Chapter 91 - Sylvannus Fort - 1 (2/2)

”Yes, that is true,” agreed Balthazar. ”It is best if I contact Rodrigo again. I didn't think of creating training programs before. I only thought of in person training, but that would require a lot of personnel with expert level skills. A properly created program would definitely reduce the burden,” he thought.

”I will try to get you help regarding this. I am sure that I can get hold of a few experts who can help you, but they probably don't have much idea about games. You will need to explain to them exactly what you want them to do,” continued Balthazar.

He sent a mail to Rodrigo regarding the same before he continued with the game. He wanted to get some old veterans from the military who were retired due to age limit. They will work great as advisers for the software team. There would be many such men and most of them would have good skills as they survived through an age of planetary expansion. Their skill would be quite useful in a game like vita-nova.

”If they play for some time, I am sure that they will get acquainted with it. It is not big issue,” said Rudra as he considered it a very simple issue.

”They might be quite old. It is not the realistic feel of the game that they will have a problem with. They would need to be taught what we require for the guild and the various things we consider important. I intend to contact few old veterans from the military. They would be probably interacting through somnium tech not directly. So, you need to have the appropriate expectations from them. Though they would be novice gamers or casually played games before they probably wouldn't have any professional experience. I guess you understand my point,” explained Balthazar.

”Ya I understand. But we still need someone to lead all of them. I am currently trying to guide and manage them, but I can't continue doing it for a long time,” said Rudra.

”We can't do anything for now. We will surely find more people as the game progresses. It wouldn't be much of an issue,” comforted Balthazar. In fact, he knew that the faster they created their training program, the better it would be in all aspects. Moreover, the training program would play a big role in development of guilds. When, he started playing games in his past life, a guild couldn't be considered a first-rate guild without a decent training program for its members.

Rudra and all the players that came along with them were busy trying to practice hitting vital points of the deer. The white horn deer being docile animals always ran away when they noticed players. So, it was a good practice for them. Sometimes, even docile animals attacked in groups if they killed too many of them, but they had dynamites and firecrackers to save themselves in these situations.

So, he went into the forest to the left. He knew that the players of the guid, Foedus Rex found the unique weapons in a cave at a hill at this forest. He never trusted the information from the forum completely. Players hardly ever wrote the complete truths about such things.

He went into the forest and began to search for clues. He went into the forest for about 5 kilometers and used explorer's orb to map the terrain. This was his second usage of the item and with it became useless and couldn't be used further.

Though it was his last chance to use the orb, this was the best time to use it as it would provide him something far more valuable if he was successful. The terrain of the forest area of a circle of 5 kilometres radius showed up clearly in the map. As told in the forums, there was a worn down castle in the hills of the forest. It was about 4 kms away from him almost at the edge of the radius of the explorer's orb's mapping function.

The forum informed him that the castle was filled with goblins and even a few trolls were supposed found at the castle. It would be a tough fight to handle trolls and goblins. It was always tougher to fight humanoid monsters in the game.

He made his way towards the castle. Along the way, he went into a few cats and other wild monsters, but they were all lower leveled than him and he managed to kill them quite easily. As he reached the location marked on the map, he found the castle.

”System: You have found special location Sylvannus' Fort Ruins.”

”Clear the monsters to explore the ruins.”

As described in the forums, it was a dilapidated old castle built into the base of a hill. The outer walls were broken at many places along with the gate. There was a lot of vegetation on them covering up the walls. The main part of the fort was actually sculpted out of the hill.

The goblins seemed to have made a good use of it. They made picket fences at the gaps of the walls and even had a couple of towers made of wood from which archers were observing the area around it.

[Forest Goblins] (Common monsters)

Level 12:

HP: 5000/5000;

These were obviously stronger than the previous goblins that he had seen and were definitely a different race. The had covered themselves with tree bark and leaves for clothes and their ornaments and weapons were made out of bones of monsters. The smell around them was also disgusting like that of rotting carcasses.

He quickly made his way to the wall and tried to climb it, but the vegetation and the moss on the walls made it almost impossible. Though he climbed a few feet using his daggers, he slipped and fell down.

”With some repeated attempts, I will be able to get in. But I can't expect the same from the rest of the team,” he thought. He couldn't find any way better than attacking them from the front. But, this wasn't ever the best way from his past experiences. Attacking a fortified place from the front almost always results in large amount of losses. This was something that many players learned through multiple trials in his past life.