Inside the game, the players chased toward Kusagakure like mad.
Outside the game, the viewers watching the livestreams were in an uproar too.
"Holy crap! Are you kidding me? Even the Village Chief NPC got captured? Can you guys handle this or not? If not, let someone else do it!"
"This is just embarrassing. Getting crushed by a bunch of NPCs was bad enough, but now you can't even protect your own NPC. You're completely useless."
"With skills like theirs, even I could do it! Just do nothing, and the result would be the same anyway!"
"Are you sure? If they really did nothing, the starter village would probably be gone by now!"
"You can't just blame the players. Is it possible this is all a scripted scenario? A storyline deliberately designed by the developers?"
"After watching this long, everyone should know the Hidden Jun Village Chief is a boss-tier NPC. If even he's been captured, how bad must things be for Hidden Jun Village?"
"The developers wouldn't create a storyline with this many glaring problems, would they? If they can't rescue the Hidden Jun Village Chief, wouldn't that mean...?"
"How could such an important game character get taken out so easily? I think this is most likely a hidden quest."
"Hey! Don't be so quick to write them off! Look at it another way. If such an important NPC gets captured, how big would the reward be for rescuing him?"
"Hmm... You mean the developers are planning a big reward giveaway through this event?"
"That's certainly possible. After all, this is a limited-edition expansion update event!"
"If that's really the case, I'm going to lose my mind."
"Missing out on such an important event was bad enough. Now I have to watch everyone else get huge rewards. This feels