Nothing a lot to say, I hope you take pleasure in it.

.

.

.

————

After separating from the others, Dale took his time to learn the System notifications.

So after discovering a snug seat someplace close by, he opened them.

[You were the first player to reach Level 20!]

[You have achieved Level 20, your current Special privilege has been worn off]

[For being the first to reach Level 20, all rewards prevenient from hunting have been doubled!]

[This privilege will last until the player reaches Level 30]

[Would you like to leave your name in the Hall of Fame?]

‘As soon as once more, no… There isn’t any cause for me to publicize that, even when I take advantage of my proxy identify.’

‘The very last thing I wish to do is give different gamers motivation for them to grind quicker…’

‘It feels unusual to be on the lead of thousands and thousands of gamers… However that is actuality.’

Dale set free a small sigh.

“As anticipated… It is time to say goodbye to my quick Fame improve and embrace the following privilege…” Dale mentioned as he closed his eyes to assume

‘As an alternative of Double Fame, it is now Double rewards from looking…’

‘I might’ve favored it to stay with me for somewhat longer, I can see that my future quests are going to reward me with a variety of Fame… However good issues do not all the time final lengthy.’

‘Not less than I reached the following Fame cap, although I am uncertain how that is going to have an effect on me sooner or later…’

He reopened his eyes and gazed on the messages.

“So it is looking this time… Ought to I say it is proper on time?”

‘Is there a sample to this? At first, I used to be capable of see info beneath Degree 10, not that helpful right here since this place is of a a lot greater degree. However it had its makes use of.’

‘After that was the Double Fame improve and the 20% XP enhance, these actually helped me lower off the grind.’

“I ponder how a lot the ‘all rewards prevenient from looking’ have an effect on.”

‘This is not unhealthy in any respect.’

‘If it says precisely what it does, I’m positively getting double XP from looking. Having excessive Stats means I can battle these stronger creatures, and that just about means I’m Powerleveling myself.’

‘Not solely that, if I do have a 2x enhance to my XP… Will not it’s doable to Degree as much as 30 inside this week? Maybe even quicker.’

‘Total, they do not appear to have that huge of a connection, aside from the very fact the top reward appears to be rising increasingly ‘impactful’ to me.’

‘A greater phrase could also be ‘Tangible’… Since now, all rewards related to looking have been doubled, whereas beforehand, solely Fame and XP achieve have been affected.’

‘If merchandise drop charges and comparable issues improve…’

‘Although, it might say rewards, however may it additionally have an effect on the spawn price of rarer creatures?’

‘In that case, this can be a double-edged sword…’

“Hum… I am getting forward of myself, within the first place, I don’t know how the setting outdoors is or how this privilege works.”

‘I am unable to make a prediction if I do not even know the way the looking floor is…’

‘As they are saying, do not rely your chickens by your eggs… Wait, one thing is flawed?’

Dale’s least favourite college topic had all the time been literature…

“In any case, my subsequent goal is Degree 30.”

‘And I’ve a whole day accessible to me, however I’m too bored to do extra of these contracts… So what do I do?’

Contemplating his choices, Dale stood there pondering…

And he ultimately made a alternative.

“I am going to go to the opposite previous guys and see what they must say to me. I feel that is the most effective I can do whereas I anticipate the night time to return and the villagers to return again.”

‘Maybe I’ll even have a while and power to make a few of these contracts… However to be sincere, I’m not too eager on that.’

Dale smiled, getting up from his mattress.

“I ponder how they are going to act now that my Fame has elevated to this extent?”

‘Will they welcome me with open arms, or will they frown at me?’

‘I doubt the latter would occur even when I used to be to go there with my earlier Fame however…’

…

/Later that day, someplace within the village…/

The outsider, Rodi, was at present sitting on prime of a low stone wall, gazing into the ruins of the village.

“Issues aren’t wanting good for me…” He mentioned with a sigh

‘This place is just… Too uneventful.’

“As I had anticipated and deliberate for, at the moment’s Livestream broke all of my earlier information and at its peak, I had over 17 instances my common stay viewers rely…”

‘However that was solely due to how I marketed this place… The toughest place to begin! And bla bla bla.’

‘Nonetheless, this Village is simply so huge, within the Livestream, I confirmed a lot of the village itself and some quests… However what in regards to the subsequent one? And the one after that?’

‘What ought to I present my viewers so as to preserve them entertained?’

Rodi stayed there pondering, he regarded across the place and set free a sigh as he raised his head to stare on the sky.

‘There’s a lot to point out, corresponding to the opposite elements of the village like the within of the homes, the church, and the ruins…’

‘However this is not a historic documentary! It is a gaming channel! Folks need some sort of motion each occasionally!’

Rodi frowned as he scratched his head in frustration.

‘The issue is that I’m too weak to go outdoors, and on this place the place quests are already exhausting to get, it could be suicide for me to enterprise outdoors and lose a Degree.’

‘That will solely make issues worse.’

“I can get by with one or two extra Livestreams, however individuals are going to lose curiosity quickly if I do not do something.”

‘I’m recording every part I am doing within the hopes I can edit every part and not less than be capable to launch one or two edited movies every single day…’

‘However I have to get one thing… Be it an attention-grabbing quest, and even an attention-grabbing NPC to showcase, even perhaps somebody to play along with…’

‘Something to maintain the viewers entertained…’

“In these circumstances, going to a raid, a Dungeon, or one thing of the like could be the perfect situation, however since I’m the pioneer of this place, I must discover them by myself…”

‘Not that I might be capable to do any of those even when I discovered one. This place needs to be correctly balanced in any case and it could be unusual to see a low-Degree space or Dungeon in an end-game space…’

‘The gamers would discover it annoying and ineffective except there was one thing like a Lore clarification or an incentive from the builders to have new gamers spawn in that space.’

“However it could be best if I may have the posh of retaining some issues secret…”

‘The worst doable situation for a streamer like me is when individuals begin to imitate you and compete with you…’

‘If I present my techniques and my gadgets consistently, this may make it simpler for individuals to PK me by means of stream snipping or to easily copy my thought some place else and in a extra attention-grabbing method, making me lose viewers…’

‘I’m certain that there will likely be some individuals that can select this village as their place to begin, and I do not wish to compete with them once I barely have sufficient for myself.’

“My physique is already sore from doing these horrible quests, but it surely’s true I leveled up twice in just some hours, and it is not unattainable for me to Degree as much as 10 earlier than the solar rises.”

“The gold achieve can be merely insane! Maybe it is as a result of it is a high-level zone, even meager quests like these have such plentiful rewards…”

‘If these quests weren’t so bodily taxing, I might’ve been capable of do all of them day and maybe even Degree up once more.’

“However right here am I, resting my drained physique…”

Rodi regarded round and observed one thing attention-grabbing.

He noticed Dale, strolling across the place with a damaged and worn pair of gauntlets in his arms!

“That’s… Dale?”

‘What’s that on his arms?… Gauntlets?’

He had already grown used to him, this man referred to as Dale.

At first, he believed he was a participant as a result of timing of his arrival, however he got here to grasp that this assumption was merely unattainable.

First, it was exactly on account of his time of arrival.

He arrived precisely when the sport servers opened, and except he fully skipped the tutorial, there was no method for him to be so quick.

One other factor is his energy, Rodi had already understood that Dale was in one other league, not solely did he move the entire exams from the Mercenary Guild head, however he additionally has fairly the popularity within the village.

And the way can a participant who skipped the tutorial be robust sufficient to do all of that when he barely managed to take action?

He even noticed Dale carry round huge boulders and logs simply…

As for the remaining, he realized it from the previous individuals across the village.

These previous NPCs love to speak identical to their real-life counterparts, however sadly, they by no means say every part, leaving many gaps of their tales.

However when every part is put collectively, it was sufficient for Rodi to grasp that Dale was most likely an essential NPC tied to the event of this village.

And certainly one of his finish plans is precisely that, to additional the event of Resko, the place he selected as his spawn level!

The one downside is his Fame. A lot of the villagers are both impartial or cautious of him, and a few are even brazenly hostile.

Few are pleasant sufficient to speak with him…

And this included Dale, he may see the yellow textual content above his head, indicating that Dale was cautious of his presence.

This was one more reason why he believed Dale to be an NPC.

“…”

‘That is my probability. I have to study extra about this place, discover one thing to do or discover…’

‘And one of the simplest ways to try this is by constructing a reference to the ‘most important character’ of Resko’s storyline!’

After connecting the entire ‘clues’ Rodi got here to the conclusion that Dale was the principle character of this place’s storyline.

From his expertise, these quests would oftentimes have a theme to revolve round.

Starting from many issues like an thought to an occasion that occurred previously or will occur.

Amongst these lies the principle characters, NPCs which might be on the heart of those conflicts.

And every part pointed in the direction of Dale being the principle character of Resko’s storyline!

What would this storyline be?

The reconstruction of Resko in fact!

Be it from the way in which the villagers act, to the missions within the mercenary department, all of it pointed in the direction of it.

“I am unable to miss this opportunity!”

Rodi obtained up and rushed in the direction of Dale!

…

.

.

.

Notes

What do you consider these POV modifications?

I needed Rodi to be one thing like a pleasant secondary character, one that’s constructed round an attention-grabbing misunderstanding that will profit the Mc.

And I’ve some additional concepts…