Golden Experience

Episode 465: Three Stars with Expectations

"─ ─ Well, I guess I could write it. Shall we go next?"

"Copy that. I'll head south."

Janet and the others were always flying over the Kingdom of Wealth.

Even if you say you're flying, you're not flying on your own.

A flying monster, given by Septum, on his back.

As for the owl of the musculoskeletal bulge that Septum was supposed to do, although it was very painful, I was refused.

Margaret said it was a good match, but when I asked her, Septum didn't usually fly across Oulbear.

She said she could fly on her own, even if she didn't have to rely on it, and there were a lot of dragon monsters when she borrowed someone's back. They say the reason is because their backs are wide and stable. Then why did you recommend an owl bear that seemed to shake so much? It is not good to review products that I have not used.

That said, Margaret couldn't tell me to turn me into a dragon in front of the monster with all the hair. Margaret didn't personally say that, but it was the general idea of the four parties.

As for Janet, I wanted to avoid Owl Bear if possible, but I was curious about that and I liked Griffon.

Janet decided to attack Septum from the word that he was using dragon monsters with a focus on stability when he was on the move.

In other words, if stability is sought, is the four-legged type still good, or if the four-legged type is present separately from the wings?

The more Septum heard this, the more he murmured, and continued to wonder if Griffon would be good.

Janet was relieved. At the same time, it was exciting.

This excitement was never betrayed this time.

Janet and his colleagues, who used collars in the mountainous area guided by Septum to "serve" the eagle, were taken to the forest square where they went the next day.

At that time, the artifacts that modified Janet and the others had been removed, but this time Septum seemed to use his skills to do the work himself.

Janet and his eagles were swallowed by the hand of Septum into mysterious eggs, and regenerated as griffins by fusing them with flaming lions brought from somewhere.

At this time, I received confirmation from the system message several times, but I answered "Yes" to everything as it was asked.

You can see all the status of the family members in the "Operational" state if they are masters. Otherwise, you won't be able to increase your talent by giving me experience points. In a sense, it's like your own double.

The official race name of the Griffon revealed by this is "Fram Griffon."

Apparently, it's not just a griffon, it's a top-ranked species with attribute enhancements. Is it because I used a flame lion in the fusion material?

The entire hairline is also red and slightly warm when approached.

The flam griffon that was born rubbed his head against Janet's sweetness because he was in a "mission" state.

It's nice to be so cute and infinitely mof-moving ─ ─ but in this state it's already more fightable than Janet's.

The eagle was a common fish that beginners couldn't beat, but I don't really know what flaming lions are capable of. That was prepared by Septum. It resembled the species found in the southern ruins of Pairé, but was clearly stronger than that when we looked at the performance of the Framgriffin. Was Septum doing something beforehand?

It would be very difficult to "use" a stronger opponent than your master on the system, but if Septum had anticipated it and fortified the material's flame lion, this way anyone could have a strong dependant.

It seems to be a backward-looking technique that pierces the hole in the system, but in order to do this, we need to get along with a strong presence like Septum, which is not an easy thing to think about normally.

It will not be a case as frequent as it is problematic.

Anyway, Janet and his lovely and trustworthy buddies are flying to the old Wells kingdom and flying through the sky following Septum's new instructions.

Septème's instruction is to compile detailed information about the region of the former Kingdom of Wales into a map.

The map itself received detailed information from Septum.

The monster's realm and dungeons are written in detail.

But it was just before the Continental War, and it's not as it is today.

Especially in the region of the former kingdom of Werth, the Holy Amarier Empire, the largest players state, was founded.

With St. Grossmunt as its capital, it swallows the city of Orb and the city of Chiaro, demonstrating its presence in the heart of the former Welsh kingdom.

Many players' countries are represented only in dots on the map, which is an area that can be described as anomalous.

It seems that the original Welsh people are concerned or that the collapsed Old King's City is not included in its territory, but it is significant that the Holy Empire is in the center of the Old Kingdom's territory to gaze around.

Apart from this territory, there are a number of cities that endorse the Holy Empire and are enclaves, but they are also Holy Empire territory.

Considering that areas other than the cities inhabited by humans are almost unavailable, it is fair to say that most of the territory of the former Wells kingdom is virtually under the control of the Holy Empire.

Septum wanted to know what was going on.

If Septum is concerned, it should be possible to make the land more like the capital of King Pairé, such as the Holy Empire, overnight.

You won't do it because you have nothing to gain from doing so.

No matter how happy the players are with the Holy Empire, it is nothing but a sandy pavilion built on Magnum's mercy and whims.

With such pity, Janet and the others looked over the sky and lit up the map and the earth, sometimes going down to the ground and listening to the local NPC, using it to draw a faction map on the map and try to complete the map that Septum wanted.

"─ ─ Looks like I can see the next city. That was... from the skorok map given to the SNS, it was definitely an urban state that didn't participate in the sacred ones."

Some of the legendary reflection players, Professor Mori Etty, are said to have completed it almost on their own.

It is still circulated among players through the SNS and was valued as a highly accurate map, although exclusive to the city.

The implementation of nation-building services has enabled us to understand the general shape of the continent and the borders of some major countries, and the map has been gradually updated by willingness, and is now becoming a basic tool among players.

An item that Janet doesn't need to have more accurate maps with Magnum markings than such maps, but it can also be valuable in matching players' information.

It's time to find out which faction each city country belongs to.

If you're just looking at your faction, it's faster to see what Janet writes about the players who are active in the city than to get down there and listen to them.

"... yeah, I'm sure of it. There will be fewer players, and if you don't actually come down and ask, you won't know the influence on the surrounding area. It's a troublesome city of patterns."

"That's why Master Septum ordered us to investigate."

"Because I don't want to do any trouble on my own?

"Otherwise, they dared to order us to work hard so that we would feel sorry for receiving such a strong and cute pet ─ ─"

"That's just not true."

"Yes, yes. I'll go for anything. Come on. I have to walk a little further down, so hurry up."

As usual, I will go to the next city as soon as I have examined the city's political stance and its influence on the surrounding area.

That's what I was thinking, but apparently it didn't work either.

Gentiles! Isn't that the first time you've been asked to yell at me?

I see. Wealth is not so bad for players because of the Holy Empire.

For example, in the central part of the kingdom of Pare, during the war, players jointly built an army with the Knights of the Shape Kingdom and went north killing guerrillas, making residents feel the worst about players.

This is rare here in the Old Werth region, but this is not the case, and the visiting Janets were strongly asked if they were Gentiles.

There were checkpoints at the entrance to the city, where, unlike in other cities, every person wishing to pass was checked to see if they were Gentiles before being admitted.

I told you it was different... I wonder if you believed me.

You must have believed that you let me through... Rather than hate a player, I guess I feel more alert to people who publicly say they're players and are active. Or are you alert to the Holy Empire?

Later, I asked residents in the street and found that the city still seems to be taking a negative stance on the Holy Empire, and the rise of Gentiles ─ ─ players themselves is not a pleasure in the first place.

Because of the air, the number of players themselves is still small, and even if they were there, they seem to be acting like NPC mercenaries and doing rough work.

As a result, the residents had never seen a player-like player, and the image of being rumored by other cities or foreign countries preceded them, or the impression that they were "cruel people dressed strangely as Gentiles" was strong, so even if they saw Janet's rushing mercenaries dressed up as leather, they didn't know they were players.

Janet and the others have been having a little fun playing these role-plays since they pretended to be NPC runaway mercenaries in some city and turned them back into robbers, so they don't really look like players in public.

I try to do things that are difficult to hear in a friend chat, and even now I can talk about things that don't matter in parallel.

Anyway, I don't see a lot of player vigilance in the Wells area, and this might need a little investigation.

If you add a description of the city to the map, you may be rewarded again with a high rating.

"─ ─ I've never been to Wealth before, but this city is nice. There were fewer Gentiles."

"Really. With Pairé, just killing all of our people and acting like nothing happened at the end of the war... I'm not gonna throw up, really, Gentile motherfuckers."

"Maybe you were right to run to this city. Rumor has it there are a lot of Gentiles in the Orals, and the shapes are still food insecure. There's also the hills."

"I'd like to blow a bubble somehow, but we don't have enough power to beat Gentiles, and we don't have many."

Janet and the others entered the liquor store, where they flourished, asking for food and alcohol to complain about the Gentiles.

It sounds bogus, but it's a volume enough to go through.

It's still daytime, but there's a lot of noise in the tavern, and with this loudness, it'll be wiped out by the voices around it and buried as one of the noises.

However, if there was one person in this tavern who was twice as sensitive to the word Gentile, the story is different.

For example, if you hear your name or words that are interesting to you during a snack party, it is easy to impress you.

It is said that humans have the ability to prioritize only what is necessary for them from such a vast amount of information.

This is called selective listening, the so-called cocktail party effect.

But this is a real human story, and I don't know if it's reproduced in the game world.

In the conversation earlier, Janet and the others were all consciously speaking the word "Gentile."

If any of these Gentiles had any special thoughts, it's unlikely that they would hear Janet's conversation.

Even the average citizen who happened to be walking around the city expressed mistrust of the Gentiles, and that was the general reaction of the city's inhabitants.

If this is a tavern where people and information gather, someone may be interested in Janet's conversation and want to hear more about it.

If the conversation is negative towards the Gentiles, they will unconsciously feel sympathetic.

After a while, I was complaining about the Gentiles in the Kingdom of Pare, but soon the story ran out. Janet and the others were not directly harmed by the Gentiles, and they didn't have enough stories to complain about.

The main source of information is the SNS, but the player who writes on it is the perpetrator, and naturally not all of the business will be told, and opinions and views that are close to the feelings of the Pairé residents will not emerge.

Janet had no choice but to finish the conversation in the form that he no longer wanted to remember about Pairé, and then to talk about the Wealth Kingdom.

The subject is about the Holy Amarier Empire.

According to previous research, the fact that Gentiles were heavily involved in the founding of the Holy Empire seemed to be well known among the NPCs.

If this city does not participate in the Holy Empire and has no good feelings for the Gentiles, it is natural to see what the Holy Empire thinks.

Aware of it, Janet and the others lined up their speculations about the sacred empire.

The natives, called the Virgin, must be working with Gentiles in their weaknesses.

That forced the Welsh Church to cooperate with the Gentiles.

The Wealth royal family must have disappeared from the front stage with the exotic tactics.

That's how it is.

It's strange, and rumors about people who have absolutely nothing to do with themselves can be surprisingly spoken of.

Along the way, for example, I began to come up with opinions as if I were thinking about scenarios or anything, such as whether this kind of story would be interesting if this kind of development were to happen, and I got excited in addition to feelings.

By the time I took a breath, I had consumed all my food and alcohol.

In the meantime, no one came into contact with Janet and the others.

This operation was about to fail or take a seat.

There was someone approaching Janet's table.

"─ ─ Ladies, you seem to have a lot of resentment against the Empire."

"Looks like a mercenary from Pairé. I've just come to this country.

I wonder if there are jobs that I have a long-term contract with right now. If not, what if we continue this conversation in my Lord's Hall?

Of course, I will serve you a better meal and wine than this shop. "

They are well-dressed young people who have never been told to work in noble homes.

No, these young people may be noble, too. His face is also ready.

Too suspicious a voice at all, but I don't think it's Napa. These young people seem to be of a human race.

Janet and his family are also confident in the beauty of their avatars, but love between other races is not recommended in this world.

Regardless, the duck appeared to be lucky enough to get information.

Around the area where I was calling because I knew it was a mercenary, maybe it was a case of Kina smell.