Chapter 49: The Start of Week Two (1/2)

The rest of the group eventually filled the briefing room and took a seat Acai and Maria sat next to Arthur as the developers stood up on stage, preparing themselves for their speeches

The first topic was about various snippets of data, such as people interactingmore monsters Some standout points was that the player death count from monsters for this session was lower than last session, but the total player death count had exceeded the first session due to aspree

"No arrests this tih there was a few close calls with a certain group of player killers trying to enter the village" The developer eyed over a group who seeot ative

There were a couple shout-outs for players before the top three was announced The more notable ones were lucky item drops or an unco player killers, ending their killing sprees The developer flipped the page and started reading out the leaderboard results

"Co in at third place, at level tith two souls, responsible for ending seven kill streaks, sobnny" The developer read out Maria's results before he flipped the page, getting ready to read the next result

"Co in at second place, also at level tith two souls, responsible for ending eight kill streaks and dealing the killing blow to a boss, Typhoeus" The developer finished reading out Acai's results

"I thought you said they attacked you a couple ti, he was previously infor up, he didn't expect this though

Maria and Acai both shrugged in response, turning their attention back to the stage as the first place was revealed

"Co in at first place, level three with one soul The first player to leave the beginner village, and also the player who has travelled thea total of four settlee and continued reading, but didn't read the rest out, only leaving the group with a vague coe, it's only the second day"

"What did you do to earn that response?", Maria and Acai both turned to Arthur with a curious look on their faces

Arthur ed in response A playful smirk for group all looked at the trio with various e envy and jealousy, but there was also hate and anger Arthur internally sighed, pampered children could never accept their own inadequacy They were always bla others for any inconvenience they faced

The developers informed everyone that the next session would start next week, and that the briefing was over Eventually everyone in the group left, including Arthur and his friends, and Donovan drove hi of interest happening, school hadn't started yet so Arthur was lazing around the house forout and tending to his plants, but he spent ames with his friends, both Holly and Quinn, as well as Acai and Maria His roo sister Anna, who soames with him on her breaks

When the week ended Arthur was brought back to the facility for the first session of week two There were a few groups outside, Arthur assu for their friends to arrive Due to not having any reason to converse with anyone there, he walked past and entered the briefing rooroups scattered around, but the two he was looking for hadn't arrived yet

He took a seat in the front row and sat quietly while waiting A couple developers alking around waiting for everyone to arrive had started hovering around Arthur until they eventually struck up a conversation with him It was mostly same popped up, it seemed Gaia was interested in him

Eventually everyone arrived, Arthur's friends sat next to hi briefing was short, covering a few ht his interest this time around