Chapter 84: Special Delivery
“Well, I’m never doing that again.” Those were Simon's first words when he opened his eyes to stare at the ceiling. Charging the drawbridge had been awesome in the heat of the moment, but maybe daring the enemy to fight him twenty or thirty-on-one hadn’t been the best idea.
“Mirror, show me my experience and make a note that I shouldn’t forget about the boiling tar in Liepzen castle again.”
‘Of course,’ it replied as Simon sat up and reached for the same tired bottle of wine as he reviewed the new data.
‘Experience Points: -987,341’
“So last time it was 2,000 experience points in a couple of months, and this time it was 4,000 experience in close to six months,” Simon said to himself as he considered the number. “Not exactly linear, is it?”
The mirror didn’t respond to that question, but he continued to mull it as he started getting ready. A lot of his time had been used in very similar ways in both cases. So, did that mean that the war was bad for experience or simply less good than leading a quieter life?
It might not have been either, he realized. He might have simply gotten more from saving Gregor, and the rest had been a wash. The only way he’d ever really know for sure would be to conduct very controlled experiments where he went and lived the same month over and over again and compared the results, and that sounded truly awful.
At least this time, what he had to do wasn’t in doubt. Well, whether or not he’d give the whole try-to-stop-a-war thing another shot was up for debate. That seemed to be a complete waste of time. One thing that wasn’t, though, was that there were some people who needed to be fed, and he knew just where to get some food.
Simon dispatched the rats on the first level, and then, one bag at a time, he transferred the remainder through the door to the trap floor. Once that was done, he stopped and tried to decide if it was really worth it. 4 trips through the levels to carry all this, and then somehow he’d have to drag it through the snow?