Rise Of The Ussr In Another World - Volume 1 Chapter 9 New Mission

[A/N : From this chapter onwards, all the thoughts of the MC will be encased within first brackets, (). Thank You for your support]

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The iconic flag he had asked tailor Joey to make had been completed and was delivered on time as promised, and he was satisfied with it. The familiar, red flag with the golden, hammer, sickle and star. A symbol of power, a symbol of hope and a symbol of sacrifice, the flag was much more than just a flag. It represented the very soul of the Soviet Union, it was the banner which had united people of different religions, ages and status under one impetus and one notion. The 25 silver coins which he paid for this flag were well spent. The flag was just small enough to be held upright by a single person, any larger and it would take more than one man to keep it steady. But Add didn’t furl it right away. That had to be done on a special day, when he could proclaim the existence of his power to the world, for when the red flag flew for the first toime, the world was bound to change in more than one ways. For now, it was kept safely in the study.

The day when the new recruits would arrive, finally came. Kent had managed to gather 91 new men for expanding the guards. Almost all of them were from farming households, while some also came from relatively better families. Add had allowed the cadets a rest from training as he had to manage the new recruits, but they had to be present at the field to maintain order. The recruits began arriving from early morning, and the last of them, finally arrived by midday. With the cadets and few servants maintaining order, the new recruits were made to stand in lines of ten and the cadets then moved to make the last two lines. Kent and a few soldiers were standing behind Add watching over in curiosity. After everyone had settled down, Add began speaking,

“I welcome you all to the Weismann estate. I believe all of you know me, but still, let me formally introduce myself. I am Marquis Adolf Kaiser Weismann, the lord of this territory, and starting from today, I will be your employer, and your instructor as well.”

“From this day forth, you all will undergo training to become proper soldiers, and once the training begins, none of you will be allowed to leave without completing it, that is unless I personally kick you out. And in all honesty, the training will be very harsh. So if anyone wants to quit, now’s your last chance. After this I will accept no withdrawals. ”

During the silence that followed, Add waited for any of the new recruits to protest, but no one did. After all, even if he was famous as a good for nothing young master by all people in his territory, most people did not have the guts to provoke him face to face, and now that they had come here, backing out would surely anger the lord, or so the young recruits thought. As a result, no one rejected, and he continued his words.

He then told them how they should address him and each other, and briefly mentioned the few rules they must follow. He didn’t explain much as he had already told the cadets to do much of the explaining to the new recruits, later including familiarising the new recruits with all the areas of the estate and the various jobs they had to do. After that, he ordered the cadets to lead the recruits to their barracks. The guard barracks was not very big, and it could only hold around 50 people, and that was with four people bunking in one room. There was a guesthouse built for any guests, who might arrive, but it was never used. Add had it cleaned up and let the remaining recruits stay there.

The past two days he had taught the cadets to read time on the clock. Although they could not read what was written on the clock, they could remember the symbols at least. Add told them that the clock would ring every day in the morning and evening, when the short hand pointed at the symbol ‘5’, and the big hand pointed at the symbol 12. In the morning when the clock rang, all of the cadets had to wake up and they had to be at the field before the short hand went to 6. Again in the evening, the clock showed 6 they would be dismissed from training. With some difficulty he was able to engrave this basic time table into most of the cadets, especially the younger ones, and the others should also learn it soon . The cadets for their part were very amused with this little thing called ‘clock’.

After the new recruits had been sent to settle, Add once again left for the forests. The [Shadow Knights] had dutifully increased his level 20, but after that the rise in Exp. had stopped. Through the status, he knew that the two knights were still alive (if they could be considered living in the first place), but for some reason, they were no longer killing any monsters. Since he gave the cadets the day off, he decided to check up on the two knights. This time he didn’t bring anyone with him. After reaching the forest, he tied his horse to a tree and confirming there were no humans around, took out his AK-47 and M20-A pistol. Sitting in the shade of a tree He dismantled both guns one after the other and cleaned them with a cloth.

“A soldier’s weapon was his lifeline, as such, you must always keep it clean and in operational conditions, even a single grain of sand can cause your weapon to fail in the most critical moments!”

His instructors had always thundered in their lessons. It had become one of those everyday habits which had long since been engraved in his mind. The guns had been used for a short time only so he didn’t need to do much work. The maintenance finished shortly afterwards. Add then purchased a set of military uniform with forest camouflage. It had a pair of trousers, a shirt, a cap, a pair of socks , a pair of standard army boots, a tactical belt and even a pair of undergarments. The set cost a total of 1,000 CP but it was well spent. He kept some additional magazines for both the AK and the M20, in his tactical belt. The rifle was hung in front of his body with a two point (quick adjust) sling, while the pistol went into his thigh holster which he had purchased from the system shop. Now he looked like a complete soldier, well a soldier in his mid teens.

He had not focused on his stats in a while, so he allocated them before going in the forest. He planned to go deeper today, in search of more monsters to hunt.

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STATUS

Name : Add

Race : Human

HP : 300/300

MP : N/A (Locked)

Level : 20 | Experience Required : 538/9623

Class : N/A

Subclass : N/A

Title : N/A

Passive Skills :

[Unarmed Combat Mastery Lv. 20 (MAX)]

[Knife Mastery Lv. 20(MAX)]

[Firearms Mastery Lv. 20 (Max)]

[Body Strengthening (Passive) Lv. 6/20]

[Accelerated Healing (Passive) Lv. 7/20]

Active Skills :

N/A

Special Skills :

[Calm Mind (Passive) Lv. 20(Max)]

[Imaginary Time (Active) Lv. 1/20]

[Contract(Active) Lv. 1/20]

Credit Points : 38,200

ATTRIBUTES :

Vitality : 6

Strength : 15

Agility : 12

Defence: 10

Intelligence : 5

Wisdom : 6

Stamina : 10

Charm :3

Magic Aptitude : N/A (Locked)

Stat Points : 0

Skill Points : 20

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After allotting his stat points, he returned to the area, where he had last left the [Shadow Knights]. Because of the contract, he could mentally message them over small distances, and though it was not possible from the estate, but now the distance was within range. Shortly after entering the forest he could sense that the two were nearby. With a thought in his mind, the two [Shadow Knights] abandoned whatever they were doing, and returned towards Add. After around 15 minutes, the two arrived before Add. They were quite dirty as a result of wandering the forests with mud, small twigs and leaves sticking here and there. There were also traces of blood on their swords and armour, proof that they had indeed been killing monsters.

“Why did you two stop hunting monsters ?”

“Master we could not find any more monsters to kill” replied one of the knights. Their tone was mechanical, and resembled those computerised voices which replied when you called some customer service. Add nodded, it was unlikely that these [Shadow Knights] would slack off. The system told him that though they would need periodical rest, but they would always dutifully fulfil the orders given to them.

When he checked their status, he saw that there was some decrease in their hit points. Using some CP he repaired them and then ordered them to follow him. They moved together deeper into the forest but, for a long time, Add spotted no monsters, aside from some small critters. He reasoned that the [Shadow Knights] must have killed most of the monsters, and the others must have run away because of them. He decided to change directions, and moved towards an area where the [Shadow Knights] had not ventured previously. He kept his vigilance, as he checked his surroundings and after walking for over two hours across the dense woods he finally found fresh looking tracks of goblins, and followed them. The dense jungle was making it harder for him to proceed. Still, he had not seen a single goblin yet even after walking around for two hours. But after a few more minutes, he reached a place which appeared somewhat strange.

(This looks like a camp?)

The place looked like a goblin camp. There were tracks of them everywhere on the ground, in some places, bones of animals were also lying about. He could also smell the revolting odour of those creatures in the air.

“But where did they go?”

He looked around for a bit more, before deciding to move on following other tracks which left the camp. Add felt something was wrong. He had not even seen the shadow of a single goblin since he entered the forest and now even this goblin camp looked like it was abandoned recently. He followed the tracks which went away from the camp, and still did not spot any goblins. But then, after searching for a while more, he felt something was off. He looked back, his gaze intensely scanning the undergrowth. Within moments tens of goblins flooded out of the surroundings. Looking closely there were some new types of goblins mixed in them.

These were not the normal goblins. These had stronger bodies and held rusty weapons swords, daggers and spears, probably plundered from humans. Add scrunched his brows. This time they were a lot more than any group he had tackled before. He then tuned his eyes behind him. His face was cold as he looked before him. Another large group of goblins had blocked his path from the back. He looked around, and more goblins were appearing from the surrounding thickets. He also saw a few goblins holding bows and arrows sitting on trees some distance away from him

“Looks like I stirred the hornet’s nest this time….”

The goblins had surely planned an ambush here. It seems they were planning on dealing with the [Shadow Knights] that had been hunting them for the past few days. He understood that in this situation, he had no way of getting out without a fight. Any other person being surrounded by so many goblins might feel fear, but Add was calm. He signalled the [Shadow Knights] to guard his back and readied his rifle.

“This day is getting better by the minute….well if you want to die that badlyI will surely help you”

He quickly purchased some 100 round magazines for his AK-47 and loaded one, focusing his attention all around him. The sun was gradually setting, drowning the forest in a murky red hue. The goblins’ yellow eyes were bloodshot as they gazed at the Add and the [Shadow Knights]. They had surrounded him from all sides, making sure he was unable to escape and were slowly approaching.*Gigigigi* *Gigigigi* *Gigigigi* they continuously growled and roared and then rushed to attack him.

They charged at him from all sides. Add put the rifle in a better position. He placed the trigger arm down and kept it pulled in tight to the body, to create a smaller target for the enemy and give greater manoeuvrability. His left hand grasped the fore-end from the side, to give more certain control over side-to-side movement of the muzzle during rapid fire and support. He slightly hunched forward putting more weight over the gun for better recoil control, and to reduce stumbling. While his head was straight, his cheeks pressing against the stock. This was the best tactical standing position to shoot while on the move. The selector was on full auto as he didn’t have to worry for bullets being wasted as there was a dense horde of targets. Add looked coldly at them, he waited till they were hundred metres away from him and then fired.

“Die”

*RATATATATA*

All the bravado displayed by the huge goblins shattered instantly vanished as they were filled with holes with holes, although the AK-47 had poor accuracy, at less than 100 metres it was adequately accurate. The imposing goblin horde had been mostly slaughtered. The [Shadow Knights] also did their job, defending Add from behind, making sure no goblin was able to attack him from the back. He also noticed that the goblins were targeting the [Shadow Knights] much more than they were targeting him, it seemed that the [Shadow Knights] had been hunting goblins for the past days, and so the hatred.

*RATATATATA*

As the melody of the Kalashnikov echoed in the forest, the gun slaughtered the goblins like pigs on a chopping board. Even before one could reach Add they all died. There were some goblin archers around but due to him moving around quickly, they were unable to aim accurately, an arrow flew by Add exposing the location of an archer. After 3 shots a body dropped from the trees. He kept moving forward killing anything that came towards him, leaving behind only corpses. Another goblin lunged at him from the back but, a [Shadow Knights] chopped its head off.

Again, arrows began raining on him, some hit the [Shadow Knights] but had no effect on their tough bodies. He quickly took cover behind a tree and looked around, soon he found goblins on trees shooting the arrows. He killed a few of them before the rest jumped down and retreated. But more goblins with swords and spears were rushing towards him. They were shrieking loudly and their vicious teeth were on full display as if wanting to tear him to pieces, the deaths of so many of their kin must have enraged them. From all directions, the goblins swarmed towards Add, as if they were hell-bent of drinking his blood. He frowned at this, and crouched down on one knee to take a stable position.

“No matter how many of you come, you still will die” He lightly said as he detached his now empty magazine and put a new one.

The rattle of the rifle echoed in the forest as goblin after goblin died. Their murky blackish blood drenched the land. But their companions didn’t care about that, they stepped over the dead goblins and kept charging at Add. He ordered the two [Shadow Knights] to give up attacking and focus on defending him from the front and back. There was a saying which said that even a tiger could be bitten to death by a swarm of ants. The goblins seemed to follow this very faithfully. They just kept coming, one after the other. Thanks to the two [Shadow Knights], who kept taking all the hits for him, he was able to effortlessly shoot down any goblin that skimmed past the two [Shadow Knights]. As the battle waged on, more and more goblins kept dying. Their initial numbers had dwindled, and they were still unable to reach Add. Realizing that they could not win and watching so many of their kind die, many goblins were so terrified that they ran away. He finished off the few remaining ones who still wanted to attack, and soon all that was left of the large horde were mutilated bodies which were strewn all around, giving off the pungent smell of blood and gore, along with the stink of goblins; it would make one want to vomit. Add however, was used to such scenes and didn’t mind it.

[Ding! You have killed Goblin x 173]

[Ding you have received 17300 Exp. and 8650 CP]

[Ding! You have levelled up!]

[Current Level 21. Exp. 8215/10320]

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After level 20, the exp required increased by a lot. Killing so many goblins just got him 1 level. The system argued that it was for fairness and what not, leaving Add with a headache. According to the System, the Exp. required will increase by a large margin every 20 levels, and this meant more and more grinding would be required for levelling up in the future. But it was something which had to be done. He knew very well that he was still too weak for this world’s standards. If he did not have the help of the system, he would probably have not survived the encounter with the horned rabbit. He was trained to fight humans, but here all that training fell short in front of those ‘monsters’. Their movements, habits and behaviour were unpredictable to him, and this troubled him a lot. A human would have run away seeing his fellow men being slaughtered, but the goblins didn’t. They had kept coming at him disregarding their lives. If what he was facing was a strong monster instead of the goblins, Add would have been dead long ago. He clearly understood his weakness. But he never liked the idea of keeping his life up to fate. He had to become strong, so strong that he could ascertain his own safety and freedom, without having to care for others.

Another problem was that, he was able to use only a fraction of his combat skills. His memories of using the skills were perfect, but his body was not habituated in such skills. As a result he had some difficulty moving his body freely, like he wished to. He had realized this right after waking up in this new body. Add asked the system for help as well, but it said that skills could not be carried by souls, and remained a feature of the physical body. Hence although he knew and remembered all his skills, and his strength was pretty high now, he could not bring out the pull potential of his skills. He had to practice them again to make his body get used to them. Having no other way, he decided to start training his body daily, in order to accustom his body to the movements and techniques he honed in the decades as a soldier. As he was walking, the system once again made a prompt.

[Ding! New Mission Issued : Hatred of the Goblins]

[Description : A large population of goblins inhabit the forest. Due to your slaughter of their kind, the goblins now regard you as their archenemy and will attack you for revenge whenever they cross paths with you! Find and destroy the nest of the goblins and kill their leader to ensure your safety and rid the forest of these pests. Killing goblins during this quest will give 2x bonus Exp. and CP rewards per goblin killed!

Rewards : 100,000 Exp. 50,000 CP and 1x Summoning Ticket

Time Limit : 20 days]

Add’s eyes widened at the generous rewards shown. This sudden mission came quite unexpectedly and its rewards were many times higher than any previous quest. There was another [Summoning Ticket] as well, but the system didn’t tell him which type of creature it would summon. Still, thinking of how useful the [Shadow Knights] were, he expected something good to come from that ticket as well.

(System why are the rewards so high this time?)

[Host, the system is a fair entity which provides rewards based on the difficulty of the Mission. The more difficult a Mission is, the better the rewards. The System advises the host to keep this in mind]

The rewards being this high meant that the mission was going to be tough one. From what he knew, normal goblins like the ones he had met till now, would not be much of a problem, but what worried him was the existence of Hob Goblins and Goblin Champions. These were special breeds of the Goblin race. The hob goblins were D ranked monsters, standing as tall as a human and were much stronger than a normal humans. The Goblin champions were in a whole new league of their own. They grow much larger than regular goblins, often being taller than humans and have a lot of strength. They have low intelligence, but are capable fighters that can give even veteran warriors trouble. They are considered to be C rank monsters and are very tough monsters to deal with, as sometimes, even Rank 2 Warriors have been killed by them. And encountering a group of them alone was a very dangerous situation.

He needed to form a proper strategy, if he was to find and destroy their nest. While he was thinking of new plans, he remembered that he had not yet purchased a sniper rifle. Granted the AK-47 was good enough, but it was a mid to close range weapon, and did not fare well over long distances. As such, he chose to purchase a sniper rifle, something which he wanted to buy for some time now. Sniper rifles were more powerful even in the same calibre, and he could shoot from a safe distance. He opened the system shop looking to buy one, he had 38,000 CP, but still chose to be economical.

“Let’s see…system list out all the Sniper rifles under 10,000 CP….”

He began looking through sniper rifles. Getting new skills had also come to his mind, but he prioritised having a long range weapon first. The system displayed s lot of rifles, including the well known, Soviet Dragunov, the American M24, Steyr SSG 69, etc. After debating for sometime Add made his choice.

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Item : Accuracy International AX338 Long range, bolt-action rifle. (Grade Rare)

Description : The Accuracy International AX338 Long Range Sniper Rifle is an advanced version of the battle proven, Accuracy International AWM (AI – Arctic Warfare Magnum) also known as the Arctic Warfare Super Magnum. It is a bolt-action sniper rifle manufactured by Accuracy International. It houses the magnum rifle .338 Lapua Magnum (8.5870mm) high-powered, long-range cartridge. Can fire normal as well as LAP (Light Armour Penetrating) rounds.

As a manually-actuated bolt-action weapon, the AX338 is a true sniper rifle in every sense of the word. Its .338 Lapua Magnum cartridge is capable of anti-personnel function, and limited anti-material function. Based on the AW (Arctic Warfare) line of rifles, it follows the tried and proven design qualities of its predecessors. One of the finest designs, of its time, the AWM has dominated many battlefields and is a favourite of snipers.

Effective Firing Range : 1500 1800 metres

Durability : 200/200

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[Purchase with 10,000 CP ? Yes/No]

“Yes”

The 1.2 metre long, 8 Kg rifle cost him a whooping 10,000 CP, it was 5 times more expensive than the AK-47. However in comparison, the AX338 was a devastating weapon in its class. Its bullets could even penetrate most bulletproof jackets of its time. In the hands of a skilled marksman, a human targeted by it was as good as dead. He also got the Scope and suppressor along with the weapon and didn’t have to buy it separately.

This rifle was one of the best sniper weapons of the 21st century. It had many advanced features like the Schmidt & Bender 5-2556 mm PM II LP/MILITARY MKII 5-2556 0.1 mil parallax, illumination, double turn telescopic sights; and could adjusted to night vision as well. It also had high performance suppressors to reduce the flash and noise signature. It used a compact and reliable double stack 10-round magazine. Its power was commendable with softer recoil than its peers and it could be used almost anywhere on earth, from temperatures of -50C to + 70C. This rifle was a masterpiece of the British weapons designers, who were known to design their weapons while having tea and cookies.

Looking at the black sleek weapon in his hands, a slight sense of excitement welled up in his heart. He stroked the rifle a few times, appreciating the weapon.

The sun was about to go down, so Add left the forest under the escort of the [Shadow Knights]. He changed to the regular clothes to avoid any unnecessary attention and before he left, he instructed them to not hunt anymore, and await further orders. Now that the goblins were wary and angry, he didn’t want these precious helpers of his, to be ambushed by a horde of goblins and be destroyed. He had looked for [Summoning Tickets] in the system shop, and a single [Shadow Knight] ticket cost 20,000 CP. They were clearly too precious to be lost, at least for now. And he was in no hurry as well, since he had 20 days which was enough for completing the mission. He returned to the estate and took rest, for tomorrow, he had a lot of work to do.

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