Chapter 44. The Value of Intelligence

Hel's point of view

 All of them talking endlessly, looking at points on the map, trying to speculate, but no, they had to do it loud and clear, mine don't usually sleep, just for the hell of it and I wanted to sleep, but nothing.

 It's good that they are attentive to not being attacked, but they have been living here for too long, not to remember that this is a game, but still, even if they have a mission, something smells bad, I have a bad feeling.

 Putting that aside, these people decided that the best thing to do after thinking about the possibility of the mission, that was the absolute answer, fools, even having a mission, I don't think the reward will bring their armies back in full and it will take months before they can have enough soldiery, so why risk it.

 Something is wrong.

 Well I'll leave it for now, it's not my job to predict the turtles, although if it were the turtles, the first priority would be to find a way to maintain a supply line, the forest is not a peaceful place, Saun has been hunting around the edges for several days and there are still beasts ready to attack him, so how, if in the sky is Marcus, but for now he seems on our side, as repulsive as he is, then maybe from below.

 Maybe, if they have a good group of rats, moles or other beings with a great ability to form tunnels ... it may be feasible, then I will ask Lint to look for tunnels with Verona.

 The war room chatter went on for hours, they went over everything from formations to possible access routes, plus how to maintain an uninterrupted supply line and still have enough food in the city.

 A really boring afternoon.

 It was only when the time was about 20:00 that the meeting ended.

 It is really annoying to listen to them ranting, but if it wasn't because they were waking me up, then I wouldn't have told them about the mission, I stupidly thought that if I told them they would shut up, deluded me, it was like throwing gasoline on the fire.

 With a nod, Gwen ended the war meeting.

 Everyone nodded and began to gently bow and walk out the door, even though I knew it wouldn't be long before I saw them again, there was still the party for the trouble.

 Gwen looked at me and stood like that for a few long seconds.

 - Hel, I have a question for you, you can answer if you want - That was kind of obvious, she doesn't have the ability to force anything on me.

 - Question - My answer was indifferent.

 - How high is your state of intelligence? - Well, I didn't expect that, intelligence in its strange state, first of all allows to get more freedom for minions and allows them to concentrate more easily, besides being the counterpart for mind state effects, but nothing else, according to the forums, it was the most underrated stat, since this didn't mean more powerful magic or anything, at most a higher MP recovery speed.

 I couldn't find any downside to telling him, so I did, although I didn't expect his face.

 Mentioning the 600 points in intelligence, his face went through several significant changes.

 - Mr. Hel, you don't seem to understand how important those 600 intelligence points really are, in that case let me enlighten you. For players intelligence points is really almost useless, but that's because they are people playing through a character, but in our case it's different, these are our bodies, that is, we don't have an intelligence predefined by our body on earth, let me put it differently, if someone plays in a game about the stone age, the player still knows about fire, spears and all the aspects he knows, but the npc's don't, they have to make a development to reach that point.

 The same in our case, now we are like those npc's, although previously we were people with a great amount of knowledge, you have not yet realized that you do not know how to do something as simple as a catapult, simply can not because we do not have a development towards that research, the same thing happens for any other knowledge or perception, if someone on earth was a born general, which, he could understand all the intentions of his enemy just by looking at a map, but he gets to reincarnate, while his faction does not have enough intelligence, maybe he will not know how to distinguish between a stick and a bow - At that time, I tried, things as simple as making a plate or a fork, but nothing, I could not, I had the knowledge given by the abyss from our wisdom, but nothing more.

 - That's why, for us intelligence is really important, someone with a lot of points, just like you, may be able to understand things that for those outside the game are really simple, that's the main reason why, us reincarnated, with all the time we are here and we don't advance by leaps and bounds, if we could have all our knowledge from the past, then, every city would have firearms, artillery and multiple systems better than today, Also, your defense to mental curses is fundamental for us, when a player goes crazy, his character goes alone for a while, but the player doesn't suffer for a while, but the player doesn't suffer from it, artillery and multiple systems better than the current ones, Besides that your defense to mental curses is fundamental for us, when a player is driven crazy, his character goes alone for a while, but the player does not suffer anything, in our case, it really drives us crazy, we can not ration, or move as we want, there have already been cases of curses of long duration that have ended with many great reincarnated or natives. For now I recommend you to hide that absurd figure and I would also like to propose you to become my permanent bodyguard, as well as advisor, take it for granted that I will satisfy your request about the profession for your subordinate, besides trying to reach a new agreement - She seemed really excited, like a kid in a knick-knack store, but I understood it, it is like if an applied elementary student found a university tutor, the tutor would give him his more expert opinion and could help him to better understand all the subjects, coming to understand much more than his classmates.

 - I will need time to be able to give you an answer to her request - I'm not really good at getting the best out of people, I will talk to Irina and I'm sure we can get a good advantage out of the situation.

 She nodded and seemed to relax.

 Well Mr. Hel at the moment the banquet is being prepared, so we will go and observe how everything is going and wait for the guests.

 Without saying anything, I simply gave him her gesture first.