Chapter 90 - On guard (2/2)

It wasn't easy to get into the city guards. They easiest way they could get into it was to accept missions. Registering new players to the city was the best option for them right now. It was something that provided contribution points based on the amount time they spent on it.

It was one of the simplest missions and extremely boring, but the best thing was that he could be sure that they could keep track of the new arrivals. It also didn't provide any experience. Hence, most considered it one of the worst missions in the game and hardly any player accepted it. There were such missions all over the game and they provided any decent returns on continuing the machine for a very long time.

He convinced Rudra that he needed someone on the lookout for players of super guilds at the main gate. He couldn't tell Rudra that he needed to lookout specifically for Foedus Rex players as he has no reason that would be convincing. He asked them to just continue till any super guild managed to reach the city only for the day. Most players that would manage to clear the quest at this stage would be guild players and he provided them a list of player names from his memory that they could check for. He told them that he went through the forums and these were the most probable the would reach the White Heart City and were in the vicinity from the map that he purchased.

With that part of the issue cleared, he had to do something else. It was to get hold of a shop in the city as soon as possible. He immediately went to the city hall to rent a new shop in the White Heart City.

Similar to the Blackrock Town, the receptionist at the city hall guided him to a registrar and he was shown a list of the available properties in the city. He chose one close to the Colosseum in the city. It would be quite a popular place almost on par with the market as it would soon be filled with players who would be very interested in getting better equipment to win at their fights in the Colosseum.

His guild had been earning a decent amount of money from the shop in the Blackrock Town which he could use to purchase a shop instead of renting it. So, he chose a good shop but it cost 500 gold.

Though the shop was earning a decent amount of gold, it would take some time to get a return of about 500 gold.

”The guild needed quite an amount to buy resources too. Taking 500 gold at this stage might actually do more harm than good,” thought Balthazar and decided to buy the shop later as he was in no hurry. ”There isn't much use in buying a shop now anyways. With the amount of players in the city, right now it would be a total waste to open it now,” he thought.

While he was searching for the shop in the list provided to him at the city hall, Rudra collected some basic information from the members of his guild. Their reports were as he expected from his knowledge of the surroundings of the city.

He immediately met up with Merlin and his team. Rudra also led Slaine, Rick, Harry and the three other members whom he trusted to stay in the guild for a long time. Balthazar told Rudra to get players he trusted completely as he intended to take them to a special quest after they increased their level and he was going to help them with it.

There was a forest surrounding the city on three ends and a grass land on one end. Balthazar chose to go for the grassland. The place he wanted to search for unique weapons was in the forest at a small hell to the left of the grassland.

In the grassland, the monsters they found were similar to the ones, they found in the village. The main problem after level 10 was that they would need to properly attack at the right body parts of the monster or they might end up not receiving any resources when the forage.

As they went into the grassland, they found it inhabited by a herd of white horn deer. The white horn deer are same as any other deer and brown in color except that they had a long white horn on their snout and were about 7 feet tall. Their horns were used in alchemy rather than forging and other resources that can be obtain were their skin and meat.

[White Horn Deer] (Common Monster)

Level 12:

HP: 4500/4500;

Despite their large size and the horns on their heads, they were docile monsters and would run away from players. The players had to disable them to hunt them down like they did with the antelopes at the Blackrock town.

Now, that they were above level 10, disabling monster was much easier for Shadow. Previously they needed to strangle or hold them down, but from level 10 onwards, the game would change so that a proper hit on a weak point would simply disable the monster and also deal a large amount of damage.