The Golden Experience Point [Part 1]

Chapter 90: "The Results"

Wayne respawned in one of the castle's sleeping rooms. Before the critical battle, he had quickly logged out here.

In the bed next to his, Gi1gamesh was just getting up himself.

"I couldn't really see anything, but we won, right?"

"Yeah... I think we did."

<...We took down the event boss. If you've respawned, you should come back out to the outer wall.>

"Ah, I got a message from Yoichi. We beat it!"

"Yup, I just got one from Sasuke too. Awesome!"

The two of them jumped out of their beds and rushed out to the outer wall. As they ran through the streets, Wayne felt himself overcome with emotion as he looked over the townscape that he was able to protect this time.

"Gil! Thank you!"

"Stop that! We're friends!"

While they were able to protect the city, it wasn't flawless. There was still damage from battle here and there, and some NPCs had died as well. There were mysterious lumps of metal scattered around on the ground, but he didn't remember those being there before.

"...Hey, try not to think about it too much. There's some things you just gotta let go."

"You're right..."

The damage discouraging, but he couldn't save everyone. All he could do was convince himself of that. From the start, Wayne wouldn't have been able to do anything by himself. He could only limit the losses this much by borrowing the help of many players. Being unable to accept this result would be a discourtesy to them.

The surviving players had gathered together outside the city wall. There weren't that many. Of the original thirty people, there were only eight survivors, not including Wayne and Gil who just arrived. Checking his status screen, the XP from beating the boss should have been distributed to everyone by now, even if they had died.

"Thank you so much, everyone!"

"Don't mention it. It was a good battle. I should be the one thanking you for inviting me."

"Yeah, what he said. Been a long time since we had a real fight."

Yoichi and Sasuke. Sasuke might be a bit rude, but he did his job properly, and he was more or less a friendly and nice guy. Wayne believed that becoming friends with these two might have been the best part of this whole ordeal.

"But man, it was close... We went into that assuming the front liners were going to die, so that went as we expected, but I can't believe so many in the rearguard got killed too... It's crazy that her AOE magic could instakill people."

"I'm really thankful to you too, Nameless Elf. Speaking of the rearguard, it's too bad about MentaiList..."

"He went and logged out at an inn before the battle, so he should be here soon, shouldn't he? Ah, see?"

"Hey. You guys talking about me?"

Wayne turned around and MentaiList was standing right there. He had chosen to stay here at the capital, it seemed.

There was a reason that only Wayne, Gil, and MentaiList had come back after the battle. Since no one knew for sure if there was actually going to be an event boss battle at all, setting your spawn point to the capital was risky. In the end the boss did attack and they beat it, but even after winning, there weren't many reasons to stay in the capital. The players who felt that way decided not to update their spawn points, even if that meant they couldn't meet up again after everything was over. Those players had said that even if the boss dropped items, they would just take money for it. Since the same currency was used across the continent, wherever they operated, cash would be more flexible than items.