Golden Experience

Episode 160: Golf Club

The interior of the building does not seem very different from the mercenary union visited during the closed tests, although I do not remember which city it was.

But it has an unusual atmosphere.

The cause is the players. Those who enter the building and go to the back room are still fine, but the problem is that they are standing in the lobby staring at the void. They're totally fucked up.

"... is that what you're seeing on SNS? Do you think I can see it from the crocodile? We have to be careful."

I came to the mercenary association to catch the right players and ask them where the transfer service portal is.

But I don't think that's necessary.

How suspicious that back room is.

I was vaguely wondering if it existed alone somewhere in the city, but apparently inside the mercenary union.

If you think about it, fighter-oriented players who are useful for the dungeon will often go to the mercenary union, which is reasonable.

However, I wonder what the NPC working in the union perceives about this.

Since the transfer is one-way, players entering the room will never come out again. To be modest, it's nothing but a ghost story.

I decided to ask the middle-aged man at the receptionist counter if he wanted to go straight in.

"I'm sorry, can I have a moment?"

"Whoa, what?

"I want to move to the dungeon, do you know where to go?

"What...? Oh, demonic realm. Then look, it's that back door. There are other guys like you in there, aren't there? You can follow them."

"Thank you. But what the hell kind of principle is metastasis?"

"Mmm, I don't know. What is it, that vault? Rumor has it that it's the same principle. If they say so, I'll just say yes. You don't even know the vault is anything but a special skill, do you?

The great guys at HQ came and set it up in a day. If you want to know more, go to HQ. "

The term metastasis is also commonly accepted. It's a technology that I don't know well, but I don't know when I think about it, so I leave it behind.

There are originally players' inventories and other unclear principles in themselves, and I'm guessing we're used to seeing other demon-specific ton demo ecology and mystery skills from time to time.

You seem accustomed to leaving things you don't know very well.

But did the mercenary union have headquarters?

I'm very curious about how you're in touch with headquarters and how you work with headquarters and other branches, but somehow it seems useless to look into it.

The fact that there is no dedicated thread in the SNS doesn't have to be threaded, probably someone looked into it in the early days but it was frustrating. Maybe it's listed in the "FAQ" with answers like "I can't answer you" etc.

Alternatively, there is no actual presence, such as headquarters, and it is possible that the dedicated AI prepared for the operation manipulates the dedicated avatar and says, "I come from headquarters" to act as a liaison clerk, or comes to the branch like this one to carry out the update directly. A fraud.

Anyway, the transfer device is in the back room.

I decided to go quickly.

I thank the middle-aged man at the reception and Rae also heads to the back room.

When you open the door, there is a hallway, beyond which is apparently the backyard. And a stone tablet is built in its backyard. To see players flock to that stone tablet, a transfer device would be that one.

"That's not a room... No, nobody said anything about a room?

As we approach the stone tablet, the speakers of the players around us also come into our ears.

"What do you say?

"Wait... It's still 1. I've been checking it regularly since then, but it's always been 1."

"So it was only for a moment that it turned into 5. What the hell was that?"

"It's because of the event boss. I don't know what the event is, but it's annoying."

" 1 If so, why don't you just go?

"Seriously, what are you gonna do when you're still here?"

"Once it's 5, if you say you're back now, you'll be fine"

"But they were 1 when we were being bogged down by Reid Boss. It was when you were writing. Well, it was also rough and fish-certified."

"So you're saying the boss has nothing to do with the difficulty?

"No, it is true that it rose to 5 for a moment after that, and in the view of the verification thread, the event boss embarked on an invasion of the dungeon and the invasion was completed, so it was 5."

"Oh, you mean the difficulty of the dungeon itself wasn't changing when you ran into us because the event boss was also on the invading side. Well, if it's now 1, the event boss will say if he's gone or if he's gone next."

"... sorry, explain it to me so I can understand"

"I can't help it, okay? I mean ─ ─"

If you think they look like you've seen them somewhere, they were kicked by Sugar before noon.

As far as eavesdropping goes, he seems to think roughly exactly what Rae is after.

It's just a fact that you're aiming for it.

I don't have to validate either, like Rare, or I don't think I envy the position that I can conclude with only hypotheses for now.

Looks like the players eventually decided to actually go.

I want you to do your best.

Having acquired the city and publicized the advent of disaster, the meadow has no more meaning than to maintain the life of the city's NPC, but it has never been more than visitors.

Only now, not even during the beginning of the game, can we head to a place where we might die.

If I start earning more experience, I won't be able to imitate that unscrupulously.

Inspired by the first transferred parties, the other players also moved one after the other.

The backyard was all at once idle.

Touch the stone tablet where no one is anymore. Rare today is because of Kelly's avatar, which is NPC, and I'm in trouble in case it reacts differently to the player. It's convenient to be without people.

Please select a destination

"The character who started the device does not match the Authentication Player"

WARNING Only the character [Kelly] touching the tablet can be transferred. Character [Rare] does not transfer. Are you sure?

"Sure, I don't mind"

Please select a destination.

I thought they would treat me as a fraudulent approach because of an error, but apparently I can still transfer it.

However, in the message, the designation is not constant, such as a device or a stone tablet.

Maybe it's an unexpected case.

The transfer service was also implemented on the second day. I wonder if some bugs remain.

I chose Shape Kingdom's " 3 Golf Club Pit" for the destination.

I don't know if it's because of the name or excellence as a dungeon, but as for the 3 dungeon in the Shape Kingdom, it seems to be a popular place there.

Metastases have been around since the first event. As then, vision switched in an instant. The feeling is no different than when I 'summoned' myself somewhere.

There were several players in front of me. Looks like they're waiting for all the party members in the safety area.

As with the "Magician Summon" earlier, I was able to move through the rare spirit inside this time. This is almost entirely a player, except for the inventory.

Rare and the player of the Beast Man who had his eyes whispered casually.

"Oh, you, one? We can still afford members over here, if you like?

"I'm sorry. They're waiting inside."

"Ah. That's right. Okay. Be careful."

Appropriately embellished, head straight to the pit.

The safety-area-like place looked somewhat like a hiking trail rest stop or something. Maybe because the pit is built in the middle of the mountain.

Benches are placed beneath tarps tensioned with ropes stretching from pile-like piercing rocks on mountain skin, just rolled flat rocks.

There are plenty of them lined up, and there are players on the blanket who can sleep on the bench. Logged out player. They're based here, attacking the tunnel dungeon.

Even out of the safety area, there is still a little distance to the pit. Nevertheless, there is no obstacle on the road, so it is a short walk away.

"... there's a family restaurant waiting for you inside. I don't think so."

It would be nice to see it, but it might have been a little too appropriate.

Inside the pit is limp and dark everywhere.

Examining the walls reveals the remains of magical lighting.

The cover stories that players like are unknown, but the monsters that appear are Goblin.

Either it had to be abandoned because it was taken over by some crazy goblin, or the goblin settled in the abandoned road.

I walked over to Wall Herald and returned control to Kelly where appropriate.

I can tell Kelly to stay alert and wait in the friend chat right away. Let him make sure there's no one around him again, and then fly to Kelly for each body this time.

"... All right, thanks for your cooperation. Now the conditions are in place."

"It's a waste of time, boss"

Rare's own body has "Magic Eyes" so you can see the surroundings well.

There are no players as far as I can confirm.

I see a group of goblins in the distance, but I don't need them anyway. Although the tunnel is straight, there is a distance. They didn't notice us either.

"Well, Kelly, stay alert for a while. Summon: Gaslak

Follow the 'summons' and a fierce goblin general appears.

"... oh? This, Your Majesty. This place..."

"It's a pit in where you're supposed to work."

"... I understand. We're ready. Anytime."

"Alright, now we will run this dungeon as our ranch. I'll leave the start-up and management to you. Call me if you need anything."

"I have been entrusted with ranch management."

Gaslark fell to his knees.

"For the purpose of obtaining experience. The point is, you're attacking hostile forces. Anyone in a faction other than ours, which exists in this pit, can basically be considered alive even if they kill. I mean, the prey never runs out.

On the other hand, if you kill the Lord of the Dungeons, it's over. Be careful there. "

"I know what you're doing."

"Then I can tell you the same thing. So you don't have to be overly protective, but you can't die."

Ha.

"It's the Goblin species that originally lived in this pit, so it won't be much of a problem if the players fight each other from native to alien princes. You should clean up some of the goblins here first, then fight the players by reference to their strength.

Being certified as 3 means that the goblins here could have at least more strength than the Tarantellas. Be careful, this is just a goblin in a vegan state. It may be heavy. "

It should be enhanced to some extent by the experience you were giving. If that's still not enough, I can tell you to apply additionally.

"This will be one model case for future ranch operations. Therefore, there are no effective manuals at this time. You make that. [M] Now that everything is hand explored, I don't mind failing.

It's someone else's dungeon anyway. Even if the difficulty adjustment fails and the customer stops coming, there is no trouble. It's not the players who make money hunting the goblins here. "

I won't answer that.

I'm not going to fail, I guess.

If it works, I've never crossed it, but as I said, I don't mind failing.

It's not good to be too nervous, but it will be a good experience to fail.

"Then please do it later. If I were to build your base somewhere, I'd send an engineer ant as a worker. I don't know any race who can do better than them if they dig holes. Good luck with that."

"Leave it to me!

He entrusted Gaslark with the aftermath and returned to the former King Hills capital.

I sent Kelly back to Refreshment City, using his own Magician Summon Monster. As long as the lord is there, I feel like I can leave them there, but I can get used to living in the streets a little bit more. Watching the players will also be a good stimulus.

Now I can tell you finally took a breath.

It's been a busy day flying around, but not bad every now and then.

After that, you'll go around on your own if you leave it alone.

If we wait a few days, we'll have guests in this old King Hills capital.