Chapter 153 - Challenge Accepted  

Rudra naturally saw the open challenge as messages from guild members flooded his inbox. Although nobody in the guild knew his dual identity as Augustus Won Knight , he was the only person in contact with the man , hence he was messaged about the situation.

The messages varied from. " Guild leader , the alliance just challenged one of our own ".

To Karna's message of " Guild master , the clowns are provoking our patience , please give permission to put them in their place !".

Rudra was shocked when he read Karna's message , and secretly very very glad . As this was exactly the attitude he wanted in the vice guildmaster of the elites.

Cold , arrogant and a shield for the guild.

Rudra was conflicted for the first time , on wether or not he should actually let Karna take lead on this one.

Rudra was naturally confident in his skills as he thought nothing of the six alliance experts . He would ve naturally settled the matter himself , however after seeing Karna's attitude , he wondered if it was okay to let him take the lead on this incident.

After much deliberation, he decided that instead of going to the challenge arena alone , he would bring Karna alongside himself , taking both of them there.

Rudra from Augustus Won Knight's account posted the reply " Ill be there " on the forums.

And from his original account Shakuni , replied to Karna " Accompany Augustus to the arena , meet him outside the guild headquarters in 30 minutes ".

With this the challenge was set in stone. Only a matter of time before the clash occured.

----------

( Real world , The Grey international tower , the upside )

Ethan Grey had finally formulated the ultimate opportunistic plan to deal a heavy blow to the Ambani corporation.

After days of carefull planning , he saw a big opening that he could exploit to drive the Ambani corporation out of buisness .

After the series of firings that took place using the twins , there were many top performing workers who knew company secrets that were left jobless. Ethan Grey swooped in as a vulture as he recruited a few special ones , and learnt a lot of insider information regarding the Ambani corporation.

The Ambani corporation's backbone was its oil company Ambani oil , that was the soul of the company.

The millions of litres of oil pumped daily from their oil extraction sites inside the ocean off the coast of country X , was the most important source of capital for the company.

The liquid gold that the Ambani's sold at a sky high prize was the highest revenue generator for the corporation for the last 40 years.

In 2091 when the world exhausted its resources , the Ambani corporation declared themseleves to have enough petroleum to supply for next 20 years !

This was the major turning point of the company as in the company's history as the next 5 years changed everything ! Having the only oil monopoly in the world the Ambani's charged and increased the rates of petrol however they wished to.

Facing no competition , they flourished in the market making Ambani a trillionare in the first 5 years! , 5 years later now however all was not as it seemed.

On paper it seemed like the Ambani corporation had enough petroleum to last another 10 years , however the internal situation was such that the oil would run out within a year.

The Ambani corporation miscaculated the consumption , as the demand far exeeded their calculations , having them run out in half the estimated time.

Ambani had tried to renew his insurance of the plant in 2100 , after it expired , however the insurance company needed to verify the oil quantities and look at the inside books to grant the insurance.

Ambani could not let it happen , as it would lead to his biggest secret being revealed . Hence his insurance had expired just recently , and soon the oil reserve would end out.

Ethan licked his lips at the opportunity , he did not wish to wait for a year ..... Knowing for sure from the poached talent that there was no insurance in place. He would now directly blow up the entire plant .

And after Ambani's loose their central revenue stream , and there is market panic as their shares loose value. He would continue an even bigger string of firings using the twins. And sell a few key company properties.

Finally to deliver the nail on the coffin , he would dumb the 20 % market share that the twins held , over a single day , pushing the investor panick to the maximum and sending the company's stock crashing into freefall.

To stop such an event from happening Ambani would surely try and buy the 20% shares that the twins dumped at market price. Which would lead to him sending trillions of dollars of liquid money to stabilize the company.

Without the main revenue stream and deprived of trillions in cash , and key employees , the company would face an alltime high calamity.

Then Ethan would take his time to piece bt piece supress Ambani into selling little chunks of his buisness , untill he was left a beggar.

Ethan made his mind clear .... It was time to blow up the petroleum mine in the ocean!

------

( In an open plot in the outer district , the challenge location )

A crowd of nearly 80,000 players had gathered at the coordinates of the open challenge.

As Augustus Won Knight and Karna waltzed past the group in their majestic black true elites robes and thr signature grey wolf mounts , the crowd parted to make way for them .

Everyone looked in awe and respect at the passing duo , as chants of the ' Masked Devil ' , rained from the crowd.

With the occasional chant of ' Karna i love you ! ' from some female adventurer who supposedly had a crush on Karna.

However otherwise the atmosphere was serious and energetic , as at the centre were the six guild leaders of the alliance , standing with about 500 guild members and the six champions from their guilds.

Seeing the masked devil , many alliance members eyes turned bloodshot , and manys cowered in fear.

Scorpio was the former as he glared at Rudra saying " You actually dared to come ... Indeed a madman ! ".

/// Bonus for reaching 1100 golden tickets! Thank-you for the overwhelming support.?3rd for the day , hope you guys enjoy it.

Also a big Thankyou , we have reached 5000 privilage unlocks this month soo far , and it has been a gratifying experience for me . ///