Post by Wing on Nov 15, 2014 10:07:56 GMT
Chapters in this Volume:
Chapter 1 : Ahreupen’s Empire Sealed Memories
Chapter 2 : A Man’s Journey
Chapter 3 : Wings
Chapter 4 : Architecture of Ahreupen
Chapter 5 : Constituition of Dejected Belief
Chapter 6 : Weed’s Song
Chapter 7 : Morata’s Defense
Chapter 8 : Previous Negotiations
Chapter 9 :
Chapter 10 :
Chapter 11 :
This summary is written by Archmagination2002 and posted here with permission.
Chapter 1 : Ahreupen’s Empire Sealed Memories
Weed starts reading the partially repaired Gehar Von Arpen Emperor’s Seal:
-Enjoy the classic-era Ahreupen Empire Buildings.
Only sculptors can observe and discover new buildings, towns and gender, region of the classical period, etc.
You can build buildings.
Classic-era buildings are very magnificent and are characterized by their elegance and large size. Must have a large population to support.
Construction costs tend to be higher, but the building will have a magic effect in the region to increase fertility.
You can build special buildings.
-Ahreupen Imperial Palace
Construction Cost: 8,000,000 gold
Cannot be copied and only 1 can be built on the continent.
Political Influence extends throughout the entire continent.
Soldiers morale will soar and loyalty will be increased.
Reduces the potential for the nobility to betray you.
Preside over many maids.(Harem heaven.. lol)
Requires a very large territory.
Civil complaints will increase dramatically if you take over farmers fields(not sure on this its says: if you build a field turow nonyina??)
Special Effects: Will dramatically increase city’s development and wandering knights will have a increased chance to swear loyalty. Diplomacy will be improved.
Weed didn’t expect the reward to be Ahreupen buildings and considered the Ahreupen Imperial Palace to be the ultimate luxury.
-Large Coliseum
Construction Cost: 300,000 gold.
Gladiators fight in this area and watching these brave men fight will relieve the citizens of stress.
Admission will increase city revenue.
Prestige will increase if Coliseum is built.
Special Effects: Check with former gladiators. Produce trained Soldiers faster.
-Rock Fort
Construction Cost: 500,000 gold
Can serve as a citadel of the town.
Build in mountains and high cliffs.
Will have essential shops and available housing for troops to stay in.
Based on the terrain it will be blessed with a large number of defensive capabilities.
Can be used as a outpost.
Monster quests, incidences of fighting quests will significantly increase and the byproducts of those quests will significantly increase the market goods.
If the fort falls the safety and reliability of the owner will fall sharply.
Special Effects: Expansion of territory.
-Special Grain Silo
Construction Cost: 40,000 gold.
Very special, large building towering into the sky.
Ahreupen’s Empire was able to able to store very large grain crops by creating multiple layers in the silo.
Can store vast amounts of grain for a long time and underground alcohol and fruit can be stored.
Reduction of starving people and the price of food will be stabilized.
Key to Ahreupen unification of the continent and essential building for safety, economy and increased fertility.
Can cause an city to produce a festival.
Special Effects: Neighboring residents will immigrate since they don’t have to worry about starving.
-Mysterious Fairy Pond
Construction Cost: 1,000 gold
Quiet, small nature pond with flowing water is a clear favorite of Fairy’s.
Once the pond is created you will find the Fairy’s will have a lot of fun playing there, but they will not pull very malicious pranks in most cases and the Fairy’s Queen can give a unexpected gift.
Special Effects: Lot of mysterious events.
-Row of Houses
Construction Costs: 2,000 gold.
Up to 4th floor stone houses. Robust and not easily broken down.
Middle Class houses.
Building them around a lake will make them more attractive.
Increases satisfaction level of people living there and makes them more peaceful.
Special Effects: Will be more immune to natural disasters and will mitigate damage taken.
-Sculptors Cave Complex
Construction Cost: 30,000 gold.
Place for sculptors to gather, learn and develop sculpting techniques.
Will be very helpful to cultivate the culture of a city.
-Castle Ruins
Construction Cost: 70,000 gold.
To build this building culture, arts and technology must be developed evenly.
In the days of Ahreupen Empire it was a special place to live for specters.(not quite sure on the rest of this one building description.)
Spectre likes to play pranks with children even though none are able to play with anymore.
Spectre will significantly reduce the loss of children to monsters.
The building will also facilitate the development of magic.(Supernatural playground for children I guess.)
-Ahreupen Merchant Center
Construction Cost: 25,000 gold
Ahreupen Empire preferred merchants and artists.
Home to the independent free traders.
Good place to rest and store their wagons/coaches.
Will increases bargaining speed and sea movement.(not sure on this)
-Leaning Learning Tower
Construction Costs: 150,000 gold
The Leaning Towers abnormally skewed nature will raise questions.
Affiliated with the elements.
Special Effects: Development of elemental magic will be decided on the natural elements surrounding where its built.
-Leather Goods Exhibition
Construction Costs: 1200 gold.
Increased sales of materials and finished leather.
The Ahreupen empires building styles were very expensive money and material wise with Weed giving them low economic value, especially if constructed poorly.
The Ahreupen Imperial Palace would not be able to be built due to lacking precious metals.
-Imperial Blacksmith Skill from the Ahreupen Empire, weapons and armor has been acquired.
The Ahreupen Empires battles for conquest were constant.
They had to be good at fighting other humans and fighting large monsters.
Despite low skill, padded leather armor with high defense has been learned.(Not sure if he learned more.. its says something about Gisabok Empire and palace articles)
-Sewing Skills from the Ahreupen Empire learned.
Everything from the Emperors Wizard’s Robe down to the royal maids clothes Weed was able to learn.
-Was not able to completely read the memories of the Emperors Seal due to the severe damage that requires the complete restoration of the sculpture.
Weed was upset not being to read the complete memories since the seal is a very old historic item. Weed starts laughing with tears in his eyes thinking about not having enough skill to repair the other remaining sculptures that he needs to decipher and read their memories to complete this S class difficulty.
The old smith/mercenary that was with Weed leaves and then Weed summons his Wyvern’s for the first time in awhile. While the Wyverns fly to him(with Gogol the Gold Man riding on one of them) Weed reminisces about them being his first sculptures he brought to life and how he made them so rough and un-aerodynamic due to being in extreme haste.
The Wyverns land warily in front of him in a line side by side.
Weed asks how are they doing in a small, apologetic tone. The Wyverns immediately try to butter him up with “Master, we have been doing very well. “Master I missed you.”, etc. Weed gently reaches out to pet the face of Wy-1, the representative while in the background the others whisper to each other to be careful.
Weed feeds them a bunch of special food made from the King Hydra and fish. “I love you, Master.” “Thanks”
Weed then starts questioning them on their levels: The Wyverns are lvl 376, Gogol was much stronger due to being a Masterpiece and was lvl 446. Their base was an abandoned mineral mine from Morata and housed a bunch monsters. Gogol proudly tells Weed that he learned magic and so Weed as Gogols master summons his skills:
Sword Mastery: Beginner lvl 9(26%)
Archery Mastery: Intermediate lvl 7(88%)
Fire Control Mastery: Intermediate lvl 4(16%)-Use fire attacks, but use to much and can melt your body.
Elemental Fluidity: Beginner lvl 3(15%)-Heal yourself, but at the potential costs of losing body material.
Jewel Magic: Intermediate lvl 6(69%) Use the magical power hidden in jewels to cast spells. Very fast casting speed, wide range of spells but consumes jewels in the process.
Weed is very pleased with Gogol, but orders him not to use the magic due to it destroying valuable jewels.
One of the wyverns steps up and mentions that there is a developing problem with Morata. Weed asks them whats the problem. They tell him that when they were hunting the surrounding area’s they noticed that the cities and villages surrounding Morata are building huge barracks, conscripting and training soldiers in preparation to attack Morata when Freya’s protection ends. It is something Weed takes very seriously since he has spent over 300,000 gold in Morata.
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Chapter 2 : A Man’s Journey
Ahn(Geomichi) asks the instructors about Hyuns performance. Ahn traveled through many countries when he was young and firmly believes that to master the sword you must not only have knowledge, but must experience that knowledge to truly master the sword.
Most of the instructors stay silent because they know that Ahn has decided it was time for Hyun to travel and they didn’t want to leave the adventures of Royal Road(too busy skirt-chasing) Ahn chooses Jongbeoumah to escort the youngest.(as he likes to call Hyun) Ahn has already had everything prepared and the tickets were for the next day.
Meanwhile Hyun was taking finals at Korea University just before summer vacation was due to start. He was agonizing over the questions due to his desire to not get an F since that was the only grade unacceptable to him(He isn’t really having a problem over knowing the answers.. just his nature rearing its ugly head.)
Hyun is looking forward to finishing this test because summer vacation starts and he can dive full-time into Royal Road, making up for lost time going to school. While he is finishing the test a professor comes in with his assistant, both of them wheeling in carts full of digital camcorders(capable of recording 10 days of continues footage: 240 hours)
The professor asks the class a question about the physics engine in Royal Road and how accurate it is, etc. He then gives summer homework, challenges the class to experience real world challenges and that they must record it. It doesn’t matter what it is as long as its an activity out in the real world. The professor also says its mandatory, failure to do it will result in them not being able to take next semesters class. Hyun is bothered because it directly interferes with his safe graduation plan and his summer Royal Road plans.
The next day the vacation starts and Weed dives fully into Royal Road. Weed is irritated because his Repairing Sculptures skill isn’t good enough to completely repair the Emperors Rainbow Seal and so he is going to have to level it first. Then there is the pending invasion of Morata’s by the other northern towns and thats when he wonders when the Freya Church’s protection actually ends.
He summons the the Military Construction Information Window.
-Morata’s Local Military
Beginner Knights: 10
Average Level: 219
Solders: 1187
Average Level: 45
Loyalty: 98%
Training: 79%
Knight Levels are very low. Strict Discipline is needed to attract wandering Knights.
Morata’s Soldiers loyalty are great, but except for a small number of former soldiers their level is poor and must use vigilantes/polices to supplement forces.
Do not have any Siege Weapons.
City walls are in perfect condition.
Freya’s promised protection ends in 5 days.
Weed visits the Pope Candidate Ron Alves and tries to use his familiarity to extend the protection of the church. After multiple attempts Weed manages to wrangle out a deal where he uses his Freya church contributions to extend the protection. He currently has 13,290 points and for 110 points a day he can extend the protection.(120 days max) Weeds almost cries because he was planning on using his contributions to get weapons and armor.
The next day Lee Hyun packs his bags, holds the camcorder with excitement because he is going to Jeju Island, which he considers the best resort for himself. Lee Hyun puts his passport in his bag and is surprised that he needed to use it while getting on the plane since you only need it when you go overseas. Normally Lee Hyun would have been suspicious, but this was a whole new world of luxury to him and he was too busy enjoying the 1st class service.
Hyun questions about why a deportation procedure for going Jeju Island is needed and the other passengers wonder what he’s talking about since they are going nowhere near Jeju Island. Then Hyun hears the pilot on takeoff announcing the destination of Cairo, Egypt. When he questions the instructor, the instructor lies and says it was cheaper stopping at Cairo instead of taking a nonstop flight to Jeju. The passengers eyes give off a priceless look at this outrageous lie. During the long flight Hyun and the instructor sleep most of the way.
They land at Cairo Airport and a stunned Lee Hyun looks around in disbelief not realizing what was going on. Thats when the instructor Jongbeoumah informs Hyun about Ahn’s orders about him to experience the world to improve his swordsmanship. Hyun naturally asks about the costs.. when told free, he decided not to be angry about it.
Jongbeoumah drags Hyun to a waiting helicopter and they then travel into the Sahara Desert in Northern Afica. After landing Jongbeoumah orders Hyun to drive a jeep(Hyun didn’t gave a drivers license and had only ever driven a motorbike for a chinese delivery job) They then drive throughout North African deserts to small villages handing out medical supplies with the Red Cross jeep. Hyun experiences a world he never knew before.
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Chapter 3 : Wings
Lee Hyun and Jongbeomah leave the Sahara Desert in Africa heading south. They see and experience a bunch of animals from the African Savannah and travel through areas with no roads having to sleep in the jeep at night for safety. They continue to deliver medical supplies to impoverished villages. Lee Hyun reflects on the life he lead in South Korea vs the impoverished people he see’s in Africa and realizes that he had a lot of advantages compared to African children.
Eventually their journey lead them to a large, modern city in the middle of Africa(city is never named). They then tour the large african cities enjoying the modern amenities before deciding it was time to head to Europe by plane. Somehow Hyun and Jongbeomah plane was a military transport plane and Jongbeomah challenged Hyun to be a man.. they were going to parachute out of the plane into France. Of course they do it with Hyun enjoying it immensely.
They rent a penthouse in a luxury hotel in Paris, France. They hotel staff think Hyun and Jongbeomah are gay since they are renting out a penthouse and ordering room service/wine together.
During this trip through Egypt, Sahara Desert, African Savannah’s, African Cities, Skydiving from a military transport plane into France Lee Hyun has been making sure the camera has been recording.(Classmates sure are going to freak out at these videos)
Jongbeomah, Lee Hyun decide to be crazy before leaving Paris, start recording with the camera and jump from their penthouse balcony and activating their parachutes to land on the streets of Paris. They visited a bunch of famous sites.. Place de La Concorde, Versailles, Luxembourg Garden, Bastille Opera.
They then go to the German Autobahn and ride motorcycles, Took a cruise on a motor boat in the Netherlands, went deep sea diving, watched a soccer match in the UK. They even crazily went to a famous surfing beach in the UK during a strong storm and taught themselves how to surf on very large, storm driven waves. It took Lee Hyun a while to master it, but using his extensive martial arts and Royal Road skills to do it.(compared it to riding his wyverns and the drake during the Paralanka conflict)
Continuing on they went to the Alps and learned how to ski, visited the Red Square in Russia and then to a transcontinental train ride from Moscow to China, before finally taking a plane back to South Korea.
Chapter 4 : Architecture of Ahreupen
Lee Hyun returned home after 23 days traveling around Europe. Hayan wasn’t at home so Hyun laid himself down on the floor of his house thinking a bunch of thoughts that all boil down to ‘Home, Sweet Home” All he wanted to do was laze around and enjoy a recreational summer day, but his job awaits.
While Hyun enjoyed his trip, it was the golden age of summer and his other competitors on Royal Road were leveling up, raising their skills and challenging themselves to the fullest. Hyun also thought about the amount of money he earned, how much those 23 days away increased the household debt and felt almost suicidal at the thought. Morata and the Versailles continent on Royal Road must have changed a lot since 23 days=92 days for Royal Road.
Hyun grabs his luggage and dumps it out pouring out a mountain of souvenirs taken from hotels around Europe(towels, toothpaste, soap, shampoo form Xian Hotel, Hilton Hotels, Paris Youth Hostels) along with a large bag for his sister full of French and Italian purses/jewelry. He reminisces on the haggling he had to do for that bag and what a struggle it was to get them cheap. The Pride of South Koreans travelers.. souvenirs.
Hyun then turns on the tv while sorting out the souvenirs to check on Royal Road news.. The Royal Road news is dominated by the Kingdom of Haven vs the Kallamore Kingdom. The Hermes guild was being harshly criticized due to standing aloof from defending their home kingdom, Haven. BardRay then decided to enter into the war.
Apparently BardRay and 12 Hermes guild members defended a supply convoy and broke through the Kallamore Kingdoms blockage/siege of a Haven city. The Hall of Fame video was very popular with a bunch comments praising BardRay. The Hermes Guild had decided to publicly punish BardRay which provoked a very hostile outcry over their actions. BardRays already towering reputation from being the highest level player in Royal Road was being changed into a hero.(I think this was all cynically planned out, since BardRay was the actually leader of Hermes.)
The news next talks about beginner level sewing tips for a bit before segueing into talking about the war that was about to commence in the north for Morata. They mention that the God of War Weed’s reputation was going to fall since they couldn’t conceive of him holding off the size of the army coming. They then cut to a video of just one of the small villages in the north where 1,000 Knights and 2,000 soldiers were training and in the background blacksmiths were forging weapons like crazy.
Lee Hyun shuts off the tv angrily yelling things like “I will teach them not to mess with Morata!” and “HOW DARE YOU!!” Hyun starts resisting violent urges like throwing the remote at the wall, putting his fist through the tv and just generally breaking things. Never will he allow Morata to be taken from him, he spent too much time/money on Morata. Hyun immediately logs onto Royal Road.
Weed summons the Morata Providence Rulers Window while thinking about how much effort he has put into raising Morata correctly without getting anything out of it and now right when he is about to experience the payoff others want to take it from him!
Military: 51 Economy: 989
Culture: 1512 Technology: 338
Urban Development: 121
Sanitation: 41 Police: 65%
Corruption: 3
Reserved Funds: $518,642
Morata is constantly expanding.
For Economic, Cultural and Technology to increase Morata must expand.
Minor commercial corruption, but thanks to the peoples hard working characteristics it isn’t severe.
Weed checks the earnings:
Morata’s Monthly Income:
Resident Taxes: $12,166
Property Tax: $958
Sales Tax: $22,889
Merchant Exchanges:
Merchant/Mercenaries Toll: $3,051
Rent: $6,373
Surplus Mines: $9,230
Surplus Shop: $49,749
Food Sales: $35,461
People are constantly coming north to Morata.
Low tax rates for travelers.
Insufficient skilled craftsman(Blacksmith, Cooking, Sewing, etc)
20,000 people are jobless.
Houses around the central plaza is extremely crowded. Low property tax.
Sales for cheap goods are growing explosively.
Production and merchandise sales are not good with only 9 stores staying open late.
Center of commerce for the Versailles continent if going by percentages.
Importation of low quality cheap stuff, but a very large variety.
Morata’s specialty of fibers/fabrics sell for higher price.
Morata is very attractive for merchants and mercenaries.
Merchants will buy goods from Morata and sell them to the rest of the north.
The central plaza is very cramped and crowded.
Good quality iron ore is being mines and copper and silver mines quality is increasing.
Maylon need to develop more mines.
Pubs and inns making brisk business.
Weapon Shop, Armor Shop, Smithy not doing much business.
Weed starts investing in Morata: $320,00 gold. With a massive investment he gains a 2 month 45% increase in production and the very first thing Weed does is:
-Clears land for farming(gets a 13% increase due to knowledge of Ahreupen Empire techniques)
-Begins a cattle ranch(for Rover i assume)
-3 Miners and workers are dispatched to a dormant mine.
-Investigators are sent to nearby mountain ranges.
Weed builds a Wizards Tower(Magicians Guild) that looked like a upside down icicle for 100,000 gold.
That was when the users found out Weed was back. Realizing that the Tower wouldn’t be enough Weed builds a Spirit House for Earth and Fire for 20,000gold.(Shamans mostly)
Weed builds the Ancient Grain Silo(Ahreupen) and shocks the users because they had never seen anything like that and speculation erupts about it. Weed starts to construct the Fairy Mystical Pond building, but the alarm he set rang signaling that his sister would be back soon so he quickly leaves.
Hayan enters the house noticing that Hyun was back and then there is nice reminiscing about her following Hyun long ago(I think it was during her delinquent period) and him going around debasing himself in front of her teachers apologizing for her behavior.(skipping school and other stuff I think)
That night their was a fusion dish of Korea and Italian made.
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Chapter 5 : Constituition of Dejected Belief
The chapter starts off with Lee Hyun thinking about how he could finally take his true summer vacation and devote himself to Royal Road. He then goes into a monologue due to Hayan dating Zephyr and his complicated feelings of a father/brother about her dating.(There was some lines that could interpreted as him previously threatened/bullied interested boys away from her) In many ways Royal Road would be an escape for Lee Hyun.
The news spreads throughout Royal Road about the Imperial Grain Silo that was built in Morata. Users are speculating that it was a reward from the S Class quest he completed. Unknown to everyone but Weed was the fact that the Emperors class was the Legendary Moonlight Sculptor and also that Weeds class was the LMS too.
Weed summons the Morata’s Providence Rulers Window again and builds:
-Scholarship School(Guess: GT literally says “Herald of the construction of stairs.”)
-Wise man sit down, talk and study at this place.
Increases the city’s intellectual level.
Wizards wisdom will permanently increase by 5.
Will trigger the birth of the Scholarship Guild.
Technology and Culture has risen by 3.
Weed had it built next to the Mobile Portal that connects Morata the Wailing Rivers.
-Astronomical Observatory
-Precise stone building.
You can observe the night sky.
Advance notice of the climate can be helpful in the development of magic.
Discovery of the first constellation will bring good luck.
Morata’s Tarot Portent detects an ominous aura.
Technology has risen by 8.
Stone materials completely exhausted and only wooden building can be built.
-Ahreupen Merchant Center
-Faculties for Merchants.
Enables access to more trade routes and control of prices of goods.
Wealthy merchants will be able to provide special foods.
Active art trade.
-Leather Goods Exhibition
-Special exhibition for the trade of leather goods.
Small leather goods can be traded.
Increases the number of skilled tailors and related industries.
Sewing is increased by 10. Technology rises by 15.
Weed then starts some landscaping were builds a park with plenty of shade and fruit trees, opens a bunch of specialty stores(accessories, theater, jewelry, furniture, winery, chicken and sheep farms) All of them were specially planned by Weed to increases Morata’s economic dominance in some way.
Weed then starts considering Morata’s Square and realizes that it is too crowded. Weed decides to create 4 more plaza’s in a diamond shape surrounding Morata’s Square.
Wyvern Square, Bingryong(Ice Dragon) Plaza, Light Square and Bull Plaza were built at a cost of 40,000 gold each. Roads are made directly connecting them with Weed also designating residential, industrial, commercial zoning area’s. In the end he made Morata 5 times bigger than it was before.
The viewpoint switches to a bunch of reporters heading north to cover the events about to happen. There was a lull in the war between Haven and Kallamore so the biggest event was going to be Conquest of Morata by an alliance of guilds all bent on making Weed taste bitter defeat. CTS Media interviews the Styrene Guild Master who is very confident and shows the world his forces, equipment and timetable. A massive army of over 100,000 people was going to attack Morata as soon as Freya’s protection was lifted.
Weeds companions(Pale, Surka, Zephyr, Romuna, Hwaryeong, Irene, Maylon) discuss the upcoming war and wonder where the missing Mapan was at.
Weed had only 260,000 gold remaining after the expansions. He was going to defend Morata to the last and biting his lip swearing eternal vengeance he proceeded to spend it all.
-Military Camp
Cost: 70,000 Gold
Produces professional infantry and spearman.
Will raise the training level of soldiers.
In order to produce calvary you must build separate kennels.(200,000 Gold required)
Biting his lip Weed drafts 8,000 soldiers which causes complaints from citizens and low morale for the drafted soldiers. They also cost 10 gold per a head and 3 gold a month salary. Weed was feeling a enormous shortness of breath and physical pain/suffering at these expenses.
With the high loyalty/respect the Morata citizens had for Weed he ended up having people volunteer to be soldiers. Also Morata’s high culture ended up having volunteers from surrounding towns join them(ironically they were towns under his enemy’s control)
-160 trained Ferro Infantry volunteer to join.
-197 trained Archers from Teuriban(Styrian Guilds Town) volunteer.
-351 skilled Rangers from the Morata Province offer to join.
In total 2,680 citizens offer to join Weeds army. He accepts them all.
-Morata’s army has increased by 10,680 soldiers
Average Level: 17
Training: 12%
There was only 36 days until Freya’s protection ends.
Weed summons Death Knight Van Hawk, orders him to visit the Kallamore Kingdom and use Weeds 23,000 contribution points to grab 4 Kallamore Knights. He sends him away on 1 of the Wyverns.
Weed appoints Golgol as the Finance Minister, Wailyi deputy tax officer, Wadulyi tax collector, Wasamyi Bureau, Secret Service Waohyui and the special Tax Bureau Wayukyiwa and Chilyireul. Bingryong Minister of War, Phoenix’s deputy ministers of war, Rover Minster of Economics.
In the early morning dawn low level users wearing novice leather rabbit armor enter a nondescript, but heavily guarded shack. Inside is a hidden dungeon, the secret meeting place for the Dejected belief. The secret password “Chwiyiyiyiyiik!” and “Chwek!”
Already 20,000 people have gathered at this dungeon. It is here where Weed is worshipped almost like a god for his many accomplishments.(God of War Weed, building the Pyramid, Grass Porridge, Orc/Undead Legion, Freya statue, etc) The mixture is mainly beginners with scattered high levels.
Currently there are 320,000 users belonging to the Dejected Belief. They usually watch videos of Weed when they meet and currently have started the Kariich Orc video. This meeting is a call to arms to defend Morata, a place many beginners consider a haven due to weed’s economic policy. Dejected is stirred up by the talk of the northern guilds raising tax’s, requiring licenses to hunt if they take mora.(Line here mentioning that Weed was behind the rumors)
In the Orc Village Geomichi is having a date with a Orc user when he receives a whisper from Geomichi130 about the upcoming war against Weed and that it was going to be completely televised. Geomichi decides to leave abruptly apologizing and explaining that he is going to the aid of the ‘youngest’, but smoothly segueing into asking for her phone number. She tells him to just whisper her. The Geomichi’s all decide to join Weed and enter the battle.. excited at the prospect of war.
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Chapter 6 : Weed’s Song
-Church of Freya’s protection of Morata has ended.
The Styrene Guild(plus the other guilds) had already marched into the plains near Morata and they were waiting for the protection to end. The Northern Alliance(as the combined army was called) consisted of over 128,000 people with 90,000 being NPC units. They were well equipped and trained with swords, bows, shields, etc. At the forefront of the army were siege weapons and 40 special units(it says dogs, but I don’t think thats literal.. maybe siege towers?)
The Guild Masters were very careful to pay attention to the morale of the NPC troops telling them that looting was allowed, that the future(Tarot prediction) of Morata showed it was going to fall, etc. Morata was only 8 hours away by the army’s march.
KMC Media, CTS Media, CHN had stationed reporters to watch the battle unfold and the internet forums were ablaze with posts. Most of them were saying Weed didn’t stand a chance because he was facing the largest army ever assembled by the users and had never experienced a war like this. The other side countered with Weed’s Orc/Dark Elf experience. The war had already started on the internet.
The Northern Alliance Guilds were very cautious of Weed because even though he was just one man, he was still the God of War, Weed. The Northern Alliance advances to just outside Morata and spots the 11,867 man army of Weed.
The Alliance is very happy because they assumed Weed would have his army hunkered down behind the walls and thats the reason why they brought siege weapons. The Northern Alliance hurries forward, confident in its victory. They then spot that the gates of Morata were wide open, they decide to charge for the gates leaving caution to the winds and ignoring Morata’s army.
Riding out of the gates in an unstoppable charge are a group of Kallamore Knights, each between lvl350-450! The Northern Alliance is completely caught flat-footed and the mages/wizards desperately unleash large AOE spells to stop the Kallamore Knights. Under the command of their leader the Knights split up into 3 groups of 50 just before the spells hit. Lighting Thunders! The Earth Shakes! The Flames Roar! The aftermath destroys the surrounding area and craters the road, but the 150 Kallamore Knights are unscathed.
The Knights plate armor absorbed most of the damage and Weeds trick with Freya’s Blessing did the rest.(The trick is once every season the ruler can pray to Freya and get a special blessing for his forces in combat) The Kallamore Knights continue to run roughshod over the army and once again the mages attack, this time with their best spells. The magic attacks rains down, but instead killing their own side since the Kallamore Knights were right in the middle of the Northern Alliance Army leadership,(Most of the Wizards were lvl250-300 and they leveled up 4 times because they killed a bunch of their own high level leaders, getting 350 infamy in the process)
The Kallamore Knights did not die, activating magics from their armor and continued to cause havoc. The Northern Alliance chain of command managed to recover and decided to focus on using their numbers to attack Morata.
That is when the Dejected came out of the gates of Morata, mainly full of beginners lvl30 to 50, trained by the Geomichi’s on the scarecrows. They kept coming in a seemingly endless stream.. all 1.2 million of them attacked the Northern Alliance!! Though barely able to scratch their enemy’s, with screams of “Dejected! Dejected!” they advanced in a endless horde.
Arrows rained down from newbie archers, newbie priests strengthen the other newbies, newbie Wizards rained down spells with abandon, Elementalist’s summoned fire and made the earth shake. The users of the Northern Alliance fought while swearing at the newbies. They were barely a threat to them, but you swatted 1 down and 60 others took their place!!
Mixed in among the Dejected users were high level players, mainly Geomichi’s who were using the sheer numbers to as cover and were just slaughtering the enemy.(The Geomichi’s were scolding the enemy users as they did it because the enemy was just spamming skills and leaving themselves wide open)
Pale, Surka, Zephyr, Romuna, Hwaryeong, Irene, Maylon are also fighting. Hwaryeong is making the enemy users paralyzed and the rest are killing them. Maylon is the KMC Reporter for the war and is broadcasting while fighting in the battle.
Morata’s 11,860 army decides to make a move and join the battle. Just before they join in the attack Bingryong releases a Dragon Roar causing the Northern Alliances Army to shake with the peerless might of the dragon. Flying above the battlefield comes Bingryong, Weed on top and in convoy formation the Wyverns and Pheonix’s. Some of the Alliance users start questioning if they could win against Weed.
Weed looks down upon the battlefield, greedily eyeing Alliances equipment and mentally calculating the cost. Weed grins wickedly because everything was going to plan, exhaust the enemy’s army and drain their wizards mana. Weed takes out his harp, begins to play and sing. The song is awful, truly awful. Thats when Weeds releases his wild cards.
King Hydra sculpture Lvl429, Black Wyrm sculpture lvl441 were created and brought to life by Weed. They are Weed’s wild cards because despite having high levels of charisma, leadership they were violent and wont listen to him on the battlefield.
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Chapter 7 : Morata’s Defense
Waiting in Mora, by the Statue of Freya were the King Hydra and Black Wyrm statues. They were barely being restrained by Weed’s orders with the Hydra eyeing the Northern Alliance with extreme hunger and the Black Wyrm disdaining his enemy’s as being weak. When Weed appeared and sang his song, the patience of the statues snapped and they attacked.
The King Hydra walked across the lake and a Northern Alliance user was eaten in one gulp. The Black Wyrm fired out powerful flame magic to roast the enemy’s. While based off of legendary boss monsters, the statues were at a much lower level and didn’t have the monsters specialty(The King Hydra statue didn’t have the infinite regeneration for example) which was the reason why Weed waited until the enemy was exhausted to reveal them. In the brief minute since they had joined the attack the Hydra had eaten 12 users and the Black Wyrm had roasted over a 100 users.
The Northern Alliance’s user’s began using their most powerful attack, but they were focused more on defeating Weed than trying win the battle now. Magical Attacks thundered at Weed, powerful Knights used their best long range attacks on Weed and Archers fired flights of arrows after him. They didn’t care about the outcome of the battle, they only wanted the glory of defeating Weed.
On Weed’s orders the Phoenix’s intercepted the attacks with the fire magics healing them, but the rest damaging them. Attack after attack hit them and when their hp hit 24% Weed acted.(The wyverns/ice dragon/Gogol make comments about having nice juniors with none of them volunteering to help the Phoenix’s.) Weed orders all the statues not to die and then sends them all into battle. King Hydra and Black Wyrm have now killed over 300 users.
The Pheonix’s attack first, making it rain flames on the battlefield and leaving fire trails in a straight line.
The Wyvern’s attack with Gogol on one of their backs.
Weed orders Bingryong not to attack, but to watch over the other statues and prevent them from dying.
Weed then jumps off of Bingryong’s into the battlefield. Weed deliberately lands on a dwarf user, using him as a cushion. Weed casually finish’s off the dwarf and then activates his ring, starts using the Heraim Sword skills on his enemy’s. Weed had deliberately aimed for his enemy’s center, where no allies were at.
Weed ran through the battlefield madly, identifying users with the most valuable equipments and using the Heraim skills to kill and loot them. Using his blacksmithing knowledge and swordsmanship Weed was able to target the most vulnerable area’s of the enemy and one shot them, scoop up the users loot and dash forward with the skill still active to attack another user with valuable items. The Heraim Sword skills allowed up to 8 attacks and Weed used every one of them and then re-ran the skills over and over again.
Weed pauses to summon Death Knight Van Hawk to make sure that the momentum of his surprise attack on the Northern Alliance continues. The Northern Alliance users start swarming at Weed, but his attacks continue unabated. Weed uses Sculpture Destruction to make himself even more unstoppable. Weed kills 25 users before high level 340+ users appear to attack him and for the 1st time Weed doesn’t manage to one shot an enemy. Weed kills 3 knights, each over lvl340. The other high level knights quickly back away since it only took Weed 7 attacks to kill 3 of them. While they back away Weed is quickly gathering all of the loot dropped by the 3 knights.
While Weed was attacking the center of the army, the enemy mages/wizards were busy gathering mana to attack him. Weed laments over giving the Wings of Light to Gogol to use and instead he decides to use his Moonlight Blade ability to create a rainbow colored shield against magic. For the first time Weed feels that he may die and have to come back as an undead since the Moonlight Sculpture skills are still low. Weed uses Cold Eyes and Death Knight Van Hawk runs over with a shield saying he will save the master. The storm of magics strikes the area.
Chapter 8 : Previous Negotiations
The earth shoots into the air and heaves with chain explosions, ice pillars shooting out of the ground, collapsing and repeating over and over again. When the dust settles the only things standing in the ravaged lands were Weed and Death Knight Van Hawk.
10,002 Northern Alliance high level users died in the explosion. Thanks to Weeds Moonlight Blade defense he managed to redirect some of the magical attacks to the surrounding area. Due to all the magic spells different elemental properties they managed to weaken themselves, but even then it was close to a miracle that Weed and his Death Knight survived.
The durability of the Ancient Shield went down 25 points leaving it at 261(Weed cries about it saying he would have rather died than have it drop that much) and Weeds prized Talrok armor was so badly damaged that it was about to break. Weed has 33% health remaining and 46% mana.
Weed begins gathering the loot from the Northern Alliances who died and begins his Heraim Sword skills assault again. Weed was being watched with envy and with no exaggeration he could be called the hero of this battlefield. The Northern Alliance starts pleading with their remaining commanders to surrender, but the commanders refuse to back down because they would lose everything.
With the Geomichi trained beginners messing with the enemy and with King Hydra, Black Wyrm, Pheonix’s, Bingryong, Wyverns, Gogol deadly surprise assaults the Northern Alliance army was starting to collapse. Starting slowly, but spreading fast the Northern Alliance soldiers started surrendering. The cry of victory started to be called by Mora’s defenders.
The Northern Alliance army surrenders to Weed.
The media experts are shocked that Weed not only managed to defeat the Northern Alliance army, but managed to do it in a single battle without damaging the city of Mora very much. CHN, CTS media stations were all predicting that Weed would lose with only KMC saying that he could win.(It was due to the KMC Director being a huge fan and didn’t want to lose his cash cow)
The breakdown of the battle begins by the media with them wondering how Weed managed to have the Kallamore Knights on his side. They were shocked at how Weed used the beginners as a smoke screen to hide his strong units among them and they also dissected Weeds strategy of using the mages/wizards magic against their own allies.(Interspaced between all this is users comments on the message boards) The message boards start erupting with speculation about how the north was going to change with the outcome of this battle.
Weeds message window dinged at the surrender of the enemy.
-Enemy has surrendered.
-Morata’s people have become more loyal. +3 Loyalty.
-Morata military and political influence will increase. +15.
-Crime is disappearing. Cattle raiders attacks on the herds is reduced.
Policing rises 13%.
Consumption will rise temporarily in Mora. The people will not spare money to celebrate this victory.
Mora’s victory celebrations will begin voluntary.
-Guilds will begin production of souvenirs to celebrate the victory. 5000 gold will be used. Bards will sing about the war and a music competition will be held with a prize of 4500 gold
-Mora’s Fame on the continent will rise. +75.
Morata’s current reputation is: 469
With higher national/regional reputation the value of produce, trades, quests, etc will increase in value.
With a higher reputation users will get higher prestige when completing quests.
Merchants trading in distant area’s will get better bargains.
-Increase in reputation of local Mora specialties.
-Mora’s fiber and textiles reputation will increase, Church of Freya’s blessing and the fertile agricultural fields with increase the local specialties.
-Mora could become famous for their wine if they have more wineries.
-Mora will have a specialty with production of superior cattle.
-89 Teuriban villagers migrate to Mora.
-85 Noroma villagers migrate to Mora.
-3.600 people migrate to Mora to be closer to the Statue of Freya.(Not quite sure if correct. it could be 3,600 people are praying for 24 hours to the Statue in thanks for the victory.)
-Migration of skilled craftsman to Mora(blacksmith’s, etc)
The Northern Alliances towns are all messed up right now due the their defeat.. they have people abandoning them in fear of what Mora will do. It was mainly due to them neglecting raising culture because part of having high culture is the belief in ones leaders. Since their belief was low…
70,000 were taken prisoners and only 14,000 of them were users. it was time for the surrender negotiations. The Styrene Guild started it off. They started with flattery. Weed was unmoved thinking is this it? Styrene continued on trying to exaggerate how much damage had been done to their towns so they could get a better hostage price. After a long speech(with the other Northern Alliances representatives nodding in agreement on each point) it was Weeds turn.
Weed quickly went straight to the point and wanted monetary compensation.(The grudge for making him use 360,00 gold is strong) Then Weed summons Mapan to begin the money negotiations. Mapan begins extolling everything that Weed has done to open up the north.
Mapan then starts off with 900 gold for every user, 200 gold for every NPC and the repair of all damages.(23,800,000 in gold minimum.. ROFL!!) The Northern Alliances is outraged, even cutting it in half they wouldn’t be able to pay it. They argue with Mapan and eventually they began trying to negotiate a payment plan.
Weed then interrupts the negotiations(Horrifying Mapan who was about to make a killing) Weed knows that this wouldn’t actually solve the problem(Think Germany WWI and the huge monetary compensation they had to pay that led to WWII) and was using the money as a leverage for what he really wanted.
Weed dismisses all money claims and immediately free’s all the prisoners. He then promises that Mora will never invade any other town(He knows he wont have to, with his plan Mora’s culture will eventually expand and naturally assimilate the neighboring towns/villiages)
Weed instead wants commercial exchanges.
Weed asks the Northern Alliances if they are aware that Mora was a beginner town. Weed wants them to supply Mora with all the resources necessary for beginners which would instantly make their struggling villages prosperous. The North Alliances ask why would Weed do this, whats his goal.
Weed talks about how the central part of the continent was taking advantage of the north and gouging the beginner users with high prices. He wants to change all that. He says in exchange for the resources/alliance the church of freya will be able to send out wandering ministers to administer to their towns.
Weed talks about sending out the artists classes to raise the culture of the towns/villages. The Northern Alliances questions him on why he would raise their culture, weakening Mora’s culture.(Weed saw what happened with Rhodeium and just now created a huge market for his artists) Weed talks about how the novice artists class in Mora wouldn’t be able to grow and increase their skills properly unless they traveled and experienced the world. With a pretty speech at the end Weed managed to win them over. Both sides start celebrating Weed’s generosity.
Mapan and the rest of the group(Pale, Romuna, etc) each suffered a series of shocks, wondering what was wrong with Weed. Only Zephyr realized what Weed had done.
The Northern cities/towns/villages were required to sell their goods in Mora and Mora would gain tax revenue.
Imported goods from the center of the continent will go to Mora, making Mora the economic hub of the North.
The threat of war from the northern towns would be gone. The abandoned/new mines would be developed, increasing technology and sales of good.
The peace settlement would accelerate the development of the North.
The continuous tension and anxiety caused by Mora control of the beginners of the North would cease to exist.
The trade and growth in the northern towns will heavily increase.
It would make the whole north economically dependent on Mora.
Zephyr looked at Weed with a newfound respect.
The festival celebration for victory begins with even the Northern Alliance users joining in. Since the festival was unavoidable and cost 50,000 gold Weed secretly increased tax’s by 2% for the 2 days the festival would run.
Chapter 1 : Ahreupen’s Empire Sealed Memories
Chapter 2 : A Man’s Journey
Chapter 3 : Wings
Chapter 4 : Architecture of Ahreupen
Chapter 5 : Constituition of Dejected Belief
Chapter 6 : Weed’s Song
Chapter 7 : Morata’s Defense
Chapter 8 : Previous Negotiations
Chapter 9 :
Chapter 10 :
Chapter 11 :
This summary is written by Archmagination2002 and posted here with permission.
Chapter 1 : Ahreupen’s Empire Sealed Memories
Weed starts reading the partially repaired Gehar Von Arpen Emperor’s Seal:
-Enjoy the classic-era Ahreupen Empire Buildings.
Only sculptors can observe and discover new buildings, towns and gender, region of the classical period, etc.
You can build buildings.
Classic-era buildings are very magnificent and are characterized by their elegance and large size. Must have a large population to support.
Construction costs tend to be higher, but the building will have a magic effect in the region to increase fertility.
You can build special buildings.
-Ahreupen Imperial Palace
Construction Cost: 8,000,000 gold
Cannot be copied and only 1 can be built on the continent.
Political Influence extends throughout the entire continent.
Soldiers morale will soar and loyalty will be increased.
Reduces the potential for the nobility to betray you.
Preside over many maids.(Harem heaven.. lol)
Requires a very large territory.
Civil complaints will increase dramatically if you take over farmers fields(not sure on this its says: if you build a field turow nonyina??)
Special Effects: Will dramatically increase city’s development and wandering knights will have a increased chance to swear loyalty. Diplomacy will be improved.
Weed didn’t expect the reward to be Ahreupen buildings and considered the Ahreupen Imperial Palace to be the ultimate luxury.
-Large Coliseum
Construction Cost: 300,000 gold.
Gladiators fight in this area and watching these brave men fight will relieve the citizens of stress.
Admission will increase city revenue.
Prestige will increase if Coliseum is built.
Special Effects: Check with former gladiators. Produce trained Soldiers faster.
-Rock Fort
Construction Cost: 500,000 gold
Can serve as a citadel of the town.
Build in mountains and high cliffs.
Will have essential shops and available housing for troops to stay in.
Based on the terrain it will be blessed with a large number of defensive capabilities.
Can be used as a outpost.
Monster quests, incidences of fighting quests will significantly increase and the byproducts of those quests will significantly increase the market goods.
If the fort falls the safety and reliability of the owner will fall sharply.
Special Effects: Expansion of territory.
-Special Grain Silo
Construction Cost: 40,000 gold.
Very special, large building towering into the sky.
Ahreupen’s Empire was able to able to store very large grain crops by creating multiple layers in the silo.
Can store vast amounts of grain for a long time and underground alcohol and fruit can be stored.
Reduction of starving people and the price of food will be stabilized.
Key to Ahreupen unification of the continent and essential building for safety, economy and increased fertility.
Can cause an city to produce a festival.
Special Effects: Neighboring residents will immigrate since they don’t have to worry about starving.
-Mysterious Fairy Pond
Construction Cost: 1,000 gold
Quiet, small nature pond with flowing water is a clear favorite of Fairy’s.
Once the pond is created you will find the Fairy’s will have a lot of fun playing there, but they will not pull very malicious pranks in most cases and the Fairy’s Queen can give a unexpected gift.
Special Effects: Lot of mysterious events.
-Row of Houses
Construction Costs: 2,000 gold.
Up to 4th floor stone houses. Robust and not easily broken down.
Middle Class houses.
Building them around a lake will make them more attractive.
Increases satisfaction level of people living there and makes them more peaceful.
Special Effects: Will be more immune to natural disasters and will mitigate damage taken.
-Sculptors Cave Complex
Construction Cost: 30,000 gold.
Place for sculptors to gather, learn and develop sculpting techniques.
Will be very helpful to cultivate the culture of a city.
-Castle Ruins
Construction Cost: 70,000 gold.
To build this building culture, arts and technology must be developed evenly.
In the days of Ahreupen Empire it was a special place to live for specters.(not quite sure on the rest of this one building description.)
Spectre likes to play pranks with children even though none are able to play with anymore.
Spectre will significantly reduce the loss of children to monsters.
The building will also facilitate the development of magic.(Supernatural playground for children I guess.)
-Ahreupen Merchant Center
Construction Cost: 25,000 gold
Ahreupen Empire preferred merchants and artists.
Home to the independent free traders.
Good place to rest and store their wagons/coaches.
Will increases bargaining speed and sea movement.(not sure on this)
-Leaning Learning Tower
Construction Costs: 150,000 gold
The Leaning Towers abnormally skewed nature will raise questions.
Affiliated with the elements.
Special Effects: Development of elemental magic will be decided on the natural elements surrounding where its built.
-Leather Goods Exhibition
Construction Costs: 1200 gold.
Increased sales of materials and finished leather.
The Ahreupen empires building styles were very expensive money and material wise with Weed giving them low economic value, especially if constructed poorly.
The Ahreupen Imperial Palace would not be able to be built due to lacking precious metals.
-Imperial Blacksmith Skill from the Ahreupen Empire, weapons and armor has been acquired.
The Ahreupen Empires battles for conquest were constant.
They had to be good at fighting other humans and fighting large monsters.
Despite low skill, padded leather armor with high defense has been learned.(Not sure if he learned more.. its says something about Gisabok Empire and palace articles)
-Sewing Skills from the Ahreupen Empire learned.
Everything from the Emperors Wizard’s Robe down to the royal maids clothes Weed was able to learn.
-Was not able to completely read the memories of the Emperors Seal due to the severe damage that requires the complete restoration of the sculpture.
Weed was upset not being to read the complete memories since the seal is a very old historic item. Weed starts laughing with tears in his eyes thinking about not having enough skill to repair the other remaining sculptures that he needs to decipher and read their memories to complete this S class difficulty.
The old smith/mercenary that was with Weed leaves and then Weed summons his Wyvern’s for the first time in awhile. While the Wyverns fly to him(with Gogol the Gold Man riding on one of them) Weed reminisces about them being his first sculptures he brought to life and how he made them so rough and un-aerodynamic due to being in extreme haste.
The Wyverns land warily in front of him in a line side by side.
Weed asks how are they doing in a small, apologetic tone. The Wyverns immediately try to butter him up with “Master, we have been doing very well. “Master I missed you.”, etc. Weed gently reaches out to pet the face of Wy-1, the representative while in the background the others whisper to each other to be careful.
Weed feeds them a bunch of special food made from the King Hydra and fish. “I love you, Master.” “Thanks”
Weed then starts questioning them on their levels: The Wyverns are lvl 376, Gogol was much stronger due to being a Masterpiece and was lvl 446. Their base was an abandoned mineral mine from Morata and housed a bunch monsters. Gogol proudly tells Weed that he learned magic and so Weed as Gogols master summons his skills:
Sword Mastery: Beginner lvl 9(26%)
Archery Mastery: Intermediate lvl 7(88%)
Fire Control Mastery: Intermediate lvl 4(16%)-Use fire attacks, but use to much and can melt your body.
Elemental Fluidity: Beginner lvl 3(15%)-Heal yourself, but at the potential costs of losing body material.
Jewel Magic: Intermediate lvl 6(69%) Use the magical power hidden in jewels to cast spells. Very fast casting speed, wide range of spells but consumes jewels in the process.
Weed is very pleased with Gogol, but orders him not to use the magic due to it destroying valuable jewels.
One of the wyverns steps up and mentions that there is a developing problem with Morata. Weed asks them whats the problem. They tell him that when they were hunting the surrounding area’s they noticed that the cities and villages surrounding Morata are building huge barracks, conscripting and training soldiers in preparation to attack Morata when Freya’s protection ends. It is something Weed takes very seriously since he has spent over 300,000 gold in Morata.
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Chapter 2 : A Man’s Journey
Ahn(Geomichi) asks the instructors about Hyuns performance. Ahn traveled through many countries when he was young and firmly believes that to master the sword you must not only have knowledge, but must experience that knowledge to truly master the sword.
Most of the instructors stay silent because they know that Ahn has decided it was time for Hyun to travel and they didn’t want to leave the adventures of Royal Road(too busy skirt-chasing) Ahn chooses Jongbeoumah to escort the youngest.(as he likes to call Hyun) Ahn has already had everything prepared and the tickets were for the next day.
Meanwhile Hyun was taking finals at Korea University just before summer vacation was due to start. He was agonizing over the questions due to his desire to not get an F since that was the only grade unacceptable to him(He isn’t really having a problem over knowing the answers.. just his nature rearing its ugly head.)
Hyun is looking forward to finishing this test because summer vacation starts and he can dive full-time into Royal Road, making up for lost time going to school. While he is finishing the test a professor comes in with his assistant, both of them wheeling in carts full of digital camcorders(capable of recording 10 days of continues footage: 240 hours)
The professor asks the class a question about the physics engine in Royal Road and how accurate it is, etc. He then gives summer homework, challenges the class to experience real world challenges and that they must record it. It doesn’t matter what it is as long as its an activity out in the real world. The professor also says its mandatory, failure to do it will result in them not being able to take next semesters class. Hyun is bothered because it directly interferes with his safe graduation plan and his summer Royal Road plans.
The next day the vacation starts and Weed dives fully into Royal Road. Weed is irritated because his Repairing Sculptures skill isn’t good enough to completely repair the Emperors Rainbow Seal and so he is going to have to level it first. Then there is the pending invasion of Morata’s by the other northern towns and thats when he wonders when the Freya Church’s protection actually ends.
He summons the the Military Construction Information Window.
-Morata’s Local Military
Beginner Knights: 10
Average Level: 219
Solders: 1187
Average Level: 45
Loyalty: 98%
Training: 79%
Knight Levels are very low. Strict Discipline is needed to attract wandering Knights.
Morata’s Soldiers loyalty are great, but except for a small number of former soldiers their level is poor and must use vigilantes/polices to supplement forces.
Do not have any Siege Weapons.
City walls are in perfect condition.
Freya’s promised protection ends in 5 days.
Weed visits the Pope Candidate Ron Alves and tries to use his familiarity to extend the protection of the church. After multiple attempts Weed manages to wrangle out a deal where he uses his Freya church contributions to extend the protection. He currently has 13,290 points and for 110 points a day he can extend the protection.(120 days max) Weeds almost cries because he was planning on using his contributions to get weapons and armor.
The next day Lee Hyun packs his bags, holds the camcorder with excitement because he is going to Jeju Island, which he considers the best resort for himself. Lee Hyun puts his passport in his bag and is surprised that he needed to use it while getting on the plane since you only need it when you go overseas. Normally Lee Hyun would have been suspicious, but this was a whole new world of luxury to him and he was too busy enjoying the 1st class service.
Hyun questions about why a deportation procedure for going Jeju Island is needed and the other passengers wonder what he’s talking about since they are going nowhere near Jeju Island. Then Hyun hears the pilot on takeoff announcing the destination of Cairo, Egypt. When he questions the instructor, the instructor lies and says it was cheaper stopping at Cairo instead of taking a nonstop flight to Jeju. The passengers eyes give off a priceless look at this outrageous lie. During the long flight Hyun and the instructor sleep most of the way.
They land at Cairo Airport and a stunned Lee Hyun looks around in disbelief not realizing what was going on. Thats when the instructor Jongbeoumah informs Hyun about Ahn’s orders about him to experience the world to improve his swordsmanship. Hyun naturally asks about the costs.. when told free, he decided not to be angry about it.
Jongbeoumah drags Hyun to a waiting helicopter and they then travel into the Sahara Desert in Northern Afica. After landing Jongbeoumah orders Hyun to drive a jeep(Hyun didn’t gave a drivers license and had only ever driven a motorbike for a chinese delivery job) They then drive throughout North African deserts to small villages handing out medical supplies with the Red Cross jeep. Hyun experiences a world he never knew before.
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Chapter 3 : Wings
Lee Hyun and Jongbeomah leave the Sahara Desert in Africa heading south. They see and experience a bunch of animals from the African Savannah and travel through areas with no roads having to sleep in the jeep at night for safety. They continue to deliver medical supplies to impoverished villages. Lee Hyun reflects on the life he lead in South Korea vs the impoverished people he see’s in Africa and realizes that he had a lot of advantages compared to African children.
Eventually their journey lead them to a large, modern city in the middle of Africa(city is never named). They then tour the large african cities enjoying the modern amenities before deciding it was time to head to Europe by plane. Somehow Hyun and Jongbeomah plane was a military transport plane and Jongbeomah challenged Hyun to be a man.. they were going to parachute out of the plane into France. Of course they do it with Hyun enjoying it immensely.
They rent a penthouse in a luxury hotel in Paris, France. They hotel staff think Hyun and Jongbeomah are gay since they are renting out a penthouse and ordering room service/wine together.
During this trip through Egypt, Sahara Desert, African Savannah’s, African Cities, Skydiving from a military transport plane into France Lee Hyun has been making sure the camera has been recording.(Classmates sure are going to freak out at these videos)
Jongbeomah, Lee Hyun decide to be crazy before leaving Paris, start recording with the camera and jump from their penthouse balcony and activating their parachutes to land on the streets of Paris. They visited a bunch of famous sites.. Place de La Concorde, Versailles, Luxembourg Garden, Bastille Opera.
They then go to the German Autobahn and ride motorcycles, Took a cruise on a motor boat in the Netherlands, went deep sea diving, watched a soccer match in the UK. They even crazily went to a famous surfing beach in the UK during a strong storm and taught themselves how to surf on very large, storm driven waves. It took Lee Hyun a while to master it, but using his extensive martial arts and Royal Road skills to do it.(compared it to riding his wyverns and the drake during the Paralanka conflict)
Continuing on they went to the Alps and learned how to ski, visited the Red Square in Russia and then to a transcontinental train ride from Moscow to China, before finally taking a plane back to South Korea.
Chapter 4 : Architecture of Ahreupen
Lee Hyun returned home after 23 days traveling around Europe. Hayan wasn’t at home so Hyun laid himself down on the floor of his house thinking a bunch of thoughts that all boil down to ‘Home, Sweet Home” All he wanted to do was laze around and enjoy a recreational summer day, but his job awaits.
While Hyun enjoyed his trip, it was the golden age of summer and his other competitors on Royal Road were leveling up, raising their skills and challenging themselves to the fullest. Hyun also thought about the amount of money he earned, how much those 23 days away increased the household debt and felt almost suicidal at the thought. Morata and the Versailles continent on Royal Road must have changed a lot since 23 days=92 days for Royal Road.
Hyun grabs his luggage and dumps it out pouring out a mountain of souvenirs taken from hotels around Europe(towels, toothpaste, soap, shampoo form Xian Hotel, Hilton Hotels, Paris Youth Hostels) along with a large bag for his sister full of French and Italian purses/jewelry. He reminisces on the haggling he had to do for that bag and what a struggle it was to get them cheap. The Pride of South Koreans travelers.. souvenirs.
Hyun then turns on the tv while sorting out the souvenirs to check on Royal Road news.. The Royal Road news is dominated by the Kingdom of Haven vs the Kallamore Kingdom. The Hermes guild was being harshly criticized due to standing aloof from defending their home kingdom, Haven. BardRay then decided to enter into the war.
Apparently BardRay and 12 Hermes guild members defended a supply convoy and broke through the Kallamore Kingdoms blockage/siege of a Haven city. The Hall of Fame video was very popular with a bunch comments praising BardRay. The Hermes Guild had decided to publicly punish BardRay which provoked a very hostile outcry over their actions. BardRays already towering reputation from being the highest level player in Royal Road was being changed into a hero.(I think this was all cynically planned out, since BardRay was the actually leader of Hermes.)
The news next talks about beginner level sewing tips for a bit before segueing into talking about the war that was about to commence in the north for Morata. They mention that the God of War Weed’s reputation was going to fall since they couldn’t conceive of him holding off the size of the army coming. They then cut to a video of just one of the small villages in the north where 1,000 Knights and 2,000 soldiers were training and in the background blacksmiths were forging weapons like crazy.
Lee Hyun shuts off the tv angrily yelling things like “I will teach them not to mess with Morata!” and “HOW DARE YOU!!” Hyun starts resisting violent urges like throwing the remote at the wall, putting his fist through the tv and just generally breaking things. Never will he allow Morata to be taken from him, he spent too much time/money on Morata. Hyun immediately logs onto Royal Road.
Weed summons the Morata Providence Rulers Window while thinking about how much effort he has put into raising Morata correctly without getting anything out of it and now right when he is about to experience the payoff others want to take it from him!
Military: 51 Economy: 989
Culture: 1512 Technology: 338
Urban Development: 121
Sanitation: 41 Police: 65%
Corruption: 3
Reserved Funds: $518,642
Morata is constantly expanding.
For Economic, Cultural and Technology to increase Morata must expand.
Minor commercial corruption, but thanks to the peoples hard working characteristics it isn’t severe.
Weed checks the earnings:
Morata’s Monthly Income:
Resident Taxes: $12,166
Property Tax: $958
Sales Tax: $22,889
Merchant Exchanges:
Merchant/Mercenaries Toll: $3,051
Rent: $6,373
Surplus Mines: $9,230
Surplus Shop: $49,749
Food Sales: $35,461
People are constantly coming north to Morata.
Low tax rates for travelers.
Insufficient skilled craftsman(Blacksmith, Cooking, Sewing, etc)
20,000 people are jobless.
Houses around the central plaza is extremely crowded. Low property tax.
Sales for cheap goods are growing explosively.
Production and merchandise sales are not good with only 9 stores staying open late.
Center of commerce for the Versailles continent if going by percentages.
Importation of low quality cheap stuff, but a very large variety.
Morata’s specialty of fibers/fabrics sell for higher price.
Morata is very attractive for merchants and mercenaries.
Merchants will buy goods from Morata and sell them to the rest of the north.
The central plaza is very cramped and crowded.
Good quality iron ore is being mines and copper and silver mines quality is increasing.
Maylon need to develop more mines.
Pubs and inns making brisk business.
Weapon Shop, Armor Shop, Smithy not doing much business.
Weed starts investing in Morata: $320,00 gold. With a massive investment he gains a 2 month 45% increase in production and the very first thing Weed does is:
-Clears land for farming(gets a 13% increase due to knowledge of Ahreupen Empire techniques)
-Begins a cattle ranch(for Rover i assume)
-3 Miners and workers are dispatched to a dormant mine.
-Investigators are sent to nearby mountain ranges.
Weed builds a Wizards Tower(Magicians Guild) that looked like a upside down icicle for 100,000 gold.
That was when the users found out Weed was back. Realizing that the Tower wouldn’t be enough Weed builds a Spirit House for Earth and Fire for 20,000gold.(Shamans mostly)
Weed builds the Ancient Grain Silo(Ahreupen) and shocks the users because they had never seen anything like that and speculation erupts about it. Weed starts to construct the Fairy Mystical Pond building, but the alarm he set rang signaling that his sister would be back soon so he quickly leaves.
Hayan enters the house noticing that Hyun was back and then there is nice reminiscing about her following Hyun long ago(I think it was during her delinquent period) and him going around debasing himself in front of her teachers apologizing for her behavior.(skipping school and other stuff I think)
That night their was a fusion dish of Korea and Italian made.
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Chapter 5 : Constituition of Dejected Belief
The chapter starts off with Lee Hyun thinking about how he could finally take his true summer vacation and devote himself to Royal Road. He then goes into a monologue due to Hayan dating Zephyr and his complicated feelings of a father/brother about her dating.(There was some lines that could interpreted as him previously threatened/bullied interested boys away from her) In many ways Royal Road would be an escape for Lee Hyun.
The news spreads throughout Royal Road about the Imperial Grain Silo that was built in Morata. Users are speculating that it was a reward from the S Class quest he completed. Unknown to everyone but Weed was the fact that the Emperors class was the Legendary Moonlight Sculptor and also that Weeds class was the LMS too.
Weed summons the Morata’s Providence Rulers Window again and builds:
-Scholarship School(Guess: GT literally says “Herald of the construction of stairs.”)
-Wise man sit down, talk and study at this place.
Increases the city’s intellectual level.
Wizards wisdom will permanently increase by 5.
Will trigger the birth of the Scholarship Guild.
Technology and Culture has risen by 3.
Weed had it built next to the Mobile Portal that connects Morata the Wailing Rivers.
-Astronomical Observatory
-Precise stone building.
You can observe the night sky.
Advance notice of the climate can be helpful in the development of magic.
Discovery of the first constellation will bring good luck.
Morata’s Tarot Portent detects an ominous aura.
Technology has risen by 8.
Stone materials completely exhausted and only wooden building can be built.
-Ahreupen Merchant Center
-Faculties for Merchants.
Enables access to more trade routes and control of prices of goods.
Wealthy merchants will be able to provide special foods.
Active art trade.
-Leather Goods Exhibition
-Special exhibition for the trade of leather goods.
Small leather goods can be traded.
Increases the number of skilled tailors and related industries.
Sewing is increased by 10. Technology rises by 15.
Weed then starts some landscaping were builds a park with plenty of shade and fruit trees, opens a bunch of specialty stores(accessories, theater, jewelry, furniture, winery, chicken and sheep farms) All of them were specially planned by Weed to increases Morata’s economic dominance in some way.
Weed then starts considering Morata’s Square and realizes that it is too crowded. Weed decides to create 4 more plaza’s in a diamond shape surrounding Morata’s Square.
Wyvern Square, Bingryong(Ice Dragon) Plaza, Light Square and Bull Plaza were built at a cost of 40,000 gold each. Roads are made directly connecting them with Weed also designating residential, industrial, commercial zoning area’s. In the end he made Morata 5 times bigger than it was before.
The viewpoint switches to a bunch of reporters heading north to cover the events about to happen. There was a lull in the war between Haven and Kallamore so the biggest event was going to be Conquest of Morata by an alliance of guilds all bent on making Weed taste bitter defeat. CTS Media interviews the Styrene Guild Master who is very confident and shows the world his forces, equipment and timetable. A massive army of over 100,000 people was going to attack Morata as soon as Freya’s protection was lifted.
Weeds companions(Pale, Surka, Zephyr, Romuna, Hwaryeong, Irene, Maylon) discuss the upcoming war and wonder where the missing Mapan was at.
Weed had only 260,000 gold remaining after the expansions. He was going to defend Morata to the last and biting his lip swearing eternal vengeance he proceeded to spend it all.
-Military Camp
Cost: 70,000 Gold
Produces professional infantry and spearman.
Will raise the training level of soldiers.
In order to produce calvary you must build separate kennels.(200,000 Gold required)
Biting his lip Weed drafts 8,000 soldiers which causes complaints from citizens and low morale for the drafted soldiers. They also cost 10 gold per a head and 3 gold a month salary. Weed was feeling a enormous shortness of breath and physical pain/suffering at these expenses.
With the high loyalty/respect the Morata citizens had for Weed he ended up having people volunteer to be soldiers. Also Morata’s high culture ended up having volunteers from surrounding towns join them(ironically they were towns under his enemy’s control)
-160 trained Ferro Infantry volunteer to join.
-197 trained Archers from Teuriban(Styrian Guilds Town) volunteer.
-351 skilled Rangers from the Morata Province offer to join.
In total 2,680 citizens offer to join Weeds army. He accepts them all.
-Morata’s army has increased by 10,680 soldiers
Average Level: 17
Training: 12%
There was only 36 days until Freya’s protection ends.
Weed summons Death Knight Van Hawk, orders him to visit the Kallamore Kingdom and use Weeds 23,000 contribution points to grab 4 Kallamore Knights. He sends him away on 1 of the Wyverns.
Weed appoints Golgol as the Finance Minister, Wailyi deputy tax officer, Wadulyi tax collector, Wasamyi Bureau, Secret Service Waohyui and the special Tax Bureau Wayukyiwa and Chilyireul. Bingryong Minister of War, Phoenix’s deputy ministers of war, Rover Minster of Economics.
In the early morning dawn low level users wearing novice leather rabbit armor enter a nondescript, but heavily guarded shack. Inside is a hidden dungeon, the secret meeting place for the Dejected belief. The secret password “Chwiyiyiyiyiik!” and “Chwek!”
Already 20,000 people have gathered at this dungeon. It is here where Weed is worshipped almost like a god for his many accomplishments.(God of War Weed, building the Pyramid, Grass Porridge, Orc/Undead Legion, Freya statue, etc) The mixture is mainly beginners with scattered high levels.
Currently there are 320,000 users belonging to the Dejected Belief. They usually watch videos of Weed when they meet and currently have started the Kariich Orc video. This meeting is a call to arms to defend Morata, a place many beginners consider a haven due to weed’s economic policy. Dejected is stirred up by the talk of the northern guilds raising tax’s, requiring licenses to hunt if they take mora.(Line here mentioning that Weed was behind the rumors)
In the Orc Village Geomichi is having a date with a Orc user when he receives a whisper from Geomichi130 about the upcoming war against Weed and that it was going to be completely televised. Geomichi decides to leave abruptly apologizing and explaining that he is going to the aid of the ‘youngest’, but smoothly segueing into asking for her phone number. She tells him to just whisper her. The Geomichi’s all decide to join Weed and enter the battle.. excited at the prospect of war.
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Chapter 6 : Weed’s Song
-Church of Freya’s protection of Morata has ended.
The Styrene Guild(plus the other guilds) had already marched into the plains near Morata and they were waiting for the protection to end. The Northern Alliance(as the combined army was called) consisted of over 128,000 people with 90,000 being NPC units. They were well equipped and trained with swords, bows, shields, etc. At the forefront of the army were siege weapons and 40 special units(it says dogs, but I don’t think thats literal.. maybe siege towers?)
The Guild Masters were very careful to pay attention to the morale of the NPC troops telling them that looting was allowed, that the future(Tarot prediction) of Morata showed it was going to fall, etc. Morata was only 8 hours away by the army’s march.
KMC Media, CTS Media, CHN had stationed reporters to watch the battle unfold and the internet forums were ablaze with posts. Most of them were saying Weed didn’t stand a chance because he was facing the largest army ever assembled by the users and had never experienced a war like this. The other side countered with Weed’s Orc/Dark Elf experience. The war had already started on the internet.
The Northern Alliance Guilds were very cautious of Weed because even though he was just one man, he was still the God of War, Weed. The Northern Alliance advances to just outside Morata and spots the 11,867 man army of Weed.
The Alliance is very happy because they assumed Weed would have his army hunkered down behind the walls and thats the reason why they brought siege weapons. The Northern Alliance hurries forward, confident in its victory. They then spot that the gates of Morata were wide open, they decide to charge for the gates leaving caution to the winds and ignoring Morata’s army.
Riding out of the gates in an unstoppable charge are a group of Kallamore Knights, each between lvl350-450! The Northern Alliance is completely caught flat-footed and the mages/wizards desperately unleash large AOE spells to stop the Kallamore Knights. Under the command of their leader the Knights split up into 3 groups of 50 just before the spells hit. Lighting Thunders! The Earth Shakes! The Flames Roar! The aftermath destroys the surrounding area and craters the road, but the 150 Kallamore Knights are unscathed.
The Knights plate armor absorbed most of the damage and Weeds trick with Freya’s Blessing did the rest.(The trick is once every season the ruler can pray to Freya and get a special blessing for his forces in combat) The Kallamore Knights continue to run roughshod over the army and once again the mages attack, this time with their best spells. The magic attacks rains down, but instead killing their own side since the Kallamore Knights were right in the middle of the Northern Alliance Army leadership,(Most of the Wizards were lvl250-300 and they leveled up 4 times because they killed a bunch of their own high level leaders, getting 350 infamy in the process)
The Kallamore Knights did not die, activating magics from their armor and continued to cause havoc. The Northern Alliance chain of command managed to recover and decided to focus on using their numbers to attack Morata.
That is when the Dejected came out of the gates of Morata, mainly full of beginners lvl30 to 50, trained by the Geomichi’s on the scarecrows. They kept coming in a seemingly endless stream.. all 1.2 million of them attacked the Northern Alliance!! Though barely able to scratch their enemy’s, with screams of “Dejected! Dejected!” they advanced in a endless horde.
Arrows rained down from newbie archers, newbie priests strengthen the other newbies, newbie Wizards rained down spells with abandon, Elementalist’s summoned fire and made the earth shake. The users of the Northern Alliance fought while swearing at the newbies. They were barely a threat to them, but you swatted 1 down and 60 others took their place!!
Mixed in among the Dejected users were high level players, mainly Geomichi’s who were using the sheer numbers to as cover and were just slaughtering the enemy.(The Geomichi’s were scolding the enemy users as they did it because the enemy was just spamming skills and leaving themselves wide open)
Pale, Surka, Zephyr, Romuna, Hwaryeong, Irene, Maylon are also fighting. Hwaryeong is making the enemy users paralyzed and the rest are killing them. Maylon is the KMC Reporter for the war and is broadcasting while fighting in the battle.
Morata’s 11,860 army decides to make a move and join the battle. Just before they join in the attack Bingryong releases a Dragon Roar causing the Northern Alliances Army to shake with the peerless might of the dragon. Flying above the battlefield comes Bingryong, Weed on top and in convoy formation the Wyverns and Pheonix’s. Some of the Alliance users start questioning if they could win against Weed.
Weed looks down upon the battlefield, greedily eyeing Alliances equipment and mentally calculating the cost. Weed grins wickedly because everything was going to plan, exhaust the enemy’s army and drain their wizards mana. Weed takes out his harp, begins to play and sing. The song is awful, truly awful. Thats when Weeds releases his wild cards.
King Hydra sculpture Lvl429, Black Wyrm sculpture lvl441 were created and brought to life by Weed. They are Weed’s wild cards because despite having high levels of charisma, leadership they were violent and wont listen to him on the battlefield.
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Chapter 7 : Morata’s Defense
Waiting in Mora, by the Statue of Freya were the King Hydra and Black Wyrm statues. They were barely being restrained by Weed’s orders with the Hydra eyeing the Northern Alliance with extreme hunger and the Black Wyrm disdaining his enemy’s as being weak. When Weed appeared and sang his song, the patience of the statues snapped and they attacked.
The King Hydra walked across the lake and a Northern Alliance user was eaten in one gulp. The Black Wyrm fired out powerful flame magic to roast the enemy’s. While based off of legendary boss monsters, the statues were at a much lower level and didn’t have the monsters specialty(The King Hydra statue didn’t have the infinite regeneration for example) which was the reason why Weed waited until the enemy was exhausted to reveal them. In the brief minute since they had joined the attack the Hydra had eaten 12 users and the Black Wyrm had roasted over a 100 users.
The Northern Alliance’s user’s began using their most powerful attack, but they were focused more on defeating Weed than trying win the battle now. Magical Attacks thundered at Weed, powerful Knights used their best long range attacks on Weed and Archers fired flights of arrows after him. They didn’t care about the outcome of the battle, they only wanted the glory of defeating Weed.
On Weed’s orders the Phoenix’s intercepted the attacks with the fire magics healing them, but the rest damaging them. Attack after attack hit them and when their hp hit 24% Weed acted.(The wyverns/ice dragon/Gogol make comments about having nice juniors with none of them volunteering to help the Phoenix’s.) Weed orders all the statues not to die and then sends them all into battle. King Hydra and Black Wyrm have now killed over 300 users.
The Pheonix’s attack first, making it rain flames on the battlefield and leaving fire trails in a straight line.
The Wyvern’s attack with Gogol on one of their backs.
Weed orders Bingryong not to attack, but to watch over the other statues and prevent them from dying.
Weed then jumps off of Bingryong’s into the battlefield. Weed deliberately lands on a dwarf user, using him as a cushion. Weed casually finish’s off the dwarf and then activates his ring, starts using the Heraim Sword skills on his enemy’s. Weed had deliberately aimed for his enemy’s center, where no allies were at.
Weed ran through the battlefield madly, identifying users with the most valuable equipments and using the Heraim skills to kill and loot them. Using his blacksmithing knowledge and swordsmanship Weed was able to target the most vulnerable area’s of the enemy and one shot them, scoop up the users loot and dash forward with the skill still active to attack another user with valuable items. The Heraim Sword skills allowed up to 8 attacks and Weed used every one of them and then re-ran the skills over and over again.
Weed pauses to summon Death Knight Van Hawk to make sure that the momentum of his surprise attack on the Northern Alliance continues. The Northern Alliance users start swarming at Weed, but his attacks continue unabated. Weed uses Sculpture Destruction to make himself even more unstoppable. Weed kills 25 users before high level 340+ users appear to attack him and for the 1st time Weed doesn’t manage to one shot an enemy. Weed kills 3 knights, each over lvl340. The other high level knights quickly back away since it only took Weed 7 attacks to kill 3 of them. While they back away Weed is quickly gathering all of the loot dropped by the 3 knights.
While Weed was attacking the center of the army, the enemy mages/wizards were busy gathering mana to attack him. Weed laments over giving the Wings of Light to Gogol to use and instead he decides to use his Moonlight Blade ability to create a rainbow colored shield against magic. For the first time Weed feels that he may die and have to come back as an undead since the Moonlight Sculpture skills are still low. Weed uses Cold Eyes and Death Knight Van Hawk runs over with a shield saying he will save the master. The storm of magics strikes the area.
Chapter 8 : Previous Negotiations
The earth shoots into the air and heaves with chain explosions, ice pillars shooting out of the ground, collapsing and repeating over and over again. When the dust settles the only things standing in the ravaged lands were Weed and Death Knight Van Hawk.
10,002 Northern Alliance high level users died in the explosion. Thanks to Weeds Moonlight Blade defense he managed to redirect some of the magical attacks to the surrounding area. Due to all the magic spells different elemental properties they managed to weaken themselves, but even then it was close to a miracle that Weed and his Death Knight survived.
The durability of the Ancient Shield went down 25 points leaving it at 261(Weed cries about it saying he would have rather died than have it drop that much) and Weeds prized Talrok armor was so badly damaged that it was about to break. Weed has 33% health remaining and 46% mana.
Weed begins gathering the loot from the Northern Alliances who died and begins his Heraim Sword skills assault again. Weed was being watched with envy and with no exaggeration he could be called the hero of this battlefield. The Northern Alliance starts pleading with their remaining commanders to surrender, but the commanders refuse to back down because they would lose everything.
With the Geomichi trained beginners messing with the enemy and with King Hydra, Black Wyrm, Pheonix’s, Bingryong, Wyverns, Gogol deadly surprise assaults the Northern Alliance army was starting to collapse. Starting slowly, but spreading fast the Northern Alliance soldiers started surrendering. The cry of victory started to be called by Mora’s defenders.
The Northern Alliance army surrenders to Weed.
The media experts are shocked that Weed not only managed to defeat the Northern Alliance army, but managed to do it in a single battle without damaging the city of Mora very much. CHN, CTS media stations were all predicting that Weed would lose with only KMC saying that he could win.(It was due to the KMC Director being a huge fan and didn’t want to lose his cash cow)
The breakdown of the battle begins by the media with them wondering how Weed managed to have the Kallamore Knights on his side. They were shocked at how Weed used the beginners as a smoke screen to hide his strong units among them and they also dissected Weeds strategy of using the mages/wizards magic against their own allies.(Interspaced between all this is users comments on the message boards) The message boards start erupting with speculation about how the north was going to change with the outcome of this battle.
Weeds message window dinged at the surrender of the enemy.
-Enemy has surrendered.
-Morata’s people have become more loyal. +3 Loyalty.
-Morata military and political influence will increase. +15.
-Crime is disappearing. Cattle raiders attacks on the herds is reduced.
Policing rises 13%.
Consumption will rise temporarily in Mora. The people will not spare money to celebrate this victory.
Mora’s victory celebrations will begin voluntary.
-Guilds will begin production of souvenirs to celebrate the victory. 5000 gold will be used. Bards will sing about the war and a music competition will be held with a prize of 4500 gold
-Mora’s Fame on the continent will rise. +75.
Morata’s current reputation is: 469
With higher national/regional reputation the value of produce, trades, quests, etc will increase in value.
With a higher reputation users will get higher prestige when completing quests.
Merchants trading in distant area’s will get better bargains.
-Increase in reputation of local Mora specialties.
-Mora’s fiber and textiles reputation will increase, Church of Freya’s blessing and the fertile agricultural fields with increase the local specialties.
-Mora could become famous for their wine if they have more wineries.
-Mora will have a specialty with production of superior cattle.
-89 Teuriban villagers migrate to Mora.
-85 Noroma villagers migrate to Mora.
-3.600 people migrate to Mora to be closer to the Statue of Freya.(Not quite sure if correct. it could be 3,600 people are praying for 24 hours to the Statue in thanks for the victory.)
-Migration of skilled craftsman to Mora(blacksmith’s, etc)
The Northern Alliances towns are all messed up right now due the their defeat.. they have people abandoning them in fear of what Mora will do. It was mainly due to them neglecting raising culture because part of having high culture is the belief in ones leaders. Since their belief was low…
70,000 were taken prisoners and only 14,000 of them were users. it was time for the surrender negotiations. The Styrene Guild started it off. They started with flattery. Weed was unmoved thinking is this it? Styrene continued on trying to exaggerate how much damage had been done to their towns so they could get a better hostage price. After a long speech(with the other Northern Alliances representatives nodding in agreement on each point) it was Weeds turn.
Weed quickly went straight to the point and wanted monetary compensation.(The grudge for making him use 360,00 gold is strong) Then Weed summons Mapan to begin the money negotiations. Mapan begins extolling everything that Weed has done to open up the north.
Mapan then starts off with 900 gold for every user, 200 gold for every NPC and the repair of all damages.(23,800,000 in gold minimum.. ROFL!!) The Northern Alliances is outraged, even cutting it in half they wouldn’t be able to pay it. They argue with Mapan and eventually they began trying to negotiate a payment plan.
Weed then interrupts the negotiations(Horrifying Mapan who was about to make a killing) Weed knows that this wouldn’t actually solve the problem(Think Germany WWI and the huge monetary compensation they had to pay that led to WWII) and was using the money as a leverage for what he really wanted.
Weed dismisses all money claims and immediately free’s all the prisoners. He then promises that Mora will never invade any other town(He knows he wont have to, with his plan Mora’s culture will eventually expand and naturally assimilate the neighboring towns/villiages)
Weed instead wants commercial exchanges.
Weed asks the Northern Alliances if they are aware that Mora was a beginner town. Weed wants them to supply Mora with all the resources necessary for beginners which would instantly make their struggling villages prosperous. The North Alliances ask why would Weed do this, whats his goal.
Weed talks about how the central part of the continent was taking advantage of the north and gouging the beginner users with high prices. He wants to change all that. He says in exchange for the resources/alliance the church of freya will be able to send out wandering ministers to administer to their towns.
Weed talks about sending out the artists classes to raise the culture of the towns/villages. The Northern Alliances questions him on why he would raise their culture, weakening Mora’s culture.(Weed saw what happened with Rhodeium and just now created a huge market for his artists) Weed talks about how the novice artists class in Mora wouldn’t be able to grow and increase their skills properly unless they traveled and experienced the world. With a pretty speech at the end Weed managed to win them over. Both sides start celebrating Weed’s generosity.
Mapan and the rest of the group(Pale, Romuna, etc) each suffered a series of shocks, wondering what was wrong with Weed. Only Zephyr realized what Weed had done.
The Northern cities/towns/villages were required to sell their goods in Mora and Mora would gain tax revenue.
Imported goods from the center of the continent will go to Mora, making Mora the economic hub of the North.
The threat of war from the northern towns would be gone. The abandoned/new mines would be developed, increasing technology and sales of good.
The peace settlement would accelerate the development of the North.
The continuous tension and anxiety caused by Mora control of the beginners of the North would cease to exist.
The trade and growth in the northern towns will heavily increase.
It would make the whole north economically dependent on Mora.
Zephyr looked at Weed with a newfound respect.
The festival celebration for victory begins with even the Northern Alliance users joining in. Since the festival was unavoidable and cost 50,000 gold Weed secretly increased tax’s by 2% for the 2 days the festival would run.