Log Horizon

After that, both the direct line and Shiloe were to be taken to the city.

Although we've seen it discussed, it's hard to say that we're fundamentally short of information in the end. The two of them wanted some information now. Even if it was normal when I was playing Elder Tail, I didn't know if it would work.

Just in case, the direct line and Shiloe threw a party.

A party is one of Elder Tail's communication functions, which involves forming a team to fight and fight together. Unlike guilds, a party is an extraordinary relationship, and when we have this party together, we can confirm each other's HP and state anomalies, and if we are in the same zone, we know the direction and distance of each other's existence.

The city of Akiba is a no-combat zone.

If you engage in a combat act in this city - a city guard will fly in as soon as possible and force you to transfer to a barn, whether the opponent is a non-player character or a regular player. If the opponent launching the attack is a guard, it is regarded as treason against the guard and crusaded on the spot.

There are also many characters in Elder Tail who are not players, such as people who live in the city, and they are called non-player characters in the game system and "The Earth Man" in the in-game world.

Many of them sell a variety of things as clerks, have service facilities like the Guild Registry, give me information when I talk to them, and give me quests.

Strong guards can't resist to have 100 of them on a level.

Of course, this city is also an area where monsters don't appear, so the common sense of "Elder Tail" as a game is that this is one of the safest zones in the world.

Leaving the abandoned building, winds crossed the city like the beginning of summer, warm and somewhere containing water and air. Smell of damp soil. The leaves and grasses loosened by the wind make a sarcastic noise.

They are too natural, and Siloe feels the consciousness of the game evaporate from within her. The world felt through the five senses is overwhelmingly real, and the feeling that it is a different world becomes stronger, and there is no feeling that it is a game.

Turn the alley and you'll be on a thick road with four lanes. Intelligent building monoliths made of composite materials on the corners. The Great Junction of Akiba. Beyond that is Station Square. Every building is entangled in a twat, or already the building has collapsed and changed for a giant ancient tree.

There is no impression of the stylishness or high-tech city of Akihabara in the real world.

Colorful signs and flashy electrical decorations are also crushed intact, diagonally or broken in two, and supported by giant-grown ginkgo and violet old trees to lean against the building.

The roads, completely eroded by the soil, still see asphalt only on the front streets, but all the back streets look like natural parks covered in damp soil and rotten leafy soil, and blue moss.

Abandoned since ancient times, hybrid cars are weathered and covered in weeds to become dwellings for small animals.

But even such an unbroken figure, it was as beautiful as a picture with it. Though not sophisticated and stylish, the buildings mixed with colorful greenery are ruined but vital.

Temporary stores and stores created by players and non-player characters who have taken over cluttered buildings on their own are lined up in a South stall-like atmosphere. It was Akiba, the home of Shiloe's known "Elder Tail," as he was.

If it's the usual "Elder Tail" landscape, it's a very lively place in front of the station, with players hanging around, open-air trying to sell items in hand to other players, and squashing time to meet up with fellow players for exploration and battle.

But now that I had visited it, the atmosphere there was confusion, confusion, and a mixed frustration.

Hundreds of players are in this square just looking around.

On top of that, I can feel my gaze in the abandoned building overlooking the square and in the many narrow alleys - if I say so - from above the overhead line that should have collapsed and become useless.

Perhaps everyone has gathered for some salvation.

Maybe someone on the operational side suddenly shows up in this square, explaining the revelations of this incident and saying, "Here we go. The event is over. It must have been awesome."... how dare you say that? I guess we're gathered with such hope.

Even such hopeful players are afraid to gather in squares or work with others. Even when you come out into the square this way, the voice of the conversation being exchanged there is much lower than usual.

Several small people gathered all over the place, surrounded by people with alert gazes. And sometimes there is a sob and a leak of anger that I can't stand.

I knew we must all be aware, whether we're unconscious or not. To say you don't know what's going to happen in this situation.

Siloe finds slight irritation when she thinks so.

(I wonder if these people are going to spend till hours sitting around... Seriously, wow. I had eyes)

Shiloe glances off frightened.

He turned his gaze to complain of misfortune.

I don't think I'm delicate either as a siloe or that far, but I'm not tough enough to think you'll see more and more.

And.

(And... annoying)

Shh. Shh. Shh. Shh.

To that appearance where you only raise your voice of dissatisfaction without doing one yourself. Though I knew it, the appearance of hundreds of players nagging like this is not good for mental health.

I know that Shiloe is now able to move aggressively in this way because she made it through the first grief, and because she got calm in discussions with her direct successor.

I know that there is no such thing as superiority or inferiority between me and them, and I know that there is no such thing as siloe. But there may have been something extra.

"Shiloe? Shilo-boy!

It was one woman who called out loud. Now not loud, but in a square with many people pressed in silence in a dark atmosphere, the bright voice that waves its bell has become a lot more noticeable.

Siloe searches for the Lord of his voice to be played.

"Sister Mari, sister Mari. Ugh. Um. Meh, meh, it stands out."

"Nothing stands out, nothing like a funeral like this."

Siroe looks at Marielle by pulling her arm. Marielle is the one who keeps talking to me regardless of such a siloe. A female player commonly known as Sister Mari.

"I did just fine. I've been looking for Shiloh."

"... uh, well, why... no, that's fine.... Yes"

"Wow. Ooh, boobs?

"Direct line, now give me a break"

Walk away from the square more and more and manage to make your way to an alley that is hard to see. It's not dark behind anything, but the atmosphere in that square is bad for my stomach. Even considering that the person you're about to talk to, Marielle, sells more faces than Siloe, I'd like to be careful around her.

"Ever since I brought you in like this. Don't be silly."

"I'm not gonna say that at all."

"Did she make it, Ururi?"

"It's not like that. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Oh, so, this one's direct."

"It's a direct line. Silo's friend.... What about your sister?

"We're Marielle. Call me Marie or Sister Marie. Oh! You look great in a direct line! You guys combine?

Marielle laughs when she dulls. Siloe takes a good look at the dialogue to make sure it's true, but she can't see anything malicious at all from her grinning broken face. I mean, I just think I'm saying it in good faith, so I can't bear the end of it.

For a woman, Marielle is a healing cleric (Cleric).

One of the three positions in the recovery system (Therapeutic Cleric) has the highest healing ability in the recovery profession. "Reaction Activation Recovery" that automatically activates in response to an attack from an enemy supports the party's stalks in battle.

Recovery jobs are high viability but low aggression. In that sense, it is a profession not suitable for solo activities, just as it is for the adventures of partying, as it is for Siloe, the "granting artist".

One thing about helping others is that Marielle is a different color among many people who are generally understated.

Long shaky green hair with a practitioner's white robe. High elves with either neat face. They have been the same since the Elder Tail era. We are with any player because it is the gaming world that is aesthetically shaped, but for some reason, a popular woman, a man, still exists.

In Elder Tail, where Voice Chat exists, it is all the more remarkable, and Marielle has a bright tone and caring personality from Kansai, which is actually quite popular. The most popular is as a heterosexual person, rather than as a popular person. The reason depends on the extra openness of the person.

Marielle, who has no feminine stickiness, is admired for nothing but men and women. Unlike the familiar siloes because they are ancient ginseng, they are also well-looked after players with whom they really know each other.

He takes care of dozens of his friends as a representative of the Alliance of the Three Moons, and is usually known in Elder Tail as a circumstance maker because he serves in taverns in the city of Akiba.

"You have a hard face."

"... er, well"

I wonder if Siloe looks that difficult, and I get anxious.

Because of this situation, the expression is somewhat irritating, but one way or another, I'm thinking about the phenomenon that I've been feeling since this big incident: "The features of the original world's appearance are projected into this world".

In the former world, it was a little complex because it was described as "badly eyed". I don't switch my glasses to contacts because I can't stop thinking that the switching will make my gaze unnecessarily steep.

When people say, "You look difficult" in the "Elder Tail" that has become alien, it seems that the evil eye of the former world has been missed, and I panic.

(But even Sister Mari...)

If you take a glimpse of Marielle with that intention, her face still looks clearly different from that of the typical forest fairy clan, the elf.

"Well, we also want to make a difficult face. I know how you feel. There's plenty more. If you're not kidding, you're going crazy. Wow."

Bright scissor-colored eyes. I think you have a friendly, warm Marielle-like face with just a fat brow and a mouth with a slightly larger grin placed on the face of the elf that should be aristocratic.

You must have never met Marielle herself, but Siloe clearly says, "Oh, you're Marie's sister," above all else.

"What or that gaze. Ha ha, how's it going as usual? Jibu."

Marielle pushes Siloe's forehead slightly with her fingers.

"My usual jokes are hobbies. This is an aggressive escape. I'm in trouble."

"Shiro. Is this your sister always like this?

"... always like this"

"So, now it's like this in disguise,"

"I can't tell the difference, though."

Marielle's words convinced me that she was a person of character who had a decent direct line, but gradually said so. Marielle laughs cocklessly in direct succession. But at the tip of the siroe and direct line stare, its laughter interrupts and exhales small.

"Yah. Yeah.... that's pretty obvious."

"Yes.... do you want to exchange information?

"Seya. From which neighborhood shall we talk...... No, well. Yeah. I guess I should be careful. Let's go over there. Straight ahead, so what?

Marielle invites the siloes to the guild hall.

If we get there, we're talking about peace of mind for now, so the three of us bypass Fraig's tavern and go for the Guild Hall.

The Guild Hall is a large multi-purpose building located in every city, often with several facilities combined.

In the case of the city of Akiba, it itself builds a single zone, with numerous non-player characters busy working in the entrance hall.

They are employees of this Guild Hall, and if they speak, they can go through the process of establishing the Guild. It is also their job to carry out administrative tasks where people who are not affiliated with the Alliance take procedures to belong to the Alliance or, conversely, handle exiting.

In addition, there are branches of banks here, where all players can have an account with this in-game bank and have their money deposited or valuables deposited.

One of the other important purposes of this guild hall is to lend guild halls.

It is a medium-sized zone independent of the Guildhall, with about ten residential and office spaces, ranging from three to large.

In Elder Tail, several zones are on sale and can be purchased individually. Many players buy small and medium-sized zones as a home in order to be able to keep purchased zones out of it except for certain players by placing restrictions on access, or to mess with zone settings.

Even when it comes to purchasing, it is also a substitute that can hardly be handled without having quite a fortune to pay a large down payment, as well as having to pay a monthly maintenance fee of about 1/500 of that amount.

The guild hole is a variant thereof, referring to a dedicated zone that can be purchased as a guild. Guilds of considerable size usually rent guild halls in guild halls. That way you can store loot, materials, and items produced from monsters in this guild hall, or you can use them for meetings between guild members.

The Mitsuki Alliance also rents space in this guild hall as one of those guilds.

The two Shiloes ascend a spacious staircase to the second floor of the Guild Hall.

Shiloe, who was asked to register as a guest in front of a large kannon opening door, was to be interrupted by the Alliance Hall of the Three Moons.

The guild hall, which is rented at the guild hall in Akihabara, has a tedious office style basic interior. Even when it comes to basic decor, the floor and wallpaper have such an atmosphere, it's just the extent.

How to decorate a borrowed or purchased zone is entirely at the buyer's disposal. The Alliance Hall of the Three Moons Alliance has been cleaned beautifully by the efforts of its members and appears to have been renovated to make it cozy.

Wood is affixed to the walls to create a warm home atmosphere.

"We don't need any extra interference here, do we?

Marielle went to the back of the guild hall to say so.

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"Over here. Oh, never mind. Yeah, he said he was sitting there. Direct succession becomes appropriate."

Marielle, entering the deep room of the guild hall, throws herself to jump into the sofa filled with pink fuzzy cushions, urging the siloes to sit down as well.

"Something feminine."

"Seya. From Gilmouth, for once. The captain's majesty is expressed in his room."

Pink cushion. Bear stuffed animal. Bed with lid. A beige laced curtain on a tapestry of patterns with huge dogs looking great on their chests. The interior, far from majestic, is reflected in the sight of the siloe. The direct line leaked a comment, but Shiloe doesn't go either.

It's kind of like someone else's private space, subtly uncomfortable. They're still saved because they're the perfect Marielle, but if this is a woman's personal room, they're just starting to get ready to pull out.

But even though it's just a somewhat fancy hobby, considering this rather large room is a guild hall dedicated to guild masters and has five or six other work rooms and luggage storage, it would require a considerable amount of money.

(Hmm. Down payment, 40,000 gold coins. Eighty gold coins for monthly maintenance... I guess)

Siloe tries to figure that out. Naturally, I've never been invited to this guild hall before.

"What's the status of Mari's toko?

"Nineteen people, including us, are online. Eighteen of them are in the city of Akiba. Most gather in this guild hall.... Oh, never mind. Yeah. Unless you make a fuss, your voice won't leak."

I get an unsolicited response confirming it beforehand.

Eighteen people are in Akiba, so is the other one in a different zone? When Shiloe asked him that, he said the other one happened to be out there and in another city.

"Well, from what I know, we're talking about the same situation as Shibuya, Minami, Suskino and Nakas."

For example, this is the situation in all five major cities of Japan Server. Marielle, who has a lot of acquaintances, probably got confirmation with the reading function.

"Maybe now."

"Yeah. Transport gates between cities are currently shutting down."

Marielle answers the direct question. That was new information.

Akiba, Sibuya. And Minami, Suskino, Nakas.

These five are five large player cities on Japanese servers. Other than that, there are a number of other cities with shops and non-player characters, but these five are out of the group when it comes to service adequacy.

These five major cities have been added to the expansion pack, a city designed for beginners to get started. So all the players on the Japanese server have set up somewhere in these five cities as a hometown to carry out their activities.

And these five cities are equipped with transfer gates that connect each other and allow them to travel in an instant. The transfer gate - the transport gate - is shutting down.

"So it's pretty tough going to other cities, no matter what Sibuya is."

"Even Shibuya, uh, how many? I don't know if I could get there without crossing seven or eight zones."

"Four in the shortest."

Siloe responds in the sky above. Intercity gates are pretty problematic when they say they're out of function. Contact with distant cities will have increased difficulty at once. Suskino, for example, is a player town in the position of Sapporo when it comes to real-world maps of Japan. Akiba... You need to go through a significant number of zones to get from Tokyo's location.

Probably even if you travel in the game, it will take more than a week. That's in-game time, of course, but this in-game time can no longer be called real time itself.

"Hey, myself.... Can you imagine how this happened?

The Siloes have no choice but to remain silent.

When I look at Marielle's slightly snaggy look, I wish I could have answered this question, but I don't think Siloe would. But in reality, Siloe has no power to answer that question.

"Well, cheer up. Sister.... it's a terrible thing, but it's not like it sucks."

"It's time..."

Continue to relay directly to the soggy Marielle.

"There are probably tens of thousands of Japanese who say they've been left behind by other worlds? There are hundreds of thousands of overseas servers. How far from the worst is it from having all these people in the same situation?

The words make sense, and there is some property in hand. This is how you can talk in your room right after you're on the island, right?

I haven't checked yet, but our health is enhanced depending on the character, and we're likely to catch magic and sword moves. I mean, the least you can do is survive in this world.

We're quite blessed compared to the classic fantasy of a different world drift and dimensional island drift. I thought you said it was an easy win. "

Direct succession affirmed in the guild master room with some girl hobbies.

"Maybe you're familiar with that hand in a straight line?

"Oh, there it is. I read it when I was a student."

Even though he asked a non-deflective question, Shiloe had reviewed his direct succession quite a bit. If you ask me, you're right. I apparently had too much of a habit of looking at things obliquely to accept them honestly.

"Oh well... Oh, my God!

That seemed to be the same for Marielle.

When I look directly at you with a thankful look on my face, I generally hug you.

"Ugh! Well said! That's great! No straight line! It's not just cool. Yeah! Your sister is impressed, she's saved!

"Hey. What the hell is this guy?

The direct line held in Marielle's chest can even eat bubbles, but Marielle hugs it all the time.

"Marier or customer?

A woman with glasses who came in with a knock sees it and gives it a terrible, bad look.

"Sorry to bother you, Mr. Henrietta."

"Good afternoon, Master Shiloe... Do you want to put it back out?

"I'd rather you stop"

The woman who came into the room at the request of Siloe, Henrietta, who keeps the guild's accounting, pulls when she grabs Marielle's shoulder. "Here, Marie! Stop saying that unconsciously".

"Wow! Henrietta? I just heard a good story. This direct line is a good thing! I said great things!

"Otherwise! Think about the situation, at a time like this!!

Siroe laughs small as she looks at the direct line that is turning red and relaxing, and Marielle's interaction with Henrietta.

Henrietta is one of the executives of the "Three Moons Alliance," and she also knows Siloe. "Bard" (Byrd) and quite a cutter to keep his guild purse. At Shiloe's, I had a sense of intimacy by saying to each other that they were wearing glasses on their own, but I find it a little scary to look at Henrietta, who has thus become alien.

Honey-colored hair is wavy and edges an egg-shaped face, and its appearance is quite beautiful, although the glance of chestnut eyes is a bit harsh. It is also a secretary-style beauty who can. Costumes are frilled girl hobbies, so honestly they don't suit my impression of myself, but the heck of it would be personal freedom.

Henrietta's participation will give the four of them a brief overview of the story so far and a brief status report. Nevertheless, it has only been about half a day since I realized it in this world. There was no reason to know.

"I don't know what's going on"

"For the time being, I think we should keep our people in touch and focus on avoiding confusion."

Henrietta makes the most sober decision. Siloe agrees with that opinion. If you don't do what you can now without thinking about what's too far ahead, you'll be “swallowed." That was the impression Siloe had.

"Right, Marie. What Shiloe says and what his direct successor says will be best. Fortunately, we have a guild hall, and we'll be sleeping for a while... a little cramped, but I think we should go as a group."

"I don't know."

The direct line subtly to Henrietta's conversation with Marielle is hip retreating.

"What's going on? Direct line?"

"Anything. No. It's just too sudden."

A direct line rushing to deny Siloe's whispering question. Usually you talk about scattered simones, but direct attacks are just fine.

"What, you don't like boobs in a direct line? Touch it?"

To the words of the bright Marielle, the direct succession rushes away from her gaze. I'm looking at that split. Around, it's still a man's saga.

(Sister Mari is beautiful. I have big breasts, and I know how you feel)

Siloe nods in her chest, too. Shiloe was baptized by the time we met. The most syruptic person keeps being strong. "Yes? What is it? This fat pile. It's heavy, get out of the way," so now Marielle is tired of making contact attacks.

It doesn't have to be written again, but it's brilliant.

"Why is this sister so open? I'm scared."

"Marie grew up in high school for girls. This is what happens when Osaka people are purely cultured....... Marie!? The game would have been fine, but I'm in a state of emergency right now, so don't be a little cautious!!

Marielle taking Henrietta's novel. Marielle is scolded softly and honestly. In spite of being an Alliance Master, I guess the neighborhood where you are properly scolded is a good place for Marielle.

I'm not currently a member of the Alliance, and I still can't trust the system called the Alliance itself, but that doesn't make all the players in the Alliance my enemies.

I was disgusted with the system called Guild a few years ago, and although I still feel inseparable, I am now convinced.

I've had several parties with Marielle and Henrietta, and I've had some conveniences with her that I know a lot of. Unless it's an illusion of a siloe, it seems to me that Marielle, bright and caregiver, was attentive to siloes who tend to cower and distance themselves from relationships after figuring it out.

(Sister Mari is also an adult in a different way than her direct line)

It's not about the loss or use of making connections to Siloe. It's about the benefit of Marielle's natural personality and goodness of care, and Siloe thought that Marielle would be more aimed at all the people around her than just something specially assigned to Siloe.

(Well, skinship, indeed... I'm in trouble. Oh, well. Because the air is similar to the direct relay, it was so easy to tame...)

I guess the members of the "Three Moons Alliance" are participants in the guild who have gathered in admiration of Marielle like that, and it is a genuine and arduous task to bring together nearly twenty members to pay attention.

Marielle is a trustworthy and willing player, and if she is, Siloe thought she should tell her as much as she can predict right now.

Marielle listened attentively in her considerations in the fight and asked some sharp questions. And clouded my eyebrows when I touched the number of people on the server right now and the probability of trouble between humans in the future.

"Oh well.... Sort of. That's more likely if you ask me. In addition to violent incidents, fraud and harassment can also be considered..."

Unlike Shiloe, who can protect himself, Marielle has friends to protect. And more than that, Marielle is also a woman.

"Yes, they do! That's it, sister. Don't make it easy on me like that just now. Just a little more common sense. Yikes. Pump it up, you're light-headed."

"Ugh!? Indeed! We have heavy breasts but light heads! But I just met him. I don't have much to say to him. Don't be a direct successor. Ahoy, ahoy."

"No. My direct successor is right here. I don't care where you hug girls. I'm not correcting your high school habits, Marie."

"Fine. Oh, no. More or less, Henrietta is my real name."

"Ki no! That was a promise you wouldn't tell. Ugh!!

Henrietta and Marielle interaction, apparently even in real life, as I know her. I should have told you something pretty serial, but it was a siloe that gave me a headache when I wondered how far it was passed on.

"Ugh. As good as this stupid daughter...... So I figured a quick fix would be..."

"I think it's better not to expect..."

Siloe answers the actual Henrietta.

"I don't have any hands to hit..."

Siloe has already thought about the question as a siloe. As a result, we are taking the current action of gathering information through direct transmission and division.

However, gathering information with high priority is not always a top priority for everyone.

Marielle is a different guild master than Siloe. Many naturally have to be protected, but conversely, many hands can be hit, which can be cloudy.

That entity varies, of course, speaking of guilds. There are really a lot of directions due to differences due to activities and goals, as well as differences due to size.

As a type of activity, the first to be given is the Combat Alliance. This is one of the great pleasures of Elder Tail, the guild that aids in combat. The main activity purpose of the members shall be to fight outdoors and in the zone of the dungeon. The guild's role is to make it easier to recruit your combat buddies for the day - that is, the ones who organize the party. It is easy to speak to each other if you are familiar with each other, and often you decide to collaborate well.

The city of Akiba boasts a large population as the largest player town on Japan's servers, but when it comes to its famous battle-based guild in Akiba, it can be given the "Black Sword Knights", "Honesti", "D.D.", and "Westwind Brigade".

The other is a production-based guild. In Elder Tail, there are a variety of suboccupations besides the main occupations responsible for combat capability. Players who create items by production-based suboccupations are referred to as "craftsmen", etc. The level of the main and sub-occupations is independent, and of course we can give it to you at the same time, but some of them want to enjoy quiet merchant play in the city by sub-occupations.

It is the production-based guild to which such players belong, and this one tends to be more massive. Because it is easy to capitalize on the benefits of the number of people, such as bulk purchases of materials and management in warehouses, which is the role expected of the Alliance. When it comes to the famous production-based guild in Akiba Street, it would be IOM or the Roderick Chamber of Commerce.

The Alliance of the Three Moons, led by Marielle, is a small Adventure Support Alliance. Adventure support can be a mutually supportive guild and cloud that helps members in the direction they want to do, whether it's combat or production. For the sake of neither, members receive less profit, but the at-home atmosphere sells for it, and in fact, many small and medium-sized people often have such personalities as adventure support.

Among them, the Alliance of the Three Moons is a relatively well-known guild. Big battle-based guilds are inferior in visibility and support capabilities, and while major production-based guilds are no match for income and size, they have a reputation for supporting mid-level adventurers and lightness of footwork.

"In the meantime, protect yourself. I think that's the prerequisite."

"That's right. This guild, it feels like you've seen a lot of girls, doesn't it?

Henrietta nods at the allegation of siloe and direct succession. We don't know what's going to happen in the city, even though it's a no-combat zone. For the most part, there is no certainty unless we are certain that the establishment of a no-combat zone is alive.

We'll have to find out later.

Siroe adds to the note in his head.

"Then I think you should pull up the items in the market"

"To? Market? Why not?

"Oh...... Right."

Markets are services offered by certain non-player characters in large cities. Players are free to sell handheld items to certain non-player characters by keeping and pricing the items they have.

There are many ways to do business between players, but the market is a very useful feature if you just want to scramble production and surplus items.

"With the March Alliance, you have a lot of material, right? I also think there are many items on the market for guild members individually. This is the situation now, so even old items can change their value dramatically.

There may be new effects added or unprecedented usage discovered. If you have the money there, I think you should look at the sale of the item now. "

"Yeah. Okay. Exactly."

And then we can't see the Web anymore.

Marielle and the others nod strangely.

When I was playing "Elder Tail" as a game, the Siloes' bodies were in front of the monitor. The Shiloes were able to play the internet with ease while playing games. Instead, it was normal to play in that style.

The world of Elder Tail is a vast and incredibly complex game. That amount of information can't be enough for a single player to grasp.

It was a number of offensive sites that were helping such players.

Maps and features of zones everywhere, routes of connections, emergent monsters, items, what nonplayer characters do you have where to go?

Playing with that information was rather the usual style of play in Elder Tail.

Of course, although offensive sites were far from omnipotent, they often described areas that were still popular and where they were supposedly made efficiently.

And also about "dangerous places you should never come near".

"Come and exchange information. What is it, but information is very important from now on. You remember the new expansion pack, right?

"Opening the Nouathphere"?

"Yeah, not just the zones that will be added with it, but about the zones and cities that have been there so far... maybe I need information." I'm a little lost, so I can't see the offensive site anymore. "

"Right..."

The four then wrote, as far as they could remember, a connection diagram between the Akiba-centric zones.

There are more than tens of thousands of zones on Japanese servers, including private zones that are rented out to players like inns, small abandoned buildings, and this guild hall.

There are much fewer "field zones" representing forests, hills, outdoors containing decaying downtown, ruins, etc., and "dungeon zones" such as old metro campuses and giant buildings. Of course, say less. That alone would have thousands, and even siloes can't be said to grasp it.

But still, Shiloe is an ancient ginseng player with an eight-year career. You must be much more familiar with this [Elder Tail] world than any other player. Although direct succession had a pause period, knowledge of the old zone was sufficient. Both Marielle and Henrietta illuminate their memories and scratch up the zone connection diagram, albeit perhaps very incomplete.

The diagram, which wrote many zones and represented their connections by lines, was given hundreds of names around the field zones as the Shiloes usually act on.

I don't know if it's necessary or unnecessary to investigate this every single one of them, but still, it would just still be better to have even this note than nothing on hand.

"Come on, Silo boy. Direct Yan."

"Thank you for your help."

"I'm not making a big deal of it."

"I'm helping you. We think it's a good one."

Marielle says so, smiling like a sunflower at Siloe.

(Sister Mari... smile, you're full. Whether you're tired or not. I'd rather be an apprentice, too)

"Mari, you can't leave her alone."

I meant to say it to the best of my ability in siloery, but he still didn't have enough words.

"Become!? Shilofa even told me! We're done here. Light-headed silly woman with confirmed character. Nothing, Henrietta!?

"Why don't you just push it with color?

Siloe quickly strays her gaze.

"Do you want to rub your tits? You want me to touch it?

Shaken by the siloe, Marielle speaks to the direct successor next to it. The direct line slaps Marielle in the head silently.

"Bu, blah!?

Marielle's Simonetta remarks of this kind seem to me to be illuminating, but if you think about it, there seems to be some place to say so in the direct line. It's also interesting that the direct line returns this kind of reaction.

"Don't you have a reflective function, you titty bitch!

"Don't tell me! Mostly what, a direct line. My breasts are that bad. You're gonna treat us like we're older!?

"I don't know, but you said you were getting older. Aren't we more or less the same age?

Henrietta nods when the direct line tells Boso his birthday.

"Marie's on three."

"I knew we'd grow older.... bad inventory already. That's why I got defective direct transmission. You're going against us, aren't you? Poor thing. I'm gonna treat my tits like pudding."

Marielle expresses her dissatisfaction by letting her feet burst on the couch.

(Sister Mari, who can do that under this circumstance, respects it in a way)

Siloe is frightened. I think it's a gift of nature to be able to get this nori out on the first day of a different world drift.

But unexpectedly, the direct line was pounding Marielle's head gently on the waste. That was a comforting feeling for a big dog, but gradually Marielle calms down as well.

"Anyway. It's time for me to go. I spent a lot of time on it. … I'm going to explore a little more"

Marielle, who is still somewhat tucked away, and this one gently bows her head to the serious Henrietta, and Siloe stands up.

"Mm-hmm. I'm coming, too.... You interrupted!

It must have been more than half a day since that tragedy. Someone with a temper might be fighting a monster once or twice.

When Siloe and the direct line stand up, they announce their resignation to the two people who are still sitting on the couch. Henrietta greets politely, "I couldn't even be foolish, I'm sorry," but Marielle starts to stare straight at Siloe and her direct succession as she rises from the stifling couch.

"Hey, Shilofo, then direct line up.... eh. We... I mean, why don't you join the Mitsuki Alliance?

Marielle makes a hesitant voice that doesn't suit her.

"No, Shilo-boy. I know I feel kind of uncomfortable talking about guilds. But do it this time of year. I don't think it's a waste to be in the guild. I feel like I've seen a direct line, and I don't think I belong.... I don't think so..."

The troubled look turns into something convincing.

There's no will in that voice to use the siloes or increase their power, just simple, simple favors.

"Ugh is a loose guild. Yan. Let's tie him up, huh? You can't do what Shilofo doesn't like. Even my young lads, Silovo, you want to go to the dungeon a few times?

See, the Sinjuk Underground, or the Nakano Mall?

I don't know why you don't want to take the guild, but we... I think it's very cozy. How...?

Marielle carries on the words with her hands as she panicked about how she took Siloe's silence. As the green hair flowing over the practitioner's white robe swayed, it looked siloed as if it showed her concern.

……

The direct line looks at Siloe in silence.

What that gaze meant was clear and "I'll leave it to you". I'll leave it to you to calm down here or pierce the still unaffiliated. That's what the direct line says to Shiloe.

Even Shiloe is not a junior high school student anymore.

There is no reason why the old heartless handling of tools is still abhorrent or inseparable. It's just that something that words can't do well is preventing Siloe from making a decision.

"Sorry. Sister Mari. - I don't think so."

"Oh well......... hmm. I hope not."

Sister Marielle smiles as usual when she erases the look of regret in an instant. The smile is still as bright as a sunflower and the siloe feels saved.

If we could return to the original world, blessed by God's miracle, and even if it were some coincidence, if we met somewhere, Siloe would surely be able to discern Marielle. Siloe is so sure.

While neither the practitioner's cloak nor the lush green hair may be just objects that realise the polygon data prepared by (Elder Tail), Marielle's floating smile is Marielle's only object, and that's not something someone can emulate.

Not to mention that it's never like a game's program can be reproduced.

"Say anything. We'll help."

"Right. Speak up if you need a good Guardian."

"Yeah. Come on. Shilofo. Naoto Yan. If you don't hear from me, I'll call you back."

The siloes also bid farewell with their hands open. Hopefully I should have the same strength as Marielle if I could.

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- Four days have passed.

Four days after that ridiculous cross-world drifting noise.

The Siloes, who resigned from Marielle's former position, then toured the city of Akiba, exchanging information with several old familiar players.

After that, he spent almost four days collecting information.

Naturally, but as every day a new fact turns out.

First of all, it was easy to see the fact that the siloes were hungry.

To tell the truth, I've had subtle discomfort since I left Marielle. But it seems that the tensions and fears of the unusual situation prevailed, and until that night, the Shiloes kept listening with their feet like sticks, unaware that their discomfort was hungry.

But finally, losing hunger, at dawn time, the two Siloes bought food at the market and even turned back to the abandoned building where they merged at the beginning. I was going to have a slightly unhealthy meal called breakfast at night.

In conclusion, we were to have a terrible experience.

That night, what Siloe had bought was a roast chicken sandwich with orange sauce and tomatoes, green tea on chocolate cake. Direct line bought seafood pizza and bacon potatoes, caesar salad, orange squash.

Sounds luxurious, but Shiloe and his direct line are 90-level players, they have a lot of assets, and these menus are food items created by artisan players, and they sell as much to the market as they want.

A luxurious meal that looks bright and bright.

But all those foods tasted the same.

If the direct line borrows a critique to throw up, the flavor would be, i.e., "a thing that flushed a completely unsalted pancake with moisture". Siloe also has to nod at this assessment.

By the way, when it came to drinks, the colors were of the things on, the flavors were all just tap water.

It doesn't taste bad enough to spit it out immediately. Probably not even poison. If I eat the amount, my belly will be swollen, so I am sure it is food, but honestly, the siloes came to this as well.

It's unnecessarily unbearable to say that it tastes so intensely that you want to yell at it the moment you eat it. The more I ate, the more subtle I felt, the less smudged and hopeful it was, yes, the soggier and pitiful kind of creepy it was.

Still, I have bought various kinds of food and found out a few things.

All the groceries that Shiloe and others eat are created by players or sold by non-player characters.

Numerous other sub-occupations exist in the "Elder Tail" in addition to the main occupation. There are "cooks" in the relatively major sub-occupations, and these foods are made by their "cooking skills".

Because sub-occupations can be acquired independently of the twelve main occupations, there will be "cooks" of "samurai" (samurai) and "cooks" of "sorcerer" (soothsarah) in the world of "Elder Tail", for example.

They (the Cooks) can create food items that the Shiloes are eating by their skill, but cooking in Elder Tail is a fairly instant act.

Approach the object on the cooking table and remove and specify the item that will become material from the package. Items that become materials - ingredients can be collected in zones everywhere, meat that can be taken from monsters, etc. They may also be picked up from the dungeon. There are also cereal-like items inside that can be grown if sown in the fields.

Of course, the basic ingredients are sold by non-player characters, and it's not impossible to get only the ingredients from other players on the market.

In any case, if you specify such ingredients, you will see a list of dishes that you can create, and select from among them what you want to make. When you wait about ten seconds, the ingredients glow and cooked items appear.

Hi, isn't this instant cooking a problem?

That was the reasoning put forward by Siloe and the direct line.

Because the fish you just caught still smells like fish, and the salt and sugar you buy from non-player characters can be soggy or sweet. Nonetheless, it would not be reasonable to say that the final dish, which should have been made by mixing them together, would all be a "moist pancake without flavor".

Well, I can't help it more than I can solve it where I know my reason.

Siloe and the others bought salt as a simple ingredient in addition to food items, and learned to outgrow hunger in the way of eating it by swinging it over "damp pancakes".

Yesterday, I found out that the ingredients taste pretty good. So fruits such as oranges and apples are bright and delicious. The current situation where there is only water for drinks, this was a delightful discovery, but it is regrettable that when I realized it, the fruits of the market were almost after someone had bought them away.

It was also very easy to find that if there was a meal, there would be excretion. Shiloe and direct succession are men, so this didn't pose much of a problem. Just get used to saying it's going to be outdoors. If you dare, do you want tissue paper?

Siloe heard the direct line squeal about "the girl is in trouble," but decided to decide to pretend she couldn't hear there.

There are so many things in the world that Shiloe can't help but think about.

I also found that I needed sleep.

Unlike the real Siloe body, the flesh of this world has considerable strength. It seems to reflect how much magician you have when you reach level 90.

However, fatigue and sleeping cravings seem to be something else, and both siloe and direct succession became quite sleepy when I continued my activities for a certain amount of time.

When the Shiloes entered the lodging house, they received a short zone loan and made their home. I never used this feature when I was enjoying Elder Tail as a game. If you get tired, just sit in the right alley in the city of Akiba and log out.

But now the body as an entity also exists while asleep. It was necessary to lay down a thread where there was considerable security.

And of course when I woke up from sleep, I never said I was back in the original world.

Speaking of going back to the original world, it also turned out to be one fact that bothered me.

There is a resurrection from death in the world of Elder Tail today. Players who die in this world put aside a time lag for a while to make a resurrection in the cathedral of the city of Akiba.

If the common sense of the original game prevails, there must be a certain penalty for experience and possession, but I don't know about it because neither Shiloe nor direct transmission have yet experienced it directly.

To say that resurrection from death exists is the worst possibility - if it dies, it disappears as it is - so in that sense, the good news was cloudy, but it also meant that the hope of returning to the original world was extinguished by death.

It was at noon on the second day that the Shiloes noticed this resurrection.

Walking through the city of Akiba, you couldn't stand the excess stress or suddenly you attacked the city guards, even though one player was all over the city.

To say how many veteran players, it is suicide to launch a direct attack on a guard in a non-combat area.... In fact, I guess he wanted to die.

While breathing two or three, his body was stung and breathless by the guard's huge sword. A few minutes later, the Shiloes, whose bodies confirmed that they had disappeared with light, went straight to the temple, where they witnessed his resurrection.

The player was sitting around with a faded face, but there was apparently no mistake in reviving it.

Diet and death.

What I can tell from these basics of life is that no matter how modest, this is a very contradictory and distorted world.

At first glance, this world seems to have faithfully made the game world of Elder Tail a reality. Because most of the Elder Tail specifications are reproduced.

But because of that, this world as a place to actually spend time with flesh seems to have embraced terrible contradictions.

The typical example is cooking. "Baked fish", which should have been created by specifying fish and salt in the ingredients, becomes "only the shape looks like baked fish, in fact damp pancakes", which tastes neither fish nor salt.

If you add salt to that "grilled fish" and it doesn't taste salty, the salt flavor is added properly. The act of "salting" brings saltiness, but the act of "cooking salt as an ingredient" renders saltiness innocuous.

By the time I tried, I tried heating raw fish very normally with heat sources such as fireworks. But that doesn't make it the "grilled fish" that the Siloes know. I can just do a black carbide unidentified item.

So is sleep and excretion.

Those shouldn't be necessary as game specifications.

But in this world of realised "Elder Tail," the siloes need to sleep. I don't know what to think. This world is crazy.

Of course, there must be rules somewhere more than it is established as a world. But I don't know if this world is moving under the "Elder Tail" rule, or under an understandable rule with different laws of physics.

Much remained to be found during the four days.

Day two from that disaster.

Shiloe and her direct line set out to the field zone ready. It is the forest of the library tower, an adjacent zone that can be moved by gate from the city of Akiba.

The "Forest of the Library Tower" is only close to Starting Street and is considerably less difficult. It's a typical abandoned field zone where the first half of level twenty monsters roam. Green twigs and parasitic plants still cover up abandoned buildings similar to the city of Akiba.

As expected from its name, the "Forest of the Library Tower" is a zone with many old bookshops, libraries, laboratories, etc., which also leads to several dungeon zones. The enemy is weak, but often drops magic books and secretaries as treasures, making it famous as a delicious place to earn money for runaway adventurers.

The opponent is a miscellaneous fish monster in the first half of twenty.

Siloe and his direct line are at 90 levels, a high level player with quite a bit of gear. It was for caution, of course, that we went out into a novice zone where there seemed to be so much difference in level that we didn't get any experience in knocking down a few enemies, but the Siloes got to think of a reality there that was tougher than we could have imagined.

Fighting doesn't go as far as you think.

The enemy is never strong. If there was a direct hit of a direct sword, it could be defeated with a single blow, whether it was a goblin or a gray wolf. On the contrary, even the attack spell of Siloe, the "granting magician" who has only the weakest offensive power in the sorcerer system, can bury the enemy in one blow, as long as it is hit.

That's all the level disparities are.

But just because we could defeat our enemies, the severity of the battle was something different again. When he first met a wolf, when a green little ghost swung a dirty axe with rust and blood attacked him without a herd, Siloe honestly tasted so much fear that he could no longer stand with his strength out of his knees.

Breathing is ten times faster than usual, and even though it takes in so much air, my breath is bitter and my vision narrows as if I'm running out of oxygen. The opponent's attack can't do any damage to him - if he hadn't told himself so desperately, he might have escaped.

The statement turned out to be true some time later.

The 90-level Siloe's HP is a little over 8000, and he records 12000 to the direct succession of the "Guardian Warrior", the most defensive of the 12 positions. Such attacks on Shiloe and others can only do a few points of damage.

Even if the axe waved down with tremendous momentum with a horrible oddity, I don't feel itchy enough to have been punched by elementary school students.

Confirming that fact, the Shiloes were finally able to regain their composure.

The calm siloes were no longer damaged in battle, but the severity of the battle continued afterwards. Even here, strange convulsions like the physical law and the "Elder Tail" specifications were making a peek all over the front of the siloes.

In the battle for Elder Tail, allies like the partying Shiloes unconsciously choose to collaborate or operate while checking each other's HP on the status screen.

How about another enemy approaching you while you're fighting the enemy in front of you?

Why don't our enemies rendezvous or call for reinforcements?

Which enemies do we prioritize and destroy?

Which enemies are good after you if you keep them powerless to some extent?

Such elements can be critical to the outcome of a battle.

However, it is difficult from checking each other's HP in the current environment. Of course, if you concentrate around your forehead, HP bars and numbers will float all over your head. However, it was a tricky move to perform other distracting acts while traveling frequently in rubbly unstable scaffolding for battle.

If the enemy is imminent in front of us, the perimeter becomes less visible and unsatisfactory. Sorcerer Shiloe can still afford to look over the battlefield from the rear row, but for his immediate successor, the Guardian Warrior, who should attract enemies on the front line and protect his people, it seemed close to fighting by hand, letting go of the information that should have been obtained in the Elder Tail.

"I'm not going anywhere."

The direct line took a deep sigh while eating a Chinese instead of lunch (after all, wet pancake flavor). I can fight without worrying about my HP because my opponent is a miscellaneous fish now, but I still doubt how far it will work if I'm an opponent of the same quality.

In the end, the Shiloes fought neatly until evening with the miscellaneous fish, which also did not gain experience. Items are just like useless too, so I can cloud that this is a fight for training already entirely.

Neither Shiloe nor direct succession have any real world martial arts experience.

So I was an amateur and had no idea how I could be familiar with the feeling and fear in battle, and I didn't know if I would wear it this way.

But he seemed scared of twenty miscellaneous fish monsters, and he only understood what he couldn't do in the future without checking with each other, and now he couldn't come up with a better way to practice than this.

Thus the Shiloes dawned on the gathering of information throughout the city and in the neighboring zone.

Fortunately, the two bodies were much tougher than they had expected.

The bodies of the higher-level siloes were unfettered by fatigue and were completely revitalized with a few minutes' rest, whether they were tired in battle or on the move. Shiloe and her direct line spent most of the day outdoors, and in the evening and evening she went out to the city taverns and places she knew repeatedly chatted with players in similar situations in search of new information.

During those four days, the city of Akiba remained superficially quiet.

There was no big panic like Siroe expected.

It may or may not have been because of the prospect of food supply (which tastes very disappointing), or because of the reassurance that death in this world turned out not to be directly linked to extinction as it was.

But it didn't mean anything happened, of course, and it wasn't huge, but there were so many influences that you could never miss.

First of all, the goods on the market were running out.

Apparently, many players have reached the same conclusion as the Siloes, taking down their listing items.

Later all that remained were items that supposedly were listed by players who were fortunate enough not to have logged in on that fateful day, but they also sold out more and more as they chased the day.

Rumors also spread that some major artisan guilds were buying up materials, etc., and items that were out of stock and unavailable became more prominent. There should have been many players with production jobs, but they also seemed to be aligning their activities with this situation.

The other is the guild's solicitation match. Or it was a search for a guild for players who didn't belong to the guild.

Apparently humans are still creatures who belong somewhere and seek reassurance. Unaffiliated players who have lived with ease so far also seemed to have decided to belong to the Alliance in advance of this disaster.

It is possible to check the menu for information on what name and where a player belongs to an Alliance if that player is in sight. However, there is no easy way to examine the whole thing as a statistic from within the game.

In the position of Shiloe and the others, the number of unaffiliated players decreased even as the certainty was thus cloudless.

Of course, Shiloe and direct successors, unaffiliated players of the 90th level, were called out by many guilds just walking through the city.

But both the siloe and the direct line turned down all of the invitations.

Regardless of Siloe, direct succession has no sense of rejection of the Alliance. When Shiloe asked him, he said, "It's the result. It's normal to run first and try to run and say you've got company," he laughs.

The "Tea Party of the Prodigal" was not an Alliance, and it was established by means other than the Alliance. A guild was just a name for the two of us who belonged there, and the name wasn't important.

Neither of us thought at all that we could belong to an guild and be protected by something.

But apart from that mindset of the Siloes, the senses and common sense of many players were also certain that it was independent with it. Some guilds seemed to continue their expansion strategy so as to exchange their desire to belong somewhere unaffiliated, so to speak, to gain peace of mind.

Of course, there was the form of joining unaffiliated players to increase the number of them, but more than that was the case of some of the smaller guilds merging, or the major guilds pulling out players who stared at this.

I wasn't pinned for what would happen at this time of year, but when I asked Marielle, it apparently had something to do with her coziness in the city of Akiba.

Over here from that disaster, there seem to be numerous players who think they've been turned into islands by this other world.

Even these siloes feel more or less irrational.

But according to Marielle's story, the feeling that was the kind of player she was offering can be shown in her attitude. That's a squeaky feeling and an eight-win relationship.

When such feelings are shared on a guild by guild basis, they become an exclusion to the outside of the guild. I guess it means, "We're all enemies, except our people."

I can trust my buddies in the same guild, but I don't trust them otherwise. That's a natural self-defense activity in this rough air, so there's no denying it to the Shiloes either.

But that kind of air is going too far, and the friction between the guilds seems to be increasing slightly. Of course, the city of Akiba is a no-combat zone, so it is not said that it will be suddenly attacked. If you try to set up a fight, steal it, or detain it, the guard will automatically show up with a transfer and force you to capture the side you tried to attack.

But not all of the absurd words and harassment hit the battle. There are many ways to get through the gaps in your combat behavior and harass you, not to mention if you come to this world with every flesh this way.

Small guilds are often subject to harassment for saying so. Marielle said so, with a troubled, fixing look on her face.

It was when Marielle and I were talking like that that that turned out to be important about the zone. An open brain menu without any concern. We discovered an unfamiliar addition to the information menu and guild related items further down.

That was not a menu I was unfamiliar with but never saw.

This is a menu that displays information about the zone you are currently in, where, as is normal

It was labeled "Japan Server/Akiba City/Downtown - No Monster Appearance/No Combat Area/No Entry Permit (Unlimited)/No Exit Permit (Unlimited)".

Siloe and Marielle, and their direct successors, stood up in the unpopular streets of Akiba's city. So that indication represents our zone, the city of Akiba, and there is nothing wrong with it.

The problem was that next line.

'This zone does not currently have a specific owner. You need 700 million gold coins to buy this zone and 1.2 million gold coins as a monthly maintenance cost. Do you want to buy? (y/n)'

- That notation was supposed to be a menu seen when purchasing small zones, like, for example, a small abandoned building or a hotel room, otherwise, the Alliance Hall of the Three Moons.

Even though that would require a huge amount of money, the city of Akiba itself is also eligible for sale.

I was laughing at Siloe's pointing out at first. The direct line and Marielle were also out of line after checking on their menu.

Siloe, who has a long history of "Elder Tail", is a high level player and falls into a relatively wealthy category among players. That siloe bank deposit is roughly 50,000 gold coins. When it comes to 700 million pieces of gold, I can assure you that it is not an amount that can be purchased by individuals.

But that cannot be said to be a guarantee that you will never be able to buy it.

It was also certain that if the major guilds had cited total force, there would still be things that I think would probably be impossible, but that would never be possible.

If it were to happen that the city of Akiba would be bought by someone, the buyer could place restrictions on entry into the city of Akiba. Whether it's a guild you don't like or an individual you don't - you can make it legally off-limits.

According to a study conducted by Marielle by a division with members of the "Alliance of the Three Days and Moons" gathered by decree, this sales situation apparently occurs in almost all zones.

This means saying that all zones, whether downtown, in the field or in the dungeon, are on sale without the owner. There is one exception. The owner has already been set up… for example, in a place like the Alliance Hall of the Three Moons. In that case, they would add the option of restoring ownership of the zone to the items in the deed.

Day four from that noise.

The Shiloes could no longer overlook the increased power of major guilds only as an honest expansion strategy.