The Golden Experience Point [Part 1]

Chapter 116: "Do you want to take the night off?"

The two of them continued to hear from a few more collaborators.

It seems that a large percentage of NPCs in the city know about the destruction of Hiers, although not all of them seem to know about it.

The percentage, or rather the variation in the number of people who know about it, gives the impression that it was spread by word of mouth rather than by an announcement or a warning.

"If someone was trying to spread the rumor, I guess that means they used a large number of NPCs as cherry-pickers."

"Well, that might be the case, but this city is not exactly in the middle of nowhere, is it? The city is not a frontier city. There are fields of something outside the city, barley maybe? There are fields, people dressed like merchants and many horse-drawn wagons, so it's probably a prosperous city in terms of agriculture and commerce.

If that's the case, I think someone who knows the economic flow of the town well could aim for the greatest possible spread with the least amount of arrangements."

Blanc told me this, and I looked around the town again. I hadn't paid attention to it because I was only looking at characters who seemed easy to kidnap, but Blanc is right, it certainly seems to be the kind of city that tends to do that.

"...Amazing. Blanc, you're amazing! You're lying about not being smart! Your eye for detail and your knowledge is amazing! I've never seen actual barley growing before, and I wouldn't have recognized it if you hadn't told me!"

"No, I'd say it's more like 70% what I've heard. My kids are smart. They teach me all kinds of things."

"Those followers, the Mormos? They seemed capable, right? The abilities of the followers are also counted within the power of the Lord."

"Is that so? I guess so, hehe."

"However, if that's the case, it wouldn't be surprising if the information had already spread to other towns and cities nearby."

Somewhere in a thread Wayne had once written, where he was calculating how to defeat Rare, he had also written that the prime minister of the kingdom had established a remarkable means of communication using a system of respawns of his followers.

Although it's unclear whether nobles from other countries routinely use the same method, it wouldn't be surprising if they devised and used something different from that. It may not be possible to obtain distant information in real time, but it is dangerous to think of things assuming the speed of information transmission in the real world, such as in the Middle Ages.

"I should have checked social networking sites to see if such information was circulating in neighboring towns. Ah, but it's the event period, and I doubt many people are making small talk with NPCs right now."

"Although I don't think there's none, searching for such words would be hard. The players are probably the ones who know more about Hiers' demise than anyone else, and few players would bother to ask NPCs for that information.

That's why the player named Justiz was interested in it as an unusual topic, and the player named MentaList probably got interested too."

And thus, Rare became one of those who were caught.

" If the information is spread by word of mouth, especially among NPCs, it's hard to track it down on social networking sites," he said. The trouble is that similar information has already been confirmed by players. Searching would likely yield results only from the player side."

If we want to get more information, we will have to increase the number of local collaborators.

"I wonder what we should do. Should we talk to more collaborators, or should we start hitting the knights and others who are closer to the heart of the matter?"