Chapter 97 - The Shrine - 1 (1/2)

”I just hope that you wouldn't make it public anytime soon,” requested Balthazar.

”That is obvious, kid,” said Leon this time. He was sitting behind Balthazar all the time listening what he had to say. ”Irrespective of whether it works or doesn't none of the stuff which is being tried out here would get out to public knowledge.”

”We need to inform elders about this idea if we want more resources,” said Elias. ”Without that there is no point in having this discussion.”

”I just meant that we don't divulge this even to families and organization which are working with us,” said Balthazar.

”That would be hard. Once, we suggest this to the elders at the very least, members of the Price family who are with us, would get know about the idea,” said Leon. He knew the structure and organization of the family quite well and considered keeping this a secret to be a futile hope.

”OK. But we can request them to keep it under wraps, right?” asked Balthazar.

”Yes. They wouldn't allow others to know either. You don't need to worry about that,” answered Leon.

”Yeah. They wouldn't try it out themselves first either. They would wait to see if we have any success with it before they ever think about implementing it,” added Elias. ”Furthermore, we might have a problem with it ourselves too. For this, we need someone to agree for a test run. Most of the elders don't like to try it themselves. We need someone to agree for this, if we ever want to get it done properly.”

”I will see if I can contact someone about it, but it would be hard. I would see if Robert or Winston can help,” said Balthazar.

”Yeah. I was already thinking about contacting Richard for the same,” said Elias. ”Let us see what can be done. Anything else?”

”No, this is all I wanted to talk to you about. I will take my leave,” said Balthazar as he made his way out of the virtual room.

He put in a mail to Robert regarding it. He just mentioned to him in the mail that he had talked to Elias and had a proposal that would help to create a real-fight based scenario, but they would require some assistance from him and asked Richard to discuss it with him.

He immediately logged in to the game and made his way towards the fort from the White Heart City. By the time, he logged back in, it was already an hour. He needed to get to the fort as soon as possible. He immediately contacted Rudra and came to find out that there were other guilds including Foedus Rex have managed to enter the city. But Crimson realm members also made another expedition managing to get increase their numbers in the city to about 500 players.

Luckily, the players who entered from other guilds were very low in number. Even the members of Foedus Rex who entered the city numbered less than 10 and they managed to do that due to the use of dynamites they bought. Knowing this, Balthazar told Rudra to stop the sale of dynamites for some time. He told that they would probably need quite a bit for this quest, and it is best to put a stop to it.

Lizzie had long since stopped the sale of dynamites since she realized that Sirius Imperials manged to get into the city due to their use. They left management of the shop to her and currently it was only selling armaments and the spear design made by Balthazar. She already put in a post on the forum that due to their need of dynamites in a quest, they weren't currently selling any for a period of time and would resume later.

Though few criticized it and made fun of the guild for not selling one of their hottest products, it was still considered a valid reason and they didn't need to worry about their reputation. In fact, there were other guilds who already managed to reach the cities due to use of the armaments and dynamites sold by their shop. None of them sold the wares that they managed to procure till now and hence, the Crimson Realm guild still had better reputation right now. Even the well-known super guilds of gaming industry weren't in a better state than them currently.

The members of the other guilds who managed to reach the city were also small in number compared to them. Most players who managed to register the city were trying to help more players of their guilds to register at the city by finishing their quest and hardly had any time to scout for other quests around the city. This was the advantage of them finishing first.

By the time, Balthazar reached the fort, there were close to 50 players around the fort. They have already finished transporting the armaments they found and were scouting around the fort in the forest. They were hunting the animals around the forest. The ones that would be found at this stage would be similar to the animals found in real-life.

As the aim of the game was to hone the skills of men and teach them to survive in exigent situations, they monsters would have a lot of characteristics of those found in real-life. The also made sure that these animals were low to moderate danger varieties, so that they could easily learn to hunt them. As most players would be novices, the game designers created the monsters so that it provided a slow learning curve and wouldn't put off the players. Even Grypa which was the species of Anubis, Balthazar's pet was appraised a high difficulty species by the game due to its speed and wouldn't be seen in the game anytime soon.

During his travel to the fort through the forest, he was informed of all the developments and the weapons and gold they earned by Lizzie and Rudra. He immediately went to the spectre after he reached the fort and accepted to fulfil its request.

Quest Completed: [Clear out the Silvannus Fort] (Difficulty: Hard)

Description: Kill all the goblins and trolls in the Silvannus Fort and meet up with Rozarius in the fort.

Progress: Successfully clear the fort of the goblins and trolls.