Chapter 83 - Guild Creation (1/2)
It had been a long time since he had experienced a memory fragment before this. The last time, it was a memory fragment of a fight between players that was shown to him by Rudra. He was dazed by the entire fragment and was trying to commit to his mind the areas that he didn't recognize. It would be a sad joke, if he went to one of the locations and failed to realize it.
Optional Quest: Gather the complete Void Dragon Set:
Void Dragon Set consists of a 10-piece armor set and weapons.
Peices gathered: 1/11; Mask of Shadows;
”The collection of the entire set is a optional quest? I was under the impression it might by a main quest,” thought Balthazar. ”Then again, if it was a main quest that man in Foedus Rex wouldn't have been that successful. He didn't wear the other parts of the armor and failure in main quests usually have some kind of harmful effects to the character.”
In a couple of seconds, he got up and saw that Luciophel was waiting from him. ”Thank you, priest Luciophel. I believe I understand what I need to do now,” said Shadow as he was waiting for him to take him out of the bas.e.m.e.nt.
Luciophel was prompt and immediately led him out into the main hall of the temple. With him in the main temple, it was best if he tries to get some sort of quest from the temple right now. He immediately asked Luciophel, ”Great priest, you have helped me a lot. Is there anything that you would like me to do for you or for the welfare of the temple?”
”Hmm, I would suggest improving your strength and collect the other parts of the armor. I think that takes priority over anything else that the temple needs,” said Luciophel.
”That is true great priest, but I doubt I can gather all of them with the strength I have right now. I would have to improve my power in the meantime and would like to be of help in the meantime,” said Shadow. ”Why the heck is he delaying giving me a quest. I haven't heard that anyone else managed to get into the city. Rudra told me that he would look out for others, who might get in. There is no way that the quests were all taken by others,” thought Balthazar.
”Well.. That is a valid point. There is one which I could ask you to do, but I would suggest that you put this off till you get a little stronger,” said Luciophel. ”There is a town called Jarko, a few kilometers west of the city. The priest of the temple in the town had been out of contact for two days. Though the law requires a person to be missing for at least three days before they are considered missing, it is quite unusual for Faroon to not be in contact. I would like you to check on him as there have been some unsavory rumors of missing persons near by the town.”
New Quest: Find deacon Faroon at the Jarko town. (Difficulty: High)
Description: Go to Jarko town to find clues about Farron's disappearance. Suggested to attempt it after level 15.
Progress: Investigate the Jarko town for Faroon's whereabouts.
”I will check into it as soon as possible,” said Shadow and made his way out of the temple. It was quite an odd sight for him to see the temple empty like this. ”I guess, it would get crowded after more players come to the city,” thought Balthazar. ”Once that happens, the entire place would be crowded. It would become something of a holiday spot. I better take a few good pictures right now,” thought Balthazar and he started taking a few pictures.
Being night-time the statues looked much more beautiful as the night lights of the temple got reflected off them. It made the statues appeared like heroic figures that were giving off light in the dark.
He immediately contacted Rudra, Merlin and the others. He wanted to check which monsters they encountered around the city and what resources they managed to get. Based on them, he could always try to get compatible designs and also try to create new ones.
They found quite a few quests in the city, but the best ones were found by Slaine. It was the exploration quest which required him to go to other towns from the barracks. This kind of quest would allow a person to get reputation in other towns and allow them to set up a base of operations there. It was exactly the kind of quest that one required at this time of the game.
He also asked Rudra, why they didn't have a guild registered yet. He wanted to setup the first guild in the game. That would definitely cause the popularity of Crimson Realm among the player base to rise and based on his observations, they would probably get guild popularity points too. The best part of guild popularity points is that they are not limited just the White Heart Kingdom. To his dismay, Rudra replied that he could not create a guild right now as it required at the very least 10 members above level 10 in the city to form a guild.
”Can't the five of you go to your beginner village and get more players back? It is best that we not allow someone else to get this chance,” asked Shadow.
”We would like to. But a lot of people are trying to finish the quest even in the dark of the night. It is extremely hard to finish it. There are players who are a lot better than me struggling to get through. It is hard enough to level up at the beginner town by killing monsters in this light. The monsters tend to ambush the players and it will lead to deaths of any who come,” said Rudra. Balthazar had known Rudra for a long time, and it felt like he was rambling on instead of saying what he meant.
”Stop rambling and come to the point,” said Balthazar.
”I want you to ask your friends, Merlin and other to join the guild temporarily. Once, others come they can leave immediately,” said Rudra. ”I am not sure Merlin would want to join a guild after what happened with his last one.”
”Don't ask Merlin. You should have asked the others.”
”I don't really know any of them. It is not quite good for someone going to be guild leader to ask them to join temporarily. If someone else found out, it wouldn't be good for my reputation. I am afraid to ask them to join permanently as that may offend Merlin,” explained Rudra.
”Oh! I can ask them and check. But they can stay if they wanted to, right?”