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“What, what the—since when were there NPCs in the Babel Tower tutorial?”
“No, more than that—isn’t it weird that an NPC introduces himself as an NPC?”
Monitor room.
There were hundreds of monitors showing the fields, but none were as exciting as Field 6 right now. Guild staff, scouters, Rankers—you name it. Before anyone noticed, they’d all gathered and were fixed on that one feed.
“Maybe because a new system appeared, it looks like the tutorial’s changed starting with the 41st run. We should make a note of this.”
Sa Sejong murmured, stroking his sharp jawline.
Domi, listening beside him, tilted his head.
“But if it’s like this, are we supposed to say everyone we’ve met in the Babel Tower up to now were all NPCs?”
“Hmm, could be.”
“No.”
“…Oh?”
“Don’t make a note of this.”
A razor-clean denial.
His aides looked at him in puzzlement, but Gyeon Riok didn’t have the bandwidth…