Chapter 85 - Engineering (2/2)

He quickly began to search the shops around the combat arena for the designs for these tools. He soon found a shop with good engineering designs and managed to exchange two small firework designs, two small dynamite design and a primitive scope design for a price of 500 combat points. After that he bought all the required supplies for making these tools.

They quickly made their way to the engineering association and booked an advanced workshop for both of them. For both fireworks and dynamites, the players needed to create the mixture to pack in a cylinder. These mixtures are made by use of alchemy. Players could alternatively buy the specific mixture from shops in cities and just pack them in cylinders to create dynamites or fireworks.

Usually many trade professions prefer to work in isolation, but engineers would have to work along with alchemists or blacksmiths. Even if they gather a lot of proficiency and become expert engineers, they need to use materials that can be created by alchemists and forgers. If they had any intention to mass produce high-level products, they need to work in conjunction with alchemists and forgers as they couldn't also gather proficiency points continuously in alchemy and forging.

Hence, the workshop would also have equipment for blacksmiths and alchemists along with the basic tools required for engineers. They could be working in the workshop along with the engineers. This is the reason that engineering workshops had double the rent compared to a forging room.

Once, they reached the advanced workshop, both Shadow and Crimson Tyrant learnt the designs. The designs were similar to the blacksmith designs which contained detailed description of how to create the tools. It also included how to make the ingredients like blasting powder using alchemy. The outer case is usually made from monster bones or iron by the forger. Engineers can be considered to be assemblers of creations of forgers and alchemists to form new products.

Both Balthazar and Rudra decided to focus on fireworks and dynamites as their use for the next day's plans was obvious. Shadow worked on production of the ingredients while Crimson Power on assembling them to form the dynamite and firework.

Small firework and small dynamite were basic level products for engineers. It would require minimum effort from the engineers to produce these items. They were able to craft these without much issue. The only thing he was disappointed about was the fact that he couldn't get high proficiency points like he got during forging.

The Kade's insignia he had allowed him to gain proficiency in forging quickly but the same was not true for engineering. He needed to do a similar quest for engineering, if he wanted to improve his proficiency as fast as forging. Though he always used forging to construct cylinders for the firework and dynamites, it wasn't considered an armament and didn't improve his proficiency at forging either. He couldn't complete any quest for engineering as he did for forging as he would require materials or do some sort of adventure which isn't safe at night.

They continued to create small fireworks and dynamites continuously for 9 hours. Either fireworks or dynamites took hardly half a minute to create. In this time, they managed to create about 500 fireworks and 500 dynamites. Though it was not enough for them to bring a lot of people clear the quest from the Blackrock Town, it was easy for getting a group of at least 50 of them to the city even without his help.

”You can continue making more if you think this isn't enough. I am logging out for dinner,” said Shadow as he decided it was enough for the day. Crafting the equipment helped him get to the next level in these nine hours, but it was still a boring stuff and he had to make some plans for the excursion with Robert in two days. He also had created enough blasting powder and other materials for Rudra to continue for a decent amount of time.

”Fine, I can continue with this. The more of these we have, the better our results would be tomorrow. Just be ready to get more guys into the city tomorrow,” replied Rudra as continued with creating more dynamites. Though dynamites would cause losses for the loot that would be available after death of monsters, at this stage of the game, it would be quite efficient to get to clear the quest and get more players of his guild into the city.

”I am expecting a bit of resistance from the other guild players. Already made preparations for it and even contacted Merlin for it. But still, expecting a load of players against us. I suspect we would be using the dynamite against players rather than monsters tomorrow morning. So, be there as early as possible. Having players of higher level is a definite advantage and your presence would have a kind of restraining effect due to your reputation,” continued Rudra.

The success of the campaign the next day was very important in establishing the prestige of his guild. The guild was under new management and owners. Over the past few days, those involved in the gaming circles have already come to know about this and those that didn't would certainly look into them after they registered the first guild in the game.

A recent change in the management of any organization would have an effect on the efficiency of the organization. Many would try to probe during such situations, especially when the specific organization shows signs of improvement from a previously mediocre state. At such times, it was necessary for them to put on a strong front.

Previously, it was well known that the guild was owned by the Blyth family. So, nobody wanted to specifically target it as the guild wasn't worth the retaliation of such a powerful family. Now, the information was that Rudra got out of the previous owner's employ and is running the guild with completely authority. They never disclosed information of the person who currently owns it.

Even if people managed to know about Rudra's connection to the Power family, they would still try to hinder their growth in the game, especially first-rate guilds and stronger ones. Like any other business, they would try to squish their competition as soon as they feel another guild to be a strong opponent. Knowing about Balthazar owning the guild would not stop some either as they expect the family's members to have different opinions regarding the guild and thus, they wouldn't need to worry much about their retaliation.

Hence, there would definitely be some players from different guilds who would try to stop them or follow them, the next day. There might even be a few who join them to spy on then. Rudra has to be extremely careful so that the interference from them wouldn't harm the guild.

He needed to be successful in his attempt tomorrow to display his team's capabilities, else many would soon start to think they got lucky on the first day of the game and might slowly get out of the guild. That would be extremely detrimental to their plans as Rudra had intended to develop the guild into a first-rate guild as he promised his father.