59 NPCs Wisdom (2/2)

”Exactly so.” Roland opened his hands. ”As long as we are divided, there will be a lot of things they can do.”

Betta sweated hard. ”Brother Roland, are you not overthinking it?”

Hawk rubbed his face and said in amazement, ”According to the official announcement, there are more than five billion NPCs in this world. If every one of ten thousand is clever, we'll have five hundred thousand cunning nobles, the same number of players. I have a bad feeling. Some players will definitely be tricked by NPCs later on!”

Foreseeing the same possibility, everybody was dazed.

Weird noises suddenly sounded. Link realized what was going on and hurried to tend to the food that was cooking. He said in the end, ”Not bad. It can't taste too awful… Roland and… Betta, why don't you stay and have dinner with us?”

”Thanks.” Roland did not refuse the offer. ”I haven't had any regular food in this game yet.”

After having dinner at Hawk's and exchanging intelligence with him, Roland and Betta left.

They returned to the square before the Magic Tower. It was already evening. At the door of the tower, a girl was standing quietly in the radiance of sunset like a statue.

She did not move back toward the Magic Tower until Roland was close.

Roland did not see this. He said to Betta, ”You can buy a small house in the city for you and your little maid. We may have to spend a long time here.”

Betta blushed. ”She's not mine.”

”Besides that, try to collect more information,” Roland reminded him. ”Also, don't talk too much with the nobles. You're a smart kid, but you're too unsophisticated compared to them.”

Betta wouldn't have admitted his lack of experience previously, but after his talk with Roland that afternoon, he realized that he might really be a rookie who needed more social experience.

Still, he was rather angry. Roland was obviously teasing when he said ”little maid.”

I am as innocent as a spring and I will never take advantage of her…

He waved his hand at Roland and ran off.

Roland returned to the Magic Tower. He gathered the magic apprentices and said, ”You must've read and tested the model during the afternoon. Whatever questions you may have, you can submit them now, and I'll tell you my understanding.”

The magic apprentices were stunned… Generally speaking, their mentors were not so easy to talk to.

For the most part, they would introduce a method or concept and ask the apprentices to learn by themselves.

If the apprentices couldn't understand it, they would be too stupid to become Mages. After all, the mentors were very busy and did not have all the time in the world for them.

They had never seen anyone as friendly and responsible as Roland.

After a brief hesitation, the apprentices grew excited.

They knew too well how rare it was for them to encounter such an opportunity and such a person.

It seemed that they were quite lucky.