The Golden Experience Point [Part 1]

Chapter 184: "Lonely as I thought"

"Master, what should we do about that?"

"The town is in ruins, and the number of customers has decreased. That thing called Burgundy, the Skeletal Ghidorah might be the cause. It might also include giant undead creatures."

"We brought them back, but they are too large, causing a part of the town to collapse. We chose the square in front of the lord's mansion as the [Summoning] location to prevent such incidents, but our estimation was off. Tore Forest had other giant magical creatures and trees, so we couldn't accurately assess their sizes."

"In other words, it's not Blanc's fault."

"If the buildings are broken, we can fix them. Humanity has progressed through such improvements. It's called 'scrap and build'. However, it's troublesome that the number of visitors is decreasing. Even if we fix the town, we need experience points."

"The destroyed buildings are already being rebuilt, avoiding Burgundy and making the square even larger. Some of the lower-ranked vampire residents have acquired production skills such as [Construction] and [Stonework] to contribute to this effort. However, it's still in the experimental stage, and more people are needed to speed up the process."

"To do that, we need experience points. Obtaining production skills requires a certain level of DEX, but those from the zombie background generally have low dexterity."

"If I had known, I should have postponed my own enhancement and left more experience points."

"No, Blanc-sama, improving your strength is the top priority. We may fall, but Blanc-sama cannot fall. Moreover, I heard that you had quite a bit of experience points left. The more important question is why it disappeared."

Everyone here, including Weiss, is a servant of someone other than Blanc. Even if they die, they will resurrect. Blanc, as a player, is the same, but her respawn has a 3-hour cooldown. Initially, I didn't think much about it, but I'm not horrified by the idea of leaving the city unattended for three hours.

Incidentally, the experience that was left behind is a necessary expense because it is for what Azalea and her colleagues call "that thing" that has gone missing.

"That's true. But what's done is done, and Erntal will have to be run as a ☆5 dungeon from now on. As for income, there should still be a small amount collected from Altriva and other newbies..."

"Blanc-sama, it's difficult to say, but in Altriva and Verdesud, players rarely die nowadays. That income is close to zero."

Weiss cannot receive experience points from Blanc, and he probably cannot see how much income there is. Nevertheless, his ability to analyze this is a testament to his excellence.

"I see. Well, even if you're a beginner, you won't get killed by zombies forever, and new players can get support by joining someone's party. Well, that makes sense."

I don't mind giving beginners experience for what's ahead, but it's no fun to get nothing in return.

In addition, it's not good that grown-up beginners are not likely to challenge Erntal. They probably won't say '☆1 is not enough. Let's go for ☆5!'.

"Then let's adjust either Altriva or Verdesud to ☆3. That way, there will be a gradual progression from ☆1, ☆3, to ☆5, and the number of customers may increase even more!"

"That would be good. What specifically would you do?"

A simple solution would be to move the lower-class vampires to Altriva, next to Erntal, for example, and move all the zombies there to Erntal. But that would make Erntal less defensible. Rare has told me that the zombies are no obstacle against the higher-ranked players. In effect, it would be just Burgundy and the giant undead.