The Player's System

Bluecliff

Fifth Quest

Junan did not look at the card. He was fully focused.

At the other side of the town Jake and the rest of team members were busy. Jake joined at the orders of the team head. He carefully observed the cottage and then started throwing grenades.

The attention was simple. The cottage increased the number of attacks and they were getting perfect and effort.

With this rate the cottage might make it tough. Slowly it was learning to fend the attacks of the team members. The grenades created lot of smoke. Also the blast made it the vague in the surrounding. This helped team members to get rid the formed wooden shape of the cottage.

The woodcutter could not stand against the team head. Junan professionally battle which was terrible for the woodcutter. Soon the battle ended.

The quest also ended and the third team got transferred in the next quest.

Team members did not completely defeated the cottage however it could no more stand on its own when they left the quest area.

…

The third level gave some relief to the team members. They were completing quests one after the other. Hopefully they would get the reward of Theola. This would make third team as the strongest team of the portal.

This was the reason that worried the investors.

They were angry. "It seemed we designed this portal for the sake of third team. They are winning. They are holding all slots on the reputation scale. Everywhere the fans are talking about them. What are we here for?" One of the gaming boss angrily smashed the file on the table.

Today they gathered to negotiate on the same topic. Actually before implementing it to the portal they wanted to discuss positive and negative influence of this decision.

The third level would end at the fix time. Later there would be only two levels for the third team to keep showing off. It would potentially make the position of third team super strong.

But they were not worried as long as they could temper their teams in the portal and let them stay. It was the biggest challenge for now. It was pity that none of the team survived. It was due to the reason that most of the teams were unable to understand the purpose of the portal and lack the team spirit.

It was biggest flaw and the gaming lords wanted safe time at which they could forcefully temper the teams and if needed punish those who lack the team spirit.

"We are no more ignoring it. I have hired a sensible selector. His duty is to select suitable players among the guilds. The punishment will be high for those who took oath but did not work honestly. These low class players have reached another level of shamelessness. They think that they will get money no matter if they could not survive. But not anymore." The second gaming lord gritted his teeth.

They were spending money to get the loyal players yet the players were scamming them indirectly.

The earlier contract was simple. Once a player was selected for a level, he would be given the promised amount. This released the tension of the players. They took money and never turn face toward the team for winning.

"The question is that in the several years career in the gaming industry, I am ashamed to admit that I could not build up a small guild that could be called proper guild of players. I am slowly getting rid those who were paid by my company until now." Third gaming lord slapped his face with frustration.

It was their concern and their fault. They were the beginners of the problem. It was due to their ignorance that they reached to this day. Because of huge flow of the money they thought that they could buy loyalty with the money too.

Putting aside all matters the last decision was made and they were going to launch it with the permission of all investors. Only one person was missing from this meeting. It was the owner of the third team and the CEO of the 'Sovereign Rulers'

They would inform him soon about this decision. There were high chances that he would be forced to accept the terms and conditions. He was only one against many so he was quite familiar of the scenario.

His only bet was limited with the third team and he could provide them world class security during the portal levels.

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The third team entered in the fifth quest.

They did not need to ask Orin read the book of detection to know the name of the quest area. The words were shining in front of them 'Bluecliff'

"Eh where is the cliff if this area is called bluecliff?" Clark asked. They were standing at the flat ground. There were no mountains or cliffs.

The most they could see the grass and the animals leisurely moving around. It was peaceful place. No possible signs of the battle or the strong enemy ruling.

"By the way what happened to the two team members of the first team?" Albert asked. He could not see them coming in this quest area.

"They must have met their dead end. I wonder how much liberty we have left in the levels. Are the bosses preparing for surprise entry?" Orin asked. He was quite interested at the changes those were rumored in the chats.

In fact his talkative friends wanted to know the secret news of the inner circles so that they could gossip about it.

"Once it show up you will witness. As for the team members they probably got hit by the wooden helpers." Junan answered.

Hey were standing in the new quest area and it seemed they would need some effort to reach the card and the boss.

Noting changed despite that few minutes passed the time they appeared here. "Move your bones to search the particulars of this quest area. We are always short on time." Junan reminded them.