Well yeah,Getting distracted by random herbs and ore nodes is the most MMORPG behavior imaginable.
Seems like the assassins are former players as well ("The people of this world [...]")
The chapter does feel a bit off.This chapter felt really disjointed.
He is like a streamer, has a plan, but gets easily distracted.Zeros clearly isn't meant for guard jobs. If this is how he does it, he shouldn't have accepted the task. It's not like those ores and crystals would have disappeared anywhere even if he had ignored them for now and returned later to mine them.
Using the whole chapter for "set-up" makes it feel like this could've been an email.This chapter felt really disjointed.
The chapter does feel a bit off.