Terra Nova Online : Rise Of The Strongest Player - Chapter 496

Chapter 496: Boss The Idol
( Present day, Terra Nova Online, random ‘Uprising’ players )

“Snakes? Why is the guild issuing missions to catch snakes now?” Asked Dardell, a low ranking member of the Uprising guild, as he felt confused on why the guild would even want snakes in the first place.

“I don’t know man, I’m not upper management, I just know that they’re paying 1 silver coin per common snake caught and it goes up to 1 gold coin if it’s a powerful snake. It’s a good gig, I need a gear update, so I’m doing it–” Cornell said, as he stated his motivations behind taking this mission clearly.

“Don’t you feel curious though? Cornell? As to why Guildmaster ChaosBringer issues these weird quests?

Finding a player called Eren?

Finding snakes?

Finding your grandma’s panties? What is all this nonsense?” Dardell said, as Cornell raised an eyebrow.

“Panties?” He asked, sounding confused, as Dardell burst out laughing.

“Just checking if you’re paying attention or not, you horny bastard–” Dardell said, as he gave his friend a smack on his back.

“I don’t know man. I don’t ask no questions. I’m given a job. I do it. Simple as that!” Cornell said, as Dardell clicked his tongue at this response.

Unlike Cornell, Dardell was the curious kind of individual who wanted to know the bigger picture, however, his friend seemed to hold no curiosity towards it whatsoever.

“Man, you’re no fun. You’re always gonna remain a bottom rung player. To become big you need to see the big picture–” Dardell said, as Cornell simply disregarded his comment and kept focusing on the jungle floor, looking for any signs of a camouflaging snake.

After a while however, he felt guilty for blowing his friend off like that and hence he talked about a juicy rumour that he had heard amongst the uprising members.

“You know the new headquarters building they’re making in the port city? In the south?” Cornell asked, as Dardell excitedly raised an eyebrow.

“Yeah….? What about it?” He asked, as Cornell looked around as if to make sure nobody was listening in on their conversation, before speaking in a hushed tone.

“They say that ‘TheBoss’ is gonna come for the inauguration. Finally addressing the whole guild for the first time ever” Cornell said, as Dardell clutched his mind as if it were blown.

“No way! No way! Ain’t no way ‘TheBoss’ is coming. Yooo…. Are you for real?” Dardell asked, feeling all excited, as ‘TheBoss’ was his real role model.

“I am for real, I overheard the Captain talking about it. Seems legit” Cornell confirmed, as Dardell went nuts at the news.

Ever since The Uprising had been created, everyone knew internally that ‘TheBoss’ was a part of them. However, nobody had ever really seen him make a move.

Some within the organisation even believed that the legendary assassin Ben Faulkner was a part of the upper management, and hence when he died, many uprising members posted a ‘Rest In Peace’ legend post on the global forums in his commemoration.

At that time, many expected ‘TheBoss’ to make a big move, however, he had been surprisingly silent about the death of his master.

Despite hundreds of thousands of players tagging him online to ask him about it, he never responded to any and seemed to have completely gone off the grid, with no-one any wiser as to what he was up to.

“Man, that guy is my role model, I love him to death, I’ll do anything to be there when he arrives at the new headquarters–” Dardell said, as Cornell nodded his head in agreement.

He mirrored Dardell’s sentiment as in his eyes, ‘TheBoss’ was the strongest player too and he could not wait to see him face to face.

Recently, ever since his master died there had been a lot of nasty rumours surrounding ‘TheBoss’, as he seemed to have stagnated in his levelling journey.

Over the past 45 days he did not gain a single level and many believed that it was because his master was carrying him throughout the game and now that he lost him, The Boss had lost his hack.

However, members of ‘The Uprising’ did not believe these rumours as while the more fanatic ones amongst them literally worshipped ‘TheBoss’ as a religion, even the more moderate ones were his die-hard fans.

Whenever an anti-boss comment was made on the forums, the group members absolutely bashed that guy in the replies, as they single handedly kept the trolling of ‘TheBoss’ on the forums in check.

Despite this, with how the DarkSky guildmaster and Vice-Guildmaster kept inching closer and closer to the top, fear had started to spread amongst the uprising members as well that ‘TheBoss’ might lose his crown, however, with no-one having ever dethroned him before, they had faith that their idol would manage to pull through somehow.

“Look Dardell, a snake–” said Cornell as he spotted a snake coiled around the branches of a tree.

It was slithering silently, without minding the humans underneath, however, little did the snake know that it was about to be captured.

Dardell made the first move, chopping the branch of the tree swiftly, as he sent the snake tumbling toward the jungle floor, where Cornell was ready to capture it, having already pulled out a plain wooden containment box, designed specifically for missions like this.

The box contained no fancy runes— no suppressing effects like the boxes beast tamers used, however, it was just a simple, sturdy trap with a sliding mechanism to lock the snake inside, which was more than enough for this job.

As the snake fell, Cornell captured it perfectly into the box, as with a quick motion, he shut the box’s sliding lid, securing their prize.

“That’s better,” Dardell said, wiping his hands. “No dagger work needed to fight it first.”

Cornell grinned. “One down, and it’s a start. But we’ll need more than just common ones if we want to make any real coin.”

Dardell nodded, his eyes scanning the jungle once more. “Let’s find something bigger. There’s got to be a rare one lurking nearby.”

With the first snake captured, the two uprising members ventured deeper into the jungle, eager for a bigger challenge—and a bigger reward.