0035 – Athena Met Another Players
0035 – Athena Met Another Players
She, together with these two individuals, might have altogether deployed three players to Sun City.
The top-ranked players in their respective regions.
Unless necessary, she doesn't plan to expose her identity. Whether they are friend or foe, as players, remains unknown.
It's rather the attitude of the commanders and others that's intriguing. They seem accustomed to the idea of players being transported here, as if it's just the way things should be.
The victory banquet lasted quite long, during which Athena sampled various delicacies.
It wasn't until around 1 a.m. when the celebration ended. Apart from some soldiers on night duty, the rest returned to their accommodations.
Their "accommodations" were nothing more than ruins next to the city wall, providing barely enough shelter from the elements, with a spot to sleep.
Athena's assault squad leaders were among those left behind, along with the two players. The commander looked at the two players, indicating they should choose which team to join.
The girl looked around and found only Athena as a female team leader, so she chose to join Athena's team. The boy next to her agonizingly pulled out a handful of hair, then ultimately followed suit and joined Athena's team.
The commander didn't say anything about both of them joining the same team. "Familiarize them with everything," he instructed Athena before dismissing everyone.
As people dispersed, 002 approached.
"What tasks will you assign us? Will it be monster killing, or something else?"
"Why are the night and day separated here?"
"Do you know a monster called Garole?"
002 asked many questions, but Athena had no intention of answering, because she didn't have the answers either. Indeed, these two were here for the system task related to Garole, but so far, everything remained peaceful.
If they stayed here until noon tomorrow, would the monsters in their shelter area still respawn? However, this string of questions did give Athena some ideas. She led the two straight to the lodging of the female mercenary they had seen earlier.
Successfully catching her before she could sleep, Athena, leveraging her usual persona and position, said coldly, "These two have quite a few questions. You come and answer them."
001 and 002 were somewhat stunned on the side, not expecting to actually gather intelligence so easily.
Athena's current identity asking such questions that everyone takes for granted was suspicious. Normally, it would be very difficult for outsiders to obtain intelligence from this world.
But Athena had chosen a different path.