Horunka Village was the only stronghold in the forest region. There were not many NPCs in the village, and relatively few quests, but all of them required prerequisites to trigger. Every quest carried a certain degree of difficulty, and correspondingly, the rewards were proportional to the difficulty.
Aside from solo players who had participated in the Beta Test, nearly all mainstream Players were currently gathered in Horunka Village. Thus, along the two-hundred-meter-long street, Players came and went in an endless stream. Some even stood at street corners chatting.
At that moment, a small commotion suddenly arose at the village entrance. The Players in the middle of the street were drawn by the noise and turned curious gazes toward the entrance. Once they saw the source of the disturbance, expressions of shock appeared on every face.
A black-haired one-handed swordsman with exhaustion written all over his face was pulling a long-haired girl with no weapon toward the center of the village. This ordinary sight was not what surprised the Players on the street. What startled them was the expression on the long-haired girl's face—lifeless eyes and an almost vacant look.
"What's going on?" The Players at the street corners began whispering among themselves as they watched, their gazes repeatedly flicking toward the long-haired girl.
The girl had waist-length black hair, with bangs covering her entire forehead and accentuating the large eyes beneath her delicate willow-leaf brows. Unfortunately, those eyes, which should have been the most captivating feature of her face, were now dim and lifeless. Even so, combined with her refined nose and cherry-like lips, she was still a beautiful girl who drew the eye.
The question was, what had happened to that girl? Why did she look as though she were at anyone's mercy?
With such thoughts in mind, the