Chapter 181: A new beginning

Server update was finally launched. Every player was teleported outside the game as the server underwent a 6 hour mandatory upgrade. 

Rudra chose to spend this time with his family in his home. After a long time , he sat with Max to help with school homework and helped his mom do dishes. 

He only noticed today , how his father had adapted to his retirement. His father was much happier , he was struggling with what to do throughout the day , as he no longer needed to work . 

He was a bit awkward around the house , as his initial phase of just relaxing through his retirement had worn off. Even the next phase of pursuing his hobbies had became boring now. 

He was looking for something tangible , while relaxing at home. All this translated into him giving more time and attention to Max and his mom. 

Max was happier than ever , he hardly met dad before , as he would usually come in after Max's bed time , and would be sleeping when he went to school. 

His mom's health saw an significant improvement and Rudra was grateful for that. Her mom had joined a parent group here and she was very vocal about how proud she was of her son. 

The new pastime of his mom and dad was that they kept looking for what their son did , they would watch news , read articles , meet other parents from the True Elites guild. 

His father dint show it , however he was more proud of him than his mother. He would always tell him that don't run behind money , run behind excellence , money would follow. 

And somewhere , somehow , Rudra's ideology about the True Elites came from there. His father used to work with a small company when Rudra was a kid , and his father seemed happy at that time. He spent lots of time with Rudra and smiled a lot. 

When his father changed jobs and started working for a big corporate company , although the pay increased , he stopped seeing his father around the house and he could see that he was not happy. 

Also experiencing the corporate side of the world himself in his past life. He was firm in his concept of the True Elites. 

A guild that bonds because everyone in it is an equal. The guild had the most relaxed form of heirchy , where even though there was a guild leader , vice guild leader and elders. Those were roles without any real abuse of power.  Held by people who treated their subordinates as if they were their equal. 

The respect Karna and Rudra and the other Elders had from the members was because of their skills and their contribution to the guild and not because they were forced to. 

Their faith in Rudra stemmed from his character and his ability to see any situation through. The perfect way to describe the atmosphere in the guild was their slogan , where every single member would fight for the guild , and the guild would fight for every single member. 

After the six hours were up , Rudra went back to his room , to his bed , where the gaming helmet laid , he sighed looking at it , as he thought " one month till the pods are released .... , Maybe i will gift the entire guild one , No , i' ll make Ethan gift the guild one. " 

The fully functional gaming pod would be released in a month , and it would provide much better immersion , the difference between the helmet and the gaming pod was like the difference between 720 and 1080 pixel picture quality.

Although 720 can give more than satisfactory experience , nothing beats that 1080 quality. 

Logging into the game , he first saw a mandatory patch notice screen , listing all the updates , as the AI narrated everything written inside. 

This was the way that Cuber corporation ensured that even those who missed the system notification , would understand the changes in the game. 

Even though Rudra knew everything that was going to be said , he paid rapt attention to what the AI spoke , making sure that he missed nothing out. 

After 3 minutes of reading all the patch notes. A screen appeared asking him whether he wanted to continue forward or hear the patch notes again. 

He chose to continue , and was teleported back in the game . 

Rudra spawned back in the guild headquarters in PurpleHaze city , as he looked around he found the familiar faces of the elites all around him .

The guild members were chatting leisurely as they checked out the new map , and as expected the NPC kingdoms were now displayed in Grey , marked in the map. The player inhabited kingdoms were marked in blue. And no man's lands were marked in red. 

A new path opened from Hazelgroove that connected it to the elf kingdom, that area before the update had no path , and only had a level 60 monster levelling ground , however now the forest expanded also having level 70, 80 , 90 and 100 monster grounds .The start of the road towards the Elf kingdom hung a warning sign that said that although the road was usually safe , there was always a possibility of a wild monster accidentally stumbling onto the road , hence adventurers were cautioned to travel at their own risk. Rudra was sure that in spite of the warning today itself there would be hundreds of thousands of players who would want to go to that kingdom 

And they were not wrong to do so , as even he wanted to go there , there was a quest in that kingdom , that if completed , would greatly increase his odds of getting the management rights for PurpleHaze city. 

He would need a crew for this one , he could not do it alone. If it was before he would have just chosen Karna and Medivh to tag along , however now that Jhonny English and Yume joined the guild , he wondered if he should go with them instead? 

The task needed a crew of four people , Karna had to come as he was the luckiest bas**** to walk god's green Earth. The other two choices had many potential entrants , PinkLotus , Naomi , Bo , Skyla , Rhino , Cola. Everyone would bring value to the table.

Just whom to choose? 

/// Bonus chapter for reaching the golden ticket target. Lol reaching it would be an understatement , you guys double reached it. Okay take this as one bonus , the other one will be coming out too! 

I'm back at regular pace and back with bonuses. 

Shoutout to Longslumber and The Noone for the 500 coin gifts! Glad to see the appreciation to my work! ///