The Golden Experience Point [Part 1]

Chapter 197: "Trained"

In the end, I waited for a while, but the Sky Castle did not appear.

Thinking that, I told Lyra about the story of determining the position of the Sky Castle from the timing of the angel attack earlier. However, the response was not favorable.

"What's the point of figuring it out? Are we going to conquer it? Well, it seems like the players are expecting a showdown between Rare-chan and the Archangel, a monsters' battle. If we're going to do it, let's save it for the end of the event. By then, someone might have roughly determined the location, and it wouldn't be too late."

"Who are you calling monster? Well, it's true. Since the experience points have increased, maybe we should focus on gaining experience points with the players who come to the dungeon, leaving the angels aside."

"No, how about following the announcement from the management and playing Co-op? They explicitly mentioned it, and I think that might be a ranking criteria."

Certainly, it's hard to imagine that the management would make such an announcement without any meaning.

But even if they say cooperation play, what should we do? According to the announcement, it says to cooperate regardless of the race, whether it's a human species, a monster, NPC, or player, but I have no idea what exactly to do.

"They also said something like regardless of affiliation, but how do you determine affiliation or camp, let alone race?

I guess forgetting ties is not much of a point in cooperating with your normal friends, but then what distinguishes normal adversarial relationships? There's no such system as a clan or guild, let alone a party.

I don't know about NPC AI, but I'm pretty sure the law restricted the player's thoughts from being used for anything other than controlling the game avatar or whatever."

"I'm not an expert either, but I'm sure there's nothing you can't 'color-code' from your normal behavior.

It's a technology that has been around since the olden days, but have you ever heard of behavioral targeting advertising? It's a technology that uses a person's search history and the sites they visit to determine their interests and preferences, and then serves them the most appropriate advertisements. It's the same thing.

It's legal to log players' in-game behavior, and there are no restrictions on analyzing it, so I think we have some insight into players' thoughts without having to read their thoughts directly."

"Indeed. No wonder then that Deas' [Miasma] recognized the zombies under Blanc as allies."

The logs are analyzed to determine the relationship between the players or NPCs at any given time, and then the most appropriate target is selected for the effect.

"Okay, well, I'm going home."

"... Right. Say hello to Justiz and the gang."

"I doubt we'll ever meet in person, though."

After Lyra left, I had the ants collect the Pure Hearts in the vicinity.

Lyra didn't pick up any, but maybe she didn't need them.

Certainly, at the moment, I can't think of a good use for them, but it's not something that would be a loss to keep. Even without the [Necromancy] skill, being able to keep a soul attached to a corpse would undoubtedly extend the resurrection reception time. However, in the current situation where I can't even make resurrection items...

"Extending the resurrection acceptance time..."

By specifications, when a character belonging to someone is defeated, they automatically respawn after one hour. The setting is that the soul is bound to the corpse for one hour, and during that time, respawn cannot occur.