Chapter 748 30 is enough
As Rudra was getting to roll out , Asmodeus came up to check on him as he was astonished to see that 99% of Rudra's forces were not even geared up yet and only a few dozen were gearing up for a fight.Asmodeus asked " Weren't you going to capture the two villages and the town quickly? , Why is your army still lazing around ? ".
Rudra stuffed a crate of of max stamina potion into his inventory as he looked at Asmodeus and said " Oh we are ready ".
Asmodeus looked around once more and asked politely " The 30 of you? "
Rudra glanced back with a domineering smile and said " Even 3 is enough".
Asmodeus wanted to say something but although he kept opening and closing his mouth , no words came out of them. In the end he saluted Rudra and politely took his leave.
If Rudra was a weaker man or under the command of Asmodeus, he would have been given a scolding of a lifetime for his cockiness but thankfully he was not.
In Asmodeus's point of view Rudra was being overconfident and underestimating the enemy forces to march with such a small contingent, however he was nobody to lecture or advice Rudra.
Not only did Rudra outrank him, but the entire plan was his own in the first place , plus in the event that the plan failed, it was his own responsibility as well.
Hence having nothing to say he could only leave and wait for the results of Rudra's strategy to show , wether good or bad.
Rudra looked at his elites and saw everyone of them wearing the chainmail armour forged by fatty Kalash under their plated armour.
Usually wearing chainmail was good for additional defense , but it made movement stiff and added unnecessary weight to fighters which affected the agility , hence not many fighters except tanks preffered to wear chainmail under their armour.
However this changed when the special blue and black crystals that the elites had recovered from the ancient ruins were crushed into powder and added to mythril iron.
In a shocking change of property, the already weightless mithril became elastic and after undergoing a series of processes it was converted into silk like threads that were custom weaved to make chainmail armour.
The resulting armour was legendary in grade and gave fatty Kalash a system notification about how he revived a forgotten ancient manufacturing technique , whose craftsmen were lost to time.
The only problem was it took fatty 3 days of nonstop work to produce a single piece of chainmail armour , custom fit for a particular tier 4 player.
It was extremely durable , lightweight and fabric like which did not restrict movement at all and hence was the perfect additional defense for all players and the best part was that it even covered the neck upto the jaw in providing protection to one of the only parts of an armour that was usually exposed in all types of sets.
Hence when Rudra glanced at the elites who were heavily plated from the boots to the neck and the helmet above he could not see a critical hit opening on any part of their body at all even with his god's eyes.
This impressed him , as now he regretted the decision of waiting for his armour to come later , as when fatty asked him to make one for himself he asked him to do it at last so that the others who needed it more got it before him.
Nonetheless, Rudra needed no more protection than the doom armour on his chest and the grim reaper in his hands , as once he was fully stocked with potions and utilities he gave the elites the marching orders as the group started to storm the barrenlands of hell.
If Rudra marched with a full army , the distance of 40-55 killometers was a 2 to 3 hour March easy , however with all tier 4 or higher players sprinting in formation with Rudra as the windbreaker , it was only a matter of 12 minutes at a moderate pace.
They passed by the dead scouts in a flash as the others could not understand how the scouts died or when they died, however they all knew who killed them in their mind .
When they were only 40 seconds out of the wooden village walls , Rudra glanced at Jhonny and gave the call " Sir Jhonny , there is one tier 4 man posted in the guard tower in the eastern gate there , go faster than us and take him down stealthily".
Jhonny instantly went ghost mode and increased his pace such that he arrived at the guard tower only 10 seconds before Rudra and the group did.
Right before he sneaked in past the wall though , Rudra created a distraction by deliberately walking loudly and making thumping noises to garner the attention of the tier 4 guard posted at the gate.
While the low level guards could never hear those footsteps from such a distance , the tier 4 guard was instantly alerted as he glanced out of his outpost to see the group of men charging towards the gates.
Immediately alarmed he wanted to raise the attack alarm , however he made a critical mistake when he looked at Rudra's group and did missed Jhonny's ascend.
As Jhonny bypassed the outpost walls as if they were air and landed right behind the tier 4 soldier.
Before he could even turn or realise that someone was onto him , two daggers were plunged into his eye sockets through to his brain and immediately two more to his neck from both sides .
As the other tier 3 guards were alerted seeing their leader die , Rudra and the others had already jumped over the wooden wall like it was a small hurdle as they swarmed the outpost and killed everyone inside like flies.
The complete battle lasted only 21 seconds , and without a single loud noise made the elites successfully infiltrated the village of no return and killed one of the 3 tier 4 guards posted inside.
/// Special Shoutout To Omar_Alshaikh for the 5000 coin magic castle and to Sivanthe for the THREE 5000 coin magic castles.
Sometimes i just become speechless to see such overwhelming support , all i can say then is a very heartfelt thankyou.
With this contribution today will be a 5 chapter day. This one being 1/5 and the bonus chapter for hitting the GT target///