Song Ren did not feel much about the fact that the protagonist in games was essentially a glorified errand runner.
After all, in most games with RPG elements, the protagonist was like that.
Whether it was The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Red Dead Redemption 2, or titles from other game studios.
Running errands was simply commonplace.
This was especially true for formulaic, canned open-world games, where they made you run errands to the ends of the earth, terrified you might not realize how huge and open their map was. An old lady in the neighboring village wanting you to deliver a letter to Old Li could send you from the east side of the map all the way to the west.
In The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, although Song Ren had complained about all the errand running, the actual gameplay experience was not bad at all.
After learning about the Greybeards and High Hrothgar in Whiterun, he set out on the main quest.
And it was from this point that Song Ren truly felt just how rich The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim was.
After a long journey, he arrived at Ivarstead at the foot of the mountain and saw the mountain path the Jarl had mentioned—the seven thousand steps.
Song Ren did not know whether there really were seven thousand of them, but one thing he did know was that this mountain dwarfed every peak he had ever seen.
The mountainside was still lush and green, but as he climbed the steps, the road was soon blanketed in wind and snow. Countless frost trolls lived there as well, and Song Ren had to put in considerable effort to kill them.
After arriving at High Hrothgar and meeting the Greybeards, Song Ren gained a deeper understanding of the