Chapter 449 - Lively Night
Chapter 449 - Lively Night
"Welcome back, Will. How did the negotiation with Skaur go?" Jake became interested when he caught the smug look on his face.
"Great! Skaur forced me to give up my store! I got your blueprints too." Will chuckled happily.
Ignoring Jake, he motioned to Drastan and the two Fluid Knights who had escorted him to unload the four carts full of supplies. Drastan himself was loaded like a mule.
Jake's facial muscles twitched imperceptibly as he watched this nonsense. Still, he had to get to the bottom of it.
"So, what makes you so happy?" He asked this time with barely veiled annoyance.
"That dumbass Skaur let me take all my possessions with me. What a f.u.c.k.i.n.g dork!" Will gloated to himself just like a Disney villain.
"Explain." Jake growled impatiently.
Sensing that his leader was not in the mood for jokes, Will regained his gravitas.
"This situation is f.u.c.k.e.d up." The businessman said in all seriousness. "You haven't realized it yet because the First Round had an initial allocation of Roles that was pretty much viable. Production Roles like Farmer, Hunter or Fisherman may have seemed useless, but thanks to them, food supplies were guaranteed.
"As Villagers acquire better Roles, they abandon their original Roles. At the same time, the proportion of Monsters, Enforcers, etc., only increases while the number of remaining participants decreases. My Grocery Store's inventory is equivalent to almost all the food in his Village. And because this delinquent retard was letting me handle the technical side, he doesn't even know it. He just blew all his efforts with one single bad decision."
If he wished, he could bury himself in the ground in the hot sun and he would be able to subsist for a few months without problems. Even without that, his Forest Warden Role guaranteed that he could hunt to his heart's content.
He also realized as he listened to Will that he knew nothing about these Production Roles. How fast did what they planted grow? How often was the harvest? How quickly were the fish in the lake renewed? Or the beasts in the forest?
When he had fallen into the Lake, he had been under the impression that he could catch fish without limitation, but could he really? Probably not. If he had tried, he would have been sent to the Pit for trespassing.
"I hadn't considered that." Jake admitted honestly. "If we follow that logic, with the Corruption's influence it won't be long before the remaining survivors fall into cannibalism."
"Exactly. Have you noticed that it's become nearly impossible to pick up a Production Role Card?" Will shared his find with trepidation.
Jake's face scrunched up hearing this.
"I didn't know that. I stopped picking Role Cards as soon as I got the Roles I wanted. My focus was not on this."
His merchant buddy refrained from the slightest bit of quipping. With his intelligence, if Jake wanted to, he wouldn't have missed any of these details. The only reason he hadn't connected all the dots yet was because as a top-tier player, his focus was elsewhere. And most importantly, he had only arrived in the Second Round this morning.
"We can always count on the NPCs for these Roles, right?" Jake thought about something. "You said earlier that they would spawn to fill the Village to capacity."