Oh, he will come after us.
They do not have to be allied for him to take advantage of us being one hit away from death. We have Doom of the Tyrant, so they can't force us to work for them. So if we clash with them we will be killed, and we are too weak to win that fight right now. They only need relative proximity, and we have no way to determine that.
What are you talking about? That has no relevancy to my objection.
You were saying he's in some special realm protected by the Astral Lord, but there would be no hunting him down at all then.
No? I'm saying an Astral Lord may be paying attention to him and will take advantage of the situation to attempt to "recruit" us. And when Doom of the Tyrant prevents us from kneeling we die.
Or politics. They can't be seen attacking the Armament of a rival, but using a third party is third game. As is trying to recruit/kill a third party that you find.
His current location need not be an access restricted realm to be a place with its own protections and inhabitants, that may or may not have an opinion on us hunting down that guy, who may or may not be strong enough for us to have to worry about.
In the same vein, when we search for creatures to kill for healing, what's to stop us from being ganked all of sudden?
And even if they don't care about us killing him they may try to recruit us by force or just outright kill us as a potential threat. And we have Tyrant so we can't submit. So we die.
Nothing stops Rihaku from deciding "rocks fall, everyone dies". But that option is explicitly on the island we are on which does not have human habitation. On the other hand following the teleport could go anywhere in the realm.
Pretty much. No point chasing lost prey when hurting. But I'm not saying we never pursue. Just that as we are now doing so is incredibly risky.
Good to have that confirmed; makes Scent a whole lot more crucial.
We can prioritize enemies who we know we can beat. Right now Ber is avoiding us because we have an unknown level, and he might tell that to the Astral Lord, if they are cooperating. However, if we show up at their doorstep, they can't exactly ignore us. And Rihaku confirmed Ber would be very hard to beat even had we been rested:
If they care to that extent of helping the Gamer, are we not already dead?
Doubt it. Progression would have been unbeatable since the Tyrant would have scalrd, and Combat is clearly too weak to be the Tyrant.
Then we - hear me out - don't immediately attack like a berserker and explore the situation first instead.
True, but we're powering up off of this vote and he's not fresh
We'll be resting long enough to lose Exhausted, which takes a full day. Presumably he'll have regained a lot of his personal strength by then as well for much the same reason we will have done so.
