Chapter 8: cooperation and conflict 2
Woojin's point of view:
Well that was kind of obvious, that rats can climb the walls was kind of obvious, what I didn't expect was that some of them scattered to go around the hill and jump from the top of it, to our inner formation, if you think about it this was to be expected right, The commander did not take long to jump from her bear located in the formation next to the carriage to the right wall, then the bear stood up, she jumped back, landed on the bear's head like a butterfly on a flower and jumped to the left wall without stopping swinging her halberd, and each time she swung it about 10 dark lotuses bloomed in the sky, She nailed her weapon to the left wall to immediately turn on it, the weapon nailed to the wall was used as a gymnast would on a fixed bar, then she gave a sato to reach the top of the pass, there alone and without a weapon in her hand she stopped hundreds of these cursed creatures, only hitting with her fists wrapped with bandages, Her fight was beautiful and fierce I didn't know why but all the rats that are on the left half hill only focused on her and didn't jump giving us the opportunity to cover only the right side, without stopping we shot our arrows at the order of Orion53, the mages their spells of game or stone, the use of water was forbidden because it could weaken the walls.
After a while she came down from the left wall to go to the right one, she put her halberd on the way to repeat the same operation to go up to the right wall, now there she could see it better, being on the top of the right wall while she was hitting the rats, she gave precise orders to the shield bearers, raise the shield! step on it, do not be afraid, fear makes us weak, do not be afraid, because today we are Spartans, we are the terror of the night! and when he did it he was spinning with his body suspended in the air and parallel to the ground, while his legs stamped on the face of a rodent that shot out god knows where but it surely became a faint smoke, you know he managed to catch a rat with his teeth and bit it to death in the same instant that he kicked it, all that happened in a second in a second.
You know I think I have fallen in love, all my life I was the best archer, I was in my club in middle school, high school and when I won the Olympics several times in a row without a doubt the bow accompanied me all my life, today with 30 years I still practice with the bow regularly for that reason I had no qualms in choosing ranger as my profession in this game.
But never in my wildest dreams would I dare to challenge this woman.
The commander of the support corps gave good orders especially focused on the healers telling them who to heal and at what time to do it to conserve the most mana, in short, he was a good player and commander.
When the rats seemed to overtake the shield bearers the maiden would mount the bear and it would ride out in front while the defenders regrouped, at which point our support commander orion53 showed his mettle, He stood in the middle of the wagon and waved his staff like a master at each colpe, kicking, stomping and even biting the rats without a hint of disgust or fear, catching them with his hands to throw them out of the formation was the least impressive thing that kind of life this poor man must have led.
Some players were already covering themselves behind him but when they saw him fighting with everything he had, they also did the same even with tears in their eyes but they still had courage, the rats were unstoppable without the Spartan maiden to go through our efforts, The silver maiden knew it, that's why she always came back within 10 minutes or less, that's how time passed, the night ended and the day came, we had no more arrows, I didn't understand the reason but while the maiden was with us in the middle of the formation, the rats always attacked her, Another detail that did not escape me was the bear, the bear only stepped on the rats near him so as not to break our formation but his presence seemed to scare, weaken and slow down the rats, what kind of ability will have awakened, because it was not so at the beginning of this battle, it is a good fact, the beasts can develop skills, I don't know how we were still alive, most likely because these creatures don't have a high attack but their large number is a very real threat, I think the one that keeps us alive is the support commander, I don't know how many times he has healed me, plus the aura of that bear.
Near sunset a loud voice was heard ordering, advance! search and destroy! And the formations were broken the players went out to finish the extermination of the few remaining rodents.
Maiden's point of view
Soon all the rodents were wiped out, I approached my boyfriend who was still on the wagon, he said how many players we lost to which an archer quickly replied we lost 20 mages 5 support players two 2 archers and 33 melee if the combat had lasted a little longer we would have been wiped out.
It's a good thing that my title of angry rat killer, was upgraded to rat exterminator so I can protect people better, only with my presence I made them not to approach me, it was easier when they pounced on me, the last hours of combat I was forced to chase them as the damn ones were running away from me, I had to chase them for more than 6 hours before finishing with the rat boss, that was complicated, he almost killed me twice.
Fortunately I managed to stick my halberd between its jaws, then the little red one gave it a claw that took it away from my beautiful face, at the end I jumped on that beast to cut its neck, in spite of that it didn't die, on the contrary it responded with a tail, then it attacked me and sent me rolling, When I realized that creature already had my leg between its jaws and was shaking me from left to right if it wasn't for him my favorite bear would be dead, the little one excelled, crushing and biting the boss rat to death and saving me in the process, that marked the end for the rats that were dispersed so I sent the order to search and destroy.
I didn't tell the truth orion53's bear learned the fear ability, it's an ability that strong monsters acquire consists of bathing in an intimidating aura that slows down and lowers the attack on significantly weaker creatures.
It hurts me to have lost so many good players, but finally we managed to complete the mission.
Soon a message appeared, the first "B" rank mission has been completed, a "B" rank mission, it didn't take long and the regional message appeared, the Spartan group has completed the first "B" rank mission, everyone in the group receives 500 fame, the group leader Dong-Yul suggested as mission commander and the player "Silver Maiden" as mission commander, so both receive an additional 500 fame.
Dong-Yul sent me a group message saying do not disconnect a mission message just came in saying to wait for the Elder to arrive.
I was surprised that our group has a name, apparently it was named by the system.
Everyone nodded those who died also saw that message and said they are coming to this place rushed back.
I had something an announcement of my own too, I stood on the head of the little red guy and said attention to all the women in this group the support commander is already mine but none of you get any ideas with him, Thank you, the eyes of many girls darkened, but the guys too, sure joon-woo is popular thank goodness I caught him in time, the very dense one took his time to take the bait despite all the maicite I threw at him. But I wouldn't tolerate infidelity, I trusted him but not what's under his pants.
That's why it's important to first fall in love with your man completely before moving on to the big leagues otherwise the relationship would end soon and I don't want to waste my time in casual or relatively long relationships that could end after 5 or 8 years, to stay with nothing is better, so taking our time to get to know better the person I chose is the best decision, if he can't last 4 or 6 months it doesn't work for me.
But that doesn't mean I should neglect it, does it? With a satisfied smile, I searched through the things in the wagon to get ingredients for today's meal, besides verifying the day's loot the monkey collector managed to live up to his name, it only remains to bring platero from his hiding place to take all these crystals, I called my boyfriend and told him we were going to cook, even though he was a herd, he would do everything, I would applaud and cheer because I didn't even know how to boil water.
He obeyed grudgingly, I could tell he was tired but he still obeyed, he had to cook for 250 people and a bear, but there was no other way, we needed to earn money or we could not play for the next month, let alone eat decent meals and that was a resounding no, he had to take the responsibility to convince me to quit my previous job.
To be honest I was pretty happy this game is so good. I can jump and do the acrobatics that I like so much, besides fighting I did not feel so good since high school in which I fought almost always either in championships or in the streets with my classmates, those were good times we sold the plates of food for 2 silver coins each no one complained, everyone paid this price.
When approximately 5 hours passed the people who lost a life against the rats arrived, for many it was the first life they had lost, for others it was the fifth life. Fortunately none of them eliminated their accounts within two hours plus an army of approximately one thousand elves, 200 armed with spears and shields, 100 with bows and arrows, The rest looked like craftsmen and builders and brought wagons of all sizes pulled by huge beasts resembling buffalo and deer even had creatures that looked like chimeras and hippogriffs to my poor wagon almost ramshackle until I felt envious and said one day I will have a commercial chain is few carts will be nothing.
Behind them came a thousand more Pegasus; winged horses that flew over the sky escorting a green dragon, the dragon was as long as a snake and had the head of a lion. With 4 small limbs, the dragon said well done, young heralds designate the rewards:
the highest contribution is for the silver maiden (reaper of souls), the second highest is for orion53 (sage of the forest), the third is for Woojin (ranger), the fourth is for Gainor (fire sorcerer), fifth mass (moon shaman), sixth Naomi (moon guard), seventh Nur (night paladin), eighth Azman (night paladin), ninth Itzel (moon warrior) and tenth Li (dragon blood warrior).
For each of you you will be rewarded with a skill book, a random ultra rare class weapon, you can check your inventories,
For the group that unleashed this mission you will be rewarded with 300 additional fame and a class change if you wish, all classes that the silver elves can select will be available, likewise the silver elves have managed to regain some of their former glory, if they continue to if they could take their former name and the blessings of their patron gods.
A city will be created here, those who wish can help build it to gain familiarity with the inhabitants of the new city. The maximum area of development of the city is 261 km2, the hills will gain a very considerable extension enough for the city to end up located on top of the hills and without going out of it, the maiden pass will be the only entrance of the foreign peoples to this city by land, the only natural entrance, on the rocks of this pass will be immortalized the brave 308 heralds who defended this place.
. The mayor of this city will be established by the inhabitants of this city in a square vote, the city must be completed within a maximum period of one month, the heralds can create orders of a maximum of 1000 people, the rules are maintained, you can not attack or steal in elven territory under punishment of account deletion if captured by heralds or seen by original inhabitants of Andromeda, the rat population will radically decrease, the number of other creatures in the area will increase, new species of monsters will appear, a teleportation circle approved by Nix, goddess of the night and patroness of the silver elves, will be established in the onyx hills.
Having said this, the dragon disappeared in a beam of light and was lost in the firmament, the mayoress Silvanas, mounted on a Pegasus, approached our group and said well done heralds, thank you for recovering the onyx hills, from the hands of Erebus god of darkness.
You were promised 10000 gold coins that is what we are going to give you, but in turn you will be given a small place of 3000 square meters to a representative of the group that fought in this mission this is a special reward for your hard work choose the place where your place will be, you will have to build it yourselves if you wish or you can sell it, if you wish to sell it I warn you that we will buy the land for 300,000 gold coins.
I will stay here and supervise the construction with my guards during the construction of this city.
If you have any questions you can approach me.
With that said, he left, to organize the construction.
All the players who participated in this mission approached to discuss what to do with the last reward which was a not so small territory.
Someone said if we sell the land to each one we will get 3000 gold coins that is a great amount of gold, to which the maiden refuted; don't think small we will create a guard, we already have the approval of the mayor the Elder Silvana.
This guard will give us status, access to missions and who knows if we can forget about the 3000 gold that is not worth 100 dollars, if you still want to sell it I will buy your part for 12000 gold, but you will not have shares in the new guard, keep in mind that the payment will be made at the end of the month of construction of the city. Whether or not I want to build the guard with you in it or not will make it the most powerful guard of the silver elves. Now I will not ask for a team vote I will give you a day to think about it if you want to sell send me a whisper and we will negotiate the price of your part and the date of payment, in case you want to embark on this adventure with me keep in mind that the investment will be according to our possibilities, but if you do not contribute or work its net value will be 3000 gold coins, after the construction of the building of the guard I will pay you the 3000 and I will expel you from the circle of shareholders, so to have shares you have to work in the construction contribute materials for the construction and the money for the remodeling, those who know civil engineers, hydraulics or architects are free to design our next guard for this you have 3 days,
then a meeting will be held with the shareholders to choose the best design, the chosen design will be considered as an economic contribution since it is a work done for the guild itself, if there are no decent proposals we will hire someone to design the building with the money of the shareholders, the land is in the center of the city just in front of the square, that's where our guard will be located, now I will register it with those who want to join can write to me or to orion, another thing those who work or contribute financially in the construction efforts will not be eliminated from the actions of the guild in the future unless they betray our guard, selling information, killing one of our brothers, operating against the interests of the elves and the guard in case it is detected that all income of that person will be cut. And he will be denounced to the NPC so that his account is deleted, for players die 10 times and are forced to change their avatar may follow the guard will not lose their actions, as long as their new avatar they choose is an elven character or allied races permanently allied to the silver elves.
Dong-Yul pounded the table and said who appointed you leader to decide everything, to which I Maria Garcia replied because without me they would have failed the mission, and I along with orion would have pierced the rats without the need for you.
That's why I make the decisions here if you don't like it you can sell, to me or another user, or to Elder silvana.
Dong-Yul, laughed sharply how could they have gotten through the rats alone without our help, to which I wanted to respond but Orion intervened, he said that's easy we would have built a pass just like the one we built but narrower and on a smaller scale, then we would have attracted bears, to face the rats after all the bears have more strength, and stamina than many here including me, while the monsters fought we would decimate the herd, That was the plan we had designed, when you informed us of the mission we changed the plans slightly because we believed it was a better bet than attracting bears, you see with your support or without it we would have completed the clearing of the rats, we would not have had the 10000 gold, the books and weapons delivered for the mission but we would have had this land and the fame for ourselves, that is why we are the leaders, we also have the ambition and power to back up our words with actions.
After that there was only silence to which I said Well the meeting is over you have 2 hours to decide.
Before you decide what you want to do you can form a new group and form your separate guard if you decide to do that, I will sell you my share for a reasonable price, in case we don't reach an agreement I will only sell my share to Elder Silvana. Now I will give you better one day Think about it.
The meeting will be tomorrow at this time. Having said that I made a sign with my eyes to Maria to disconnect us to which she agreed.