Chapter 42: “The Start of the First Server-Wide Event”
The day of the server-wide event. Rare had signed up for it yesterday, before the deadline.
She wondered if her followers could also enter, but since it required seeing system messages, it seemed that only players could enter. Due to this, it would probably be hard to get them into the event zone as well.
As written on the official site, Rare headed for an event zone access point. This point could be found in each town and every safe zone, which included old castles and volcanoes. These were obviously not places that could be found in a town, so they were probably for the players who had monster races to use.
For Rare, though, the closest safe zone wasn’t in the city, but inside the great forest, so that’s where she went. There were a total of five safe zones in the great forest, all around the central area. Normally, no one but players would even approach these zones, but, maybe because they were Rare’s subordinates, the catkin girls, ice wolves, ants, and even Deas could all enter without issue.
“I wonder how these safe zones distinguish between players and anything else? If, as the tutorial AI said, there’s no system-defined difference between characters, then these zones could be the only exception…”
Rare looked upon a quiet stream surrounded by a field of blooming flowers. It would have been picturesque if not for the horribly misplaced giant ants and the undead knight. Deas usually kept to himself in a corner of the queen’s chamber, but he always followed along whenever Rare left to go anywhere. There was a faintly shining magic circle to the side of the safe zone. It seemed that it would only react to players; ants would sometimes step onto it unknowingly, but nothing happened to them.
<Princess, are you truly planning to go alone?> Deas objected immediately.
Even though Rare was in command, he referred to Rare as “Princess” but Sugaru as “Queen;” she wasn’t sure what that was all about. Maybe when he was alive, he had served a princess, or aspired to such a position.
“That’s correct. I’m probably the only one who can go. You’re free to try to come after me, but I don’t think it’ll work. Plus, I won’t be alone.”