Master Mage Marin's concerns weren't his alone. Even Taipal and Uncle Fuding, who seemed so confident on the surface, shared the same worries.
Compared with other player groups that had weathered countless battles, the Torrent Knights were undoubtedly a newly established band of "rookies."
The only large-scale battle they'd taken part in was when they'd helped Hog fight those skeletons in Smuggler's Woods just after entering the game. Although they'd received systematic training after Miss Piqi joined, along with tactical training support from the Winged Cavalry, no one could say for certain how much fighting power the players in the order could muster.
If they screwed this up, those roleplayers who seemed "overly pretentious" to some players would become a laughingstock on the forums for all eternity.
Fortunately, Maxim and Mirian weren't heartless enough to throw a band of rookies into battle alone just to test them.
As the Torrent Knights made their way to the battlefield, most of the other player groups, who hadn't been assigned any additional tasks, received the quest notification:
``` Ding! Special story event "Light Shines in the Darkness" triggered!
Event details: The gnolls of the Plague Clan, originating in the Filthy Swamp, planned to launch a stealth attack on Transia. But the fools took a wrong turn and entered the East Prussian border, where they began slaughtering people without mercy and turning them into undead. This failed raid had gradually escalated into a large-scale conflict no one had anticipated.
Marshal Loren of Pioneer Fortress had responded in time, but his forces couldn't reach the area! Before the main cavalry force from Pioneer Fortress arrived on the battlefield, the innocents under threat from the undead had to hold out for six hours!
But they couldn't do it!
They needed help. Amid death and despair, the