Chapter 92: Consequences
Even though he was busy with his array, Luke made sure to delegate work continuously to everyone.
He assigned all the regular workers of CoD to continuously expand the base and its facilities. He had his R&D department continuously make newer and better explosives. He assigned most of the dangerous hunting missions to players who were not able to get into the war mission and were strong enough to not die instantly, while he sent the normal fighters of CoD on the easier and safer missions to reduce casualties of people who cannot revive. On the other hand, he had his ever-loyal elite team of 'permanent servants' hunt for equipment and complete missions on his behalf.
He had split them into two teams, one had the higher-ranking assassins who were stronger, while the other hand the weaker assassins. The high-ranking team would be sent into more difficult places such as the natural dungeons which were essentially environments in extremes which suited the growth of a particular type of monster(s).
Ultimatum did not have a concept of dungeons, however, in places which were too frigid, there exists incredible numbers of frost monsters and bears of varying levels, creating natural dungeons, that were also known as mob fields.
Naturally, they would not earn exp and grow like players, however, all living and non-living beings would grow with time, and they would grow especially more with certain stimuli. Naturally, the main reason they were there was to hunt the monsters for their corpse and other rare materials, as well as to cleanly strip the land of anything valuable.
These permanent servant assassins, as well as the ordinary soldiers trips, were the main sources of income for CoD. Due to the incredibly high efficiency, the CoD base's insane growth speed both inside and outside the walls, were not only sufficiently funded, but even some amount of extra money was being collected slowly.
The assassin group with the weaker people were mainly sent on secret missions to kill certain people, kidnap others and basically smoothen out the growth of CoD, limiting the opposition without offending those old geezers in the council.
At this moment, Lucian Silverfang had been sent on an expedition into an incredibly hot dessert to hunt monsters as part of the first Alpha squad, the stronger of the two squads of permanent servants.
"Damn it! Why do I have to fight in this dessert?! I hate this heat! What is this! That f…"
However, the next words did not leave his mouth as he stopped himself and sat back down dejectedly. The others also sat down in the burning sand, exhausted from fighting sand beasts and poisonous creatures for a week non-stop!
It was not that the group finally discovered something other than endless sand and monsters, it was a bunch of tiny rocks placed on top of each other randomly. It appeared to be rather close by and the alpha squad looked at each other for a moment and all stood up with invigorated spirits. They were going to go towards those stones. At least, it was different from the rest of the endless and monotonous sand.
However, as they walked, a day passed, and the night came. Nights in the dessert became rather cold, and so the alpha squad stopped and made a bonfire.
Naturally, Luke would not leave them to die, and so he had sent them off with a tonne of resources. Where had they been sent to? Naturally, it was the dessert which was to the south east corner of the Gamin continent, under the control of the Leon kingdom.
In a sense, although the Leon kingdom controlled half of the Gamin continent, around 30% of that land was barren wastelands, for example, to the south west was the frozen plains, and to the south east was the barren dessert. Only the land at the centre of Leon, and land that was closer to the border between Leon and the other two large kingdoms and smaller kingdoms were arable and had populations of people.
Now, Lucian Silverfang and the rest of his group filled with assassins from not only Leon but also other kingdoms including Roland and Islesat, as well as many other nations, had been sent to the desserts for a 'field trip' as their master called it for exactly 1 week. Naturally, this group had to keep collecting materials from the monsters they killed, and if the number was lower than what Luke had told them to collect, they would be sent to the same place for double the time. After the week would end, the group would be extracted from their location to the safety of the CoD base for a resting period of another week, before they were sent out again for a week in some barren frozen forest, or a boiling hot dessert.
This was the fate of one that tried to kill The Sage and failed.
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