: Harajun
: EXP Is Golden: Volume 1
: J-Novel Club
: 9781718356528
: 1
: CHF 3.10
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: Fantasy
: English
: 250
: DRM
: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet
: ePUB

The long-awaited launch day for the VRMMORPG Boot Hour, Shoot Curse has finally arrived! As a dedicated VR gamer, Leah eagerly rolls up her character, excited to make her mark on the grand tapestry of this virtual world. A chance encounter at the start of the game leads Leah to a fateful discovery: a hidden skill called Retainer allows her to tame any NPC in the game and pool their experience points with her own!


Combining Retainer with her powerful enchantment spells, Leah steadily builds an army of retainers made up of formidable unique boss NPCs from the game. With the experience points pouring in, Leah establishes herself as a force to be reckoned with...only to be branded a living natural disaster!


Well, if the NPCs want to crown her Queen of Destruction, who is Leah to argue? Opportunities to speedrun the destruction of humanity don't come around very often, and Leah has no intention of letting this chance go to waste!

She had no idea how the system worked, but the fact that the game displayed an error message meant that someone had tried to activate the taming system. The only possibility that came to mind was Kelli’s request. “Please be our boss” was interpreted by the system as the NPC expressing a desire to be tamed by Leah, but because Leah had no skills related to taming, the request couldn’t be processed and produced an error message.

During the closed beta test, testers had spent a great deal of time theorycrafting: using the character creator to test out a variety of builds, checking skill combinations and mapping out skill trees, revealing the existence of a large number of skills and skill trees that were locked behind prerequisites. Testing so many different builds required repeatedly creating new characters, which had set off a cycle of rerolls among the beta testers.

Yet, despite the enormous number of combinations that they had tested, they had never been able to find any taming-related skills. That implied that taming hadn’t been implemented during the closed beta, or that it had been implemented in a way that made it impossible to unlock with the 100 starting experience points. Regardless, there were either no players who had any information about taming skills, or, if they existed at all, they were an extremely small and secretive group. Leah was now a member of this select group of players.

Leah couldn’t hold back her excitement. It wasn’t as though she had wanted to be the first to discover a certain skill tree, or become some sort of secretive information broker for the game. Still, there was something exciting about the possibility that she was the only one who knew about a game system.

While there was no guarantee that there wasn’t some other player who had somehow fulfilled the prerequisites and gotten the same error message, considering how she had come across her own particular situation, that was extremely unlikely. Leah had fulfilled the terms necessary to trigger the error message by earning the trust of these NPCs. There couldn’t be that many players who were willing or able to build a good enough rapport with NPCs from scratch, given that the game had only been up for five hours.

“Are we...askin’ fer too much?” Kelli murmured anxiously, casting her gaze downward.Drat. Leah chastised herself for getting caught up in her musings. There was no point in figuring out the mechanics if Kelli felt rejected and withdrew her request to be tamed.

“Not at all. I have no objection to becoming your boss. If anything, I gladly welcome it. However, I...u