Chapter 461 - The Price Of Being Greedy

Rudra decided that , he wanted everything . If worse came to worst he could just use blink and teleport to safety. Hence he was not afraid of jumping high and grabbing the gold and other suspended objects.

However , he understood the moment he jumped , that he was f***** , as he did not nearly get enough elevation to even reach halfway to the point where he could touch the object. It was not too far up that Rudra could not jump that high. However the mechanics of the level did not allow him to .

He was about to fall to a miserable death when he barely survived using blink to come to safety. However one more weird thing happened after that , his skill won't reset , as it showed black in his skill screen. Apparently in this level any skill could only be used once and the maximum height one could jump to was predetermined.

This meant that Rudra , karna or even some of the freshmen of the academy could all only jump to the same height unable to reach the objects suspended above.

This made no sense to Rudra , as could not see a method to reach these objects if jumping was not an option.

Just when things seemed impossible , Yua did something funny. She used a long run up to build speed and jumped at the last possible moment before the chasm started . And contrary to what most people expected , she was able to reach really high and grab an object before making her way to the other side!

' YES ! '. Yua exclaimed as she landed on the other side. She was someone who was a big fan of the classic arcade games , and was a super fan of Mario. She understood the game mechanics better than anyone , to jump high one had to use a parabolic path and not a straight jump . However she was too embarrassed to tell everyone that she liked these sorts of games , hence stated the reason to use this method as a hunch.

Once Yua figured the way to jump , the rest was easy . Jhonny , Karna , SMG , Rudra everyone kept grabbing one item , one game coin at a time before landing on the other side.

While the other guild members just focused on crossing over. As they moved forward , Yua guided the team through a series of game mechanics and logics that the others could just not understand. Like how they could break the brick walls above their heads , but not the ones blocking them horizontally.

Most Elites who were born towards the end of the 21 St century found these game mechanics to be dumb. However still with Yua's help , the team massacred tortoises , and used their shells to break through vertical walls , while using their spells to breakthrough horizontal ones.

There were a lot of tunnels and random cannons shooting at them , and seven elites died from either a stray cannon shot . Or falling into a chasm while trying to loot an object.

It was one's own greed that was playing against them in this level , as the difficulty to just move forward once you understood the game mechanics was pretty basic.

Rudra was really impressed with Yua and how she was guiding the group through this peril , which made Naomi puff up in anger . Especially when she saw the b**** using this chance to flatter Rudra and butter upto him.

However in an attempt to please Rudra even more , Yua mistimed her jump and fell straight into a chasm.

The look on her face as she was falling was priceless , while Naomi waved her ' Sayonara ' with a smile.

This was the price of greed that Yua had to pay , as she tried to bite off more than her gamer skills allowed her to chew.

To perfectly time every jump , in an environment that restricted power movement was not for everyone.

The gains the Elites were having from this level were overall phenomenal , however bringing English around was a bad choice. The seven people who died from stray blasts from cannojs were the one's around Jhonny English , as he would simply turn formless and let it pass through.

The badluck of Jhonny was a curse in arcade game style levels , as everything bad seemed to only happen to him. However with his ultimate cheat , he avoided most of his misfortune , as it fell on people around him.

It took the Elites 2 hours to clear the stage , but they made sure to wipe it clean . The total casualties were 15 including Yua , as the party numbers thinned down to 185 after stage two!

Just as the last member crossed the stages boundry flag , the flag went up and fireworks went off in the background and a very catchy tune started to play in the background that made people dance to its beat in joy.

Although it was nothing substantial , one felt a sense of achievement when the music and firecrackers went off.

A dungeon notification followed.

Dungeon notification : Congratulations party ' True Elites ' for completing stage two of the hell mode of the dungeon ' Lottery Of Jackpots '

Total time taken : 2 hours 7 minutes 18 seconds.

Total members to make it : 185

Treasure loot completion : 88%

Total game coins collected : 297

Overall rating : B+

Rewards :

297 10,000 gold

Mario boots ( semi legendary )

Wall breaking hammer ( epic )

Tortoise shell ( epic ) X 25

Lottery spin tickets X 3 !

Rudra raised an eyebrow seeing the result. There was not a single coin in his way that he seemed to have missed , then why was the treasure loot completion only 88% ?

Also the overall rating was just horrible , not by the common standards , but by the Elite standards it was very very bad. But considering that they did not know much about the mechanics of the game and relied solely on yua guiding them , Rudra let it slide this time.

The more important question right now was that who was going to make the lucky spin?

/// Special shoutout to Cervantez91 for the 10,000 coin spacecraft , Magnum for his 5000coin castle and to Omar_alshaikh for 15,000 coin Gachapon!

The bonus chapters will follow soon!

This is a bonus chapter for the 15,000 coin gift that Omar_alshaikh gifted me yesterday night , soo thank him in the comments for this one.

Also I'm proud to say that I'm resuming my work ' Rise of the dragon emperor ' , as new chapters are out now!

But the same book is started in a different way , hence you will need to add it to the library again to read it ///