The Golden Experience Point

Chapter 165: "Suddenly a player came along"

"...Is it just my imagination? The goblins now seem to be wearing armor."

Sure enough, with a killer's precision, she had been cutting down anything that moved in her field of vision in an instant.

Then, as soon as she made a somewhat forced remark, the corpses turned into light and disappeared.

"...So it was a player after all."

Due to the excessively high attack power of the naginata made from the adamantite-esque material, even if they wore inferior armor, it could cut through them effortlessly. It was only after slashing through them that he noticed the metallic armor from the odd sensation at his hands.

Not that she didn't realize. She noticed and still slashed.

However, there wasn't much reason to intentionally kill the players she discovered. It was just that conversations were troublesome.

If anything, it might be because she had developed a reflexive sense of players being enemies when she saw them.

She had discovered them first, and their faces hadn't been seen. Even if they had witnessed something, at most, it would be being cut by someone with a hooded appearance. Hooded players were abundant, and in the current VR game world, which was as realistic as reality, many players chose spears with longer reach than swords. As one became more experienced, sword users increased, but there was no dramatic decrease in the population of spear users.

Identifying a person named Mare should be difficult.

Moreover, she was confident that she hadn't even been sensed at all.

"It's because they suddenly appeared. Well, it was just bad luck for them."

Perhaps being players accustomed to dying, they disappeared in an instant as soon as their death was certain, likely choosing respawn during the system message.

"..."

Watching that, she couldn't help but think.

Rare's corpse that had been defeated in the capital must have disappeared immediately like this.

At that time, the players present there didn't have any suspicions that the calamity might also be a player. If they had disappeared right after death, I'd think it could only be a player, but what clouded their judgment?

Was it their preconception that event bosses were special?

Certainly, if the boss prepared for the event disappeared on the second day, it would affect the subsequent excitement. So, should they have set up a system to respawn instantly during the event? Of course, there was no need to say it intentionally. If doubts arose, it was enough to vaguely hint at it.

"...It's already in the past, so it's fine now."

For now, the goal was the central part of the town, probably the lord's mansion, which was still a bit away.

Thanks to the performance of the weapon and Rare's skill, the walking speed was not much different from normal walking even during battle. Moreover, there were times when he didn't perform any skinning or such. It should be significantly faster compared to a regular dungeon attack.

If the boss of this area was monitoring the movements of intruders by some means, Rare would be an important target.

If they approached the lord's mansion any further, there might be a reaction different from ordinary mobs.

Looking forward to that, she advanced with a slightly heightened vigilance.

However, even as she approached the lord's mansion, there was not much difference in the mobs that appeared.