Giants Reappear! Barrier City Norringen

The teammates all thought Mei Er had a screw loose and was throwing his future away.

But Mei Er had made up his mind.

"Let's leave it at that. It's only the last stretch anyway."

"If you run into any more problems and need me, just call out. I'll come help right away."

"If you get the Honorary Player title without any trouble, come back and help me deal with the parasitic vines."

The teammates exchanged glances and stopped trying to persuade him.

It wasn't because there would be one less competitor.

After all they had been through on this adventure, they had grown very close and regarded one another as true friends.

The Honorary Player title was certainly great, but good friends were no less valuable.

The Virtual World would undoubtedly become an ever-expanding world of adventure. A friend one could treat sincerely was someone they could adventure and play games with for years to come—perhaps even more than a decade.

That, too, was an invaluable treasure.

So, the reason they stopped trying to persuade him was largely because they were happy for Mei Er.

Being able to find what he truly wanted to do in the Virtual World, rather than constantly chasing the latest version trends and drifting along with the masses, was something truly rare.

In the end, everyone patted Mei Er on the shoulder and promised they would soon return to help him build his restaurant, maintain order, and smash the parasitic vines to pieces.

Then they took the assorted mushrooms Mei Er handed them, climbed down from the enormous mushroom cap, and headed toward the giant wall in the distance.

Mei Er sat atop the giant mushroom, quietly watching his teammates walk away until they vanished completely into the forest.

Then he turned around, looked