Rudra was sitting with the elders in the guild hall listening from SMG about the intelligence reports that needed to be discussed. 

In Rudra's past life , Demolitionboys had gained control over Purplehaze city. They had ran rampant in the city's management and were kicked out of power in the 3rd year for failing annual inspection twice. 

It was mainly because the guild was only focused on leaching gold of the territory and levied high taxes upon high taxes on the citizens. They expanded the military and spent a majority of the budget there , while not really developing the territory or providing benefits for that high tax rate at all. 

This resulted in lowering of the population in the capital and loss of public order. It came as no surprise as they failed their inspection twice in their second and third year in power .

With the fall of the alliance , there was a vacuum of major players in Purplehaze city. The other first rate guilds of Hazelgroove knew this , and they were hungry for this territory. 

According to SMG's intelligence report , a total of 171 third rate guilds , 52 second rate guilds , and 13 first rate guilds were willing to seriously deploy their forces to conquer Purplehaze city. 

Purplehaze city being the capital city was naturally the most sought after territory in Hazelgroove kingdom. The recent power vacuum had resulted in drawing a lot of wolves who were hungry for a piece of the pie. 

The sheer number of guilds shocked Rudra , there were only a total of 28 first rate guilds in entire Hazelgroove kingdom , for 13 of them to compete together for a single territory was not what he expected. 

In his past life there were the seven alliance guilds and Orange rock guild who were stationed in Purplehaze city , who competed along with two other first rate guilds bringing the total to ten for the city management rights.

With him routing Orange rock guild and the seven alliance guilds from Purplehaze city , he assumed he would have a smooth sailing ahead with no real competition or a maximum of 3 other first rate guilds competing with him. However , he was very wrong in this assumption. 

He patted himself on the back for having asked for the help of the Elven Division as without them , the odds of his guild coming out on top were very slim.

The first rate guilds that were participating all had atleast 100,000 members taking part in the event. Even if the average strength was weak and it took them 3 players to slay a beast in ten minutes on average , it was still 33,000 beasts slain . 

The Elites having about 1300 assault squad players would not have been able to match that output alone. Assuming each elite can slay 2 beasts every ten minutes alone. It would still be 2600 beasts. Even with the archballistae firing continually it would bring their output to about 22,600 beasts or so per ten minutes. In the duration of 48 hours even if they managed to secure the extra 100,000 points token , it would still be a wide gap that they could not have filled. 

Even with Legolas and his ten thousand strong archer division that were currently much stronger than the average player base at level 75 and tier 1. He assumed that the archers would take down about 3 beasts in ten minutes themselves making the Elites kill count to about 52,600 beasts every ten minutes. 

This would be fine if the opposing guild only had 100,000 members. But there were three first rate guilds from other big cities in Hazelgroove namely 

Frozen thorns ( 330,000 members ) 

Eternal rebels ( 275,000 members ) 

Twisting serpants ( 295,000 members ) 

That worried Rudra a lot , these three massive guilds had chosen to set sights upon Purplehaze city. Now it was true that they also had about 50-75,000 members fighting in other places making use of the feature to fight at three locations . 

The intelligence report suggested about 250,000 members fighting in Purplehaze from these three guilds. This put their kill count close to a terrifying 100,000 beasts for every ten minutes passed. 

Although , killing a beast would not provide one merit point and hence merit points and beasts slain were not proportional. Killing some beasts such as wyverns and three horned bulls would give 5 merit points per kill. Some beasts such as common fox and mutated sheep would only give a 0.1 merit point per beast slain . 

Hence although the victory and defeat was not purely dependant on number of beast slain , Rudra and his guild still stood a fair chance in this competition. But it was true that with the three titans also competing for Purplehaze , the race had gotten a lot more tougher.

The intelligence report was worrisome , however just when Rudra was contemplating about what to do to normalise this disadvantage , a servant came in to the conference room and said 

" Guild leader Rudra , Patricia won knight is here for a visit ". 

Rudra's eyes sparkled .... Help had arrived! 

When Rudra had visited Patricia he had requested her that she lend him a part of the Won Knights soldier division to help him protect Purplehaze city. 

Patricia knew that it was a shameless request and in reality Rudra wanted to use the won knight forces to secure his place as the guild leader who managed Purplehaze city. But since , Rudra would use the Won Knight forces to indeed fight against the beast tide , she said she would give him a reply after thinking about it. 

The won knight forces were ordered by the Emperor to fight against the coming beast tide , as a independent military unit under Patricia. However , Patricia decided to lend 15,000 of the 100,000 strong division under her to Rudra . 

She said " I will give u 15,000 troops , you better slay a lot of berserk beasts kid and return the soldiers back unharmed , or else you will have an extremely rough time in your next visit to won knight mansion , consider this as a favour as I donot wish to see you fail in gaining the management rights to the city , it is a show of faith as I assume you will do a good job of managing it. Donot let me down younger brother. ". 

Rudra launched into a hug , Patricia was a lifesaver. With the won knight soldiers also helping him he was now much more confident in winning the competition. 

/// Bonus chapter for hitting the powerstone target ! Good job you all , you have already hit the next target at 1000 tickets , seems like I can't keep up at all! 

One more bonus for golden tickets coming up next !

The book just hit a milestone at 200 chapters! Congratulations to us all! ///