Qualifications

"If a stone breaks, it isn't the inside that collapses; the soil absorbs the impact, settles, and instead packs itself tighter. What's more, the ground outside the eastern wall is muddy because the waterway is blocked, so there's no way to bring a battering ram up to it!!"

Bang! Gaius removed his helmet and slammed it down onto the table. The Association's hunters, who had been watching him, were startled by this reaction they had never seen before and began to talk.

'Has the garrison commander ever said anything like that before?'

'No? This is the first time I've heard it.'

'There are occasional cases where an NPC's reaction changes when certain conditions are met, but…….'

There had been a few known patterns, such as receiving additional rewards for maintaining a high affinity, or having the guards called if one's name appeared in red.

But this was the first reported case of an NPC speaking like a living person, as though it were conversing with Yoo Hyun himself.

Could the beings inside the Tower communicate with one another? Or had Yoo Hyun's experiences, along with his stubborn refusal to treat NPCs as NPCs, opened Gaius's heart?

One thing was certain: no country had ever accomplished anything like this. They had flattered him or threatened him, but no one had ever seen through him so completely and provoked him so precisely.

"Hmm, is that so?"...