Chapter 102 - Caves of Lukriag (1/2)
As soon as he reached the city teleportation point, he made his way to the Adventurers Association. He had already contacted Rudra to get him the money to buy a new place in the city where they could sell their goods. Rudra was collecting the money from the Blackrock Town shop and they managed gather close to 800 gold which was currently more than enough to buy a shop in the market street.
Shadow got into the adventurer association to report about the fort. He knew that it would be an extremely difficult task for the guild to monitor the fort continuously and though they were the first to reach the city, super guilds like Foedus Rex would have a large amount of manpower and once, a good number of their members reached the city, it would become harder to hold on to the fort and also a lot of effort and resources would be wasted into it.
So, he wanted to make use of the situation to capture the fort on behalf of the Adventurers Association. Any such constructions which would help the adventurers and provide a sanctuary outside the cities, could be claimed by the Adventurer Association.
Once, at the Adventurers Association, he waited till Rudra reached the place and they immediately went to the receptionist. ”I have something to inform to the adventurers association,” said Shadow to the receptionist.
”Sir, you can inform anything to me. Based on your information, you will be directed to the responsible authority,” said the receptionist looking at him.
”I have information on a fort that is currently being occupied by trolls in the forest to the left of the grassland. It is about a few kilometres away from the gate,” said Shadow.
”Hold it. I will direct you to acquisitions,” said the receptionist. In a couple of minutes, an NPC came to the receptionist and directed them both to the inside of the complex. They went to the first floor of the complex and into a room which read acquisitions. As they entered it, Shadow noticed that there were 5 NPCs in the room sitting at their workstations shuffling doc.u.ments.
The man directed them to an empty table and gave him a doc.u.ment to fill up the details of the new location. He provided a description of the fort and directions and also a picture of the map. He took the doc.u.ment and went out of the room asking them to stay for a few minutes. After a couple of minutes, he came back into the room.
”This is a small fort and the location is quite near to the city. We have also had information of goblin in that area and we will reward you for your information and this quest would be put up at the reception hall,” said the NPC giving them a paper specifying the quest.
”Adventurers Association Reputation +10;”
”Adventurers Association contribution points +20;”
Balthazar had already expected the reward already due to his experience and gave the paper to Rudra directly. The quest was to clear and occupy the fort, but it required 10 gold as the association would send an NPC to check it out. The rewards were contribution points and certain administrative rights to the fort.
”Well, you know what to do now,” said Shadow handing over the paper with the quest to Rudra. ”Accept it and take the NPC to the fort. You will get certain administrative rights to the fort. Give me the amount and I will get a shop in the meantime,” he continued.
”That is a good, but what can be done of the fort. I doubt we would have exclusive rights over the fort now. Why did you do this. I kind of expected something more when you told that you a solution against the others occupying the fort,” said Rudra confused.
”This is the best that we can do in this situation. We both already know that Foedus Rex guild are also at the White Heart City. They are a super guild. This would have the city protecting the fort and not much effort from us. They wouldn't go against any NPC organization so early in the game for this,” explained Shadow.
He took the gold from Rudra and went out of the room to head towards the city hall to register the shop that he chose previously. It was a shop which had three floors and cost about 500 gold. Once, he was done with it, he immediately contacted Lizzie and provided the administrative privileges to both her and Rudra. He also had the shop name changed to ”Crimson Realm Wares and Consumables”.
With this done, he went through few shops in the city to by few necessary consumables and then, he contacted Merlin. After they reached the city there were a few dungeons available at level 10-12 range. With his knowledge, it would be an easy work to handle elite mode of the dungeons too.
There were two important dungeons before level 15. One could be done before level 12 and the other after level 12. The dungeon before level 12 was something called the caves of lukriag and were filled with a bunch of goblins and trolls. This was the first goblin dungeon and having experience with goblins in the fort, Rudra and the Crimson Realm had already attempted it previously but failed to complete it only due to the traps in the dungeon.
Shadow accessed the teleportation point of the White Heart City and teleported to the dungeon entrance to meet with Merlin and the other members of the team. The dungeon entrance was in the middle of a forest area covered with trees.
The caves were in a small mountain in the forest. As soon as he teleported, he found himself in a large clearing before the dungeon entrance. The Caves of Lukriag was a 5-man maximum dungeon. When he reached the place, Merlin was waiting with the three new players of the team to greet him.