Today, five years later, the list on the huge announcement board above the entrance to the central Teleport hub in the heart of the Oasis—the list for the Easter egg hunt to find Halliday—had finally changed. It had remained unchanged for so long that Oasis players had nearly come to believe it never would. And now, to everyone's surprise, it showed not one but two players, ranked first and second.
Naturally, the player in first place was a certain troublesome little girl who had won fair and square through her own strength, then dismissed the prophet Halliday with just a few words, leaving him so ashamed he covered his face and slunk away, almost too embarrassed to show himself again! She was also the player with the highest personal bounty in all of Oasis, and the one voted this year's most unwelcome player: the troublesome little girl hated by practically everyone, the evil Dark Child, the Archmage of Arcane—Annie Hastur!
With a whopping 110,000 Easter egg points, her name now sat at the top of the leaderboard.
If the Dark Child in first place had been an incredible fighter in PvP, committed countless "heinous" misdeeds while leaving players helpless—and daring them to be angry but not say a word—and everyone had to admit she was skilled enough to deserve first place, then the second-place player was another matter entirely. This unknown player, whose name was "Percival," had somehow earned a staggering 100,000 points and taken second place, leaving everyone baffled!
And supposedly, the two of them had reached the finish line one after the other in the previous race?
But...
According to the rules, each race was only supposed to have one winner. So with two winners from the same race on the same day, it was only natural for