By the next day, it was the eighth-to-last day of the "Shadow of the Swamp" event's forty-day free campaign period. After resting for six hours, Femis, the young lady, got back to work.
She helped the Big Bird and Silvermoon guilds on the southern front reopen the entrance to Plaguewind Town.
This time, the two player guilds entered with confidence. Meow Brother, that unlucky bastard, had gotten carried away after all the killing yesterday and ended up poisoning himself to death, but that wasn't a problem.
His Vam Beheader had been lent to Brother Black Silk, who had the same great-weapon specialization, for temporary use.
Madam Shui, who was serving as their healer, had filled her entire spellbook with healing and poison-cleansing spells, so she could cast them on the fly without chanting. Players with Avalon Church classes had also recorded various support spells for cleansing poison, and they'd bought plenty of antitoxins from Amber.
Yesterday's failure had clearly been a disgrace, so everyone was determined to redeem themselves today. That desire to "wipe away the shame" filled them with fighting spirit.
As it turned out, angry players were indeed tough to deal with!
Today's campaign operation had barely been underway for an hour when Brother Black Silk and Little Ashina joined forces to cut down the zombie warlord Kenport.
To be honest, a lumbering, clumsy undead creature like that could hardly be called intelligent. Even though Lameclaw had specially enhanced Kenport's undead hide for defense, Underworld reinforcement still couldn't withstand the edge of the Vam Beheader as it swung down.
And Little Ashina had gone all out for today's campaign, generously equipping every player in the campaign group with a full set of burning-gold bullets. She'd even hired several veterans from Brother Bang to operate mortars in the rear