"This task wasn't issued by me."
In the Blood Eagle Corridor, Murphy listened from underground to the autumn rain falling on the earth, his vampire senses keen.
The sound of rain and the clouds blocking the sunlight made him feel comfortable, but the vampire lord's mind was anything but calm.
Because just moments ago, while checking the connection between the core orb and the subordinate orbs, he had unexpectedly discovered a task that hadn't been issued by him.
It was the class-related "Hidden Quest" that Meow Brother had accepted, but it hadn't come from Murphy or any other NPC carrying a computation orb.
"Avalon..."
Murphy stroked the core orb.
At that moment, a powerful sense of unease welled up inside him. The little players thought this was a game and that all quests were spawned by the system, but the truth was otherwise! The so-called "quest system" was merely an "illusion" Murphy had developed for them by taking advantage of the computation orb's peculiar properties.
In theory, this privilege belonged exclusively to Murphy's faction, because the "encryption" of the administrator system meant that computation orbs of other models couldn't crack this special communications structure. But now, Meow Brother had received a quest from "outside the system."
Murphy didn't think someone was up to mischief. His first reaction was that the natural god Avalon had truly shown a sign, because this wasn't the first time the God of Nature, Avalon, had "appeared" to him!
Earlier, while hunting those mad vampires who had fallen into the corruption of subspace with the old knight, he had used the divine scroll the old knight had copied by hand to complete an "exchange" with the God of Avalon.
Even if the other party had only been examining him unilaterally, and the old knight had said