When Sithran defeated the Twin Gargoyles alone, she could obtain nearly a thousand souls.
When she teamed up with others, the number of souls dropped by the Twin Gargoyles remained the same, but they were divided equally among everyone involved in the battle. In other words, the more people entered the dungeon together, the fewer souls each person received.
Perhaps this mechanism was meant to encourage adventurers to grind levels alone?
But that was far too dangerous and would only lead to more deaths.
The first time Sithran acted as a cooperator, she had been summoned by a Bronze Rank adventurer squad with only two surviving members. The two had run out of supplies and were considering giving up when they happened to use Summoning Finger Medicine and discovered a Summoning Mark.
Having found hope in desperate circumstances, the two were so moved when they saw their cooperator that they nearly cried.
Sithran helped them defeat the Twin Gargoyles. By rights, after the souls were split among three people, she should have received around three hundred.
Yet that day, she received more than nine hundred!
A full three times as much—almost the same as if she had soloed the Twin Gargoyles!
She wanted to ask how many souls the other two had received, but they were rookies among rookies. They had not even cleared the Swamp Area, much less found the bonfire in the Blighttown area.
Later, after many more experiments, she finally reached a conclusion—
When a cooperator helped a summoner kill monsters, they would randomly receive one to five times the souls!
If multiple-soul rewards could trigger several times during cooperation, her leveling efficiency would be far higher than grinding monsters alone.
From then on, she fell in love with helping others.
However, Gong Qiying would never do