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Chapter 11: Prison 2.
Fortunately it did not take long to find the Elder Silvanas, she was not only directing the construction, she herself was carrying a gigantic block of stone.
We waited for her to leave the stone that surely weighed several tons, I asked her if we could buy the land we talked about yesterday.
But this time please could you sell us 4 thousand square meters, the last thousand can be reserved for us for a while to buy it. Well she said it will be 120 thousand gold coins for the requested area, besides, we will reserve that space of one thousand square meters for 2 weeks.
We agreed and proceeded with the purchase. She gave us a title deed now we could build, the problem was that again we had no money, only 90 gold coins.
We asked him what we would have to do to found our guard, to which he replied, with a smile, first you must have completed at least a B rank mission, second have an office for your guard. Third to request a permission to the person in charge of the city in this case the person in charge I Silvanas pointing with her thumb at the height of her main attributes.
Maria suddenly set up a small tent for 2 people on our ground, then said there is our office, Elder, please register our guard.
Silvanas was speechless for a moment then scratched his head and said ok, but remember you will be a false guard if you don't have the approval of the city of Silver, to be a regional guard, then you will have to get the approval of the council, to be a real guard. remember the council meets once a year for important decisions the rest of the time, they run their respective cities and take care of their races.
I asked him the duties of the guard, to which he answered the duties are to safeguard the integrity of the young elves, to protect the citizens, our sacred sites, to recover our history, not to break the Elder code, to recover the ancient glory of the Elves, to maintain unity and peace among the Elven nations, that is the main thing then they can specialize, they can be a guard of combat, exploration, rescue, construction, assassins, beast tamers, in short, it depends on each one. The benefits are enormous but ban accompanied by the achievements of the guard, for example can be exempted from paying taxes, also heralds like you can be grouped in groups of up to a thousand people, to go on raids, to create companies and develop one or more cities a guard at most can be present in 3 cities, may hire people to help them in their business and gain influence in political and military decision making of the elves as a whole.
Well I said. Please allow us to create a guard, well said the Sylvan Elder, first what will be your name I said Spartan. It is a valid name added the Sylvan ranger, congratulations you are now a local guard, you have no duties or obligations you can consider yourself a false guard even to be recognized as a full-fledged guard you must at least be recognized as a Regional guard. And for that you will have to go to the silver city and look for Elder Akane, she is a forest sage, one of the few left, she will judge if you have what it takes to be a guard. We nod to let the Elder go about his business.
Mary go to the city of Silver, buy beasts of burden, and carts, as well as cooking ingredients that we will need here as well. Let's do this in a big way. And don't forget to look for Elder silvana and complete the mission, I will explore this area especially near the rats nest I hope no one has checked it yet I didn't think of it yesterday, but such a big rat guard sure has some good stuff. Go we can't waste time the team of players will soon be here and they can find out what we are doing.
Yes she said stay with platero and little red can be of help, I'll leave you a coin to buy giant bags for the bear to carry some materials.
It was at this instant that a group of 28 players approached us an archer was leading the group. said Miss maiden please wait, would you be interested in creating a guard with us, you lady if you are willing will be our only leader, if you wish, well she said, at this time we have created the Spartan guard, to be legitimate in all the elven territory must complete several missions yet I do not know how many, but for the second ask me to go to the city of silver and seek the Elder Akane, I will assign a mission as your leader, 2 will come, with me remember that it is long journey can only do so only people who have the time.
I also want to tell you this currently our guard has no funds. for this reason do not expect to get income from this guard, as you are the first to sign up I will keep you in mind for important positions, but if you want an important position you will have to prove that you are trustworthy and skilled enough, not only in combat, in management, construction, agriculture, trade or any other activity that is useful.
Woojin intervened it seems to him if at least 4 of us accompany him we all count time available for the trip, we have some funds that could be useful to the guard.
Mary nodded, walking many to run, Mary started to run and behind her were 4 players, Woojin was among them, all of them were male. We are in the process of signing them up for the Spartan Guard.
Gentlemen welcome to the guard that will never fall, I said as we walked through the maiden's step, now the narrow road was about 500 meters wide without doubt now could no longer call it a very narrow road, it looked more like a canyon, crack between two mountain peaks, formed by the action of time, but that was not accurate, because the cliffs looked like walls for how vertical they were, in them were immortalized the heralds who participated in this mission without a doubt a great reward.
The bottom of the canyon, was like a cobblestone road, it was like a road that each time, was going deeper and deeper, deep, but everything was solid rock to this place is known as the passage of the maiden near the exit of the passage was the figure carved into the walls of an elf with long hair, with his halberd around his waist walked in the midst of sea rats, which opened their mouths threateningly, yet none attacked the maiden.
On the way we also saw the figures of each player individually and the formations they used for combat, the little red one appeared in the middle of his desperate struggles with the maiden, even the little monkey collector was immortalized holding a crystal.
My figure was from when I stood on the wagon with staff in hand while healing my allies, I was in the middle of the whole formation of the 300 heralds. I could not have been more fascinated.
We walked for about 2 hours to get out of the maiden's pass and enter the valley of the shadow formerly known as the valley of the rats, when we reached the valley, I said, the reason to come here is only one reason to look for the nest of the rats, who knows if it has something of value, currently the guard has no funds so let's look for that place and get funds, from here we will disperse, if someone finds it, you can keep everything you find for yourself or donate it to the guard.
If you need help you can contact us through the channel of the guard and we will go immediately to provide help but then what is found, if it is money the finder can only keep 10% of what is found, if they are books what we find the finder may have one, the rest will be drawn in a roulette, the others while the party. The winner will keep the book, we ask that only those who are compatible with the book participate in the roulette, the same goes for weapons, armor and useful objects in general.
Understood nobody will be able to complain about one's luck, right. And if a person wins something in a roulette, he/she will not be able to participate in another one.
I found out that; masa (moon shaman), Naomi (moon guard), Nur (night paladin), Azman (night paladin), Itzel (moon warrior) and Li (dragon blood warrior) plus Woojin forest guard who is currently with the silver maiden joined us, selling their shares when I asked them why they did it, Naomi replied, in my case it was because I didn't trust guts, when I looked at her as if wondering who that is, she added, he is the great sword warrior, his class is dark warrior.
After a while of walking, just looking for the rats nest and being without results I told the little guy to search, I would just follow him, together with paltero I trusted the bear's instincts more than my luck, while attacking the bears and deer found, finally Naomi communicated on the guard's channel. she said, boss I have to retire.
To which I replied yes boys don't worry you can retire tomorrow we will hear from our leader.
But the leader did not take long to answer, if you want news I will give it to Elder Akane and she ordered us to earn 3000 reputation so we can be recognized as a guard by the silver elves. But for the moment we can act as a fake guard, without any authority, nor benefits, besides if he finds out that we tarnish the reputation of the guards, they will cancel our guard, and the punishment could be expulsion a pilgrimage type atonement sentence or outright account deletion, they ask us to honor the code, and nothing else.
The chat became frantic, how can we gain reputation, asked the player Antonio.
Maria answered the reputation is earned by achieving important achievements such as participating in armed conflicts, hunting dangerous beasts, capturing thieves, murderers, and traitors, you can also earn by building monuments, creating works of art but the amount of gain of these is minimal the fastest would be hunting monsters and clearing dungeons.
Well I said buy everything you can with the money we have left over and come back and we will come up with something to increase the reputation.
Then I said you can disconnect or do your normal activities, tomorrow we will meet in the city I have to tell you what will be the future of our guard.
I concentrated on following the little one, I searched and searched with no more news than a few bears and deer and white antler elk that I turned into crystals and skins, when it was getting dark the little red one found a cave, everything screamed danger, when I was about to enter that terrifying place, Itzel the lunar warrior, told me boss is here.
I asked her when you arrive she said about 15 minutes ago, I asked her why you did not enter or look for help, she laughed, it is complicated, I was just thinking whether to enter or leave the place seems dangerous, I nodded, I know that is why we are going to enter now there are two of us, if it is too complicated we will leave.
The first to enter was the little one, followed by Itzel and finally, me dragging a stubborn donkey that refused to enter the Dungeon, and inside the carriage was the sleeping monkey collector.
When we entered a message came from the system: they have discovered prison number 10 of Gemera goddess of the day. Fame plus 3000, if you report the elves, you will get rewards. Once you enter a guard discovers it you will not be able to leave. At that moment without thinking I told Itzel we do not withdraw, and not a word of this to anyone.
She asked if we will inform Elder Silvana about this, I answered yes we will inform her but first thing tomorrow morning, I am afraid that if she finds out she will send an emergency mission, the maid and her companions have not arrived yet and many of our people are asleep.
Then I sent a notice in the chat of the guard, I said everyone please sleep tomorrow we will meet at the wall.
Then we headed to the city under construction.
There we will take a rest.
Then I simply slept as he is very tired when I woke up in the morning, I called Maria, and told her maiden what news do you have for me, there was a silence but then I just commented not much only that I bought 15 Argos mules, 2 Ferus horses, 2 Ferus mares as well as 10 cargo carts in good condition, I bought a bulletin board and a big tent enough for 60 people to enter, I hired a young woman a couple of elves who just got married. I also went to 3 orphanages in the silver city and asked their overseer to send us the children they can't keep, as we would employ them in the Spartan guard, so I plan to buy 60 beds, quilts and two other large tents.
I lost my temper and raised my voice, "How are you going to buy so much, how did you buy all that? Then I took a deep breath and said well how did you buy so much I am sure that 100 gold coins are not even enough for a mule.
I waited a while until she answered me, then she said these angry in her whisper anyone who didn't know her would say she was sorry.
I just took a breath, and said no I am not, however I want to know where did you get the money, she had no choice she just replied, Woojin lent me 50k gold coins, beaver also wanted to lend me 50k to hire a builder, so we have a builder and his team are heading with us to the city.
Good I said we have a 100k debt, great this could be the end of our guard, how long do we have to pay them back, She said we have 6 months, I sighed and said hurry back bring everything you bought we are going to need all that to work with, plus we may be given a mission involving the goddess of the day, Gemera,
I need you by my side to even think about carrying out this mission.
I'll be there she said cheerfully, I imagined her jumping up and down in her room for getting out of this discussion.
I entered Andromeda and met Itzel and Naomi who seemed to be good friends, I greeted them how are you girls, they responded differently, Itzel looked me in the eyes and said with bored confidence waiting for the raiding party. And Naomi simply said boss we are just talking about how you and the commander met, then she covered her mouth while saying oops, to instantly add the next question how did you meet the maid, just sigh I said while we wait we are going to help in the construction of the city.
Naomi looked at me surprised by what we would do, we are not expecting a very important mission, I nodded, that's true, but our leader is still far away and the best way to gain familiarity and reputation for the Spartan guard, helping the NPCs, even if they do not pay us anything besides treating them well, without disrespect or ignoring them, will allow us to access better missions and rewards, to get that you must treat them as you would treat a real person, that's the best way to gain reputation.
From what I know about this game is that it is very interactive and if the Andromeda AI decides that our actions are not honorable it will take away our rights to form a guard, moreover we could be punished with exile or deletion of our account, those who can not respect the NPCs better withdraw from the Spartan guard before it expels them.
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