Negotiation Strategy

Once upon a time, death in Arthur was nothing more than the "Resurrection Stone" count on a character sheet decreasing by one.

When all five were truly used up and a player's entire account was wiped clean, quite a few people would surely be heartbroken, perhaps even losing their appetite for days.

Some who could not let go of their resentment would quit the game altogether, parting ways with it forever and abandoning the pit.

Yet the wheels of life would continue rolling onward. At most, the tracks left behind would become one experience in life, and time was enough to smooth over every wound.

No matter how important a game was, life still had to go on.

Until humanity crossed over.

At that moment, the fall of a body was no longer a change in numerical values, but the passing of a living life!

The fundamental reason Kuk and his group of more than ten still had to leave the city to adventure just before the torrential rain arrived was that, compared to other players, they had been insufficiently prepared and simply lacked enough food.

Because they feared death and had not adventured enough during the early days, all the easily exploitable areas had already been claimed.

Because they feared death and had not stepped forward when the great battle erupted, they naturally received little in the way of spoils.

Thus, they could only continue onward like old farmers who entered the mountains to chop firewood in the dead of winter—driven by life, knowing full well they might freeze to death yet having no choice but to press on.

Most of the people here had been extremely conservative in the beginning. They had held out until this very moment, when the torrential rain was about to come, before helplessly