Closed Beta That Only I Played

Chapter 349: Burden (3)

[If anyone has not yet made a decision because you are tender-hearted, now is your last chance. Once we form the expedition team and leave this place, we will not return. So please join us now. I will particularly welcome those who are proud of their abilities or have some recognition. Of course, I am willing to treat you accordingly.]

What he said was almost an ultimatum.

Then exactly ten men moved out of the ordinary crowds. Among them was one guy familiar to me. He was the leader of the Orléans Guild representing France.

[Gosh! I’m so sorry I didn’t recognize you. I hope that I didn’t disregard you too much. Please come this way.]

Andrei changed his attitude in an instant.

It was no wonder he did so. The Orleans Guild was recognized not only in France but across Europe, so its leader was very famous. So much so that I knew him, too.

But after he stepped out from the crowd, no others did so. Then Andrei immediately took his eyes off them and did not pay any more attention. He just neglected them. Not only Andrei but also the Borneche Guild members, and about 500 who joined who had raised their reality actualization rate did the same.

“What should we do from now on?”

“Are we going to be abandoned here and die?”

“Shit! I’ve not survived until now to die like this!”

“Mom…”

“Dad…”

Naturally, the ordinary people varied greatly in gender and age, ranging from children to adults. As a result, the anger of some in one corner spread to the others in an instant.

At that moment, Andrei announced a final message.

[All those who joined the expedition team, please move toward the entrance.]

As if he was not interested in those left behind, Andrei was about to move to a different place. Then he opened his mouth, looking towards the crowds of ordinary people where I was.

[Of course, you are welcome to follow us as long as you can.]

How can ordinary people follow those with a reality actualization rate?

That was impossible. Absolutely impossible.

Anyway, the fact that they had raised their reality actualization rate meant that they had reached level 1200. So even if their reality actualization rate was only 1%, and they only got 1% of their stats including stamina, it would already put them far beyond ordinary people. That was the case even for wizards with the lowest stamina. Moreover, although reaching level 1200 was not as rare as before, it was still a very high level, so everyone who had reached it must have obtained thousands of coins by growing that much.

Lastly, Andrei said something to the ordinary crowds as if to comfort them.

[Oh, you don’t have to worry too much. The safety zone at the departure point here will be maintained for one more week.]

“…”

“…”

“…”

HIs words didn’t comfort them at all, and made them even more saddened and frustrated.

Then why did I still remain in the ordinary group?

Of course, I had several reasons.

However, what was certain was that, as Andrei said, I was not so tender-hearted as not to abandon the ordinary participants here. Even though what he said was radical, he was not wrong, strictly speaking.

I didn’t know what the situation was in the past, but the worth of each participant in this quest was definitely different, depending on whether they were an ordinary person, whether they had a “Revival Legend’ account, or whether they had raised their reality actualization rate.

So, I had no intention of blaming Andrei as well as those who followed him for abandoning the nearly 10,000 ordinary participants.

Anyway, the reason I did not join Andrei’s group was because a message rang the moment I moved over here.

[You have participated in the quest of ‘Borneche Expedition’.

– The Borneche Expedition discovered a new continent. However, they had no choice but to end the expedition after encountering the second gate. In other words, the second gate had a very powerful gatekeeper compared to the first gate. So, the Borneche expedition returned to the starting point, defeated the first gatekeeper, and then used the ‘Flute Calling for Reinforcements’ they originally thought unnecessary when they obtained it first.

: Escape the New World.

-Even if you belong to the Borneche expedition, you must succeed in escaping in person to receive the reward.

-Differential rewards are given according to the order of escape.]

This was literally a quest that required the participants to escape from the new continent.

And the message clearly said that different rewards would be given depending on the order of the participants’ escape. Of course, if I joined the expedition and demonstrated my skills fully, I would be the first to escape from the new continent. And if anyone objected or blocked my escape attempt, I would gladly defeat them with force.

So I was willing to join the expedition at first, for as Andrei said, I was more important than the 1,000 ordinary participants.

But then a man and a woman caught my eye while I was looking around.

To be honest, I regretted it a little that I looked around. If I had not, I would just have joined them and left this place.

But they were none other than the father and mother of my brother’s wife.

So I approached them and grabbed both their hands. They were startled when they noticed who I was.

“Oh, my son-in-law!”

“How come…”

Instead of responding to them, I put my index finger to my lips.

Then I moved outside and asked them first, “How did you get here?”

I liked my brother’s wife as a family member because she was very wise, prudent, and good at seeing reason. And I could see why she had such a personality after watching her parents’ words and deeds.

Her parents had climbed to a position where no one from the Myongjin Guild could treat them recklessly. But they rejected it. They chose to stay in the second base instead of the first base which was safer and more spacious, which was safer and more spacious than other places.

They didn’t even leak it to the outsiders that their daughter got married to the eldest son of the Myongjin Guild chairman, let alone boasting of it.

In other words, they seemed to be very concerned about doing any damage to Myongjin’s reputation because of their words and actions.

So I really couldn’t abandon them, for I didn’t want to see my brother’s wife as well as my sister who was close to her cry over their disappearance later.

Of course, I would have abandoned them if I had not been competent enough, for I had to take care of my own interests, no matter what.

When I asked them how they got here, her father said, “I was at the library of the Myongjin Shelter when all this happened. I was there because I took up being in charge of the library as a pastime. But suddenly, I felt like I was being dragged somewhere, and when I opened my eyes, I was here.”

He was formerly a university professor, so I knew that he was in charge of the library located inside the Myongjin Shelter.