Terra Nova Online : Rise Of The Strongest Player - Chapter 68

Ignorance of the fools
( The attacker’s POV )

The bandits who attacked Luke’s caravan thought that they had a solid plan of action.

Spawned in a small village between Panjim Town and the Royal Capital, they were a group of 12 players from sector D who had bonded with each other on the very first day of the game.

One player amongst them named ‘Cash’ was an arms manufacturer back on Earth who had the knowledge needed to make all the components required to make a modern rifle.

On the second day of playing Terra Nova, the group of friends with Cash as their leader had this genius plan of creating guns and using it to rob passing caravans.

To accomplish this plan, they approached a local Smithy and pooled all the money that they had to commission the manufacturing of guns.

Since the skill of the blacksmith they commissioned the gun from was limited, they could not create automatic rifles that needed sophisticated machinery, but could still produce revolvers, making which took roughly 2 days for the blacksmith.

With a gun in hand, the group of friend’s felt immortal. They felt like they had created an unseen phenomenon in a mediaeval world and that with this object in their possession they were bound to become unstoppable.

What they did not know however, was the fact that guns had long existed in the world of Terra Nova, however, it was not widely adopted because its practicality was extremely limited.

In this game, charms to repel bullets by creating a small veil around oneself were available for as cheap as 25 silver coins and almost all carriages sold to merchants came with a bullet deflection engraving inbuilt.

Apart from such protective measures, there existed a skill move in Terra Nova called [ Time Dilation ], A must have skill for any mercenary and this skill allowed an individual to perceive their surroundings at a much slower pace, allowing them to react to unexpected dangers with ease.

A trained mercenary over level 100 who had [ Time Dilation ] under his belt could easily deflect any bullet coming his way regardless of the pace.

With so many shortcomings, and the fact that archery remained superior to guns, the weapon was all but redundant in the world of Terra Nova and it was only useful against low level players and monsters under level 60.

In Terra Nova, archery was much more advanced compared to Earth, with archery shots reaching a speed and penetration ability that was much higher to bullets and there existed a myriad of spells that made archery even more potent.

Archery, especially elven archery had been improved, researched and passed down for generations which allowed them to have skill moves such as [ Power Shot ] [ Triple Shot ] [ Duplicate Shot ] [ Ice Arrow ] [ Explosive Arrow ] just to name a few under their belt.

The highest level of elven archers could even shoot one arrow towards the sky and it could duplicate into a 100,000 arrows and rain down upon an army, however, no such spells existed for guns and bullets, which because of their small size were difficult to engraved with special abilities.

Hence for a variety of reasons, the field of guns was not researched or adopted heavily with there being hardly any innovation in that space happening if any at all.

For new players who came from Earth, it was probably going to be a hard pill to swallow with many earthlings surely falling for the scam of buying an expensive gun only to find its capabilities limited in the future.

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[ System Notification – You have died and have lost 1 level.

You have dropped [ P5 revolver ] and 7 silver coins because of dying ]

[ System Notification – Death penalty enacted!

You cannot log back into the game for the next 24 hours.

Your infamy for trying to unsuccessfully rob a caravan has increased!

You will now have trouble with government unless you repent and improve your social score ]

“What the fuck? What is this shit? Who was I even fighting? Those mercenaries moved like prime Spiderman” Cash complained as he looked at his system screen and could not help but curse his bad luck.

He lost a level, lost his revolver, lost his last bit of money and to top it all off he was not even allowed to re-enter the game for next 24 hours which made it impossible to make up for lost progress with the first evaluation being so close.

“Fucking hell, at this rate let alone being promoted, I may get demoted to the shithole called sector E. Fuck no-” he cursed as he took off his VR helmet and decided to grind away at his real life job to atleast improve his grading there.

With this failed attempt of a robbery, his odds of being promoted had been utterly thrashed, however, he needed to work hard to at least keep his place in Sector D as he had already begun to hear news about what a miserable place sector E was.

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( Meanwhile Luke )

Luke learnt something new watching the players fail at their looting attempt.

Since he had nothing to do, he decided to create an informative post about the failure of guns and post it on the global forum as he wrote an in-depth analysis of what happened and post it on the forum just out of sheer boredom.

After posting, he waited for a few seconds and read a few of the surprised replies, but then he closed down the global chat, not realising the storm that he had left in his wake.

Most players did not even know that guns existed in the world of Terra Nova, however, the fact that they were useless caused a shit-storm to begin brewing in the global chat.

Some said Sky_Lion was lying, that the entire event was nothing but a storytale written by a fraud, however, there were a few who took his warning seriously.

While Luke did not care if people believed him or not, he had unknowingly created a viral piece that had 2 million reshares and a 20 million comment long subthread started under it in just 7 hours.

The name ‘SkyLion’ entered public domain for the first time ever and many took note of that name.