Chapter 572 Ancient Weapon and A bath
With the duck as the protection , the elites wiped out the remnant monsters of the military base as Rudra gained 4 levels in the process inching him closer to the overall goal.
However while fighting Rudra realized that he was much slower than usual and had delayed responses physically than what his mind was producing mentally.
In layman terms , he was exhausted.
Although his stamina bar said otherwise , drinking artificial potions could not offset the mental exhaustion he had accumulated in the game with not logging out since weeks , making his mind tired and wanting desperate reset.
But Rudra was on the clock and time was one luxury that he simply did not have , henc even though he had long reached his limits he put on a brave face and did whatever he could .
The military base without all the monsters looked pretty basic , as there were barracks , a training ground and what appeared to be a hostel or lodgings inside the structure , while one tall and half broken building was at the centre.
Rudra was sure that the broken building was where the duck emerged from during the chaos , as it was the area where he heard the sound of bricks falling.
When the elites approached the building , they expected a lot of things , but a massive pool was not one of them.
As a clear water pool that had plants that glowed growing at the bottom of it was what was hidden inside the giant building.
The pool was extremely mysterious as it was atleast 15 storey deep , and had no life swimming inside it except some plants that grew at the bottom .
However the mystery remained on as to why was there a pool of water within a military building and why did it attract soo many monsters to coexist in this small area.
The giant duck jumped inside the pool with a splash as the water was sprayed all over the elites , however something unexpected happened when the water hit them.
The water started to sizzle on their skin as they could feel strength being sapped from their bodies.
The stamina bar of all elites became a threatening red , however while Rudra gained a single level , the others levelled up twice.
This baffled the elites , as the entire place became even more mysterious to them , and they could not understand the secrets it contained.
Analyzing the situation Rudra said " Don't approach the water , let's explore the rest of the facility first before deciding on what to do ".
The elites hence started to scour the building for more hints , however they could not make much out of the ancient texts that they found , with the only half decent clue that they found being a blueprint of the facility that showed a secret tunnel being there connected to the indoor pool of special water , that led to a secret room.
Studying it Rudra said " There is a tunnel midway in the pool that leads to a secret room , but the water is extremely mysterious ..... , Let's dip out feet in the water first and understand it's true nature ".
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( Meanwhile at the Sigma Boys mercenary group )
Matthias Schmidt and Turner the wrath , the two spies from the elites had rose to become super rookies , as their reputation within the group increased a lot.
Having both graduated from the Elite academy , their knowledge about technical aspects of the game was unprecedented as they had the right approach to understanding any problem.
The Elite academy strove to create graduates that could think outside the box to solve any problem , and use strategy to defeat monsters and not skills alone .
This made them technically sound players as they knew strengths and weaknesses as well as about attack and defense formations like the back of their hand once they passed out.
This made them extremely wanted by the seniors of the organisation on their dungeon runs and other outings , as although Turner was considered a weak weeb , his knowledge was considered useful.
While Schmidt was both powerful and knowledge as he was quickly absorbed within the innermost circles of the organisation.
On one such regular dungeon runs , turner overheard something interesting from the senior members in his party .
The conversation went like
' Dude , did they tell you about the new job '
' yep , it's crazy right i could not beleive my ears when i was first told about it , i mean the elites , they are undefeatable aren't they '.
' undefeatable or not , they bit off more than they could Chew this time , i mean the total army size is above 30 million troops , that's a war force that can topple kingdoms in weeks and can shake up continents '.
' Ya I agree , and they also have those insane canons that would absolutely punch a hole through the elites defences , their walls would become useless ! '.
' hahaha , their arrow throwing machines would be rendered ineffective once we equip dark gold rated armours! Even if they hit us we should not die should we? '.
' only tier 1 weaklings will die maybe , the set they are custom forging is called the anti arrow set , it is only meant to protect against arrows. It gives 70% damage reduction it's insane '.
' hahaha , we will be millionaires in real life soon if we win this war , 36 days ... Then it becomes official '
' sigh , yes you are right , can't wait '.
Turner knew that this was extremely critical information that he had uncovered in here , as although he remained calm on surface , internally he was shook up.
Cannons , 30 million strong and special armours to offset the elites weapons. The enemy was coming prepared , the guild was in massive trouble .
He wanted to get out and report to Amelia immediately , however he still needed to keep up appearances as he kept doing his role as the weeb guide in the dungeon run , pretending not to know anything. However at the first moment that he was out , he rushed to report the grim situation to Amelia.
/// Chapter 3 , it took me 80 minutes and i don't think i wrote too shabbily , keep this up and we can get back on track.
I am filled with motivation from all the support you guys have shown me in the past few weeks, chapter 4 will hence be only a few minutes away! ////