"The Principal's Office Building collapsed?!"
Everyone was startled by the news.
The buildings at Artisan Academy were all made from special materials and were extremely sturdy.
For ordinary players, even breaking a hole in a wall took a great deal of time and effort.
That was also why no one had tried breaking through a wall to escape when the Library Curator was hunting down the Hunters.
But the Principal's Office Building was even bigger and sturdier than the Library. How could it have collapsed?
More importantly, the Principal's Office Building was no ordinary area. It was a source of the Assessment Pass Badges needed to clear the Instance.
Of course, there were other ways to obtain Badges, but the Principal's Office Building produced the most.
Although quite a few people had already obtained Badges through various means by now, there were certainly still people without one.
Given the time available and its output, the Principal's Office Building would originally have produced enough Badges for everyone, so no one had been in a hurry.
At worst, they could spend some money to buy a Badge in the last two days. After all, the things were useless outside of clearing the Instance, and with a sufficient supply, there would be no shortage of sellers.
But with the building's collapse, everything was different.
If the most important source of this clearance item was cut off, it would definitely be a major event affecting everyone.
The value of Badges would certainly skyrocket, but that was probably the least of the consequences.
More importantly, the players who still had no Badges would probably go crazy!
The players in the Instance had gotten along fairly peacefully before precisely because everyone had expected to be able to clear it in the end.
Now, that peace was