The uproar over Crying Banana Man's post had yet to die down when another post appeared.
[Urgent help! Is the final boss in the Hell Roar dungeon bugged? Its stats shot up by 200%!]
Posted by: Whisperer Guild
"Our Whisperer Guild's progression team has top-tier gear. We've been farming Hell Roar reliably. But today, halfway through the fight, the boss suddenly turned green. Its attack power and attack speed doubled, and it gained a skill that one-shots everyone on screen! More than a dozen of our forty players died instantly!"
"Holy shit! Same here! We were fighting in the Wind Element Highlands, and the Wind Lord turned green too! It can drain mana now!"
"What the hell? The Black Dragon we ran into did the same thing. Now it splits into three dragons. How are we supposed to fight that?"
"Why haven't they fixed a bug this bad?"
"It's not a bug. I just checked the combat log. The system calls it 'Jealousy Infestation'! It's a new mechanic, for fuck's sake!"
"A new mechanic? One designed to make people delete their accounts on the spot?"
The entire forum was filled with cries of despair.
Betrayal, suspicion, chaos...
The North American War Zone, already fraught with danger, had become a dark forest.
No one dared trust the teammates beside them anymore.
Monsters in the wild had grown stronger and stranger.
And people were more treacherous than monsters.
Countless players took to the forum to lament, curse, and vent their despair.
Amid that sea of chaos, a new post appeared like a boulder hurled into boiling oil.
[[Video] Stop crying! North America's Last Pure Land? The "Court of Sin Punishment" granted by an Eastern Deity and their "War Ladder"!]
At first, the post drew little attention.
"An Eastern Deity? What the hell