Grave walked back to the city. As he reached the city gate, he found that there were a few players still fighting outside the city. He heard many talking about the incident.
"what the hell happen guys."
"Fck It Abyss, I know many of them."
"Shut up we know that but why ??"
"Guys let's support the protest against the guild in the forum."
"What that shit do?"
"Do they kill us in masses again?"
"Fck I don't think this city is safe for us."
"Hey, how you survived."
"Bro we were so lucky that we are out of the city at that time."
"well good for you but it was hell here. "
"oh, how to do survive then."
"You heard that big blast right."
"yes ."
"Guild stooped attacking the moment that blast occur."
"So I hope guild did not do this again."
Grave walked toward the gate while hearing all the players, fear was clear in their voices. He heard many groups talking about leaving the city if things repeated.
Looking around, he could see a few surviving teams wanting to reap benefits by killing weaker newbies who just come to the city.
All of this was possible because of the weird Pk system of Liberty. Liberty just had the extreme Pk system.
In liberty, NPC did not care if a player kill other players out of the city. Heck, even if you killed a player just outside the city gate, NPC would not react until and unless an NPC got involved.
This system promoted guild formation in the city, as players need protection the moment they walked out and that was also the reason why the strong guilds had so much control over the city.
Grave knew after this stunt Abyss would receive some backlash in the city but that only promote fighting, which was what he needed for the guild. He wanted guild players on their toes from all sides this month.
Grave had a smile on his face as he entered the city.
(….) silence, looking around he found many NPC patrolling the slum. Only the rhythmic footsteps of the NPC guard could be heard in the city. Many poor NPCs were weeping on the side.
Many of them had lost their house and other property in the player war. He could hear a few loud screams from deep inside the slum. From the sound, he was sure that some NPC must die there.
He found a few players all outside the slum, all of them were silent. None dared to enter the slums. As he looked in the slum he found many eyes in that darkness, the damp roads failed to hide them.
All of them had anger in them, there was no one but NPCs. The poor NPCs stared at the player with many emotions. This was the 2nd scariest thing in Liberty. The emotional perfection of the NPC.
It was weird to look at them, but he knew they would go back to normal in an hour. This looks that NPCs had was not something they do when The Liberty was launched but around 6 months after the game launched NPCs around the different cities started to do and then slowly it spread to all the NPCs.
It was a guilt method created by NPCs to save themselves from mad players and reap some benefit from the innocent players.
He saw on the side some players giving many things to NPCs as an apology for their loss.
He ignored them and walked to the main road toward the middle part of the city.
The middle area was completely unaffected by all this. The merchants' shop and market working with no change at all, it was just that number of players in the market was close to none.
He went to the guild hall and found Dhruv and the branch manager waiting at him at the gate.
Grave smiled at them and all 3 of them walked into the empty hall. Grave turned to the branch manager and asked, "Where are the players?"
The Branch manager said to him," All of them were working in the shop."
He turned to Dhruv,
Dhruv said, "I gave them some instruction all of them are in at the barrack learning new strategies."
"good." Grave nodded his head and walked up to the second floor. Both Branch mange and Dhruv followed behind him.
In the room, Grave sat on the big seat while Dhruv and the branch manager sat in front of him. there was no one around them.
The Branch manager was the first to ask, "What happen with the Razors?"
Grave slummed on the chair and said, "Razor agreed, but I gave the control of Dark Forest to them."
"what? Do you even know the importance of the dark forest?" The branch manager shouted.
Grave nodded his head, "I know but their just no other way. You know that Razor was not like us, they might go to shell then it would be all over."
The branch manager paused.
Dhruv said from the side, "Oh so bother you use the Dark forest as the medium to have them fight with all power, but brother It just so obvious that …"
The branch manager said, "It is obvious that they understand our intention but for a small guild like Razors it's a golden opportunity. "
Both Grave and Dhruv looked at him. Dhruv asked, "Sir, can you elaborate please."
The branch manager smiled as he heard sir, He puffed his chest and said, "You see, all the small guild want to have the opportunity to have top hunting ground.
As having, the top ground means they would have unlimited access to monsters in there, it would increase the speed of the guild player leveling. Then the raw materials help in completing many nobles' tasks and even with the lifestyle player creating many things from new materials.
Finally, the money collected from other players all of this adds up to a huge generation of money for the guild. For small guilds, that kind of money would help them expand their power to other cities or even reach higher cities but there is a big problem that stops them to have all that."
Grave said, "The top guild in the city."
"correct, "the branch manager nodded and continued, "All the high-level ground around any city is in control of the ruling guilds of the city, and 90% of the city in the Algoma kingdom is in the top 10 guild control. "
Dhruv asked, "Wait but I heard that there are many guilds present in one city. I think Gazzi city comes in the minority that has only 1 side guild."
The Branch manager nodded his head, "Yeah, most of the city ruling guilds do not care about small guilds but there were few that did not even tolerate a single side guild in the city."
"Oh ok, then there is one thing I wanted to know. In the city with many side guilds, why don't they join force and take control over some top hunting ground?" Dhruv asked
The branch manager said, "Well their many reasons but the most important one is attacking the top hunting ground means you want a war with that guild.
You see going in and attacking the hunting ground was easy but it's not a one-time thing. You need to defend that ground from others and once you try to take the hunting ground from any of the top guilds then those top guilds could just call other players and razed the small guild. "
"mmm okk," Dhruv nodded.
Grave said at this time, "As their no other side guild in the city to disturb us it would be Razor vs Abyss with no problem. I don't think Razor will back down from the dark forest."
Dhruv nodded his head and said, "Mmm so when dealing with Razor I need to think about attacking the dark forest. okk."
The branch manager asked him, "But sir, are you sure about this."
Grave sighed, "It's not like we have time to worry about money, I can just ask for guild support and it's just till the war with the Blaze reached its conclusion."
The branch manager shied and nodded, "Well yeah if we lose in the war then there would be no point in having that hunting ground."
Grave stared at him and said," Manager don't worry we will not go down."
The branch manager looked at him with a face full of doubt.
Dhruv asked from the side, "So brother is there any suggestion for me? "
Grave turned to Dhruv and smiled to see the determination, he said, "Nah you are free but remember to not get over-dependent on them and waste time. Focus on yourself, 1 top player is far better than 100 avg one."
Dhruv nodded his head and got up, "Okk brother, let me go no time to waste? "
"Sure," Grave nodded at him and Dhruv walked out of the room.
The branch manager commented, "Sir, little sir excited but sigh.."
Grave looked at the branch manager and did not say anything. He knew no word from his would have this fatty mind. He stared at the ceiling while thinking, He had done all the necessary work, but the hard truth was guild players were shit and he did not want to have any high expectations from them.
He needed to increase his power drastically and there were many things that could help him do that. 'If I finish the experiment and tier up then I think it will be no problem for the first time.' he thought to himself and then looked at the branch manager, "Don't disturb me for the next month. I need to spend this time in training."
The branch manager stared at him and nodded his head.
Wasting no time Grave got up from the seat and logged out of the game.
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