There is Something Wrong with This Game
Author: FlyingPirateCat
B004 â The Seven Stars â·
Shuna couldn't help but raise her hand.
With a worried voice, she asked for confirmation about Hecate's analysis report.
"Is this information accurate? To be honest, I think facing a bunch of level 120+ monsters is still too early for us. Not to mention, the rest of the guild members..."
She paused for a moment before continuing.
"Even our raid team elites mostly were still around level 90!"
Leon looked at Shuna's direction and listened to her opinion.
Shuna's argument was reasonable. The difference between level 120 and level 90 was just too far apart. Even Shuna herself who had reached level 107 was still hesitant to face monsters more than 10 levels above her.
Because, death means losing 1 level!
Leon did not directly deny or agree towards her words. Instead, he looked at Emilia and asked her opinion.
"What do you think about this, Emilia?"
Having called by Leon, Emilia was slightly surprised, but she quickly regained her composure.
After reorganizing her thoughts, Emilia answered.
I can understand Shuna's concern, but I don't agree with her. Since Hecate has put in the effort to collect this data, we have to trust her and give it a try."
She took a deep breath and continued.
"We'll have to give it a try first as an exercise, before we can decide if it's worth sending our raid team there. If the data is correct, then we have obtained a good hunting ground, and power leveling spot."
"Yes, I agree with you. That's what's on my mind."
Leon nodded after hearing Emilia's opinion.
With Hecate's analysis data, they gained a huge advantage in this dungeon. With this, they can deploy various strategies on site, taking advantage of the terrain and the enemy's weaknesses. If everything goes right, the floor can be conquered without causality. Perhaps, they could even power level their guild members.
The competition between the top guilds was fierce and everyone was in a race against time to become stronger.
There is no time to rest.
Shuna was still looking unconvinced, but since the leader has said that, she didn't have any choice but to agree. It's not like Shuna entirely objected the raid, but when she looked at the difference of levels, she couldn't help but thinking it was a suicide move.
At this time, Astrid's voice can be heard. She also gave her opinion on the matter.
"But of course, each of us should bring a few Life Insurance Scrolls just in case. Preferably 20 or more."
Leon's sight immediately looked towards Astrid's direction.
It seems Astrid also did not feel confident on challenging the floor. But instead of arguing, she gives a reasonable advice.
Reasonable, indeed... Except, Life Insurance Scroll was a cash item and each costs
75.
Unlike the Spell Scrolls, there was no way to reproduce this scroll using
and
's
skill. The total cost of the item, multiplied by 20, when converted to yen will be 75,000 (
1 = 50).
It was possible to buy these scrolls from other players or from the Auction Hall, but in this case, the price would definitely swell. Due to various factors, the conversion rate has changed and right now it was stabilized at
. This means 75,000 becomes
187,500 and it was only the base price.
The seller would obviously want to make a profit, so the total cost would be at least
250,000, or 100,000.
Sure enough, even without taking all that into account, Kazu and Shuna's expressions turned ugly, while Emilia only showed a hint of discomfort. Their monthly salary were not based on Yen, but Guild Contribution Points (GCP) which has the same worth as
Gold coins.
Every month, as the core members they received 1,000,000 GCP and it used to be worth 500,000. After the inflation, their salary next month would be reduced to 400,000. It was an unfortunate conclusion, but the change of rate has been unpredictable anyway. But now, they already have to spend a quarter of it.
As the option not to spend money
Well, basically they could, but Astrid's advice was reasonable. Without Life Insurance scroll, they would be constantly exposed by the risk of the death penalty. Since the
skill or item would definitely be used, it wouldn't just be one or two deaths.
Realizing this, Leon coughed.
"In this exercise, the guild will pay the cost of 20 Life Insurance Scroll, 30 Hi-Potion and Hi-Ether Box for each of us."
Hearing this, Kazu and the others' expression became relaxed.
Sure enough, money was the root of all trouble, but also the one that makes the world go round!
Leon's sight shifted to the direction of the last Seven Stars, Hecate. Ever since the start of the meeting, Hecate hasn't speak even one word and just sat silently in her seat.
Leon asked Hecate about her opinion.
"Hecate, do you have anything to add? This is your report, after all."
He couldn't help noticing that Hecate had changed her robes into something else since their last meeting. The clothes she wore were not rare equipment and were even sold in native shops. He had seen many low level players wear it.
Hecate was silent for a moment to think about the words she was going to say before answering.
"Hmm... If I may add, you should buy two rings called the
. Two of these rings are required in order to block Insta-death attacks. Those rings can be bought at Ornus Village."
"I see, noted that."
Leon opened his interface and added the name of the ring to his memo.
As expected, Hecate was able to see what he had missed. Without this ring, they might waste a lot of Life Insurance Scroll in that floor. If that's the case, then they can only cry.
"Next, I recommend you to wear wind elemental armor and drink
. This is just a countermeasures for Black Phantom. He(?) definitely is a wind-based Archwizard and this can cut the damage from his spells by 75%."
"Black Phantom..."
"You might be vulnerable to water-based attacks by doing that. But as far as I know, there's no enemy using water attacks in that dungeon."
Hearing the name of Black Phantom, the expression of everyone in the room suddenly tensed. And the room suddenly became noisy, filled with swearing words.
Leon also gritted his teeth. He silently decided to order a new full-set wind armor after this meeting is over.
But, Hecate wasn't done yet. She waited for the chatter to subside before continuing.
"Also, I think I shouldn't participate on this exercise."
"What? Hecate-cchi, what do you mean?"
Everyone was equally surprised by Hecate's words, but Rena-cchi was the one who shouted first. All of the eyes gathered at Hecate, waiting for her to answer.
Facing their attention, Hecate only said flatly.
"If I participate in this exercise, the party EXP distribution can't be set to
. Then, my spells definitely will hog most of the
. If that happens, everyone can only gain a small amount of EXP."
She continued.
"You've already paid so much to prepare Life Insurance Scrolls. I can't let you go home with meager results."
"Hecate-cchi..."
Rena-cchi was touched with Hecate's kindness.
To set the party EXP distribution to
was the measurement of how much the party member contribute in the battle, such as dealing debuff and damage to the enemies, or buffing and healing the allies.
If the Even Share option cannot be selected, it is Rena-cchi who is at a loss. As a support class, her opportunities to contribute were limited to healing and buffing. It couldn't be compared to the damage dealer's contribution like Hecate, who has AOE spells at her disposal.
Hecate's high level was already well known among the people in this room. She has her character info within the guild set to secret, as do the other Seven Stars. But everyone knows that the level difference must be more than ten.
"Rather than wasting our time, I prefer to do some quest and raise my level to defeat Black Phantom!"
"I see..."
Leon who was the guild leader can only look at Hecate's with complicated expression.
As the guild leader, he has the right to view all of his guild members information, regardless of their personal setting. When he looked at Hecate's information, he found out her level already reached 132.
"Her level increased again..."
This loli was like sitting in a rocket.
Leon already experienced the difficulty of leveling after reaching level 100 and spent a great effort to regain the lost level. He even reached level 109 from the previous level 107 and knew how much difficult was that. But this difficulty should be far lower than Hecate whose level had reached 120+.
However, she increased her level to 131 like it was nothing. And today, she leveled up again to 132.
Was this girl still human?
Leon somewhat missed the old days where he and the Seven Stars were still partying together. Back then, they were just friends from the same guild who hanging out together for fun.
But after some time, the Tenkawa family put him under pressure. And by the flow of circumstances, the Genesis Guild turned into a business. The guild began to enter the fierce competition and start fighting for resources. His seven friends turned into Seven Stars, with Leon leading them as The Radiant Sun.
Leon can only sigh, those good old times will never come again.
Looking at Hecate, she didn't seem interested in waiting for the others to catch up. She's always walking forward, never stopping for anyone. Perhaps, in her view, she did not care anything other than becoming stronger and defeating Black Phantom.
In that case, what can he say?
At least, Hecate's loyalty was on his side(?) and not any others, not even Black Phantom!
With that thinking in his mind, Leon breathe a sigh of relief.
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With a worried voice, she asked for confirmation about Hecate's analysis report.
"Is this information accurate? To be honest, I think facing a bunch of level 120+ monsters is still too early for us. Not to mention, the rest of the guild members..."
She paused for a moment before continuing.
"Even our raid team elites mostly were still around level 90!"
Leon looked at Shuna's direction and listened to her opinion.
Shuna's argument was reasonable. The difference between level 120 and level 90 was just too far apart. Even Shuna herself who had reached level 107 was still hesitant to face monsters more than 10 levels above her.
Because, death means losing 1 level!
Leon did not directly deny or agree towards her words. Instead, he looked at Emilia and asked her opinion.
"What do you think about this, Emilia?"
Having called by Leon, Emilia was slightly surprised, but she quickly regained her composure.
After reorganizing her thoughts, Emilia answered.
I can understand Shuna's concern, but I don't agree with her. Since Hecate has put in the effort to collect this data, we have to trust her and give it a try."
She took a deep breath and continued.
"We'll have to give it a try first as an exercise, before we can decide if it's worth sending our raid team there. If the data is correct, then we have obtained a good hunting ground, and power leveling spot."
"Yes, I agree with you. That's what's on my mind."
Leon nodded after hearing Emilia's opinion.
With Hecate's analysis data, they gained a huge advantage in this dungeon. With this, they can deploy various strategies on site, taking advantage of the terrain and the enemy's weaknesses. If everything goes right, the floor can be conquered without causality. Perhaps, they could even power level their guild members.
The competition between the top guilds was fierce and everyone was in a race against time to become stronger.
There is no time to rest.
Shuna was still looking unconvinced, but since the leader has said that, she didn't have any choice but to agree. It's not like Shuna entirely objected the raid, but when she looked at the difference of levels, she couldn't help but thinking it was a suicide move.
At this time, Astrid's voice can be heard. She also gave her opinion on the matter.
"But of course, each of us should bring a few Life Insurance Scrolls just in case. Preferably 20 or more."
Leon's sight immediately looked towards Astrid's direction.
It seems Astrid also did not feel confident on challenging the floor. But instead of arguing, she gives a reasonable advice.
Reasonable, indeed... Except, Life Insurance Scroll was a cash item and each costs
75.
Unlike the Spell Scrolls, there was no way to reproduce this scroll using
and
's
skill. The total cost of the item, multiplied by 20, when converted to yen will be 75,000 (
1 = 50).
It was possible to buy these scrolls from other players or from the Auction Hall, but in this case, the price would definitely swell. Due to various factors, the conversion rate has changed and right now it was stabilized at
. This means 75,000 becomes
187,500 and it was only the base price.
The seller would obviously want to make a profit, so the total cost would be at least
250,000, or 100,000.
Sure enough, even without taking all that into account, Kazu and Shuna's expressions turned ugly, while Emilia only showed a hint of discomfort. Their monthly salary were not based on Yen, but Guild Contribution Points (GCP) which has the same worth as
Gold coins.
Every month, as the core members they received 1,000,000 GCP and it used to be worth 500,000. After the inflation, their salary next month would be reduced to 400,000. It was an unfortunate conclusion, but the change of rate has been unpredictable anyway. But now, they already have to spend a quarter of it.
As the option not to spend money
Well, basically they could, but Astrid's advice was reasonable. Without Life Insurance scroll, they would be constantly exposed by the risk of the death penalty. Since the
skill or item would definitely be used, it wouldn't just be one or two deaths.
Realizing this, Leon coughed.
"In this exercise, the guild will pay the cost of 20 Life Insurance Scroll, 30 Hi-Potion and Hi-Ether Box for each of us."
Hearing this, Kazu and the others' expression became relaxed.
Sure enough, money was the root of all trouble, but also the one that makes the world go round!
Leon's sight shifted to the direction of the last Seven Stars, Hecate. Ever since the start of the meeting, Hecate hasn't speak even one word and just sat silently in her seat.
Leon asked Hecate about her opinion.
"Hecate, do you have anything to add? This is your report, after all."
He couldn't help noticing that Hecate had changed her robes into something else since their last meeting. The clothes she wore were not rare equipment and were even sold in native shops. He had seen many low level players wear it.
Hecate was silent for a moment to think about the words she was going to say before answering.
"Hmm... If I may add, you should buy two rings called the
. Two of these rings are required in order to block Insta-death attacks. Those rings can be bought at Ornus Village."
"I see, noted that."
Leon opened his interface and added the name of the ring to his memo.
As expected, Hecate was able to see what he had missed. Without this ring, they might waste a lot of Life Insurance Scroll in that floor. If that's the case, then they can only cry.
"Next, I recommend you to wear wind elemental armor and drink
. This is just a countermeasures for Black Phantom. He(?) definitely is a wind-based Archwizard and this can cut the damage from his spells by 75%."
"Black Phantom..."
"You might be vulnerable to water-based attacks by doing that. But as far as I know, there's no enemy using water attacks in that dungeon."
Hearing the name of Black Phantom, the expression of everyone in the room suddenly tensed. And the room suddenly became noisy, filled with swearing words.
Leon also gritted his teeth. He silently decided to order a new full-set wind armor after this meeting is over.
But, Hecate wasn't done yet. She waited for the chatter to subside before continuing.
"Also, I think I shouldn't participate on this exercise."
"What? Hecate-cchi, what do you mean?"
Everyone was equally surprised by Hecate's words, but Rena-cchi was the one who shouted first. All of the eyes gathered at Hecate, waiting for her to answer.
Facing their attention, Hecate only said flatly.
"If I participate in this exercise, the party EXP distribution can't be set to
. Then, my spells definitely will hog most of the
. If that happens, everyone can only gain a small amount of EXP."
She continued.
"You've already paid so much to prepare Life Insurance Scrolls. I can't let you go home with meager results."
"Hecate-cchi..."
Rena-cchi was touched with Hecate's kindness.
To set the party EXP distribution to
was the measurement of how much the party member contribute in the battle, such as dealing debuff and damage to the enemies, or buffing and healing the allies.
If the Even Share option cannot be selected, it is Rena-cchi who is at a loss. As a support class, her opportunities to contribute were limited to healing and buffing. It couldn't be compared to the damage dealer's contribution like Hecate, who has AOE spells at her disposal.
Hecate's high level was already well known among the people in this room. She has her character info within the guild set to secret, as do the other Seven Stars. But everyone knows that the level difference must be more than ten.
"Rather than wasting our time, I prefer to do some quest and raise my level to defeat Black Phantom!"
"I see..."
Leon who was the guild leader can only look at Hecate's with complicated expression.
As the guild leader, he has the right to view all of his guild members information, regardless of their personal setting. When he looked at Hecate's information, he found out her level already reached 132.
"Her level increased again..."
This loli was like sitting in a rocket.
Leon already experienced the difficulty of leveling after reaching level 100 and spent a great effort to regain the lost level. He even reached level 109 from the previous level 107 and knew how much difficult was that. But this difficulty should be far lower than Hecate whose level had reached 120+.
However, she increased her level to 131 like it was nothing. And today, she leveled up again to 132.
Was this girl still human?
Leon somewhat missed the old days where he and the Seven Stars were still partying together. Back then, they were just friends from the same guild who hanging out together for fun.
But after some time, the Tenkawa family put him under pressure. And by the flow of circumstances, the Genesis Guild turned into a business. The guild began to enter the fierce competition and start fighting for resources. His seven friends turned into Seven Stars, with Leon leading them as The Radiant Sun.
Leon can only sigh, those good old times will never come again.
Looking at Hecate, she didn't seem interested in waiting for the others to catch up. She's always walking forward, never stopping for anyone. Perhaps, in her view, she did not care anything other than becoming stronger and defeating Black Phantom.
In that case, what can he say?
At least, Hecate's loyalty was on his side(?) and not any others, not even Black Phantom!
With that thinking in his mind, Leon breathe a sigh of relief.
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