Chapter 561 - Progress And Growing Numbers
A few days passed with the undead staying in their forest. They were quickly gaining numbers from everywhere, Eldrian was continuously monitoring this and even reported this to Pelaros. It seed that the final push was coming soon.
Their numbers by now had almost doubled. In all likelihood, they were going to try and overwhelm the city with sheer numbers.
"What about the cannons?" Pelaros asked.
"We've made lesser but improved versions. Their range will be around that of the magic towers and the explosion of their cannonballs around twenty ters of effective fire." Solvi replied, currently the leaders in each field of craft were eting along with the commanders of the army.
The group was a total of ten people, including Eldrian and Pelaros.
"And the number of cannonballs?" Pelaros asked, desperately trying to figure out if they would be able to survive an assault given the updated numbers. Though the true problem would not be the lesser undead.
"Thanks to the simplified design, I was able to hand the production down to Tier 5 blacksmiths accompanied but Tier 5 runesmiths. However, it is still ti-consuming. Yet, it is the lack of materials that is slowing us down the most." Solvi answered.
"Unfortunately, if we want to get more materials faster the only way would be to increase what we are willing to pay," Eldrian spoke up, "However, that might lead to the Chosen we are dealing with becoming greedy."
"We also need to ensure we can afford enough to make a difference." He added as a warning for them to be patient.
Everyone nodded, the past few days had let them cool down and get so proper rest. Now, everyone was in a far clearer mindset.
"What about that one?" Pelaros asked, confusing so in the room. However, he didn't want to go into details on the secret project. While they had done the best they could to search for spies, the risk that there were still so was ever-present.
The only people who knew about this project were Eldrian, Pelaros, Thesolis, and Solvi.
"It is coming along well," Thesolis replied, she was currently trying to combine everything into a formation for the highest degree of control and effect.
Naturally, it would be better to keep it a secret from everyone entirely. However, they had decided to make the commanders and other leaders in their respective craft know that there was so big secret.
A trump card.
The reason was simple, the first obviously to boost morale, the second to cause the undead to attack in haste before their numbers grew to too large a number. If that wasn't possible, then the hope was that it would delay them longer than would have been otherwise. Giving the city more ti to prepare.
The aim was thus hoping to make the undead wary and thus keep them from using the optimal ti to strike. Having them either overthink the situation or rush in rashly. While giving everyone more hope in victory at all tis.
Whether this would work or not was unknown, but it was the small things that could change the entire flow of a battle.
From there the conversation then went on to the food situation, which was improving constantly with most of the Phoenix guild constantly hauling food to and fro. It was a massive expense on the city currently, but it was essential.
A total of twenty players had also gone with Judith and Ilmadia to the capital of Taurus, where they were hoping to set up a teleportation point and then start using that instead of buying food from other players.
Elizabeth had also contacted Erik about this, and he had agreed to help where he could. He was after all quite well known in the city of Taurtania. It was 500 kiloters further than Taurbeleuo, both were 250km from Taur, the capital.
The extra distance was believed to be worth the ti spent traveling. Knowing soone who would be able to introduce them to connections would certainly make a big difference in the long run.
Myropsis was actually also in this group, as a royal, even if she wasn't all that close to the king she did have a few friends in high places. Her first task was to help with getting the food supply going. Thereafter she was to try and get supplies for making more cannons and hopefully even start construction in the other cities.
Unfortunately, Pelaros couldn't exactly command anyone outside of Kynigo. They were going to have to persuade them of the usefulness of the cannons. Hopefully, the nobles of Taurus would be open-minded and grab the opportunity as Pelaros had.
After the eting ca to an end, Eldrian waited behind.
"What's on your mind?" Pelaros asked, offering Eldrian a seat in his office.
"I want to ask if I can gain access to all the books in the city."
"What for?" Pelaros asked, it was an absurd ask but not sothing Pelaros minded giving. The problem instead was that there was no way anyone could go through so many books.
"I've got this- Ability. It allows to read extrely quickly if I store the books in my inventory. I am hoping I would be able to broaden my knowledge more. The more I learn, the more I find that things aren't as simply classified as I first thought."
"That is quite the ability, and of course, you have my permission."
"Does this extend to kingdom secrets?" Eldrian asked, and Pelaros frowned.
"I can give permission of so, but not all. I'm afraid that if I do give permission for those books to be taken out of storage, it would be considered treason."
Eldrian sighed, they both knew and understood that it was just plain stupid that things like that would still be enforced. But that was how things were. Certainly, there would be self-destruction-type security asures for if the city did end up falling.
"Thanks." With that Eldrian left and headed for the library. In preparation, he had emptied his inventory, and now he filled it again. Naturally, he had left the voidstone where it was and he made sure to keep a good breath of distance from it inside his inventory.
As they headed back, Eldrian finally decided that it was ti to look at that hidden class quest.
[Quest: Kosmos]
[Rank: Undefined]
[Reward: Hidden Class - Undefined]
'The hell, how is the class still undefined?' Eldrian wondered, and as he wondered he considered the fact that it was quite possible that even GAIA didn't know, or that it had no na; yet.
He felt that that might indeed be the case when he looked at the requirents.
[Find an elent of divinity]
[Find an elent of space]
[Find an elent of ti]
[Find an elent of order]
[Find an elent of chaos]
'What does elent an?' Eldrian pondered as he read through the list ti and ti again on his way back. That was all that there was to the quest, no other explanations nor descriptions.
'It certainly does feel like GAIA is sending on a wild goose chase, but...'
'You think it too?'
'Yeah, the voidstone is one of these elents.' Eldrian nodded, from the na he assud it was the elent of space. 'Wait, what about the death crystal?'
AN: A big thank you to everyone who continues to read and support the story on WN.
AN: Finally decided to add more privilege tiers, check them out if you want to read a bit more. Up to 8 chapters now in privilege.
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