As news of the first-floor boss's defeat spread, the players throughout Starting Town completely exploded with excitement.
A server-wide announcement appeared whenever a boss was defeated and a route opened, so every player received the notification immediately. Yet their first reaction was utter disbelief. Quite a few simply sat there on their chairs, staring blankly for several seconds before erupting into wild cheers, shouting as they ran around and waved their arms.
For a time, players screaming, jumping, and hugging one another could be seen everywhere in the streets. Fortunately, the NPCs in Starting Town had not evolved to human intelligence. Otherwise, seeing this scene, they might have called an ambulance to send all these laughing, crying, shouting, and raging players straight to a mental hospital.
Just as Fang Zheng had expected, after being trapped in this game for nearly a month, most players had reached their psychological limit. The fact that no one had been challenging the boss had also left them deeply uneasy. Under such circumstances, players naturally began imagining all sorts of things.
Was the boss too difficult to defeat? Was everyone unwilling to fight for fear of losing their lives? Or had someone gone already, only to be wiped out?
In that situation, the mentality of the lower-level players would become increasingly unstable, making the entire player population restless and agitated. That was precisely why guilds like Dark Nebula and the Red Knight Order had independently decided to risk entering the core area to challenge the BOSS. If they did not do something to resolve this problem, things would only get worse.
But what they had not expected was that while they were still preparing to challenge the BOSS, a guild had actually defeated the first-floor boss already!?
What kind of guild was Darkmoon Blade? How