NPCs.

"Wow, I heard a lot about you, aren't you the one who coward away from the newly established Trinity guild?" one NPC suddenly said, with his rude foul mouth, making me quite alerted to some fact I totally missed.

My enemies could reach these NPCs, and preach them out! I suddenly felt how naive I was for ignoring such a scenario, and from the stupefied look over Lady Nada's face, neither did she see this coming.

"George, what are you saying?" Lada Nada got over her surprise fast, while another NPC said:

"I'm with George, why do we call her our hero? We can simply join the crusade of other true heroes, not the ones who just ran away from any battle!"

Lady Nada's eyes widened, but I had already understood what was going on here. Adding two, or three, or more to the mix didn't make a difference at all.

Just as Lady Nada was about to speak again, reprimanding them, I stretched my leg, gently tucked over her, making her stop what she intended to do.

This was a perfect opportunity to pluck the filthy weeds from our garden.

'Go on, continue exposing your treacherous nature, come on, I want all of you to show up, step forward, and betray me, so I will reply, kindly, by uprooting your heads from your shoulders!' I thought to myself, while enjoying the show played in front of me.

This wasn't the time for democracy, it was time for dictatorship! My dictatorship!