Chapter 257: Errand Boy (2/2)

The newbie Players all nodded, indicating that they understood and from now on would have Marni die twice before attempting to challenge the dungeon.

And beside them, Marni wasn’t sure if he should be angry or proud.

‘Should I just retire from being a frontliner and become a normal merchant?’

Still, that idea was immediately dumped after dancing a circle around his head. He had long since fallen in love with the new adventurers that the Players keep experiencing, and despite the pain and suffering those things were outweighed by the joy of adventure and a life of delights.

As a matter of fact, Marni was one of the few who enjoyed going on journeys to see different sights even before he became a Player. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have to travel all over as a merchant with his flair for business, and he definitely could settle down in a peaceful town after making his first bucket of gold as a business owner. Wouldn’t life have been easy that way?

“It’s some serious pressure being held in such high regard.”

Marni hence walked up to Edward, half complaining and half joking.

Although Edward wasn’t bad-mouthing Marni (merely stating facts), he wasn’t exactly praising him either—with the truth being revealed, Marni made an awkward look.

Luckily, he didn’t care much about being described as an errand boy, and instead cut straight into the heart of the matter. “How are things at the moment?”

“Still going alright. It’s not a problem yet.” Edward replied, scratching the back of his head.

While his reprimanding was rather strongly worded, he was simply disappointed in the newbies’ development.Unlike pioneers such as them who diligently ground the frontlines and established facilities and pave the way for their juniors, newbies these days were led by the hand by the older Players and never suffered the pain of leveling through farming dungeons. That was why most of them had the flaw of blindness and arrogance, which was why having a setback like this wasn’t bad.

And to tell the truth, Edward wasn’t worried about the Mountain Tigers.

“There are three hundred enemies—but just about thirty of them are Tigermen, averaging at level twenty-five if we don’t count the women and the children. There would be fifty if we count the women and the young, but the average would drop three levels. Only two are Bosses, with one being the Level 35 Ancient Imperial Wrath Tiger Warrior with an elite monster template and a Level 30 Mountain Tiger Tribe Chief with a normal template. The rest are all Hyena-men.”

“Normal template? At such a low level?”

Marni was taken aback. A Level 30 monster with a normal template was small fry to Players like him who were above level 40—the Tribe Chief would be no match for Marni’s own new guardsman either!

As for the other monsters, even the second-rate Players could just charge at them to win in sufficient numbers, let alone first-rate Players. Only newbies who lacked both experience and proficiency would be repelled.

“Hmmm. It is a normal template in terms of damage and speed, but his HP bar is extremely long for some reason and he heals quicker than most normal monsters. He also has a buff, but it’s a blur, as if…”

Edward considered how he should describe it, eventually doubtfully saying, “As if it’s not in its final form.”