Chapter 59 - Meeting The Prince
As Rudra sat across Aman , he could feel a faint pressure from the other party ... Maybe this was the aura of a noble? Rudra however gave no care about the Royal , he was busy looking at the list of available books to request.
After going through the entire list there were various books that piqued his interest , Rudra realized that he was going to spend way more time than he initially thought in the library after the war.
Knowing first hand that knowledge is power , this place was a knowledge trove .?He could gain a lot of valuable insights into the game if he mastered the secrets that this place held.
Rudra unknowingly marvelled at the game creators at this point , creating such an intricate world is one thing , just the creation of such a massive library alone , giving years of history and research ,it needed massive amounts of time and resources. This was a herculean task to accomplish in reality .
He had absolute Respect for the Cuber industries for this , they created a fantasy world! Not just a game , a very alive and breating world ! This is why no other game will come close to topping their hold over the market in the visible future. Not for the next 50 years. If the game was not attractive enough , with the involvement of the real world currency the scales tipped completely . Everyone wether a 16 year old boy or a 81 year old bedridden elder , was playing Omega , only kids below 16 were not allowed in the game , as it was decided by UN that entering virtual reality at a younger age may obscure their sense of reality .
And they still needed to learn about the basics of society , hence they needed to learn how to integrate with people and culture of their respective nations. Even the gory content of slaying monsters was not suitable for kids , hence the Cuber industries gladly agreed to the set age limit. However it still varied from country to country , the legal playing age was 16-21 depending on the local government. However noone under 16 could play by the company standards.
With waves and waves of players entering every day , the markets had started gaining momentum , and price of money as well as value for goods increased bit by bit.
The dollar kept falling to the value of gold , however with the 12 big nations of the world being shareholders in cuber they did not really mind the situation.
Cuber had played a masterstroke by inviting the government's as shareholding members , with the 12 big nations on its side , noone could stop the wave of this multi trillion dollar market . The game was fair with no nation gaining unfair advantage , and it was above international pressure.
Some smaller nations like country P were highly dissapointed at the constant crumbling of their economy , but they could but yield to the greater wave.
Rudra 's line of thought became offtrack for a moment there ..... He quickly snapped back to reality.
With no better clues on what to read he chose the book about basic elementary . And started his research. Both him and the Prince being sincere in their reading the library regained its silence.
Rudra moved on from the basics of elementary to the basics of material potionology and then basic alchemy. He read a vairety of materials to gain insights and inspirations .
Finally he decided to take a look at the history of the only known Explosion Artist he knew , his ancestor 'Augustus Von Knight ' .
The book contained a biography of his life , written by the first succesor to his lineage , recounting his life's quotes and struggles , his path as a knight was illistrated , and vague mentions about his subclass as a Explosion Artist were seen , it was clear that the person writing the book had very little insights about what the class actually does . But the greatest chemical weapons he created were stated in the book ,
at number three there was the lightning explosion art 'Vajra'
At number 2 there was the weapon he used to slay the dragon , the ultimate beast slaying bomb the ' PashupatiAstra '
At number one was the bomb most dreaded in history as one of the deadliest ever seen. Wiping the entire battlefield with this bomb it was never used since. The ' Brahmastra' .
The librarian smiled at his choice whereas Aman smirked.?Aman liked Rudra more and more each passing minute , even after knowing he was the crown prince he did not flatter or bootleg him , being extremely unmoved , he did not dislike Aman nor did he find the need to please him .
While he read sincerely , it showed his thirst for knowledge , and he dint pry into what Aman was reading which showed his character.
The Von Knight family has been known to be loyal to the Royals of the Kingdom , hence he could see the young man sitting next to him become a very reliable and loyal Subordinate . Pleased he returned to his reading memorizing the name Shakuni Von Knight to his memory.
Rudra understood that Von Knight ' s way of progressing in the explosive artist was the way of making unstable chemicals using mana as a disturbance .... He needed to find chemicals that would be unreactive usually but under the influence of mana as a catalyst they would react vehemently and explode .
This was also the method to detonate the chemical bombs he would make .... Imbue mana! This was a great leap in knowledge , he know had a general direction to work forward to .
He researched about the possible chemical combinations and their characteristics .... Motivated he breezed through the thick books taking notes of whatever he felt was important , becoming a complete nerd.
Rudra deeply immersed in his research was gaining a vague idea about how to proceed , but with a race against time , will he unlock the secrets in time for the war??
/// Author's thoughts , 200 stones are up guys , will be posting bonus tonight , many of you disliked the long chapter system soo going back to 2 chapter bonuses , enjoy! ///