In the corridor outside the examination room.
"How's it going in there?"
The players were gathered around the examination room's iron door, questioning the player closest to it.
That player had his ear pressed against the cold iron door, very earnestly... eavesdropping.
"Hmm..." He frowned, straining to make out the sounds coming from inside. "It sounds like... nothing but screams..."
The longer he listened, the more he winced. "There's wailing, too..." It sounded downright miserable...
The players sucked in sharp breaths. Was it really that bad?
Their expressions all grew grim.
Was this Instance really that difficult? But they had only just entered it...
Although two of them had already died right after entering the Instance, those two players had effectively brought their deaths upon themselves. That was different from a mandatory procedure arranged by an NPC that every player had to undergo, like this one. Generally speaking, such compulsory procedures only came up in the middle or later stages of an Instance.
But this was only the first day. They had been in the Instance for less than half a day, and it was already throwing something this difficult at them?
They couldn't help trembling.
Someone even had the thought, Maybe I should run now, while it isn't my turn yet...
But that thought had barely surfaced when he caught sight of Miss Nina standing nearby out of the corner of his eye. His budding little scheme was instantly shoved back down.
He didn't have the guts to challenge an NPC outright.
Yet as he cautiously watched Miss Nina out of the corner of his eye, he suddenly saw her expression change sharply. Then she strode toward him.
No way...
The player's expression changed too, and he instinctively took a step back.
*I'd only thought about it! The NPC