I eat my lunch and log back into the game. After repairing Lily and Aeon's weapons with my alchemy skills and struggling with a pile of boa meat in the galley below, with a little time to spare, I head to Crowe's shop.

''You're here. I'm impressed that you're a little earlier than time.

'Huh? Is Mr. Crowe here yet?

The meeting place was filled with all the female production workers except for Mr. Crowe.

'He's a man on the edge of time, so it's going to take him a little longer to get here... even though I'd like to head over there as soon as possible at all.

'Time is limited, you know. But if I had time, it was just fine. I want you to see something.

When I said that, the eyes of the members of the production staff lit up. On behalf of them, Miu Miu asks.

''New material!''

I don't know if I can.

I take out spider silk, carapiller thread, and a bee stinger.

'Thread, yes. Unfortunately, it's not new material. Someone brought it in yesterday and today.

Oh? 'Too bad... but Hugues takes the bee stinger in his hand.

'But I've never seen these bee stingers before. It looks like it could be used for a bow and arrow, maybe even a poisonous weapon.

I suppose. I'm sure you'll be able to find a way to make it work even better with a bow and arrow. Did you get this material from the Wakamiki Forest as well?

'Yes. It fell off when I killed a bee monster named Bee.

I say this and Yuna says it with a dark look on her face.

'I don't like bees,'

Not many of us are good at it, I'm afraid.

Hal encourages. Well, I don't like it either. Getting stabbed is too much fun. But, you know...

I know you drop the honey too. That guy.

Yuna and Hal's gloomy feelings are blown away by my words.
That's right. The existence of sweet things in the current situation is a big deal from the girls.

''Can I ask you to teach me a few things before we go to the forest?''

Okay.

I give him information about the monsters that appear and their drops. Then Lewin-san speaks up with a question.

'How do they get information on the monsters we haven't seen yet?'

I found a book like that in the library.

I didn't know we had a library in this town.

It said on the board. The story. He couldn't read, so he had to take his reading skills. It said it was a f*cking spec.

Aryama. Did you not know about the skill scroll by any chance?

'You'll get a skill scroll for your reading skills at the counter,'

People are surprised when I say that. Then Mr. Lewin mutters.

'I guess that guy was a piece of shit for not checking the counter.

'It's funny to see you bragging about consuming precious skill points.

It would certainly look that way, wouldn't it? And with the exception of Luin-san, the other three are new to Aeon.

'Come to think of it, we haven't introduced ourselves to Aeon yet. 'Aeon.'

Aeon. Nice to meet you.

Yeah, yeah. Good for you. Good for you.

I'm so proud of you.

'It's a girl again. And a different type.

It's lovely.

When the production folks are done introducing themselves, Crowe comes in.

「「「「 late!」」」」

I'm not late, okay?

I was certainly not late. We were really just in time. Now that Crow-san has arrived, I interrupt the chatter and head to the field. And when I summoned the summoned beast, he was surprised.

'I'd heard about it, but it's amazing to see it in person.

'You're the owl from Harry's! Cute.

Toratou-chan, can I touch you?

Oh, may I?

'Okay. If it's the meadow that started it all, I'll be fine with just Lily.

We'll have to put together a legion first.

Oops, there's a word I didn't know. Lewin-san and Crow-san explain it to me.

'What's a Legion?'

That's what this game is all about, the multiple-party, one-party system.

It's essentially a system for taking on a big boss. Of course there are advantages and disadvantages.

'The advantage is that there are a lot of players out there, so it's less dangerous than it usually is.

The downside is the dispersion of experience and items. This is what often causes trouble. Especially the summoner-type ones, which are hated.

Oh no. I don't know why.

'If you have a party with only your summons, you're going to have a summoner hogging one party's worth of experience, right?

Ah, so the point is that it's not fair. But it's the summonses that get the experience, and I only get mine, so it seems fair, but you're saying that some of them don't think so. But then is it okay for Ruin-san and the others?

'We're our own protection this time. We're applying ourselves, so there's no problem.

Tact-kun, you might want to decide a lot of things beforehand when you set up your Legion.

I understand.

'And this can be an advantage or a disadvantage, but it sounds like there are more monsters that appear.

It's certainly an advantage if you think it will bring in more materials and experience, but it's a disadvantage if you think it will increase the danger.

After that, while everyone is moving through the grasslands of the beginning, I talk about the boss.

''Ah, if we're talking about that story, I'm going to make a dedicated thread on the board to try to capture it in earnest.

'The person you saw, Tact, probably wrote in too. It sounds like it took three parties to kill you instantly with Legion.

That's dangerous. It's a good thing I didn't challenge him.

''By the way, the Legion's limit is five parties, but apparently you can't win even if you challenge with the full limit.

'It seems to be absurdly strong. I've heard that no Legion has been reduced by even one gauge yet.

Is a 5 party a blink of an eye? If that's the case, we can't very well do it ourselves.

If you run into that guy this time, just go through with it.

'I know. I don't think I'm incompetent enough to jump in knowing that I'm going to die too.

I don't want to go through the painful process of going back to death. I'm not an M.