Chapter 89 - An expedition to the city (2/2)

Rudra had their shop opened at the same time that they started their ten groups to begin the completion of their quest. Over the night, he had a few blacksmiths learn the design for the level 10 spear that Shadow created and managed to produce a decent stock of them. He also had Slain and Roll to buy a few level 10 equipment and weapons from the shops, and he put them up at his shop.

Though he put up about 10 spears for sale directly. He put the rest of them on an auction system at the shop, so that players could bid on it. He also announced at the shop that the dynamites and weapon designs would be placed on auction once the weapons they have got sold out.

This had resulted in an increase in the popularity and has also diverted the attention of the leaders of the guild player in the Blackrock Town. It was more important for them to find own resources and armaments to develop further in the game, rather than waste time stopping other guilds. Thus, the announcement at the shop cause the priorities of these guilds to change and they had their members immediately collecting funds to buy from the shop. This also allowed them to sell these at twice their original cost providing Crimson Realm guild a decent profit.

Balthazar had Robert informing him of the developments in the forum as he was leading a group into the Blackrock hill area. ”I was right in allowing him to have complete management rights over the guild. It was a good idea to use the shop to divert their attention,” thought Balthazar as he was being told by Robert about the posts in the forums.

They separated into ten groups initially so that their opponents would be split, and they could use the dynamites to counter smaller numbers easily. But this wasn't feasible when they were completing the quest. It was always easier to take down the leaders of the monster groups in large numbers by focus fire of large number of players. It would also allow them to clear the quest faster.

With the 200 members united, they actually had Crimson Power and Shadow Tyrant lead a smaller batch of 10 players before the rest along the path. These were the scouts of the group. Shadow knew that the number of monsters encountered on the path would be proportional to the number of players in the team.

So, he formed a smaller team to track the location of the monster leader that would be spawned. Then, he could bring the entire group to that location and raid the lair as he did before. They also came in contact with a few lone monsters like the red fanged cougar, but with the numbers in the group these lone monsters hardly stood a chance. The only issue was that Shadow and the others who already finished the quest shouldn't have the last hit for it to be counted as the party's kill.

In this manner, they slowly cleared the quest till they managed to see the city walls. Only the final boss was left. With their large numbers and the dynamites and fireworks, the managed to reach this stage in just 2 hours. The main boss were ogres this time got killed much faster due to the use of dynamites and the large number of attacks from the 200 players. At this stage about 10 players got killed and lost their chance to complete the quest, but the rest had successfully registered at city portal.

So, with a ninety percent success rate, they finished their first mission of the day. About 30 players didn't manage to reach level 10 even after the quest and 150 new players got into the city.

This was quite an effective result as none of the other guilds managed to get into the city yet. But their trick was disclosed. Blue Dart was closely following them with his team to check on them with a scope he bought from their shop. They realized that killing the leader of monsters in the forest would enable them to escape the crazy fight at the end.

They immediately began their quest to reach the city with this idea in mind. But it still wouldn't be as easy as the Crimson Realm members did because, Shadow helped a lot in taking down of these monster leaders and they had a good supply of dynamites and fireworks.

Rudra immediately began assigning players in his guild various tasks to do. They had an advantage which would probably be lost within the day. So, they had to make good use of it. Rudra had immediately employed the 50 trade profession players beyond level 10. He sent them to workshops and their respective associations to start working on new equipment and items.

Apart from that, he had sent some to the Colosseum and the remaining immediately went on their own to try their luck with the quests that would be available. He put specific stress on few to enter the colosseum as the combat points would allow them to buy designs and other tools. He had noticed that goods sold by the shops in the outer region aren't good compared to the ones he saw at the Colosseum.

The players couldn't share or exchange combat points with each other nor did the system allow them to purchase more than 10 points with money. So, the best alternative he could think was for them to fight against one another, the final winner would have a larger number of combat points than the initial ten. This would allow some trade profession members to get good designs.

All this would cost him a lot of coins., but the thing that Rudra was least concerned about was coins. Due to him selling the halberds at the auction house and the opening of the shop where he auctioned dynamites, spears and other equipment, he had managed to collect a decent amount of gold from the other guilds and players.

Until now, he had only auctioned one of the spear designs which was bought by a guild for a cost of 10 gold. It was almost equivalent to the price of a small shop in a town. Rudra didn't inform that this was one of Shadow's creations and this led a majority of the players to believe that the shop was actually auctioning designs which the players worked extremely hard to procure.

He also announced that they would probably sell more designs of the same if they found them. The brought him a good amount of coin for the designs and also the good will of a number of players. His announcement suggested that there are ways at the city to get hold of designs continuously and also increased their fervor to get to the city quickly.