We waited in silence for around 20 minutes before we heard new activity from a distance again. Through my super long-range Dark Pupils, I saw a ton of red dots emerging from the end of the dark, long corridor. They were a troop of cavalrymen with all sorts of buff icons above their heads. Amber Pupil had returned with a much bigger and organized troop of elite cavalrymen, mages, priests, bards, archers and more classes. It was clear he wouldn’t allow some mob, no matter how overpowered, to thwart him.

"Do you see Blood Alliance?" He Yi whispered to me.

I immediately brought up my interface and matched the red dots on my map to what I could see with my Dark Pupils. I could account for 90% of the players I was seeing, meaning the 10% I couldn’t see on the map were stealthing assassins revealed to me because of my Dark Pupils. There might be even more that were still invisible to my Dark Pupils, who wouldn’t be shown on the minimap too.

"Blood Alliance is definitely here. I count at least 500 enemies, so we need to be careful. It’s probably all Dark Mercenaries players that have entered Bloodthirsty Castle in the past couple hours or so. If we manage to...