<h4>Chapter 325 - Finding Rhodium</h4>


    Rhodium was abundant inside the valley of crystals , however usually they were small Crystal''s, the size of a palm. What Rudra needed was a rarer type of Rhodium deposit , that was as big as a house. It typically needed 40 years to build up , and would only be found at ces with abundant mana. Hence why the nocturnal worms were also found near it.


    Even after 2 days of looking for it , no clues were found and the party members started to get anxious , the valley of crystals was big , but that big that it could not bepletely scouted in 2 days time.


    However what even proffesional miners could not find , was found by heaven''s son Karna , identally at that. While bored Karna decided to spar with Neatwit for a while , and in the intense battle he needed to rely on mind''s eyes. When he activated it though , he could percieve the terrain around him differently , as he located the rhodium deposit!!!


    It was 35 meters below ground , as nearly 16 earthworms surrounded it , mining it would be a very difficult task. While the miners saw no sign of Rhodium being 35 meters below where Karna had indicated , Rudra had full faith in the son of Providence.


    Hence under Karna''s direction , the team started mining under Karna''s direction.


    Whenever an earthworm would pop up ,?the 12 Elites would use teamwork to swiftly deal with them , as they gained bountiful experience points from it.


    Finally after ,2 more days of hardwork , they killed all 16 Earthworms and excavated the Rhodium.


    Much to the surprise of the miners it was legit a 50 meter cube piece of Rhodium. They questioned Karna about his methods , but naturally Karna would not let his secrets out soo easliy. However the important part was that all the necessary parts had been obtained !


    Now started thebourous process of bringing it back home safely.


    Firstly a ramp had to be dug out with a 15° inclination that connected the surface to the Rhodium deposit , as 300 horses and 500 ves pulled it hard just to load it on the wooden wheel tform that Fatty Ksh built.


    Hence started the slow March back home , where the glowing Rhodium was slogged by 500 ves , guarded by 500 soldiers and overseen by 12 Elites!


    However the slow journey back home was anything but pleasant , the rhodium that had been nourished by mana for decades attracted too many monsters , as Rudra lost soldiers to scuffles every hour.


    Even if Rudra himself took action ,there was a limit as to what he could do alone , he could not protect the safety of the entire contingent , there were bound to be some dy at his arrival , however the soldiers of his city at tier one were genuinely no match for these 80-85 level insects , they were easliy skewered.


    The initial party of 500 ves and 500 soldiers was reduced to a party of 350 ves and 450 soldiers at the end of one day of travel.


    This led to a further reduction of speed, as the 350 ves had an increasingly difficult time in pulling the weight .


    Having no choice left , the horses from the dead soldiers had to be used to supplement the shortage ofbor force , which helped alleviate some of the immediate speed problems .


    However what the group was not aware of was the fact that they were marching towards a extremelyrge ambush contingent of angry Rebels .


    Edge was furious at the way his party was annihted in the crystal valley , and decided to take revenge at any and all costs , as he marched 20,000 guild members towards the path back to purplehaze city , waiting to ambush theing Elite party.


    This was a fact that Rudra did not know as of yet , as a day''s journey seperated the ambushing party and the Elites . The Elites were walking into a trap of a size they could not handle .


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    ( Real world , Country X )


    Bo was extremely excited to do mercenary work again , especially alongside sir Jhonny . To build a good impression , he worked extra hard , in getting the details of all the members that needed to be assasinated , and the best chance to kill them all was inside the senate. Where they would all gather together.


    Bo , thought of everything from poisoning their food and water , to assasinating them through bathroom , and enthusiastically discussed it with Jhonny English , however Jhonny remained unimpressed.?As each n that Bo said had some evident w or the other.


    Bo kept looking at Jhonny for answers to such problems , however all he could see Jhonny doing all day was behave like an actual tourist , going to tourist locations and eating local delicacies . Bo could not understand what his n was at all!


    However things seemed to progress in a positive direction , when Jhonny rented a hotel near the senate , from where he set up surveince on the street!


    Bo was getting more and more anxious as two days passed without them taking any actions . Jhonny had told Ethan he would wrap this up within 7 days , yet at day 3 they had absolutely no n to move forward at all!


    Finally breaking silence Bo asked " Sir .... Soo I have proposed all these ns to you , which one do you think we should go forward with? If none of them satisfy you , please guide me and teach me what I am doing wrong ".


    Jhonny said " Your n to gather them all at one ce is not bad Bo , but the senate is a ce that is very heavily protected , also there are friendly ministers inside there too , unless you can ensure killing them all without causing chaos , which is impossible , it''s not advisable to carry out assasination in the only political house of a nation".


    Bo said " But sir , the time limit , if we kill one or two , the others will be ced under police protection or underground safehouses , it would get very difficult to kill them all ".


    Jhonny was irked by the kid , he was too smart for his own good , Jhonny could not tell him that he had absolutely no n , that he just rolled with whatever happened . Hence Jhonny raised his tone and said " Boy assasination takes patience ..... ". Taking a gun from his bag , Jhonny cocks the gun and loads it pointing it at the window.


    He said " do you think it''s as easy as cocking a gun and shooting your enemy? ".


    Jhonny shot the bullet out of the window just to make a point.


    However , that stray bullet , hit the neck of Mithun Ambani''s son , who was visiting the bar across the street and had just excited his Rolls Royce, before his private security could even react , before he could even take a second step to stand up and get out of the car properly , he died !


    There was mass panick down the street , as Jhonny nced over , and told Bo in a deep voice " For me it is ".