"What’s the situation?" I asked.

Chaos Moon sat down next to me, plucked a wood ear from the dead tree trunk and examined it for a moment. She then threw it away before answering, "Did you know that Soul Battle Robes lay low during the few days after the Nation War? It was only now that we learned that Song of Cloud and Water, that ambitious little girl, was carrying out an SSS Rank quest. With Ringwraith, Song of Ice and Fire and God Bone by her side, she successfully completed a quest to kill a faction leader and killed the duke of Daybreak City. Her reward was a map…"

"Oh? A map?"

"Mn. It’s a quest item, and its full name is the ‘City Map of Daybreak City’. The player with this map can, after paying a certain price, appoint any NPC to become the new lord of Daybreak City. Assuming that this map falls in the hands of a player of another server… You understand what I’m saying, don’t you?"

I instinctively punched the trunk beneath me while swearing, "What the fuck! This is just bullshit!"

"I know right?" Chaos Moon gritted her teeth. "Even worse, our worst fear became a very real possibility. God Bone was ambushed at a canyon entrance and killed…"

"Who ambushed him?"

"It was Now and...