In the conference hall, the nobles were all thinking "Balda above," while Sylvie's mind was preoccupied with what these pesky players were up to.

The players weren't fools.

Especially the player representatives, who had long realized that there was no need to complete the main storyline. This was a completely open world, and the main storyline merely provided a direction.

Moreover, they had suffered so many losses in the main quests, which highlighted a problem: