Chapter 433 - What Can He Do In 2 Days?
The reality of the situation was very difficult to swallow . During the entire court meeting the only thing that really bothered Rudra was the lack of concrete information about enemy strength.
There was only a general bifercation available that there were approximately 23-26 million enemy forces , but the report thoroughly lacked in quality and substance.
How many of the forces of darkness were tier 1 ? , How many were tier 2? How many were tier 3? , How many tier 4 warriors ? Is Mazikeen the only tier 5 existance amongst the group? No solid information was available and everything was a mystery.
What means did the enemy have , do they have long range artillery that can cripple walls , can Mazikeen just blow out air and wipe out a portion of the Purplehaze city wall?
What will be the chosen mode of warfare , will it be outside Purplehaze city walls? Will it be within the city? What techniques would be employed in the war ? What are the key pointers to take care of before the fight.
No information about these things were available at all , and Rudra hated that , he hated the fact that for once he was not in a leadership position and did not need to look at the bigger picture and only the part assigned to him , as the bigger picture was being seen by Emperor Cervantez .
Rudra was a firm beleiver in the power of information , being a reincarnator who had climbed the ranks of the game through the power of knowledge , he knew firsthand the difference of waging an intelligent war and a dumb war and he really did not want to wage a dumb war.
The sheer scale of this was meant that it was not possible to micromanage every front at which the fight was going to be happening. There would be individual fronts , and individual battles breaking out at all the parts of the battlefield.
If there was one key to winning this war , it was definitely the fall of Mazikeen. With Mazikeen's fall , assuming that there was no other tier 5 powerhouse within the forces of Darkness . Then with Emperor Cervantez sweeping the battlefield the war was definitely going to tilt towards a Hazelgroove victory.
Conversely the fall of Emperor Cervantez would spell the end of Hazelgroove kingdom.
Rudra only had one question in his mind currently , and that was how was he going to utilize his two days of preperation time before the war.
He was someone who was least interested in fraternizing with the other guilds of Hazelgroove kingdom , although he was invited to several meetings , he attended none of them , as pointless speculation was a waste of his time.
Just like he suggested , a player enlistment act was given out by the kingdom , along with the sub bifercation of what guild had to perform what duties.
This was unexpectedly good decision on the part of the kingdom as they divided penalty and rewards fairly.
The guilds that did not take part in the war were going to loose ownership of their territory and were going to be banished from Hazelgroove kingdom. The guilds that failed to carry out their tasks in the war were going to face heavy penalties for failing their given duty.
The rewards were equally great as the completion of the tasks gave the guilds incredibly generous merit points which could be traded for any item from within the Hazelgroove Royal treasury. This was a good opportunity for guilds to gain major rewards .
The individual players were banded under the label of 61st 62nd and 63rd division. Which was headed by viscounts of Hazelgroove kingdom , most of them were low level players who had yet to join a guild , while there were very few high level independent players. The role of this division was definitely going to be cannon fodders and they were given a fixed amount for participating in the war (70 silver) Payable on Victory . Considering that most were level 10-30 players , 30 silvers was a considerable sum for them and a fair compensation.
In this way the massive player force was divided efficiently and given independent tasks . The task of the True Elites guild being to man the walls , and slow the advance of enemies into the city.
The plan of action that Emperor Cervantez decided for the war , was that him and Mazikeen were definitely going to fight outside the city , as far away from civilization as possible.
The battleline would definitely be outisde the city , as the Hazelgroove forces would meet the Forces of Darkness in the open battlefield and only in dire situation may fall behind the walls.
Emperor Cervantez did not want civilian casualities in the war and wanted to keep the fighting away from the city for as long as possible. But , he understood the strategic advantage the wall brought , especially with the inclusion of the Elven forces that were to arrive , helping on the walls.
Thinking soo , he kept Rudra's True Elites , and First division on the walls , alongside the Elven forces .
Trusting his most capable lieutenant with the most important task , Emperor Cervantez only gave him one single instruction , which was to not let a single enemy behind the walls of Purplehaze city.
Rudra had dejavu as emperor Cervantez gave him this instruction , as it was a flashback for him of the war that had just passed against the triads , where he set the same challenge for himself.
However the difficulty of the job at hand this time was monumentally more difficult than the one he