GOT : Battle Royale[ An ASOIAF Fanfiction]

"Now?" Ian's first reaction was to continue going to the salt farm to suppress the squatters.

Unlike the entanglement and panic he felt before drawing his sword at the Brotherhood hunter who attacked Harui, at this moment Ian no longer had any psychological burden about hunting players.

Just like the hunter who didn't deserve his name shot an arrow into the chest of Harui's substitute without saying a word, Harui didn't hesitate to order his mercenaries to kill him after discovering that he was a player. Just like his own orders.

The relationship between players was originally a life-and-death one. Ever since the players signed the agreement and came to this world, they had become unrelenting enemies.

Although Ian still had the urge to vomit when looking at the corpses on the ground, he understood better than ever at this moment.

If he had been a little soft-hearted or hesitant in the previous confrontation, now it would be Harui standing next to his body and sighing about life.

Therefore, it was indeed a good choice to continue hunting the merchants in Salt Farm Town. After all, he had made a detailed plan for this, and now that he had two more knights, the chance of winning by 'squatting' people had undoubtedly improved a lot.

But for him, who already had two powerful knights and a huge investment of more than 3,000 gold dragons, this didn't seem to be the most cost-effective solution. Ian suddenly had this idea again.

After all, his hunting plan in Salt Farm Town was only for traveling businessmen, and his estimate of the results was that it would only take him a month to get one, which would be considered a success.

Admittedly, this result was already ideal for him before. After all, as long as he got kill points, he could gain a period of development time that was not threatened by the assassination mechanism.

But now, he was no longer threatened by the standings, so finding a way to develop quickly was the most important, and if he wanted to develop, the best way was to run a business.

"Let's find an inn to rest for the night, and then make a decision tomorrow," Ian said. He wanted to finish the reward settlement first and analyze the new tasks.

"If we are looking for an inn, the closest inn to us is the Crossroads Inn. We are at most two hours' ride away from there," Roll nodded. "We can rest there for one night, restock on wine and food, and then make plans."

"Crossroads Inn?" Ian's eyelids jumped when he heard this familiar name.

"Although the Crossroads Inn is not far from here, we have already dealt with all the survivors. Even if the bodies here are found tomorrow, no one will doubt us," Seeing Ian's expression, Roll thought he was worrying about this.

Ian shook his head and said that wasn't what he was worried about.

The name just brought back memories for him.

The Crossroads Inn was where he had originally envisioned the hunt.

Unlike Salt Field Town, where traveling merchants could only stay, the Crossroads Inn had a special geographical location that could be called the thoroughfare of four provinces. The probability of players appearing there was probably among the top three in the entire world of Ice and Fire (the first was Pantos, where many players wanted to 'lick' the Dragon Mother. The second one Ian didn't know. He said that the top three had a habit of not saying enough).

In short, the Crossroads Inn was almost a perfect hunting ground for Ian, who had discovered a major flaw in players' starting equipment.

He had given up going to the Crossroads Inn and chosen to go to Salt Farm Town because he was worried that he wouldn't be able to defeat those players who had strong force points in his previous life.

But now, he had two such powerful NPCs and such huge funds.

He only needed to confirm to the mercenary captain that there were no newcomers in their team when recruiting mercenaries, just like Harui, so that he could safely hire a mercenary team and gain an absolute advantage in force.

Therefore, the plan to hunt at the Crossroads Inn was once again on his table.

But the cost-effectiveness of doing so still seemed not high?

In the early stage, a player was only worth 4 points, and if he didn't kill it personally, he was only worth 2 points, and there was almost no additional benefit. Maybe if you stayed here for two months, killing so many players wouldn't bring you as much benefit as a business trip.

Thinking of this, Ian shook his head again, denying this view.

Although hunting players didn't bring many points, there was no way for other players to obtain points. If you could use this to reach the top of the ladder, the value of the reward resources plus the attribute points gained from hunting players might not be comparable to a trip to the business world.

And even without these rewards, it was definitely beneficial to eliminate some players in the early stage. After all, you never knew how far the players could develop in the later stage.

For example, that Harui, with the strength that guy showed, if he didn't die but developed to a later stage, how big a threat would he bring to himself?

Taking advantage of their current advantage, the best solution was to nip as many of these seeds in the bud as possible.

"Go to the Crossroads Inn," Ian gave the order. He planned to have a good meal first and a good night's rest.

Before setting off, Ian ordered Roll to take off his armor and give him a ride on the grounds that he was too tired. Anyway, they had captured three horses, which could just be used to carry things.

Of course, the real reason he did this was that you had to close your eyes to log into this bullshit system, and he couldn't ride a horse with his eyes closed for a long time.

After officially hitting the road, Ian logged into the system with his eyes closed and started today's reward settlement.

The first thing that caught Ian's eyes was the red dot on the mailbox. Ian, who had a slight obsessive-compulsive disorder, clicked on the mailbox without hesitation, and then began to read the received emails one by one according to time.

[Complete the bounty mission 1 'First Blood', and obtain 3 attribute points, 3 skill points, 3000 golden dragons, and two S-level NPCs of your choice (received)]

[Successfully kill a player, gain 4 points, capture 1 point, and gain 2 extra points of strength]

[My subordinates successfully kill a player, gain 2 points, seize 1 point, and gain 1 extra point of mental power]

"Eh? The points gained from the kills are also 1 point? Is this rounded up?" Ian smiled; although 0.5 points wasn't much, free 'prostitution' was always fun.

Thinking about it, he continued to click down.

[Achieve D-level highlight operation and get 1 point]

"Highlight operation? How is this calculated?" Ian remembered. Annie had mentioned this during the introduction of the mechanism, but he had temporarily ignored it because there was too much information to digest.

Unexpectedly, he accidentally got some points with this.

"Highlight operation mainly refers to the player making amazing decisions in planning or contingency, and thus obtaining significant positive actions. The judgment of highlight operation will be based on the system's built-in AI algorithm. The highest highlight level is S-Level, and the lowest level is D," Annie answered Ian's question in the next second.