Pride Online

Chapter 336: Choose a Side Part I

“Alright, since every member from the ranked guild is here in this meeting hall, I, Thada, representative of the Holy Crystal War staff, would like to start the pre-war agreement meeting now.”

The voice from the long-haired GM spoke up powerfully. His shiny black hair was tied in a loose ponytail, making him look usually neat. The tall man was standing at the furthest side of the meet hall. Further from the long table that the first ten ranked guilds were sitting at, there was a large digital screen for the infographics presentation as well

After speaking, the GM walked to the screen, before snapping his finger with a loud noise to shift the Crystal War logo stand by screen background into a picture of a map with a clear border line to divide the blue and the red army apart.

“I assume that you already know about the war’s rules and manners already. So, I’m going to inform you about the important details only.”

Thada continued, before pointing at the screen. Then, the image changed into a picture of crystal again.

“As you know, both armies will get three crystals each. And each of them has the same stats as the following.”

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Name: Holy Crystal

Level: 200

Element: Light

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HP: 200,000,000

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Abilities

Armor Points 1000

Magic Resistance Point 1000

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The stats table popped up on the screen, making the observer like Wisana whistle out.

“It’s kind of a relief that it has a lot of armor points. At least it wouldn’t break into pieces with just a poke.” He turned to whisper to Maysa.

“If it would, then the war would end in the blink of an eye.” She replied smilingly.

Hearing that from her, Wisana chuckled right away. In the meantime, Thada who was standing in front of the screen snapped his fingers again. The image of the crystal faded away and was replaced by pictures of various kinds of weapons, there was even a war jet that Wisana creased his lips at how sci-fi it was after he saw it.

“This year, we’ve added a new system in the war as well,” Thada said smilingly. “Which is the ability to make these crystals into the energy of the items. In other words, you can transform the crystals into anything you need in the war.”

After his words, there was a hand of someone raising above their head, making Thada pause. The owner of the slender hand was a beautiful woman who was sitting across from Wisana. He remembered that she was a member of one of the four gods’ guilds, who walked in the room the most quietly.

“Yes, Miss Emwika of the Pandora guild?” Thada pointed his hand to her, inviting her to speak.

“Could you clarify the words transform into anything?”

The prudent-looking woman asked. She had red-brown hair that was kept in a tight bun, looking formal. Her eyes looked sharp and blue, but they also looked intimidating somehow as well.

“That will depend on the item production of your guild, Miss Emwika,” Thada said. “It’s just like how you normally create an item, but you can use the crystal as the main material. So, you can use it in building or making anything, ...but.”

Thada stressed the last word, before snapping his finger again. The picture of weapons disappeared from the screen, and the table of the crystal’s stats was back instead.

“The condition is that one crystal can be transformed only one time. When you make it into an item, it won’t be able to be changed back into its original, or a new form of item. And importantly, it can’t be upgraded or modified either. So, before you transfer it into anything, you have to think carefully about whether the item will be suitable for your strategic area or not. Because if it’s not, that could get you a defeat as well.”

After listening to the GM, many players started chatting with each other with an excited voice. But the woman named Emwika frowned her eyebrows tightly.

“Since it can’t be upgraded after it’s transferred, it also means that we can’t regenerate the HP for the crystal like the usual either, right, Mister Thada?” She asked.

“That’s right.” Thada smiled at her. “In the war, the crystals will be like the HP of you all. But if one of them gets attacked, you won’t be able to restore its HP at all, even after you change it into another item already.”

“And what about the system that the damaged crystal will restore one hundred thousand points every day?” Emwika asked.

“That system will stay the same, Miss Emwika.”

Hearing that, Emwika smiled slightly, and that made her look a lot more prudent than cute. She tilted her hand a little, before speaking in a sweet voice.

“The new system is very interesting. Mister Thada.” She spoke. “To extend the war period, you add the crystal transformation on, so the other army doesn’t find out exactly which item they need to destroy. That’s interesting, and it makes me feel that I’m going to need many more brains for the strategy planning.”

Thada smiled widely at her words instantly.

“Well, that wouldn’t be too difficult for the chief of staff of the Pandora guild, I suppose. Among the four gods’ guilds. Everyone calls you the brilliant brain adviser, don’t they?”

Hearing that, the woman placed her hand under his lips, while she was laughing a little politely.

“That’s a bit over-compliment, Mister Thada. I just do my best at my job. Talking about a brilliant brain, I think we got to give it to him instead.”

After speaking, she turned her face to the other side, at the seat where a man with fluffy, messy hair was sitting. Those red-like blood eyes that looked fierce like a demon’s gazed at Emwika instantly. His lips were gasping a little on his frowned face, looking like he was cursing even.

“Right, leader Sven, one of the four gods who’s known as Black Bullet Cataral? If there weren’t his strategy last time, we would have lost the war.”

Her words made the atmosphere in the meeting hall get back to being tense again. Emwika might intentionally speak it out like a compliment, but she dropped a huge bomb on the red-eyed man like she wanted to provoke him. But it was useless because the man just let out a chuckle from his throat.

“Don’t waste your breath, chief. Those provoking words might work with those muscular with airbrains. But for me, those words are like they’re coming out of a childish mouth. So, why don’t you try to be quiet like your leader sometimes? I think you’ll be better off drifting like him.”

His words made Emwika gaze her eyes at the man at the head of the table flaringly.

The man was one of the four gods named “Sven” of the Cataral guild. He was designated as Pride’s number one tricky, and the genius mastermind. He was also well known for his mouth skill that he knew how to cut people with words, making them want to end their lives so easily.

The woman named “Emwika” was the chief of staff of the Pandora guild, one of the four gods as well. And for her intelligence, she was only second to Sven.

So, it was not surprising that they felt repulsion toward each other.

And sitting next to Emwika was the one whom Sven just naggingly mentioned that he liked drifting. He was a small man who was crouching on the table. He was one of the four gods that Wisana had never seen before. Maybe that was because he had never got his face up, since when he was put in this hall. This small man came to his seat by getting carried by a man who had some huge muscles. After that, the buff guy just put him in his seat as Emwika sat down next to him.

Everyone else pretended to not care about that, or maybe they were just used to that already.

Because the sluggishness of the god from the Pandora guild was already well known that its level was out of the world.

“Just like what I heard.”