John was in a genuinely tough spot. Thankfully, his friends were too exhausted and grateful to be alive to interrogate him about why his attributes remained so much higher than theirs. Without him, they would have been dead within the first minute of contact.
However, John had a much larger problem to solve, and the clock was ticking. His system quest wasn't just about killing monsters or surviving for 24 hours with the team. It had a specific, annoying objective that he had initially taken far too lightly: destroying 100 sound devices scattered around their location.
When he first saw the quest, he hadn't worried at all about this point. This feeling even grew further when seeing how easily he could slice through a Fog Seeker; he assumed the mission was already secured. But the bitter reality was now clear. He couldn't be in two places at once.
