375 – Looking for the Energy Measurer 5

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The emergence of an empire above the dominion wasn’t as simple as one would possibly suppose.

“Ogres! Pink-changing ogres! Dimension-changing ogres!”

“Mana stones! Deliver me mana stones and I am going to pay in gold, no, I am going to craft any magic merchandise you need!”

“Any mercenary teams which have captured ogres alive? I need a long-term contract! 40%, no, 60% upfront cost!”

“Then I am going to provide 80% as an advance!”

“You unethical bastard! Which analysis lab are you from?”

With an empire a number of occasions bigger than the dominion showing above it, the inhabitants of this fantasy world exploded. This meant extra F-rank idiots and expert people, but additionally extra loopy mages.

The one silver lining was that the sport firm did not appear intent on emptying gamers’ wallets, because the financial system remained unchanged. Fortunately, we did not see Marianne all of a sudden promoting soup and sandwiches for gold cash or mana stones changing into as low-cost as pebbles.

Nevertheless, whereas the variety of named monsters hadn’t elevated, the variety of lunatic mages hungry for analysis materials had roughly quintupled. This ripple impact wasn’t confined to magic towers; it unfold past the lobbies of adventurer and mercenary guilds, reaching even the town streets.

“Are these mages or retailers about to go bankrupt?”

“Even northerners frantically shopping for firewood earlier than winter weren’t this determined.”

Grace and Katie clicked their tongues, recognizing mages throughout our awkward trek with the squirming Han Se-ah to the guild, and at the same time as we moved for dinner.

Even Irene discovered it distasteful, managing solely a clumsy “hoho…” chortle as she regarded away from the mages’ disgraceful habits and quickened her tempo.

Effectively, ogres exterior the tower usually stood 5-6m tall, relying on their development. However the named ogres showing contained in the tower began at 7-8m and reached 9-10m when enraged. Maybe monsters generated contained in the tower did not undergo from development deficiencies as a consequence of malnutrition or the like.

Born in peak situation as a result of tower’s mana, these uncommon specimens have been irresistible to these viewing them as experimental topics. There’d be no particular person variations, and so they’d be brimming with mana.

Shuddering as we handed the frenzied mob of mages, we arrived on the restaurant.

“Is it due to the harpy change? The town appears to be getting extra crowded.”

“With the tower’s inside being explored, the variety of individuals passing by means of the town has skyrocketed.”

Whereas mages have been inflicting havoc close to the adventurer and mercenary guilds, the restaurant we entered with out considering was full of guild laborers.

This was probably as a result of Harpy Kingdom and Empire somewhat than the empire’s look. Talking of which, with so many individuals right here, we would must spend extra on costly eating places subsequent time. Since we’re not ones to splurge on meals, we got here to this fashionable adventurer spot, and look how that turned out.

How ought to I put it? It is like when your dependable neighborhood restaurant that all the time serves a hearty meal all of a sudden seems on TV and now has a two-hour ready line.

Rangers who monitored, disrupted, and dispersed monster waves within the empire’s northern mountain ranges began meticulously exploring the plains. Monster-hunting specialist mercenary teams, veterans of numerous giant monster hunts, arrived with their carriages to start the hunt.

Mages poured out of the magic towers, which had expanded to match the empire’s huge territory. They confirmed up with gold cash and magic gadgets in hand, demonstrating their pay-to-win warrior spirit by pushing progress with cash. In consequence, the conquest of the 51st ground was a lot quicker than anticipated.

It was balanced at a degree the place progress was unattainable with out high-grade, 5★ characters, however the empire’s look ensured that participant development would not decelerate.

“Rattling, I assumed I would not have to fret about kill-stealing like with the orcs since all of the mid-rank adventurers disappeared… However now we would have our boss monsters snatched by imperial forces as an alternative of the dominion’s knights or temples!”

-Lol, they only cannot let gamers have it simple, can they?

-Gotta run like hell to maintain that First scout title lololololololol

-True, now that I look, there appear to be fairly a couple of mercenary teams to cowl with manpower

-In comparison with Rebecca’s one-trick pony kingdom mercenaries, the empire has fairly a couple of mercenaries? Perhaps as a result of their territory is bigger?

-Appears like all of them migrated south to the dominion to become profitable now that the monster waves have considerably subsided?

Mages have been frantically pouring out gold cash in competitors, and seeing this, mercenaries grinned as they hunted monsters, seemingly able to arrange camp on the 51st ground.

Whereas this was excellent news for humanity and useful for common gamers, for Han Se-ah, the world’s #1 exploration streamer “The First scout,” it meant more durable competitors.

Ignoring Han Se-ah’s grumbling, we quietly entered the 52nd ground.

As anticipated, being grasslands, there was no distinction from the 51st ground. Whether or not they have been well-informed or had paid for info from the Adventurers’ Guild clerks, there was already one giant mercenary group transferring to arrange camp.

“So, we now have no details about the 52nd ground but?”

“Not but. There aren’t any villages with different races like on different flooring, so it is nearly defeating monster armies by counting on protected zones.”

“Surprise if their stronghold will seem across the fifty fifth ground then?”

“Let’s go in the wrong way of these mercenaries.”

The mercenaries drove off with their horses and carriages with none response, in all probability judging that the plains have been huge sufficient that we would not intervene with one another.

Since we had no info both, we glanced on the mercenary group earlier than setting off in the wrong way.

By the way in which, as Grace muttered, would the named monster on the fifty fifth ground seem as a big army unit? Personally, I assumed that type of quantity-based opponent could be a lot simpler to take care of than a large monster.

Han Se-ah had discovered area-of-effect expertise, and Katie may go wild in chaotic melees like a fish in water. Grace was a reconnaissance-focused character with a large visual field and varied alchemical arrowheads, whereas Irene’s protecting holy magic was optimized for heading off giant numbers.

Having almost been knocked off a cliff by a bizarre tentacle monster and nearly taking a free dive whereas holding my breath, I harbored a small hope for some extra manageable opponents.

However BB Video games in all probability would not be that sort.

I puzzled what merciless gimmick awaited us this time.