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*** A few minutes later ***

"We should leave this cursed forest as soon as possible. By the way, how long has it been since you came to this world?"

"Well, I think we woke up in this forest about an hour ago, Lighty"

"WHAT!!! Impossible! Newcomers always teleport here at the shrines of their Alliance Keep. Are you sure you weren't carried here by someone else while you were unconscious, PapaBear?"

"Pretty sure, Lighty. I even woke up Hina."

"Damn, this is not good. What do you think?" Lighty looked at the black-robed man.

"We…sh…ou…ld…lea.ve…"

"I agree. Let's go, all!"

"Stop, Lighty. You should explain everything to us now!"

"Not now, Hina. It is the Murdering Event now and we are in the Throne Jungle. And as you know, peace agreements do not work here. It is like in the game."

[Note: In the Murdering Event all players have the right to attack each other. Of course, only those who are not protected by the Peace Agreement.]

"Then, why not go to the Throne Castle? Except for the War for the Throne, it's quiet there."

Lighty and NPC looked at each other for a few seconds because of Canosfer's question. "It's the only place we should never go, Canosfer. The most dangerous person here lives there... or being..."

"Who!?"

This question remained unanswered, and then they quickly set off to leave the forest…

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"So, when we leave the forest, we can be protected by the peace agreement?" Canosfer asked a few minutes before they left the jungle.

"Sadly, no. Although the operation of this place is very similar to the phone game we play in general, it is equipped with some brutal rules." Lighty was walking on the one hand and was constantly watching for a possible attack on the other hand. There is a mandatory two-hour cooldown period after each peace Agreement that is canceled. And also it is more complicated for your situation."

"Like what?" PapaBear asked, keeping his cool.

"Newcomers should offer their blood into the shrine first… To activate their peace agreement for the first time. That's why they always wake up on the shrine of their own alliances and the reason I told you that your situation is quite abnormal. It is against this place's mechanics!"

"What do you imply?"

"I even do not know. Right now we urgently need to go to the Keep of a reliable alliance."

"Where?"

"We're going to GBR for help."

"GBR Alliance!? Why? They are not strong. We should go to BRE Alliance!"

"The situation here is not what you think, PapaBear. On the contrary, it is very bad. Even though the system has abducted us from our own world at the same time…sent us to different times in this world's own time zone…"

"What does it mean, Lighty?"

"Some of us were teleported 2 years ago of the timezone of this place. Some of us a year ago… Some people a few months or a few weeks ago… And you came now…"

"Wow, this is hilarious!"

Hearing Miha's words, Lighty shot her an angry look. "Hilarious! This thing is not the game we played, Miha! People are really dying here. And even worse, the system is forcing us to kill each other. We are constantly under attack by monsters and a few armors and swords are not enough to kill them as in the game. We also fight to protect the lives of ourselves and our loved ones in killing events such as SW (Server War) and ME (Murdering Event). And this accursed System offers us the condition of killing only humans or monsters to get out of here. So that we can return to our own world and to our loved ones… And this is also your answer to, PapaBear!"

"...?" PapaBear looked at Lighty as if he didn't understand.

"Some of us stood against this bloody System and chose to flee or protect other players instead of earning points. Some of us remained neutral and chose to kill when necessary and protect when necessary. And some of us chose to be slaves of this System and they killed all the innocent people they caught. That's why all the alliances have undergone radical changes. So, in short, the alliance members in the game you played until yesterday and those here are not exactly the same. There are lots of different names, and some of them… you might not like at all."

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They had come out of the forest and were walking north through the desert.

"ST…OP!" The black-robed NPC walking at the very front of the group suddenly crouched down, signaling the others to stop.

"Aren't they?" When Ruby looked in that direction, she saw a group of people.

"Yes, gamers." Lighty watched the group of three, 20 meters away, uneasily.

"Are we sure they're bad people? Maybe they will help us."

"Look at their eyes!"

Ruby and the others looked carefully at these three people, as Lighty said, and saw that their eyes were all red. There were no pupils, and the eyeballs were completely red. "What the hell!"

"Here, if you kill a gamer, a human, you will get a small red spot in your eye. And the more people you kill, the more this stain grows and covers your entire eye socket."

"So!?"

"Yes, they are skilled PvP players. And the murderous ones!"

"Wa…it…her.e" The black-robed NPC suddenly jumped out and reached the three-man group of murderers with superhuman speed… And he struck all three of them with severe blows to their vital parts, causing them to faint.

"Wow, he is really something." Hina was admiringly watching the NPC.

"Yes… he is…" So did Lighty, but there was more sadness in her eyes.

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Within half an hour they had arrived safely at the GBR Alliance's Keep.

"My…jo…b…is…do…ne…" The black-robed NPC had left them a few meters before they reached the Keep's gate.

"See you again…" Lighty took a sad look behind him and entered the Keep with the group.

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