Chapter 569 Madness
Rudra was pressed hard on time , because he had no time to waste grave robbing with the military base raid left and himself being on the clock . However with the grave robbing trade being such immensely fortuitous he needed to grasp this chance and fill up the guild treasury as much as possible.
Hence he decided to make a risky call , Leaving Bo , Skyla , Yume , Naomi and Yua to keep up at the grave robbing , he decided to take the OG boys to raid the military base.
This was an extremely dangerous move on Rudra's part as with the 10 of them together the exploration still felt difficult , however taking only 5 members to a military base was practically suicide.
Rudra realized that should he have brought a party of 200 down here it would have been immensely beneficial to the guild . However the more the people the harder it was to contain secrets . With the 10 here he could atleast gaurantee secrecy.
Hence Rudra , Jhonny , Karna , SMG and Neatwit started their journey towards the ancient military base expecting to steal blueprints of an ancient weapon that would greatly bolster the war effort.
While the journey itself was not very difficult , the moment they reached the vicinity of the military base the five felt chills run down their spine as the sight they saw was pure chaos.
Nightcrawlers
Eldritch ducks
Mutated zombies
Mutated orcs
Mutated tree monsters
Mutated goblins
Elite trolls
Necromancers Liches and
Lesser undead.
It was a monsters den , the military base as there was an open buffet going on as to what kind of monster did one wish to fight.
Although they all co-existed within the same military base ,there was a clear demarcation of areas .
A goblin who sneakily tried to steal orc food was picked up like a rag doll and smashed head first like a hammer on the ground , smashing it's brain to a thousand pieces.
Seeing the scene , Rudra realized that lest the five of them , even if he came here with 5000 elites it would still be a hell of a fight .
At this point , anyone would have been forced to retreat , even if Karna himself was leading a team of elites , this is where the capabilities of him as a leader ended . However this is where the challenge began for one Shakuni Won Knight.
His brain worked like a supercomputer as it analysed various strategies that could neutralize the enemy's advantage and the only thing that he could come up with was ' Divide and Conquer'.
He needed to start an internal strife between them all , but before that he needed to understand why they all were coexisting in this place in the first place.
To try and find out this very critical answer , Rudra summoned Furball who was given the all important scouting mission .
Furball knowing how to teleport gave it the edge in scouting missions , as it's high intelligence and battle capabilities made it an excellent pet.
While good mounts were extremely desirable in Omega the same kind of a trend was not seen in pets , as the majority of the playerbase tried to ignore this aspect of gaming , as pets took an extremely important resource for raising which was EXP.
Not withstanding food costs , every time a player levelled up , a chunk of his/her hp went to the pet's development which was unacceptable to many , especially since pets died permanently once HP hit 0.
This made it so that pets nurtured with care ended up dead on battlefields and real combat scenarios with the owners only having to bear the loss of all the exp it took to raise them , making them unwanted in battles.
The rest raised pets for special purposes such as tracking , resource location etc etc , however these kinds of players were usually a niche minority of lifestyle who hardly leveled up once in a month anyways.
Even within the elites , only Rudra and Karna amongst all elders chose to keep a pet , while the others simply did not find it worth the effort. However the case was completely different for Rudra , whose pet was his game changer.
Not taking into account the care and love it poured into her , Furball was very capable and very versatile . On more than one occassion her being with Rudra created opportunities for him which would be otherwise unreachable.
Today was one such day , as after a successful scouting trip , Furball came back with news.
Although Rudra did not understand beast , he understood Furballs way of expressing herself as he could always tell what she wanted to say.
" There is something in the military base which keeps the beasts together? ". Rudra asked Furball who moaned an " Aiyaaoww ". Very cutely as if to say ' Good job human '.
" What is it ? A treasure ".
" Aiyaaooooeeww ".
" A treasure that's okay to destroy? ".
" Grrrr ".
" A treasure that should be stolen? ".
" Aiyaaoww ".
" Is it big? ".
" Grrrr ".
" Is it guarded by someone strong ".
" Uwuwuwuwu ".
" Hmmm hmmm i see , come to papa , good job girl ".
Rudra took Furball i his arms as he showered her with pats and kisses as Furball purred in joy after getting all the love.
The other Elite members just stared at the public display of affection by their guild leader as their left eye started to flicker from seeing the cringe.
They could not understand how Rudra could make sense of the gibberish fox language spoken by Furball , however they dared not to question it , as they only went along with whatever Rudra said.
After realising that the other 4 were giving him the looks , Rudra recalled Furball and coughed twice to dispell the awkward atmosphere as he said " Alright here is what we do .
1) Smoke and poison mist the area . Create Complete chaos , we use all the bottles we have at our disposal.
2) I send in the 2000 strong mana legion in there carrying all of the bombs that i brought for this exploration as we try blow the place up in hopes of creating chaos.
3) we kill anyone who escapes the base and gets outside the region of the haze , while we donot directly engage in conflict with those who are inside.
4) Hopefully a massive fight breaks out and all we need to do is start picking them off from one corner all the way to the centre , or , if things don't workout we will think about plan B
Alright ! Let's go blow that base up ! ". Rudra said with energy as the other four were left dumbfounded.
Rudra's strategy was basically ' Let's bomb them and hope they kill each other ' , which was nothing sophisticated like his usual plans at all and had a lot of margins for error , even still the group had 100% faith in Rudra's capabilities and choice making skills as there were no questions asked.
Everyone started to do inventory check to see what means they had at their disposal , and thanks to a very successful elites lifestyle unit run by Fatty Kalash , everyone had atleast 5 haze potions and 2 poison mist potions.
If used in the right areas , it would turn the entire area into a blind death spot.
Forming a pentagon , the elites crawled their way to the endge of the military base , covering all angles as they waited for the first haze potion bottle to be thrown by Rudra.
The closer Rudra got to the military base , the stronger the stench of blood , monster and rotten corpse became as oddly even though it was extremely pungent it felt like a routine smell.
Taking advantage of the bushes he was able to creep in close as he used his eyes of truth to scout the area .
Monsters ranged from level 40 - level 240
The average being level 180 ish while a strong monster resided at the centre with an unreadable level for Rudra.
Rudra immediately became alert , there were not many species whose level he could not read , and those that were like that were extremely powerful.
The monster was apparently at the very centre of the base and Rudra had no idea about why it resided there , however according to Furball there was a big treasure there that made every monster stay there.
Rudra took in a deep breath , as he mentally prepared himself to go ahead with his plan.
Taking a bottle of Haze potion , Rudra threw it over his head , the trajectory making the bottle crash and release the haze inside , right after colliding with a trolls head.
Seeing the haze spread in the military base , the other elites in position realized that it was their signal to unleash their stocks as well , as haze bottles started to rain on the military base , covering the entire area in a thick layer of fog!
What followed was the group taking a few steps back and throwing poison mist into random locations , as the sound of monster howls and grunts and monster like sounds intensified.
It was apparent that there was already chaos brewing inside , however only karna who had his minds eyes could really see how everyone was actually running around clueless and panicking.
However while the poison affected the weaklings a lot even killing those below level 100 . The 180 or higher levelled beasts were unaffected as they were also more composed.
However all that changed when the first bomb thrown by Rudra exploded inside the military base , because after that a shower of bombardments started , as all hell started to break loose.
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