"What's wrong?"
Cider, who had poked Esperanza's cheek as she stood blankly even after leaving the reception room, asked. Awakened from her thoughts by this, Esperanza grabbed Cider's wrist and entered the laboratory.
"Isn't it strange that a dungeon appeared in Mabelwood?"
"Ah... so that's what this was about."
Cider replied while casually sitting on the laboratory sofa, which had become just like any other room again after he had packed everything and put it in inventory.
"It is strange. Do you have a hypothesis?"
"I don't know. What about you?"
Cider propped his chin and lowered his eyes, lost in thought. For a moment it became quiet enough that the flow of air seemed to slow. Esperanza also fell into contemplation.
The only thing that had changed was Esperanza's existence. But dungeons were like natural disasters. What could a person have done to make dungeons appear or not appear?
What she could think of... could it be related to Esperanza suddenly dropping into this time period?
Esperanza opened the quest window she had forgotten about.
[Quest: Find the Golden Claw!]
Progress: (15/???)
Completion Rewards
—Title: Master of Time
—Item: Golden Claw, Return Ticket (Home)
The progress had increased. Strangely, it wasn't very surprising.
Could clearing the dungeon also be related to the Golden Claw? If so, was this an anomaly according to the quest? Or conversely, did the quest arise according to this anomaly?
Following that thought, wasn't the Golden Claw simply an item that could close dungeons?
"They all make sense, but since we don't have many clues anyway, the possibilities are infinite. I think we could consider other thoughts too."
"What thoughts?"
"Well. How about thinking like this?"
Cider smiled brightly while tapping the chair's armrest with his fingertips.
"What you knew wasn't all reliable information. Like the first dungeon occurring in Nine Holder a year later, or dungeons occurring randomly without any rules."
The former was already a negated fact, and the latter was also a truth being challenged. And they were all things Esperanza hadn't even doubted for seven years. Game settings and such—she probably hadn't had enough interest to doubt them.
"Then what's left?"
"Facts remain, Esperanza. And broader possibilities remain."
It was absurd talk, but strangely persuasive. Esperanza leaned forward.
"Say more."
"For example, like this. The assassin who chased us on the train, those Lord Sterling pursued who were heading toward Mabelwood, and the suddenly appearing dungeon. How about thinking that these are all connected as one?"
If that were true, dungeons were definitely not natural phenomena. And probably the 'Golden Claw,' or whoever possessed it, already recognized Esperanza's existence.
"Everything is just hypothesis, though."
And hypotheses require proof. Both for those who want to prove them and those who want to disprove them.
"We'll have to return to Nine Holder."
Where should we start? Esperanza's head was spinning, but Cider was relaxed.
"Cider. We've become very dangerous."
"It's become very interesting."
Cider answered while reaching out to tuck Esperanza's fallen hair behind her ear. And before the startled Esperanza could pull away, he naturally leaned back against the backrest.
"As expected, my magician. You bring new magic every day."
Yesterday was a dungeon, today a life-threatening force? Esperanza laughed along with that self-deprecating joke, then asked.
"But you know."
"Tell me."
"Why am I your magician?"
Cider tilted his head. Soft golden hair wrapped around his cheek and flowed down.
"Don't you think you are?"
"I mean, why...?"
Cider, who substituted a smile for an answer, got up from his seat.
"Think about that yourself. Now, Lady Cordelia, who thinks lightning will strike if we're alone together even for an hour, must be waiting."
And he left without looking back. Only after being left alone in the ownerless laboratory did she belatedly realize.
Ah, there's no basis whatsoever. An engineering student insisting on something without basis. Esperanza pouted.
But she didn't want to deny it. Even though she had never even thought of herself as a magician. My one and only magician in the world. It wasn't a bad ring to it.
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[Free Board]
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Hunter active in the Southernfault area.
I've been playing since Golden Claw's open beta, but this is the first time I've seen such ridiculous errors. There's already been talk on the free board about dungeons not showing up on maps lately, right? I hadn't seen it yet so I just thought it was an error. But does it make sense for the system not to recognize dungeons????
Fucking developers, what were these crazy bastards thinking when they created this situation when it's not even a game that gets server maintenance? I got caught in a dungeon and lost all the connections I'd built up in the Southernfault area over several years. The kid I was playing with recently died too, and the stray cat I was feeding only had bones left. It's already a rural area so there aren't many hunters who come by, but when the fruit store grandmother cried asking why I only came now, I had nothing to say. It's the first time I felt sorry to an NPC.
This game has had lots of talk and problems, but I stuck with it for 7 years because of the realistic world-building and growing attached to NPCs, but now I'm getting reality-checked and quitting.
Either don't make it this realistic, or if you're going to make it, do it without errors. If I was late because of my mistake and they died, that can't be helped, but does it make sense that I couldn't go rescue them because the system couldn't recognize the dungeon due to a system error??? Do you think it's enough to just put mosaics on corpses while pretending to maintain ratings?
Don't think you can finish this by just throwing a few shitty rewards in the mailbox. It seems like there are quite a few people other than me quitting because of this, so fucking developers better do their job properly.
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└ I already submitted an inquiry ㅋㅋ If you're going to stubbornly insist from the beginning that there's no rollback, shouldn't there be no bugs like this
└ Will the icon of non-communication fucking developers actually give a proper answer??
└ It's my fault for not escaping this shitty game for 7 years ㅅㅂ
└ Just from hearing about it, dungeons really don't appear? Not visible at all?
└ (OP) They're visible. To my eyes ㅋㅋㅋ But they don't show up on the map or system ㅋㅋㅋ
└ Then how do you find them?
└ (OP) ㅅㅂ If I had found them, would I be making this fuss? I found out after it was all over.
└ Seems like there are many system problems lately. Got kicked out several times during dungeon raids. Shitty developers give copy-paste answers even when you submit inquiries ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
└ Isn't it a wifi problem?^^
└ No^^
└ Can this be fixed??
└ Probably no way. They'll just scatter compensation items
└ But they do give really good compensation. I got 500,000 terot once
└ 500,000???? What, give me bugs too ㅠㅠㅠ
└ Wow crazy. I'm also a region-based hunter and I think my mental would break if my region became like that ㅋㅋㅋ
└ How important NPC connections are in this game, and they make you lose all of that ㅋㅋㅋ It's not like the OP wasn't logging in, right??
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└ ★ Hello, Hunter! We're truly sorry for the inconvenience. The issue of dungeons not displaying in the system is currently being investigated. We apologize for the inconvenience in game usage.
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"Dr. Sullivan."
The white-haired doctor flinched and trembled. A tall woman was looking down at him with cold eyes.
"Is the Golden Claw still the same?"
"That's... why on earth did this error occur?"
"That's not my concern. What I need to know is when you'll fix this back to normal, that's all. Understand?"
The woman irritably looked at the mechanical devices that filled the spacious laboratory. Complex gears and thick smoke in every empty space. Among the creaking, rotating brass machine parts, a section shining with vivid golden light was spinning frantically.
"Next time I come, you'd better have at least a proper solution."
The woman who left through the door made a gesture of pressing something in the air. The next moment, the woman's consciousness opened its eyes inside a large machine. The woman who emerged from the machine was dressed in a black suit from head to toe.
She picked up the phone on the desk and made a call, and soon the sound of the other party answering came through.
"It's me. I'm on a business trip until next week, so you check on Dr. Sullivan's work from time to time. Don't think unnecessary thoughts. It's just a temporary error... Right. Let's see when I get back."
The woman left the office without hesitation. In the office at the top of a high-rise building with a panoramic view of the city, only the humming sound of a large device shaped like a cocoon remained.
And on the other end of the phone. In the basement of a deserted alley, there was an identical machine. The man who hung up put his body into the machine.
"Dr. Sullivan."
Having to deal with two of these siblings in one day. Dr. Sullivan nodded with such emotions clearly written on his face.
"How many times can I operate this machine with my magic power?"
"The last 'accident' was quite significant. Cyrus, you only have one chance left."
There was no opportunity to make mistakes. He had to reach where 'Esperanza' was in one attempt. Cyrus let out a deep sigh.
"Then let's start right away."
Cyrus put his body into the machine. The machine, responding to his magic power, began operating with clattering sounds. Tendons stood out on the hand gripping the golden part curved long like a claw. Steam filled the space so thick he couldn't breathe.
Dr. Sullivan coughed and opened the window. After all the white steam flew out of the room, only the white-haired doctor remained alone in the room.
"Research my ass, I'd rather go to graduate school one more time than cater to those damn bastards."
The doctor cursed harshly.