Chapter 591 War Preparations
20 days passed by in a Jiff and there was finally news from the Elite spies planted in the mercenary group the ' Sigma Boys'. That the troops were finally starting to be mobilized on their camp , there were orders by the higher ups to prepare for a long ' Sepcial Event '. For which almost the entire organization was mobilized.
The plan was to meet up at a predetermined location with the blood merchant army and group together before properly strategizing about the war.
Dronacharya had no idea that he was continuously being monitored by Amelia , as a lot of information about the blood merchant army became available to the Elites which would have been otherwise completely inaccessible.
Although not every Trump card was revealed , Amelia did figure out that the blood merchants had potent cannons capable of breaking through reinforced concrete and this was a piece of information that the Elites were made aware of.
Rudra was calmer now than he was a month ago about the war situation , however in his heart he knew that the chances of an Elite victory were not more than 30% .
This was the first war where he had prepared for the coming battle for months now , yet he had the lowest confidence of actually winning.
This being the overall situation even after the Elites did everything in their power to level the playing field. However the disparity between the quality of the army and the sheer numerical strength was too much to be bridged by petty tricks.
The enemy had much more tier 2 forces and much more tier 3 forces compared to the Elite camp and that was a fundamental disadvantage that the Elites could never make up for.
As even if the tier 2 players on the elites camp could take out 5 of the enemies tier 2 players. In the end if only a few thousand of the enemy tier 2 players survived without any defending forces left on the Elites side , then no matter how many tier 1 or 0 troops the elites may have left , it all came down to nothing , as that was a fight that could not be won with numbers.
The same went for the tier 4 troops on the enemy side , as at the moment , Rudra was the only one shouldering the burden of taking them all out.
Maybe if Karna and Neatwit worked together they could match a tier 4 powerhouse , but the war typically came down to the leader of the Elites to hold down the fort.
Rudra was the key to the Elites success now more than ever , which was the only reason why that he did not start building the church of death and embark on the mission given by Hades. As he did not want to make such a public declaration and make his association with the god of death be known before the start of the war.
Everything was calculated calmly on Rudra's end and he knew that although the fight was not completely hopeless and at 30% the Elites did have a fair chance to win , the most likely outcome was a failure.
The war was on a scale that there were too many variables and too many sub battlefields to think about , that would all contribute towards the overall victory of the war and the sad part was that Rudra could not be on every battlefield physically present to ensure that every battle was won.
It was upto the elders to make sure that the Elite army was able to get through these battles , and it was upto them to make spur of the moment decisions incase the battleplan went south.
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Once the news about the enemy army mobilizing came , Rudra decided to shut off the city under the guise of special Preparations for the coming event , as over the next few days he started welcoming the requested forces from the Church Of Light and the Hazelgroove Empire.
Rudra was happy to see that both the Church Of Light and the Hazelgroove Empire took his request for help seriously as combined together , the aid consisted of 6 million troops , of which 2 million were tier 1 and 1.5 million were tier 2 soldiers. With around 100,000 tier 3 warriors and a total of 30 tier 4 generals.
With these troops added , the Elite camp now boasted a strength of nearly 10 million strong , exactly a third of the enemy number , however the quality of the army was vastly different.
Nonetheless this was better than the support that Rudra anticipated and he was happy for it. Unfortunately neither Patricia nor Emperor Cervantez graced him with their war presence , as having any one of those two would have been a major game changer.
Rudra knew for sure that should things go extremely south , and Rudra lost control over the city of Purplehaze , Emperor Cervantez might step in and save his vassal , but until then his personal presence was highly unlikely.
In the trying times , Ethan did manage to convince Lita and the Russians to lend a helping hand as Lita sent about 500,000 men as reinforcements to the Elite camp , a help that was greatly appreciated by Rudra.
According to their arrangement , Rudra did help Lita to gain a foothold in Aquahose kingdom , where she currently controlled 1 city , 4 towns and 17 villages. However the further expansion of territory needed time and resources , however the triads were happy with what they had at the moment.
However at the same time , the most likely invasion route for the enemy towards Purplehaze city did happen to make way through Aquahose kingdom itself , as while Lita did not send more reinforcements , she promised to make things difficult for the marching army as she would not let them freely pass through towards Purplehaze city .
This was the biggest help that any third party could have offered the Elites as it was exactly what rudra needed the most at the moment.
By choosing to fight for an ally , Lita was essentially picking a fight with an enemy for no benefit at all , and it was a favour that Rudra would never forget.
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( Meanwhile at the dark shaman's hut )
" So are you sure this item belongs to Shakuni ? ". The Dark Shaman asked with a gruff voice.
" Yes , we are positive ". Replied the blood merchant warrior .
" Hmm , how did you obtain it ? ". The shaman asked as he clenched the pieces of the broken elven sword in his hand.
" Our spies are constantly monitoring everyone who goes in and out of the Elites Headquarters . One such man made a trip to the dawrven city of Dwargon where he entrusted the guild leaders broken sword to a master forger for reforging. We stole it from the shop ". Replied the blood merchant .
" Good ... Good ...good , a bound weapon , excellent medium for the curse , hahahhehehehehehehe ". The shaman laughed as the blood merchant got the creeps.
Bringing the broken swords blade to his tongue , the shaman put a scar across his tongue as green blood dripped from the cut.
" What power ... Delicious ". Said the Shaman , impressed by the elven blade and it's past wielder.
Dronacharya had repeatedly expressed his concerns over how Rudra was the heart and soul of the Elite organization and how removing him was akin to defeating half of the Elite army. Hence scar-face made a personal request to the shaman to curse Rudra.
The payment for this request was the bag of human hearts given to the shaman fresh by the blood merchants , however while the blood merchants were cruel , they still could not stand the pure evil of the shaman.
Using dark magic like it was risk free , the shaman was a psycho who could not be offended in any circumstances and now he was about to prepare a death curse to neutralize Rudra far before the war started.
The goal was to render Rudra into a comatose state , and for that a personal item of the victim was needed.
Now that the Shaman got his hands over the broken elven sword , he had the necessary means to deliver the curse to Rudra , as he prepared the ritual.
Unlike Lucifer who could put curses on his enemies as easily as he could breathe , the shaman needed much more effort to curse a target and also needed to fulfill many conditions , however his curses were much more nefarious and difficult to deal with .
The power of his dark magic came from combining the dark practice of bloodmancer with dark magic and necromancy to form a sort of evil practice that gained him the title of the shaman .
His deeds so evil , he was banished from the dark faction areas to live his life in the light faction territories where he would be a fugitive forever , the shaman was forced to live in a secluded but in a secluded forest , however the blood merchants had offered him a way out.
Toppling the True Elites Kingdom , the blood merchants vowed to make it a dark faction territory where the shaman was revered like a god , which was the ambition for the shaman to pick sides in this war.
Hence he took the job of cursing Rudra extremely seriously as he started the cursing ritual.
In a large black pot , a disgusting purple color mixture was boiling at extremely high temperatures as the shaman chanted and added various types of human and animal blood into the mixture chanting vile sounding words.
" Beniogre the sl** who sleeps with every man she comes across , may her unholy c**t be used by every eunuch to create blasphemous children .... May those children born be cursed by the world and may those children loose their will to live and that broken will to life be transmitted upon the owner of this sword , may he enter a deep sleep hearing the curses of the unsatisfied men in this world indefinitely ... ". Said the Shaman as he threw Rudra's elven sword inside the pot .