Chapter thirteen - Sun Lord
Dragon Slayer party lead was Dragon conqueror but he was more like a face of the team. As he was savage berserker, he was always in the front thus leaving the grunt work to be handled by an Archer, Sun Lord. Sun Lord was full time guild employee, a senior management level person, basically sent to babysit few promising seeds including Dragon Conqueror. Dragon conqueror was one of the reserves in their eSports team who wanted to transfer laterally and work on guild side more. The guild or the club and companies behind the guild would not push the true elite and experts into every hyped VR game. That would be counter productive. But, the bosses behind the scene must have gotten few solid leads thus they had allowed all the players of eSports teams to enter the game in various places. Yes, the game allowed the players to choose where to go. It would be useless for the first few batches but those who would come later, holding coats of previously entered players, choosing the place to enter the game was heaven sent opportunity. This was one of the ways premade guilds increased their strength in the game, by pulling their members to same village. Of course the money hungry game would provide another way to get more members in the same village. All you need to do is to use the refferal code and you would spawn in the same village as the referrer. How to get the referral code? Why, you just pay money of course. The game allows you to load as much as credit possible within 5 minutes of first login and converts all of them to coins. No other way to bring in the wealth till the players reach higher levels and unlock higher level game areas. Sun Lord's achievement in player mechanics was not that great but he was a good manager. Give him some good seeds, he would prepare them and turn them into large trees provided shelter to those seeking to join the guild. This was not the first field boss killing by Dragon Slayer guild. They had achieved it much faster in few villages. But this gimmick, the sonorous voice announcement and fireworks and cloud message, was the first. Sun Lord had to pay pretty a penny for such treatment. But his aim was reached. All the needed parties knew that this village had Dragon Slayers.
Sun Lord was calculating the gains and losses for this excursion. It had actually taken more than 100 players of elite and higher level to decimated the field boss. The durability of weapons and as such was in red. Few had already turned into scrap. The potions consolidated for the team were pretty much used up. This, inspite of him getting a bunch of resurrected players to buy potions in the village before rejoining the hunt. He had spent coins to revive key players at the same location and to remove weakness debuff on them, so that they could rejoin the fight.
The amount spent this time, if converted into credits would be a huge amount, in tens of millions. But the gain was more too. The first kill bonus meant the monster drops would be good, better than good, in fact. On top of it, this was a boss, a field boss. Field bosses were generally considered more troublesome than dungeon bosses but they would drop better items including raw materials, recipes, skillbooks, equipments and weapons. Though it may change in the future, in the beginning atleast the game
What was worrying him was his party and he were struck here. They were sitting, having apples and water to recover stamina, HP and MP as soon as possible. Few members in the party had lost their weapons but they hadn't found substitute yet. This game was stingy towards completed products but gave coins and raw materials generously. Was it to hasten the lifestyle players or to hasten transactions between players? Whatever the reason, now they were facing lack of potions and weapons. Atleast the core of the party, the experts had upgraded their weapons and purchased equipments while creating their accounts. Otherwise, the situation would have been even worse. Sun Lord called his aide, Kashim 'Silent Night' who was in charge of this batch of potions, keen on knowing ETA.
He got bad news. The potioneer NPC had gone out. The potions in smaller shops were already cleared out.
"We can't get struck here. Pay a bronze coin more per potion but I want atleast 100 bottles, ASAP. Did you contact that spendthrift who was selling the potions sometime back?"
"Brother, I have DMed. He was not picking calls. What if he makes exoberant demands?"
"That moron sold over 50 potions, at loss. You think he will demand more? I think you have forgotten how to do basic things after mingling with Sharp Sword and that that silly Shadow. Pull me in if you think the demands are too much. F***ing hog! Always running away from work".
Sun Lord was truly angry at his subordinate. The berating was cut short only because he received another report. His team had some number crunchers and he had support of logistics team in real life. He could get numbers broken down to basics. The report was of cost performance ratio, the profiency rate of skills, the rate in increase in the skills, the rate of fall in durability on using normal attacks and skill attacks etc. There would be another team which would try to expostulate the uses of all the raw materials collected and how to get maximum usage of them. That was not his headache currently. All he had to do was to get few more firsts and publicize the guild.