Chapter 383: A war on one’s doorstep
( anwhile Luke and Cervantez )
The past two months seed to have passed by in a blur for Luke and Cervantez, who saw their gaming ti being completely occupied in preparing the guild and the Barony for the demon invasion.
Just like on the Eastern Front, in the past two month’s ti, the demons had also made significant progress on the Western front, managing to salvage roughly 100 square kiloters of land, as they found themselves on the doorsteps of Silver-Pine Barony.
From the beginning, it was Duke Jas’s intention to only mount their first real defense in Silver-Pine Barony, as while he tried to buy ti and slow down the advance of the Demons into the Empire’s land, he never really gave them a proper fight until now.
Just like on the Eastern Front, there were hundreds of thousands of players who had flocked to the Western Front too, with the Silver-Pine Barony now turning into a large-scale military camp, with the demons camping downhill only a few kiloters from their border outposts.
Seeking a heavy monetary loan from Leo, post the loss of his regular mining revenue, Cervantez tried to ensure that he finished all the active construction and training projects that he wished to undertake before the demons arrived, and thanks to the tily monetary aid by Leo, he did manage to complete them all.
Cervantez transford the Barony into the ultimate war-zone, as he established powerful supply lines and retreating stations, to ensure that the Demons found it impossible to over-run his lands no matter how hard they tried.
Drenches and traps were dug in the open fields.
Pikes and roadblocks were set up at regular intervals, and the Stonebridge connecting the main town of Silver-Pine to the Stonehenge village was laced with explosives, ready to blow up whenever the need arose.
Overall, with the assisting players, the Duke’s NPC army and the DarkSky guild, the total number of forces defending Silver-Pine Barony were 1.2 million, which in itself was a huge deterrent for the demons to not try anything funny.
However, while preparing the territory to face the demons was the main project that Cervantez undertook, it wasn’t the only one.
Over the last two months, Cervantez also focused on establishing a robust information network throughout the Empire, as with the tis growing more and more tumultuous, he understood the importance of having a fast and reliable source of information.
It was through this information network of his, that he found out about the Uprising’s plans on attacking the Southern Duchy before it happened, as amongst the myriad different factions within the ga, Cervantez tracked the moves of ‘The Uprising’ with utmost attention.
To Cervantez, the leader of the uprising guild ‘ChaosBringer’ seed like a visionary man, as he could not even begin to fathom how he had managed to raise an army as big as he did, or how he had managed to rope in ‘TheBoss’ into his organization, when the man was nothing more than an elusive shadow.
While most of his focus was on the Demon War at his gates, he did track the movents of ‘The Uprising’ and their rebellion too, as he had a strong feeling that sooner or later, he and his guild were going to find themselves on the wrong side of that rebellious group.
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At the sa ti that Cervantez focused mainly on completing the construction projects and preparing the guild for war, Luke found himself embroiled in a slightly different project.
With his main task being to train the guild mbers in war formations and large scale maneuvers, most of his ti was spent training his n, however, a few days ago as one of his guild mbers ca across a hidden piece of information, Luke felt compelled to check the rumors out.
Apparently, one of his guild mbers had a friend who had acquired a ‘ditation Scroll’ from clearing a dungeon, and according to him, that scroll was not only usable within the ga, but outside the ga too.
As per the claims of the guild mber, the ditation scroll allowed his friend to gain levels without having to kill monsters, when he ditated within the ga and while it was slow and tedious, it could be practiced outside the ga too, with the leveling benefits carrying into the ga even when one ditated in reality.
As per the guild mber, his friend swore that he was level 102 when he logged out of the ga, however, as he logged back in after ditating in reality, the first thing that he returned to was a notification that his level had increased, even though he had taken no action within the ga world.
If true, this claim could shake-up the entire gaming ta, and since Cervantez had no explicit idea about it, he tasked Luke with getting to the bottom of these claims.
Hence, when Luke was not busy with training the guild mbers, he spent most of his ti looking for ditation scrolls or any ntion of them on the servers, however, so far he had no success.
The guild mbers friend who had allegedly claid to have received the ditation scroll from a dungeon, refused to specify as to which dungeon he obtained it from and refused to verify whether or not it actually helped gain levels even when used in reality, as he seed to be wanting to monopolize these gains himself.
The whole situation left Luke scratching his head for answers, however, he had a strong feeling that the story that he had co across was true, which made him persist in his hunt for a ditation scroll despite not getting any hard proofs that it existed.
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