Chapter 81 Sand of Forge (4)
Korean branch of Arcadia Co., Ltd.
Among the many departments, the one that had the most influence on Arcadia was none other than the Scenario Development Team 2 belonging to the Planning & Development Team.
“Chief, I have drafted a small-scale scenario that will take place within the Maroon Kingdom.”
“Isn’t this proxy getting too messy with the quests that will be divided here in this branch?”
“Ah, why did that happen? Here are the things that must be included in this branch…”
Those who are in charge of everything from setting up the framework of the overall scenario to elaborately rolling detailed settings and content. Because they prepared and planned long-term scenarios, their reports were dotted with important information that was full of the upcoming situation and landscape of the Arcadia continent.
“The conflict between elves and dwarves should intensify, but it should never turn into a situation similar to an all-out war. So, let’s go with the nature of a proxy war where humans stand in their respective camps and fight over these two races as much as possible.”
Elves and Dwarves to be released in the second half of next year.
They continued to have long-term meetings about the composition and the flow of the scenario between the two, but there were various problems.
“By the way, boss. I am worried that this will be out of balance.”
“balance? why?”
“No… I’m looking at the settings and specifics of the elves and dwarves, but I’m concerned that we won’t be cornered into one camp…..”
Elves and dwarves.
There were several benefits to receive when choosing one camp between the two.
“First of all, the various benefits are different depending on the play preference, and there is no concern that it will be biased to one side, but rather than that, the basic values and tastes of the dwarves are so heinous that users can easily approach them…
” The formation of an alliance of humans.
When the Dwarves and the Elves were fighting for the fate of their race, humans intervened and overturned the game. So, in the end, the Dwarves who were defeated without being able to defeat the combined forces of humans and elves had a basic affinity for humans that was close to the worst. Even when I was still, I didn’t hit it with a hammer, so it was low enough to say thank you.
“Both humans and elves are too uncivilized. It’s hard to find a race as superior as our dwarves.”
“that’s right. Aside from the Balaur, aren’t we probably the most superior?”
On top of that, those who do not hesitate to make remarks filled with the consciousness of the chosen people, where racial discrimination is so prevalent. So basically, having a friendly relationship with them was so hardcore that ordinary people couldn’t even dare to think about it.
However, Manager Kang Tae-hoon shook his head as he listened to the report from the team leader of Team 2.
“I can’t help that part. Even if we try to modify their racial characteristics themselves, we can’t twist the historical facts that cause them. That is out of my jurisdiction.”
These settings and inclinations of the dwarves were not simply granted. As a clan of dwarves, they naturally learned while struggling to survive on the continent of Arcadia. So, even Arcadia’s development team couldn’t do anything about it, so Director Kang Tae-hun solved this problem in a different way.
“So you have to create another driving force.”
“The driving force…?”
“The dwarves are so ruthless that they don’t even want to deal with them, and they’re a people with poor character. I know that. But what if there is a reason to be friendly with them nonetheless?”
“What do you mean by that…?”
A subordinate who opens his mouth as if he does not understand. Director Kang Tae-hoon said with a smile.
“Are you not around? Friends and people who you don’t really like what you’re doing and don’t want to hang out with, but somehow you end up hanging out with.”
“Hmm…well, I think there are one or two people like that.”
“yes. Then why? Why do you continue a relationship like that when you’re someone you don’t even want to be with?”
“That’s it…. That person has something to do with me or else it’s to my advantage… Ah!”
An employee who suddenly exclaimed as if he realized something. Looking at him, Manager Kang Tae-hun nodded and said,
“Yes, no matter how broken your personality is, there are times when you have to be close to each other by crying and eating mustard. If I can get the benefits I really need in a relationship with that person, a relationship where I can smile and smile broadly on the outside no matter how much I curse inside. For example… the relationship between the graduate student and the advisor?”
Graduate students who have to smile and wag their tails in front of a vicious advisor who acts out all sorts of power and truth in order to get master’s and doctoral degrees. The relationship between A and B, where no matter how trashy the professor’s personality is, must swear allegiance until he puts a passing stamp on his master’s thesis or doctoral dissertation, Director Kang Tae-hun substitutes the relationship between a dwarf and a human.
“That’s why I’m guessing that the Dwarf faction, which has an extremely difficult level of difficulty, will also have more users than the Elves, who are relatively easy to build. It’s going to be difficult to attack, but I think the profits you can get from doing so are much better than the elves.”
Employees who thought deeply about what Manager Kang Tae-hoon said soon began to nod their heads one by one.
“Well…. As the manager said, users who covet the production technology of the Dwarf race will definitely go there.”
“There will be a lot of users who want to buy items made by the dwarves.”
“There is a risk that users’ jobs will be biased toward a specific job, but that’s not something to be concerned about as it’s the same for elves… I think it’ll be okay.”
Everyone started showing favorable reactions as if they agreed with Director Kang Tae-hoon’s idea.
“Now then, let’s skip that part… Let’s review the incidents that encourage conflict in detail…”
-Beep.
A sharp warning sound interrupted Manager Kang Tae-hun’s words. Upon hearing the sound, the faces of the staff in the conference room hardened in an instant.
“Boss? Could that beep beep…?”
“Check your computer. what?”
An alert that sounds when a major inflection point occurs within Arcadia. Recalling that the last time he heard this warning sound was when the Slime King appeared one day and destroyed the novice village, Director Kang Tae-hun felt an unknown chill rush over him.
“Did you check? What is the situation?”
General Manager Kang Tae-Hoon called an employee who was sitting right in front of the computer in an urgent voice and asked. And the employee continued to roll his eyes up and down with an expression of disbelief, read the contents several times, and said.
“The city of the dwarves is…”
“The city of the dwarves is what? How did it go?”
Seeing how shocked he was by the staff who couldn’t even speak properly, Director Kang Tae-hun urged in a high-pitched voice as if he was frustrated. Then, at Director Kang Tae-hun’s urging, he swallowed his saliva and said with a white face.
“Sands of Forge, the underground city of the dwarves… has been opened to users.”
“What what?”
“what….?”
“No, how already…?”
Dwarves and elves that were expected to show up only a year before. It was a big problem just that their city was exposed to users, but Manager Kang Tae-hoon asked again in fright after processing the employee’s words with his brain once again.
“Wait a minute? Not exposed, but open?”
“Yes… it says open.”
“Look at me! hurry!”
“yes….? Ah yes!”
General Manager Kang Tae-hoon hurriedly sat in front of the computer with a blank expression at the employee’s words. After confirming the details, he stood there blankly staring at the computer screen, unable to close his open mouth.
“Deputy manager? Are you okay?”
His appearance seemed completely stunned. The team members who saw it were clearly embarrassed and were busy exchanging glances with each other. And suddenly, Director Kang Tae-hun screamed.
“This crazy…! Aaaaaa!”
[Discovery of the unidentified area Sand of Forge.]
[Acquiring the trust of the dwarves.]
[Forming friendly relations with the dwarves.]
[Opening the Sand of Forge.]
[Warning. Act. 3 Distortions and contradictions in the scenario of ‘Tribal War’ occurred.]
[1231 contaminated related quests.]
[Immediate correction is required.]
It is not just finding the location, but how to build trust with the dwarves and establish friendly relations. user who created it. I don’t know who it was, but because of that, all the scenarios they were preparing were distorted.
“You bastards who won’t be satisfied even if you chew on them! Why the hell! Why is this happening!”
“Calm down, boss!”
“Am I calming down now? uh? Are you saying you know what’s going on?”
General Manager Kang Tae-hun suddenly ran out of control and started screaming and messing around. The staff who surprised him and stopped him. It didn’t take long for them to realize that the quest they had made so far was completely destroyed.
The conference room where the two scenario development teams were gathered. That day, grotesque screams and questionable cries of various voices mingled in the conference room.
* * *
Head Breaker Tane.
Founder of the Hammer Storm.
Guardian of the Sands of Forge.
A hero of the dwarves.
With numerous nicknames, he was literally an idol to the Dwarves.
[Ha ha ha ha. After all, hometown is the best!]
“I really missed you, Tain.”
“Sobbing. You abandoned us and left like that.”
“Do you remember me? This is Bael, whom Tane-nim managed to save in the final battle!”
Dwarves gathered around Jaeyoung and started talking to Tain. Unlike Tane, who spits out a hearty laugh at the sight, Jaeyoung was about to die because the dwarves he didn’t even know came around and asked if he knew who he was.
“Where is your human brother Thein? You are in Dorado, the paradise of dwarves, right?”
A young dwarf who asks with bright eyes. Jaeyoung asked the question with a puzzled look on his face.
“Dora?”
Thein summoned through the Spirit. The place he belonged to is the demon realm ruled by Tan, which is called hell by them, so Jaeyoung tilted her head at the question and glanced at Tan.
“Why are you looking at me? Would that pervert who breaks other people’s earthenware pots with a hammer and feels the joy go to heaven or hell?”
Of course, Tan is making an absurd expression as if asking what kind of heaven he wants after having bought a train ticket to hell. And next to him, L also nodded as if agreeing.
“The war between elves and humans was a noble sacrifice to protect his own race…but his actions of smashing earthenware pots with a hammer…there was obviously a perverted selfishness in it. There were many shortcomings to be reborn as a heavenly being.”
Tane fell into hell under the conviction of the Archangel and the Demon King. However, to the child who was asking with bright eyes whether Tane had gone to heaven, it was a little too much to say that he was sweating with the demons in the infernal hell and carrying out a lively hell routine.
[Hehehehehe… Hey, please don’t tell me where I am…]
Thein asked, as if he were trying to protect the innocence of a child, coughing repeatedly as if he was embarrassed too. At his words, Jaeyoung nodded with the same expression he had when asked if Santa Claus really exists.
“then. Thein is doing very happily in Dorado.”
“Wow! Hey, can you deliver the message to Tane-nim?”
A young dwarf with a wide smile at Jaeyoung’s words and his eyes shining brightly. Jaeyoung nodded and said to him.
“then. Even Tane-sama can hear what you said.”
At those words, the young Dwarf declared with a firm expression as if he had pledged his goal in life.
“When I grow up, I will become a fearless warrior like Tane. So I’m going to join the hammer squad and break the earthenware pots of the fucking elves bravely.”
“…..”
“Then we can meet again later in our paradise, Dorado, right?”
The young dwarf smiled broadly, saying that he would voluntarily buy a ticket for the express train to hell. At that moment, Jae-young was engulfed in serious thought whether to protect the young dwarf’s pure innocence or save the lamb’s soul.
