With the week off coming to an end I find myself having dinner with my friends and discovering that that weekend I spent quietly inside the institute was quite bloody for the nobles.
The event everyone was waiting for happened and thus the war between the noble families began, although the word war is a little too strong in my opinion to be used in this dispute over the resources and trade routes of the southern aria of the kingdom. The nobles who are fighting in it have decided to call it a war that will define the authority of the territories of the southern region.
It's not like I was going to get involved in these battles, I could even win a lot of gold coins if I participate as a mercenary I have up to the level of cultivation I want to participate in the first confrontations, but I won't risk so much just to win some gold coins serving as pawn in the struggle of the noble families who are vying for large sums of resources.
This weekend there were several attacks across the entire southern region, most of them were struggles to conquer resource sites, but there were still some that were made with different thoughts. just from killing the people who are protecting three gardens of herbs used in medicines, they not only destroyed the gardens but also killed a good part of the workers.
It can be considered a little too violent, but considering that there were few people and the gardens were of common herbs and not herbs that contain mana or elemental energy, the attack was not classified as illegal but considered a normal attack as it does not harm the natural and precious resources of the southern region.
Families who resorted to this tactic were basically getting revenge on past issues they do this kind of attack to damage the image of the family that was targeted by the attack, basically it shows that they are incompetent for not being able to protect their possessions and that's only done in places that don't generate much profit, as if they do it in a place that has precious resources the other noble families will interfere as they don't want the places that have precious resources to be destroyed.
As I have neither a strong connection with nor a noble family and do not intend to get involved in these disputes, I am not particularly worried about this war, but my friends are a little different like Torris who is worried about his family as they have suffered an attack from four different noble families at once.
And the attacks the Yates family suffered weren't simple attacks, even though they didn't lose even one of the properties they almost lost like the emerald village which was a place likely to be contested at times even if it changes ownership during the war, the troops stationed to protect the emerald village suffered terrible losses, a little more than three-quarters of the troops were killed, and it is very short for the Yates family to lose the village in the first attack of this war.
Raziel's family, on the other hand, is going on the offensive and wants to gain some resource points on behalf of their allies, from which Raziel told me his family is in charge of taking some resource points, but is leaving the property with some allied families this happens because most of your family members and soldiers who are participating in the war are better at attacking than defending themselves.
So, they made an alliance with families that have better defensive skills they clear the property of enemy families and pass it on to defenders who defended the site during the war and then managed the resources, but will have to pay taxes over the next few years to the Kelence family.
The Menfis family, on the other hand, did not attack even a resource site, nor was I attacked since the really big families had not yet entered the war that had probably lasted a few years. After more than a decade of no major conflicts between the nobles they will want a few years of war in order to take advantage of all the advantages they can get out of the conflict.
War will be a great field to test the younger generation and when I mean younger generation, I don't mean my generation but people who are older than me in three to eight years most of them are below the orange core so not only are they able to participate in the war, they are likely to be the stars of war.
It's really a shame that I'm only going to be able to classify in the common core as it will be very impossible to break into the green core in such a short time and I don't have the protection of neither a powerful family nor do I want to bond with one when I'm so young.
After talking about the war, we discussed our classes in courses that most had only finished in two months, after the test not only did the class shrink but the teachers also became more aggressive and demanding in class. This is because students who passed the tests are considered elites of their year and also take into account the decrease in the number of students, the resources that they may consider wasted in the future when a few more students are dismissed or killed in the future will be much smaller.
So, the institute is more comfortable making them available to students who have survived the test of the illusory matrix that by the way has become available for use, there is a complete catalog of various simulations available to choose from, but their risk is no less than that in the test the high chances of being seriously injured or even killed when using the matrix.
And as it is complicated to activate the matrix, the cost of points to be able to use it is high, but the rewards are also when going through one of the matrix sceneries the student will receive three reward options, I believe the institute set up this way to encourage the suicidal behavior in students and with this they can strengthen those who have more potential.
I'm very interested in using the matrix because for me it's equal to a dungeon the only difference is that the payout of the matrix is higher than the one of the dungeons I'm going to enter after advancing to the silver core at three two different dungeons that I want to buy permission to enter.
The first one is the Moonlight Forest dungeon which is an open type dungeon the dungeon is basically a forest full of night poles and some not so nocturnal, but which are difficult to face, since the dungeon has no sun the only light in it comes from the moon that gives the dungeon its name the moon phase changes with each floor the moon cycle dry in the normal order, so it is not difficult to deduce the moon you will face on the next floor and each of its stages causes a different effect on the walk and the light level changes. I chose this dungeon to be able to use my eyes to the fullest and as it is also a dungeon that the exploration team recommended is one to three people.
So, I can go in alone or with Raziel who will probably be interested in this dungeon, large groups are not recommended because they cause a phenomenon in the dungeon called the mare of monsters and adding that the terrain is a very common forest with an average number of trees a sea of monster and deadly for adventurers only ridiculously large groups risk facing a sea of monsters.
The adventurer clans use the mare of monsters to harvest a huge number of magic gems and special materials from the dungeon and this makes the materials from the first floors of these dungeons become abundant in the market so I won't make much money from them, but in the future when i explore the deeper floors i will get stories that yield more.
The second dungeon I want to enter is Bloody Arena which by the name you can deduce its main characteristic it is a dungeon with a system similar to the test that the illusory matrix gave, but the main difference is that the dungeon cannot take my weapons. Each floor of the dungeon the group will face a number of enemies proportional to the size of the group and this makes this dungeon extremely popular the rate just to enter it and one hundred gold coins per person for newbies, the higher floor you are facing the rate increases.
The type of monster found in it varies depending on the time of year we are in this makes the materials we can harvest from some monsters more valuable as many artisans and shopkeepers have the strategy of stocking a part of the materials to use during the rest of the year the Bloody Arena and the most popular dungeon in the city it only loses by importance to a high level dungeon that is in the city the minimum requirement to enter it and have a red core this shows how difficult it is to enter it and how it is deadly .
An adventurer who has reached the red core and someone who is not only strong and took a risk, but many of them have lost the frantic will to gamble your life, the more you conquer, the more afraid you are of losing everything. It's normal that groups that are formed by high level core adventurers are rare as not only are the number of adventurers smaller, but it's hard to trust someone you don't know very well.
That's why groups that last a long time and that their members are able to advance their core several times are considered elite groups for legendary and difficult so many talented people to join when they are still young and not die before reaching the red core. I would particularly like to be a part of a group like this, but being able to do that depends a lot on luck and the unity of the group.