Bab 73: Chapter 73 - New Assignments
Entering the main house of the shelter, Zach was surprised to see that he was able to enter inside. Not thinking deeply about it, he immediately went to the Shelter's Core which he saw in the corner. He then tried putting his hand on it wanting to see if it was possible to see the status panel of the shelter.
[Shelter: Frozen Field
Shelter Classification: Bronze
Shelter Evolution: (15/100)
Shelter Owner: None
Shelter Manager: None
Shelter Residents: 0
Shelter Store: Activated
Shelter Sanctuary Portal: Available (Earth Location: Greenland)
Shelter Evolution Pool: Activated
Shelter Protective Shield: Destroyed
Shelter Income: None]
"It's still activated despite the fact that the owner has already died. This is new. Then, is it possible for me to own this shelter?" Zach muttered while looking at the status of the shelter. If possible, he wanted to use this shelter for his own interest since it would be a waste leaving it here without anyone using it.
[It is detected the Frozen Field Shelter was an ownerless shelter.]
[Do you accept taking the shelter as its owner?]
[Yes/No]
"Definitely." Zach answered without hesitation.
[Successful transfer of ownership.]
[Congratulations on owning Frozen Field Shelter.]
[Shelter: Frozen Field
Shelter Classification: Bronze
Shelter Evolution: (15/100)
Shelter Owner: Zach Anderson
Shelter Manager: None
Shelter Residents: 1
Shelter Store: Activated
Shelter Sanctuary Portal: Available (Earth Location: Greenland)
Shelter Evolution Pool: Activated
Shelter Protective Shield: Destroyed
Shelter Income: None]
"Great." Zach said before immediately doing everything he could to restore and repair the shelter, especially the Shelter Protective Shield that he had destroyed while attacking the place however, in order not to bring suspicion, he didn't evolve the shelter to Silver Class and just let it be in the meantime. With that, he then just headed outside wanting to say to everyone the good news.
Meanwhile, Ethan and the rest of the Rangers outside were quite surprised upon seeing the Shelter Protective Shield activated once again but they immediately thought that Zach must have done something inside the main house for such a thing to happen.
"The name of the shelter is called Frozen Field Shelter. It's a bronze-class shelter with the location where the portal leads to is on Greenland. And now, this shelter is ours." Zach announced to everybody after getting out of the main house.
Hearing Zach, Ethan and the rest were also quite happy upon having another shelter and another territory back to Earth. They then just congratulate each other especially Zach on the success of the operation.
"Now. I have another important thing to announce but before that, let us clean up the place first and burn the bodies of these dead men." Zach said as he looked at the frozen dead bodies scattered all over the place.
With that, everyone then started moving all the dead bodies outside of the shelter before burning them and only after thirty minutes later did they were all done seeing them now gathered around a raging fire as they looked at Zach with seriousness on their faces.
"I can tell everybody here was very capable and that everyone must have already killed bronze-class monsters. By the way, my Appraisal skill just leveled up and I could now see the information of the class above the ordinary which was really bronze class however, the items they dropped were called Rare instead of what I had labeled as bronze items and I guessed that the next one would be Epic. So, let's settle in this terminology." Zach said.
"Anyways, that was not what I was going to discuss. Hear me out. During my exploration in Pluto Sanctuary this time, I came across a huge horde surrounding what I guessed to be a Silver Shelter. I'm not completely certain but it is a horde that had several bronzes-class monsters in it which is quite unusual so I surmised that it was led by a stronger class of monsters which I believe would be a Silver Class." Zach followed.
"I waited for all of the shelter owners to get back from their exploration to discuss this matter since I planned to attack the horde and take the Silver Shelter. So, what do you all think? Do you want to join me in this operation?" Zach said while looking at Ethan and the rest of the Shelter Owner.
"Chief, you don't have to hold yourself back. All of us here were all under your command, As long as you order it, we won't hesitate to enact it as you were the leader that we chose to believe in." Ethan answered while looking at Zach.
"A Silver Shelter and a silver class monster, huh. I want to see how it was different from a bronze-class monster." Viktor said while imagining what kind of monstrosity a silver-class monster was since they would still have a little difficulty dealing with a bronze-class monster.
"Yes. Just give us the order, Chief." Mike also said.
After that, everyone who gathered in the area also showed their support and they were even excited instead since this operation must have been quite rewarding knowing that they were talking about a silver-class monster who knows what kind of item it would drop if they were able to take it down.
Zach smiles faintly after hearing them. In fact, he really wanted them to think carefully about it since this was probably the most dangerous thing they would do until now however, seeing their excited chattering, he then just felt satisfied thinking that he really had great companions.
With that, Zach then told everyone about everything he knew about the horde ranging from the possible monsters they would encounter like Glutton, Reaper, Smasher, Undead Soldier, Undead Mage, the Undead that he felt like archers, and lastly the unknown boss monster of shelter.
They spent the whole night discussing the whole plan since Zach had already decided that this number would be enough knowing that everyone here was the best among the Rangers under him and he didn't want to call for more as they would only be at risk if they couldn't keep up.
With that, Zach and the Ranger then take a rest inside the shelter, however, unlike Zach who slept comfortably in the main house, everyone had all their tents installed outside since they could no longer become residents of another shelter and that would mean that that they also can't get a house to stay.
The next day came and everyone immediately left the shelter as Zach already had arrangements for everybody and it was also the same with the shelter that he just acquired. Facing the snow and cold weather, they arrived back to Earth after two days of traveling.
Upon arriving, Zach immediately called all the shelter owners again for another meeting while also calling Gerald, the leader of the people who had broken away from him, as he had an instruction to deliver to him.
At this moment, the meeting room was now filled with people again as Zach finally started the meeting after everyone was present. What he wanted to discuss right now was not important to him but might be important to the other shelter owners.
"First of all. I will appoint Ethan as the second in command of Eden. If I'm not around, he will be the next highest authority in Eden. I don't want the same tragedy that happened in Kevin's to repeat so, everything that will find suspicious in Pluto Sanctuary will have to be reported to the Rangers' Office immediately." Zach said while looking at everyone in the room.
Hearing this, the shelter owners all looked at Ethan with great envy and respect but Ethan, himself, was the most surprised of all as he never thought to have been given such an important role by Zach. He then just looked at him to see whether he was joking or not but he really was serious about it so he could only stand up in habit.
"Thank you, Chief. I won't disappoint your expectations." Ethan saluted with excitement. He then just also looked at the other shelter owners wanting to tell them all that he would not disappoint them.
"Good. Eden is our home. This is where our family lives so I can't have our people getting killed by another human being. Remember this. Befriend those who can be befriended and destroy those who want to be destroyed. These will be the words that Eden will follow from now on." Zach said with great seriousness on his face as this world has become very foreign to them so they need to rely on each other to survive.
"Befriend those who can be befriended and destroy those who want to be destroyed." Every shelter owner can be found muttering the same words as they kind of like the meaning behind it leaving Gerald to stay quiet alone in his seat as he looked at everyone in the room, especially to Zach.
"Let's go back to the topic. The second thing I want to discuss is that I have now 150 Bronze Cores. So, who's going to be the second shelter to evolve to Silver Class?" Zach then said and asked while looking at them since it must already be a reasonable time to bring out that many cores.
"Really?!" Viktor was the first to react as he couldn't believe what he just said since it would mean that Zach had killed 150 bronze-class monsters in just a month. The same could be seen on everyone's faces seeing them all looking at Zach thinking just how strong he had become though some of them could see his level.
"I think as the second-in-command, Ethan's shelter would be prioritized first. Does anybody have problems with it?" Zach then did not answer and just gave a suggestion instead.
"Since no one has problems with it, Ethan will have his shelter evolve to silver class first. By the way, how many Bronze Cores have you gathered now Ethan?" Zach, upon seeing no one had raised a hand, then asked Ethan how much left he needed since he knew that he must have quite gotten a lot knowing that it's been already a month.
"M-My shelter has already gathered 34 Bronze Cores already, Chief." Ethan stuttered while giving an answer as he was still surprised by what he just heard from Zach. Only a few seconds later did he finally get his composure back as he looked at Zach with excitement thinking that his shelter would finally evolve to a silver class.
"Good. Take these 66 Bronze Cores with you and evolve your shelter to silver class. Now, for the remaining 84, I think it was also enough to have another shelter to evolve to silver class. Who among you wants it?" Zach then said before taking out 66 Bronze Cores from his inventory and then looking at the remaining shelter owners.
"Me. Give them to me, Chief." Mike was the first to react upon hearing Zach's words.
"No, Chief. Give them to me." Isabelle also raised her hand.
"I also want it chief." Carl also said.
Not just the three of them, as every shelter owner raised their hands to have the remaining Bronze Cores so they could have their shelter evolve to silver shelter which Zach had told them before that it was then they could really feel the power of being an owner.
Seeing their excitement, Zach then just smiled at it before looking at Gerald in his seat as he thought of a good idea.
"Gerald. I never had the time to ask you this but what happened to your shelter and portal?" Zach then just asked since he really had no clue about it as he had already forgotten about them after getting his hands on the items that he had offered.
"W-Well. I don't know. In fact, I'm actually not the owner of the shelter but only its manager. Before we came here, the shelter we had had been attacked by beasts with the owner and several survivors dying with it." Gerald answered while thinking why Zach suddenly asked him as he was sure that they were talking about evolving shelter earlier.
"What is the situation of the place where your shelter was located? And what kind of beasts are living there?" Zach asked once again as he was kind of curious about just how they were destroyed knowing that it must be a beast or a monster that exceeds level 25 in order to destroy the Shelter Protective Shield.
"The shelter we had was called 'Misty Jungle Shelter', just like its name, the place was situated in the middle of the jungle that was always covered with mist. As for the beasts around the area, all kinds of mutated beasts like monkeys, and snakes, but mostly were four-legged beasts like the Panther and its group that attacked the shelter." Gerald replied while remembering the time when they were helpless and could only retreat.
"A misty jungle. Good. This is just perfect. Then, to make things fair. I will give the remaining Bronze Cores to the one who can kill most of the beasts that attacked the shelter where Gerald had stayed before." Zach then just said as he looked at the shelter owners inside wanting to take advantage of it thinking that this was a good chance to see just how capable they are and also by doing so, he could have another shelter to claim.
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