Chapter 110 - Warehouse loot (2/2)
”Shit! Why? It is just the second day,” said Shadow in anger. This wasn't expected by Shadow. He knew that Foedus Rex would be at White Heart City as a couple of their vice leaders would get started at a village near it. But they had always been tolerant of other guilds and didn't start unnecessary fights with new guilds.
Crimson Realm was considered a second rate in his previous life and hence, it didn't really care much and allowed them to co-exist. Foedus Rex just considered other guilds as healthy competition and only if they wanted any resources or lands occupied by other guilds, it would resort to force.
”We have caused quite a bit of ruckus and also got a few first clears. It kind of puts the impression that we are investing a lot and is also considered as a show strength. With two of the vice captains here, they might see it as a loss of face and are anxious and angry to prove themselves. So, anywhere they, find us, they start a fight,” replied Slaine.
”How were the results?” asked Shadow.
”Those were just a few tussles between the a few members. Hardly worth mentioning, but Rudra is worried and wants to avoid fights with them. Their numbers are quite large and they could overwhelm us with numbers if they are able to get players from other cities. There is also another thing that is there which you didn't hear from me,” said Slaine.
”So, secretive!! What is it?” asked Balthazar.
”Concentrate on the camp for now. Focus on picking the lock. You are the best that we got for that. I will tell you after the raid,” said Slaine.
”Fine,” said Shadow as he had already reached the second warehouse. He quickly set to opening the lock on the warehouse door. As he opened the door, a stink of dead fish wafted out. He went in to check the goods inside. There were rows of diving gear neatly lined along the racks of the walls of the warehouse, while there were tubs filled with dead fishes and other sea monsters on the ground. There were also few chests placed in the warehouse.
Shadow immediately sent the picture of the floor in the team. ”Let us make taking the diving gear our priority. If use these, we may be able to explore underwater regions much easily,” he said to Slaine as he started looking for the traps that Slaine warned him about.
He could only see a few tripwires connected to mines. He found one just by the door and two more in before a couple of chests. It was quite easy to disarm an amateur tripwire trap like the ones in the warehouse.
They were just wires which when pulled would pull the pins of mines placed at the diving gear. These were clearly meant to destroy the tools than let them fall into intruders hands. In a game such as vita-nova, this was much more disastrous than if they would be aimed at the players. This is because, an injured a player can be healed easily, but the gear destroyed can't be repaired back to the earlier state easily.
Trap disabling would be made into a skill on later upgrade of the game due to introduction of magical traps, but right now it was a lot simpler. The tripwires are only useful as long as they aren't noticed. Once noticed, they are quite easy to disable. To disarm them, Shadow had two options. He could either cut the wire without triggering the trap and can put the mine in his bag or slowly get to the mine and dig it out without disturbing the pin or letting it come out.
The second method is a two man job as they didn't have any tools like tape which could be used to hold the pin in its place. So, one player needs to hold the pin in its place while the other digs out the mine. Once, the mine is pulled out and wire is loose, the other end of the wire can be pulled out and the entire thing can be stored in the bag. This allows the mine to be easily reused too. This was the method used by Slaine.
The first one required a player to use some tool to cut the taut wire without triggering the mine. This required wire cutters or something that could corrode the wire like acid or a corrosive poison. Apart from that, in Balthazar's previous life someone managed to disarm using a pair of blade in place of cutter. He placed the two blades above and below the wire and grinded it slowly till it got cut without triggering the mine. Though this could be done by a single person, it required a lot of skill, patience and time.
They had no idea about the time that they would have before the bandits returned and already had Mob as a lookout with his summons. Though Mob could not see from the viewpoint of the summons, he would notice any health loss or status restriction effects on them. In this manner, he had them as bait.
Shadow is quite capable of disarming the tripwires alone but because of the time factor, he asked Roll to help hold the pin of the mine in place as he dug around the mine. In half a minute, the mine at the door was in his bag. At that time, the reinforcements also arrived. He immediately held the up at the entrance of the warehouse and told them about the two traps near two chests.
He got in the warehouse and opened one of the chests not blocked by the traps. It was filled with herbs such as white pondweed, obscure kelp and gerrika stalks. These were all plants found underwater in the lake. They were all higher leveled herbs but the first two could be considered common in underwater areas, where as he knew gerrika was an uncommon one which can be dried and powdered and when used along with blasting powder in dynamites doubles the usual blast damage.
In his eyes, it was a great harvest and one of them could be used immediately. He moved to another one and opened it finding blue serpent scales, lanstonian scales and parts of other monsters. He immediately realized that this warehouse was the storage for diving gear and resources claimed by the bandits from the lake.
”Dude, what did you find in the trunks there?” he messaged Slaine.
”They are filled with ammunition. Bolts, the entire lot of them. We are taking back the crossbow bolts and decided to move the bigger ones towards the three mounted guns. Can't use them without the guns and these are loaded in a strip. Even loading them in to the gun is going to take time,” said Slaine. Though he was quite pleased with the weapons he found in the warehouse, the content of the trunk were quite disappointing. Crossbow bolts could also be bought from every weapons shop in every town and city. So, even if it saved some money, he wished it had been anything else.