Chapter 62 - Blackrock Town (1/2)
As soon as they reached the village, Tetsujin and Shadow immediately made their way to the village head for the credit exchange. There was a long line at the village head's location. It looked like most of the guilds had already their representatives to the village for the purpose.
There was a limit on the number of coins that can be brought per day to only one gold per person. So, more than one person from every guild came to the village. Balthazar and Merlin also had the rest of the team stand in line to buy coins.
The line had at least 200 players before them. It would take at least 5 minutes for them to reach the village head. In a couple of minutes, they got coins in exchange for credits from the village head. As they were moving toward the auction house to check it out, a notification sounded to all players.
Blackrock Village Region Notification: The populace of the village exceeded its limits. It will be upgraded to a small Town. The upgrade will take 15 minutes and all players will be transported outside the village during the upgrade.
Immediately they were all magically teleported outside the village boundary. More than 5000 people were at the gate of the village beside the graveyard.
”I don't think we can go to the auction house for now,” said Shadow to the team. He looked around and soon found Slaine coming towards him.
”Finally, you are here,” said Slaine moving towards him. Blinding was beside him along with a few others. Slaine chose his old ID in war god's tempest, 'Slain n Shot'. There were few others alongside him.
”These are Light, Brick and Reel, they are old friends from War god's tempest.” said Slaine introducing them. ”They already joined the workshop and we are planning to start here. Rudra would be joining us soon. Thinking of starting from this place. We already have you here. It is sad that we can't make a guild till level 10.”
”You sure that you guys want to start from this place? There are going to be a lot more players coming here,” asked Shadow.
”Ya dude, we thought of completing the quest to go to the city from Silver Leaf village but now we could have all our friend and acquaintances start from this place due to the portal.”
”You know that other guilds would also consider the same, right?”
”No, most would be usually considering developing in towns or village any of their vice leaders or even elders were first sent to. You already managed to get special quests and first clears. Really hard to get any reputation at this place now. So, most would avoid developing their guild here even though it would be a hub for trade.”
”Oh! That makes sense. I guess we do have a certain amount of advantage on starting from here.”
”Yes. It is better if we start the guild from here. Moreover, this is going to become a town. It would create more quests. About 200 of the guys from the guild in War god's tempest are coming to register. They are all attempting the dungeon. Your guides have been quite useful,” said Slaine.
”That is good. The Sirius Imperials guild is also here. They have one of the vice leaders Blue Dart here. They would be competition.”
”I heard. But I doubt that the majority of their efforts would be here. Their leader Blood Wolf is at the Brown Rock town. They seem to be recruiting mostly at that town. Towns have more populace and better place to recruit members. They wouldn't suddenly change their focus now to this town.”
”Fine. I am cool with it. You can start recruiting here, but most of the players who would be interested in joining guilds have already joined Sirius Imperials.”
”Yeah. Already knew that. Anyways, we intend to use your name and popularity for recruitment. You don't mind. Do you?”
”I own the workshop. It would be a waste if I don't allow you guys to not use my name for recruitment. Use it however you like. Putting that aside, these are friends, I found here,” said Shadow pointing to the team.
”Yes, Blinding told me about them. Nice to meet you lot. Will you be joining the guild?”
”Not really into these things. How about we tell you once you actually create the guild?” suggested Merlin. ”Which guild do you own?” he asked Shadow.
”Oh! It is Crimson Realm. You might have heard of it. We came into the top 20 for the Dread cup in War god's tempest.”
”Yes. I heard of it. That guy Roadkill was one of you right?” said Merlin as he remembered the name. ”You own the guild?” he asked looking at Shadow.
”I recently came to own it,” said Shadow nodding his head. ”Anyway, why don't you guys get acquainted. I need to log out for a few minutes to check on a few things,” said Shadow as he walked pulled Slaine to a side away from the rest.
”Don't try to persuade those guys to join the guild. Mad Merlin likes to be a bit independent and he is a good player. Leave him to me. I am trying to create an adventurer group to work in collaboration with us,” he explained to Slaine.
”Mad Merlin? You mean the one who got out of Magus Shrine? You know that Magus Shrine is a super-first-rate guild, right?”
”I know. But I don't think that they will find trouble with him. That is why I am thinking of an adventurer group rather than the guild to be on the safe side.”
”But we were hoping to have you in the guild,” said Slaine confused. He couldn't actually use his name if he isn't in the guild.
”I will be a honorary elder preferably. I won't be able to play after these few months anyways. So, let it be like this for now. I will log out now. Inform Rudra of this. See you in 15 minutes,” said Balthazar logging out of the game. He got out off the pod, stretched his legs and opened up his mail.
He quickly checked his mail and found out that Robert had already sent the doc.u.ments which he requested. He first sent the agreement to Winston so that he would be ready to support Robert. Next, he began to go through the doc.u.ments about the planetary excursion he would need to go along with Robert.
The next one was after three days in an abandoned planet nearby. The planet DG-105 had about 10 times the gravity of Asklepian. Due to the high gravity and the atmospheric pressure, it was not advisable to stay there for longer durations. But these conditions led to the growth of some rare species of flora.
The animals on the planet were mostly reptiles with thick hides. The majority of animals here had extremely tough bodies and were considered dangerous. Luckily the high gravity didn't allow for any flying beings native to it. The only birds there are flightless and extremely fast like the rest of the living beings.
They were only allowed to be on it for a duration of 10 hours. it is mandatory to wear a combat suit that would reduce the strain from the high atmospheric pressure and gravity.