Log Horizon - ep06

Now as things continue, it seems that the new issue revolves around the guilds. Then to get things started they use Serara's welcome home party at Cresscent Moon Alliance to explain the rules of guilds as well as starting things off on a happy note before things get much dark. The main problem is that in the time that Shiroe was gone thing have gotten worse even-though on the surface it look like things have gotten better with the reduction of Pkings. However the reality is that the large and more powerful guild have laid claim to all the good leveling fields and the smaller guild are push aside to take what ever they can find.

The real problem are guilds like DDD which are aiming to be the first 91 level players, since with this expansion pack it increase the level cap from 90 to 100. The reason they are an issue is because they are leveling up by cheating, this is done by using exp pots. The exp pots are not an issue in themselves but they create an issue by allowing players to level up faster. Although players under level 30 get on a day. What this has cause is a demand for these items and Hamelin tries to meet this demand by bring lower level players into their guild, and taking their exp pots as payment for giving them safe harbor. This also relates in a way to the meeting that Marie had awhile back with the other guild master of the smaller guilds, it was an attempt to make things better for them but in the end they had too many difference to come to an agreement on much of anything.

This leads to Shiroe question on what can be done about this current situation because now that he has been to Susukino, he can't look away because he see Akihabara is just as bad the only thing is that it's better at hiding it. Then as he is questioning the nature of guilds, he is approach by Nyantan. His old friend give Shiroe views on the issue of guilds, that they are not necessarily inherently wrong but they can become corrupt if not cared for properly. That it not necessarily bad that he is wary of them but something that can't go bad does have much value. This push Shiroe to make his own guild by seeing Nyantan and the others silently support him waiting for the day he decides to make a guild of his own. This is also what will allow him to say his friends that were taken in by Hamelin. It seems that with the creation of his guild Shiroe has a plan to take back Akihabara from the people that have been abusing it and it seem that the first step is getting rid of Hamelin.