[4] Neo Steam – Guild Wars

Rope Isle – Iron Base
-year 1028

The sky of Rope isle is shadowed by a fleet of 7 Zeppelins all directed to Iron Base, the outpost of Rogwel in rope, once landed the whole guild of Signa Infero come out of the Zeppelins one by one.
“So Scarlet, what's the road to the mine?” said Dev while checking her bow
“Hmm...Let's see...” Scarlet took out a map from her pocket “First we take a balloon from this city to Arbritation town, and from there we take the canon to Conviction town...” she didn't managed to finish her explanation when a man holding a gun interrupts her “A canon?! Your kidding me, I won't be shot with a canon, what are we a circus?”
“Calm down Rag, it's perfectly safe, actually the canon invented by the crones is really a nice peace of engineering, I will really love to get the blueprints for it” said Celtic, the main Artefact Maker of the guild
“The shooter is afraid to be shooted? Ahahahaha”
“Shut up Mic, if I say I won't do it I won't, i'll be using my rider from arbritation to conviction, end of the story” shouted Rag with an angry voice
“Whatever, let's just move, from conviction we will use our riders to cross the volcanic area and finally reach our destination, be always ready for combat, probably we will encounter monsters and elerd guilds on our way” replied Scarlet with a pissed tone.
And so the whole guild started moving, after a few hours of waiting in conviction, Rag reunited with rest of the guild, and together they moved forward the energy stone mine, on their way they did only random fights with monsters, strangely no elerds in sight, finally after five hot hours of riding in the hellish volcano region they reached their destination, members of the crom race where already there working in the mine, they where the ones that found the mine but they'll gladly sell their loyalty to anyone, as long as no harm is done to them.
“Bzz...Bzz...Welcome the the...bzz...central excavating point of...bzz...the energy stone mine..bzz” a crom greeted them, they are survivors of an ancient race of part mechanical and part living beeings race almost disappeared from the rest of the world, only in Rope they still survive, they form the third faction in Rope, neutral, they work for both elerd and rogwel without distinction and refuse any kind of violence on them or on their territories.
“Yes, thank you, I'm Scarlet leader of the Guild Signa Infero, from now on we will take possession of the mine, all the energy stones are to be transferred to the dock 9 of the Iron Base”
“Bzz...Info registered...bzz...Transferring of stones will be done as soon as possible...bzz”
“Ok, the easy part is done, now we have to maintain the mine, we shall divide in groups and patrol the area, Dev, Dekas and Watter take the south side, Mic, Rag and Baka take the east side, Nico, Miin and Kubol the west side, to the north there is only mountains and after the sea so there is no need to patrol there, all the others stay here in case anyone manages to pass, I and Celtic will go to iron base to arrange the cargoes”
The night fallen and the area was awfully quiet while they patrolled the area
“I can't wait, for every cargo we send we will have one and a half million each, we will be rich in no time!” said Watter with a greedy spark in his eyes
“We will get one million each, the rest of the money goes the the guild bank, for the young recruits that didn't accompany us in this expedition and for the guild supplies, if we give all the money to you we won't even have food to eat” replied Dekas
“You can't really speak about money Dekas, if I'm not wrong aren't you the one that is always without money? Oh and I almost forgot, you still owe me ten millions, when will you repay me?” said Dev while laughing
“Ah, dam...i hopped you'll forget about that....” while the three spoke a group of elerds was observing them from the shadows, waiting for the chance to strike, then like a flash they attacked
“What is that noise?....Watch out, enemies!!!” shouted Watter
“Get back Watter, and summon your sabber!” the three of them where caught by surprise, in front of them they had one warrior and one paladin, the warrior rushed for Dekas and the paladin for Dev, thanks to her incredibly agility Dev managed to shoot a poisoned arrow to the paladin this poison slowed his reaction and gave time to Dev to take her distance, on the other hand Dekas was having a hard time with the warrior, a beautiful elf warrior, even thought her beauty was on par with her strength, every blow was heavy and Dekas hardly managed to keep defending himself while waiting for a chance to counter attack
“May I know who I have the pleasure to fight Miss?” asked Dekas with ironic tone
“....I'm Valeska from DoE, remember my face because it's the last thing you'll see” saying that she hitted with incredible force making Dekas fly several meters through the air, but he managed to block the hit with the sword, Dev on the other side had almost got the paladin when he retrated out of Dev's bow range, this made her a bit overconfident and didn't noticed that behind her Watter was lying on the ground dead, an assassin ambushed her while she was summoning her saber and was dead before she had the time to react, and now that same assassin was rushing for Dev, Dekas with the corner of the eye sow the assassin but didn't had the time to warn his friend, Dev was heavily injured and was lying unconscious on the ground
“You should never take off the eyes off your enemy in a battle!” said Valeska while giving a powerful blow on Dekas's right side, he managed to block the attack with his arm, but by doing so his right arm was totally smashed, dripping with blood he jumped back
“Dam it, this is really a bad situation, I think for now i'll have to retreat” saying that Dekas took out a venom bottle full of root poison and throw it at Valeska imprisoning her, and at the same time he took out a bottle of stun poison too, and throw it at the assassin near Dev, after he rushed near devs body and summoned his Gear pet
“Gear activate teleport, take us out of here!”
“Right away master, Teleport in 6...5...4...”
“See you another time my beautiful Valeska!”
“...2...1...Teleport activated!”

To be continued...