Playing in hard mode  18

Chapter 18: Confidence

After the talk with Masa, I felt angry, frustrated and even betrayed.

betrayed, this was not a joke, this was a lot of money 30 people contributing 60 thousand gold was 1,800,000

contributing 60 thousand gold was 1,800,000 it was a ridiculous amount, but it was

but it was true that in order to build a full-fledged guard, we would need money, but even so I was not in a good mood.

Let's calm down first then I will talk to Maria, having a discussion when I am not thinking well.

I'm not thinking right.

When we were near the entrance to the city under construction, I was approached by Barbara, she exuded confidence and strong character, but sometimes she was quite mischievous and bold, she told me with an elegant tone, boss, if we stay with the divine crystal, what do you think will happen? Andromeda is a very realistic game, to the point that the weapons do not have attack or defense statistics but nevertheless we know that a steel weapon is superior to the real bronze ones, where we are free to avoid attacks, and deliver or receive critical hits, in places like the neck, head, heart, in private parts etc., that is to say that to some extent the game is quite realistic, in a game where the existence of gods is confirmed, it is not difficult to imagine the consequences of betraying and stealing a god, this crystal in particular is that of Hémera daughter of Nix goddess of the night, if something happens to the crystal there is no place to hide from the night, not only us but all the elves may not have a quiet day.

She thought for a moment and then nodded, greed is good, but a lot of it is bad, that's why I decided to follow you after all you are the reason why many decided to bet on the Spartan guard.

Then he placed one of his hands on her waist while the other hung on her thigh, walking silently as he walked away. This woman has style.

Finally we were in front of Elder Silvanas, we handed her the divine stone, the blueprint, and the model of the temple we found, she said well, I will give you a mission, more can you please choose a place of about 10000 to create the temple, also you will be in charge of supervising its construction.

You will have until the city is built to finish the construction of the temple.

 After a long discussion we decided the location of the temple, we would place it 300 meters away from our guard building, the Spartan guard, according to their plans it would have two main entrances, the first one located to the south just in front of the wall and even closer to the city gate, the other one would be the north gate that would lead to the temple.

Mary, buy more and better beasts of burden, more materials for the constructions, hire another company for the construction of the temple, the best do not save on expenses, I will locate the magnate to see if he is interested in supporting us in the construction of the temple.

She asked why, I answered because this mission has money, and manpower is why we need everyone we can is more I am thinking of sharing this mission with as many players, in case Guts is not willing, we will look for another way to create the tempo is more we will prioritize the temple to the guard building, understand the end of this mission is very important.

joon-woo announcement For our part, from this moment on, I want us to meet every day to practice handling our weapons in duels for one hour, the next hour will also be a practice of martial arts without weapons.

After that, everyone will do individual missions within the city, as for the people who lost all their levels, now they have a slogan to go to the silver city and look for the trainers of their respective professions that have been injured, and spend this month training, I don't care what profession they have, at least they will have to spend 3 hours a day training the use of a weapon, another 3 hours in unarmed combat and 3 hours in the library, the rest of the time practice your profession, I hope you will follow this order and recommendation, don't waste your time train as much as you can, don't level up, during the first month is a key stage for every new avatar, our stats increase according to our actions, if you don't do anything remarkable they won't increase, besides if you don't learn to fight without the help of the system your game, you will have a medicare character in the best case and with the passing of time you will be forced to start again, this game is like that.

You saw what happened in this mission, there were no more than 25 of us and we practically annihilated more than 100 players, you know why, the one who speaks to you, many others took the time to practice in the appropriate training centers, apart from that many of us already have knowledge of martial arts, or some real life sport that is why we are better than the average player, I am sure you know that, after all you were selected from among more than 5000 players by Dong-Yul, he has the ability to see your stats, I am sure that if I select you it is because of two things, one is your class, everyone here has a class of S or higher, second your stats are very high, not to the maximum possible, but high, now you have the opportunity to raise those stats to the maximum, do not waste it, and third develop masteries, masteries are only achieved by reaching a certain degree of understanding of your way of fighting, understanding of your occupation, so I recommend that you select professions in what you are good at in real life, if your avatars will be better.

Now walk to the silver city do what I told you not to worry about anything else this month, practice so that when you come back here you will be better, than your previous versions. The rest of us are going to help build this city and its inhabitants.

Elie, kasumi and inka, please could you go to the silver city and try to get more people to move to this city, I need you to hire people skilled in construction, art, accounting as well as people skilled in resource management, also look for a skill book that allows us to see the stats of other players, we need them to know which people we can invite to the guard, remember what we need more are not warriors or mages or elementalists, we already have 30 of those, we need life players, blacksmiths, alchemists, farmers, merchants and more, so please get the best, the money you need will be provided by the maiden. That will be all.

The rest of you can rest.

When I turned around the maiden, she had a very serious face and came up to me and said I will also go with the buying group to the city.

Fine I said, but you will go later first I have to talk to you, in reality please could you meet me, at the cafe we always go. In half an hour. 

Then I left without saying more.

When I left my house I took a deep breath and went to the café, when I got there I met maria.

While she was having a coffee I told her why you didn't tell me. That everyone gave you their money, she answered shyly, we needed the money for the construction, that's why it's better that they invest in the guard, if their interests and ours will always be united.

I didn't ask that question, I asked, "Why didn't you tell me? To which she only bowed her head.

Angry I said is that you do not trust me, if we are just dating a few days, but we already know each other for a long time, perhaps I do not deserve your trust, I have accompanied you since this adventure began. During this time I have done something that is not worthy of your trust, then why didn't you trust me!

Maria remained silent for a few seconds and then I countered, it's not like that, I didn't tell you why I didn't trust you, remember when we left the first group where Guts and Dong-Yul didn't agree to be the leader of the guard, you convinced me that it was better to withdraw and form our own guard, the reason was that we would not have complete control of the guard, that's why I was afraid that this time if you found out that I promised a percentage of the profits to them, you would oppose me because we would no longer have complete control of the Spartan guard.

I laughed bitterly, it seems that you misunderstood, I did not ask you to leave that group because we were not the leaders, I requested the withdrawal for a reason because the guts guard is doomed to failure, they are no longer united, from the moment that our intentions to lead were shown, Friction arose, different groups started to emerge and it is not that this is bad, the problem is that there are many and each one has a certain degree of voice, and when they want to do something big, there will be a lot of friction and sooner or later they will separate, because trust was broken in a second. Trust is something that takes time to build, and that group had possibilities of becoming a very united group, but they lost that opportunity in a second, when we did not put ourselves in their place and tried to lead them without paying attention to their situation or what they felt, those people did not empathize with us and that is precisely why we were no longer worthy of trust in their eyes, we lost the integrity that we should have.

Remember why we won the battle against the rats or the Xenos, the answer is simple because we trusted our comrades.

That being the case I preferred that we start slow, but with a guard, a guard that we will start together, gather people calmly and slowly, people we can call family, not just colleagues or friends but family because we would be family for them and they for us, to form bonds of trust, only then we could have the strongest guard.

You have managed to get a group of 30 very talented players, you also managed to collect almost 2,000,000 gold for the creation of the guard that's good, 

But you did it at the expense of the person who loves and values you the most, you only thought about you and your situation, not about us and even less about what the members of the Spartan Guard will feel, if you continue to do so, not only will our relationship collapse, so will the Guard.

Think about what will happen if you continue to act only on the basis of your goals and greed, if you always put money and interests first, sooner or later others will do the same, they will put their own interests before those of others and when that time comes, you will have nothing left.

The basis of our development is not strong characters but a strong guard and for that we need a united guard.

Don't tell me more for now I want to be alone, I don't want to see you for now so please don't call me for the rest of the day, time will tell what will happen in our relationship, but it would be good if you can gain the trust you lost.

Then I said goodbye to her and left, without looking back, hoping that it was not our last conversation as a couple, after all I really loved Maria, I loved every part of her personality, her craziness, her spontaneous and decisive personality, but I wanted her to trust me more, it had been bothering me for a long time that everything was decided by her without taking me into account.