“Something must’ve happened over there!” The eyes of ‘Usami-chan’, who was in the team, had turned sharp as soon as she spoke.
She wore light leather armor. She was an Assassin, spinning a curved blade dagger in her right hand as she charged ahead sneakily.
Since she was an Assassin, she had sharp eyes and nimble steps. Her job was prying information in front of the team and bringing the intel she obtained back to the team.
The training team members were catching up to her slowly behind. They were not Assassins, so their basic movement speed was not as fast and rushed as Assassins’.
Ten minutes later, ‘Usami-chan’ typed in the group chat.
“There are many powerful Fishfrogs here!
“I’ve been targeted!
“Please be careful, guys!
“They’re so fast. Oh, no. They got me!”
The interval of the messages ‘Usami-chan’ sent was approximately six to seven seconds apart. It merely took over 20 seconds for her to be discovered and captured!
A minute later, a new message appeared on the group chat screen.
“They’ve tied me up with a rope. I can’t get out of it. Be careful, you guys. Don’t be tied up. I suspect this is the same imprisonment duration bug that happened with the dog-headed people,”‘Usami-chan’ said.
The training team members looked at each other, while ‘Everything is Powerful’ looked at the engineer that had designed the game in their team.
“Didn’t you say this is a Level 5 zone?”
“Yes, it is a Level 5 zone,” the engineer said, feeling guilty.
‘Everything is Powerful’ held the two-handed sword in his hand. Although he was rash, it would not mean that he would charge head-on, knowing something was wrong ahead.
He mentioned all members in the group chat and obtained the team leader’s approval to send them a batch of veterans above Level 10 to support them.
It was funny. They needed members above Level 10 to help them in a Level 5 monster zone—what a joke.
Forty minutes later, a batch of players with the average level of Level 19 arrived.
Most of them were the high-level players the country had recruited. They were the opening players of the game ‘World’. All of them had a ranking on the leaderboard.
As the nightmare condition had shut down the game, the high-level players could no longer play that. They started playing the old games again.
Since the officials were recruiting, they responded and logged onto the game to support.
“‘Noodle’ reporting for duty. I’m ranked No.1 on the leaderboard, a Level 19 Assassin.’
“I’m Morrison, Level 19. I’m an Archer,” Morrison pulled the wooden bow in his hand.
“I’m…”
None of them had a job transfer, whereby they held basic jobs.
However, they had high levels. The expert who ranked No.1 on the leaderboard was standing here. The player was on Level 19, the No.1 in the game.
If not to respond to the mission, ‘Noodle’ would not want to stay in such a low-level zone for even a second.
“It’s the Fishfrog Village ahead. It used to be a Level 5 zone. However, according to the intel from ‘Usami-chan’, the Fishfrogs in the village are powerful. Not only that, there’s a bug in the imprisonment duration. The bug has yet to be resolved until now,” the Mage holding a two-handed sword said.
“There’s an imprisonment duration bug?”‘Noodle’ was shocked. It was the first time for the player to hear an imprisonment that lasted for 40 minutes.
The experts who ranked on the leaderboard were shocked too. Their interest was piqued.
They had heard why the game shut down. It had something to do with the nightmare condition, and there was a possibility that it was the source of the condition!
“Let me handle this. I’ll check it out,”‘Noodle’ said
‘Noodle’ led the eight Level 19 Assassin players in the rescue team into the Fishfrog Village as soon as that was said.
“The top team is already here. What’s there to check out? Just attack them. Ask ‘Usami-chan’ if there’s anything that they’d like to know.” the Mage with the two-handed sword waved the sword in his hand. He could not wait to fight.
The rescue team members were rendered speechless upon hearing that. However, ‘Everything is Powerful’ was right. The top team was standing right here. If they dared not fight a Level 5 wild monster zone, they should not be helping at all.
The players came to an agreement and moved forward in concrete steps. They were going to the mountain village by the beach.
They entered the Fishfrog Village after walking for less than a minute. They stepped on a soft beach while a salty sea breeze blew on their faces. Their hair was dancing, and their clothes were fluttering in the wind.
A massive Fishfrog stood on the beach. It looked similar to a frog with a big, bell-like eye on each side of its head. It was sparkling in eerie green gleam. It had four toes on its front legs and five on its rear legs. Its smooth back reflected the sunlight.
It lifted its head facing the sun and glanced at the players with its side eye. Suddenly, it stared directly at them a second later. It spoke in frog language. “Ribbit!”
An invisible wave spread with the massive frog as the center, and the players covered their ears by instinct. They were standing in a wobbly manner from the wave.
“You’ve fallen into a state of fear!”
All players had the same notification popping up from the system. However, their brains could not react to that.
When the state of fear disappeared, a group of small Fishfrogs surrounded them. They slapped their human faces and pressed them onto the ground.
An agile female Fishfrog took out a weaved rope to tie them up.
The nimble ‘Noodle’ jumped out of the gang of Fishfrogs. He spun the dagger in his hand and stabbed it at a small Fishfrog’s eye,
Whoosh!
Green blood splashed as the frog’s eye was pierced.
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‘Noodle’ avoided the attacks with his agility among the crowd. He grabbed a few Assassins along with him too.
Since they were high-level, their personal ability was powerful. Soon, they began an agility show. The Fishfrogs failed to touch them at all.
They would run right after they attacked. They definitely would not stand there to attack.
The players who failed to fight back were tied up. Some players were slapped to death by the raging Fishfrogs. Their HP bar was gone.
The players who had yet to be captured worked together to fight the massive frog by surrounding it.
The massive frog screamed as it charged its psychic attack again.
The small Fishfrogs charged and tied up the players seizing the opportunity that they were shocked.
The battle was intense. At the same time, messages occupied the screen of the players’ group chat.
Those players who were tied up could only chat as they failed to break away from the imprisonment. Therefore, the team that was far away from the zone could see ‘Everything is Powerful’ typing, describing the live battle scene with words.
“What? Such a tough battle in a Level 5 zone?” someone asked.
“That’s not all. That giant Fishfrog’s scream can make one fall in a state of fear for three seconds. The interval of the skill’s cooldown is merely ten seconds. It’s too powerful,”‘Everything is Powerful’ said.
“Even Level 19 Assassins’ damage output can’t kill them? It’s impossible for Level 5 little monsters to have such high HP. Are you sure you guys are at the right place?”
“It’s the correct one. We’re at a Level 5 wild monster zone.” The engineer joined the chat too.
A minute later, the bad news was sent to the group chat.
“The massive Fishfrog’s attack hit ‘Noodle’. Holy sh*t, his HP bar has been wiped out. The damage is just insane!”
“What’s happening? None of you guys managed to escape?”
“You won’t know how powerful exactly they are if you don’t fight them yourselves. Although some Fishfrogs are weak indeed, some are terrifyingly powerful. They possess Level 40 power at least.” The engineer calculated the damage, and his pupils shrunk lightly.
The faraway team training to level up could not help but fall into silence upon learning that.
The Level 5 Fishfrog zone suddenly turned into a high-level zone. Something unusual must have happened there.
Investigate! That must be investigated!