Chapter 227 Bet before war.
Rayn completed his sentence, "The Daemon prince."
Ketty chimed in, "Bingo! This was not confirmed, but one of the Deamon princes was directly supporting the city head."
Silver_Knight asked, "But who and why?"
Lotus added, "Yeah, I don't see the point in them wasting so many resources in a losing war."
Silver_Knight shook his head. "Looks like we have a hardcore Blaze fan here."
Lotus squinted at the Silver _knight. Ketty said before things escalated, "Well, we don't know all the reason, but this sure made this war very interesting."
"Wait," Rayn said, "I have an interesting theory in my mind."
All others looked at him, and Ketty asked, "Sir, can you tell us your theory?"
Rayn nodded and said, "All of us know how close Abyss Daemon princes are. It's hard to believe someone among them going against others."
Lotus said, "But that looks like the case here."
Rayn shook his head. "maybe but I think this is a test. Thinking about it. Why Abyss, a top guild of the Algoma kingdom, takes this kind of risk with no benefit."
Silver_Knight said, "Wait, don't tell me they are doing this to test their new talents or something."
Rayn pointed to Silver_Knight, "That is correct. We might see some new rising start in this war."
"New rising star!" All of them mumbled with interest. Until this point, no new rising star appeared in the war. Those that appeared were famous ones, but it's different if it's a rising star trained by the top guilds.
Ketty said. "Oh, it looks like this war might not be that simple. Now that we started this topic, let me introduce you guys to the powerhouse that we will see in this war.
First, we have the Yellow sun from the Blaze side."
On the screen, multiple clips of different players using massive fireballs on 100s of players in front of them. In all the clips, the player using the giant fireball was in yellow armor with the sun logo on them.
Ketty continued, "Now we don't know the exact details, but war commanders from the Blaze guild can use this powerful skill. But don't underestimate Abyss as they have a new star on their side, the Lil Commander."
This time multiple clips with players in black armor killing and fighting other players appeared. In all clips, a little kid was standing on the back, commanding all the Abyss players.
Ketty appeared back on the screen and said, "This will be a head-on clash between a war commander and Yellow Sun. Let's ask our expert prediction of the first war."
Lotus was the first, "There is no way Blaze will lose this war. The Abyss will regret wasting so much on this war."
Silver_Knight said, "Well, without the elite players and with that low number, I don't think Abyss had any chance."
Rayn said at last, "This time, there is only one thing the Abyss could have that can change the result. A hidden start player and from their confidence I think it would be 1 vs 2."
Ketty said with a smile, "Oh, so we do have some chances to see an engaging war. Well, let's end our talk, as it is time for the war."
A logo appeared on the screen and then a big white screen appeared.
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Outside Gazzi City, the armies of both sides gathered for the war. On the Abyss side, Dhruv and Branch manager were standing at the front of their army. Both of them were nervous while their eyes were scanning the army in search of the Grave.
Dhruv said, "I don't think the brother is here right now."
The branch manager looked at Dhruv with concern. "Don't tell me, sir, get into some problem in the trial."
Dhruv took a deep breath to calm himself and turned to the front. "Well, there's no point in worrying about the brother. It's better if we focus on war."
He looked at the front. There were thousands of player standing in front of the black army. All these players had a sun logo on their armor and robes.
In front of this army stood a lady in Yellow armor with a big sun mark on the armor. She was the commander leading the Blaze guild in this war. She was the one with the power to obliterate the whole black army behind him alone.
His hands were sweaty, and his throat dried. He was smart enough to understand this war was not a simple game for him or his brother. He was sure if they lost this war miserably, then they had to face a huge backlash. After all, they had no one to rely on, nothing to back them.
He turned his head and saw all the Abyss players wiggling here and there. From their faces, he could read that none of them believe in the victory. The momentum was already on the Blaze's side, there was nothing he could say that would have much effect on the player's morale.
He hardly turned to the front. He looked down, his hand and leg were shaking a little. The pressure was too much. He closed his eyes and focused on the center part of his brain. One after another, his brain started ignoring all the surrounding sounds. There was only him, surrounded by a little darkness.
He did not know that, but he had achieved the meditative state of one with self. Many of the monks spend their time in isolation to be able to reach this state, but for Dhruv, the pressure allowed him to enter this state.
The voice of his inner thoughts became loud and started echoing in the darkness.
"What if we lose this war?"
"Where is Brother?"
"I don't know how to deal with that yellow sun."
"Will they kill us if we made them lose?"
"What will Brother do here?" …
It was chaos, hundred of sounds echoing everywhere. 'Stop this!' Dhruv screamed at himself. He asked himself, "What is my role here?"
A reply came from the darkness, "Be an impressive commander and deal with the Blaze guild."
"Mmm, that right then. I don't need to think about anything thing else then." Slowly, different voices stopped echoing in his mind and only one thing remain, a commander leading the Abyss guild.
He opened his eyes. There was no nervousness in them, instead a hidden confidence shine from those eyes. There was one thing he was confident of: he had done everything he could to become an outstanding commander. No need to doubt his hard work. He started taking this war as the opportunity to use everything thing he had read so far.
He stared into the eyes of the yellow sun. Both of them continued to stare for some time and then he smiled, "Hehe, this will be interesting."
The branch manager had his mouth wide open as he looked at Dhruv. He could not believe that this kid was smiling just now, and that face reminded him of Grave. 'fck both brothers are abnormal.'
At this time, a projection of the head city head NPC appeared between both armies. He looked at both armies. "Commanders, please come forward."
It was time for them to decide the bet and terrain conditions for the wars.
At this, the yellow sun and Dhruv moved next to the NPC City head. The NPC city head looked at them and said, "We need to decide rewards. Going by the standards. First, those who died in the war will lose one of their equipment and the winning guild will receive all those pieces of equipment. Do any of you have a problem with this?"
"No."
"No."
The head NPC nodded his head and asked, "Second the monetary reward, Challenger, tell me the number of gold the blaze guild wanted to offer in this challenge?"
This was the special condition where Challenger needed to give extra rewards in case of losing.
The yellow sun said, "10 platinum coins."
"10 platinum coins passed the condition of minimum monetary reward. Abyss guild cannot refuse this war." NPC then looked at the Yellow sun and asked, "Is there any condition challenger wanted to add?"
The yellow sun smiled and said, "We want to have the treasure package."
NPC looked at Dhruv. "What's the decision of the defender? In case of refusal, they will only get 50% of the monetary reward."
Dhruv looked at the poker face, but inside he was in shock. His brother told him about how the Blaze guild would try to make the bet as big as possible. He was ready for this but treasure package from the start.
In the treasure package, the losing guild had to show 10 high-grade items of gold and above ranks to the winning guild, and out of that, the winner got the choice to take 3 of them. It sure was an enormous loss for the losing guild, but refusing will decrease the monetary reward by 500 gold coins.
He looked down and nodded his head. "We accept the challenge."
The yellow sun smiled at that.
The NPC head said, "1 more condition added. Now do the defender, do you want to add a condition to war?"
This was the beauty of Liberty Online. In the war, the challenger had the first chance to add to the bet. If they refuse, then the betting would be over, but in case they added one more bet condition, then the defender got the next chance to add to the bet.
Then the cycle repeated until one side refuse the bet.
Though there were many restrictions on the kind of bet they could place. One of them was that the bet and the reward could not surpass the level of possibility. In Tire 1 City, all the bets needed to be on the level that something a player of level 50 could achieve.
But those restrictions became loose at the higher city level. This gambling before the war made many guilds lose everything from just one war if they were not careful with it.
The yellow sun was confident that Abyss would add nothing. She had seen them shivering and shaking. There was no way this little kid would take more risk. She froze the next moment
Dhruv looked up and said with a smile, "I want to add…"
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