The Golden Experience Point [Part 1]

Chapter 87: "The Familiar Taste of Rain"

She died.

She never could have imagined that she would die there. This was her first ever death since the official launch. It was a good experience. She could test out some things she had never been able to before.

"............"

Apparently when Rare died, all her followers would also die at the same time. And all those followers would respawn after an hour. In other words, she would have to spend the next hour all alone in this huge cave. Since Sugaru had also died, there weren't even any ants around.

"........."

She was worried about the farm. With the ants monitoring it gone, she wouldn't know if something were to happen to it. Since there wasn't as much livestock anymore, nothing that crazy could happen, probably. It was only for an hour. It should be fine for that long.

"......"

Hm, maybe that was incorrect. The only one respawning after an hour would be Sugaru. If the ants' timer only began once Sugaru was respawned, then it would actually be a total of two hours before they all revived. That kind of felt like a long time. And it was the same with Sieg's undead.

"..."

She should really go check on the farm, but she didn't really feel like doing it at the moment. Same with Treu Forest. The only ones there had been treants. In other words, it was completely unattended right now. She also needed to check how far Kerry and the other girls had traveled. She wondered where they would respawn. All she knew was that it wouldn't be here.

"...Well, I could say that it was a good thing this happened. Mm. I was really getting ahead of myself. I'm glad it was during this event, since I won't lose any XP. Since I spent a ton of XP on reincarnating myself and World Tree, if I were to lose ten percent now, I don't know what would happen to us. How lucky. Right, I'm actually quite fortunate."

She could tell her voice was trembling.

"This was a good lesson, I always need to leave ten percent of my XP fluid. Mm, yeah. Knowing how to hedge risks is essential. Anyway, I'm no expert in investing, so I couldn't have really known in advance. As long as I pay attention from now on—...!"

Her voice caught on the lump in her throat. This was amazing. Her game avatar could even replicate this feeling. Technology had advanced so far.

"Nnngh...! Uuu...kghhh..."

It was frustrating. So frustrating that it felt as though her stomach had tied itself into knots. Her emotions were running so raw that she couldn't stop the tears. Her throat was so constricted that she could barely even cry out.

She wanted to look presentable and wash her face before her followers respawned in an hour, but was that even possible? If this were the real world, her eyes and face would remain red and swollen until the next day. She didn't have a mirror, so she had no idea how she looked. No, maybe it was better that there wasn't one. If she saw herself now, her miserable crying face would be forever burned into the back of her eyes, an eternal reminder of her failure.

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Surveying the capital from the sky, what stole her attention from the magnificence of the city walls was the beautiful townscape. Ruining this city meant defiling that beauty. She absolutely couldn't wait.

Rare was wondering where would be good to drop off the adamantite soldiers when suddenly Yoroizaka unsheathed the Kenzaki at her waist, the sound of metal on metal ringing out. An arrow had come flying at her. Something like this had happened before, but how did Yoroizaka notice while Rare was oblivious? They should both be sharing the same field of vision. Was it because Rare's attention was primarily on the city, or was there some kind of hidden stat outside of vision and hearing?