<h4>Chapter 53: What happened with the event</h4>


    Waking up a few hourster Eldrian felt his stomachining. Grumbling as soon as he sat up. Finding this strange Eldrian nced at the time on his phone, finding that it was almost 2 o''clock in the afternoon.


    ''Yikes, was I really so tired?'' He asked himself, realizing why he felt so hungry. He hadn''t eaten much before taking his nap, only something small. Not having expected that he would sleep so long.


    "But it was sooo nice." He mumbled as he made his way to his kitchen. He was irritated that he had slept so long, as he had wanted to go hang out with Erik or his sister if he wasn''t free. But now he didn''t really have enough time, unless he decided to log into the gameter. Which he didn''t want to do.


    ''Let''s send her a message and ask if tomorrow would work, probably lunch.'' Eldrian mumbled as he poured himself a bowl of cereal, not in the mood to make something. He decided to rather go to his sister, hoping that she would offer to make lunch. He always really enjoyed her cooking and he really felt like eating a homemade meal.


    After filling his bowl Eldrian quickly wolfed it down, refilling it right after. The second time he ate slowly while enjoying aedy show on his PC.


    Feeling much better he started thinking about what he needed to get done before logging back into the game, while still enjoying theedy show.


    ''First things first, see what other yers experienced. The event post did say that every kingdom would have an event and that each one will differ.'' Eldrian mumbled to himself as he sorted out his thoughts.


    Pausing the show and going onto the forum Eldrian found that the entire first page was filled with mostlyining posts. The developers seemed to have already answered theirints in a single post which was pinned to the top of the general thread.


    Eldrian read through it in curiosity, wanting to know how they were going to handle this situation.


    This post basically exined that they had warned everyone about the game''s realism and difficulty. Both via devs'' posts and the contract which required one to be over 18 years of age. More even if the person''s country''sws stated so.


    They also added a paragraph that basically just med the yers for still treating it like a normal game.


    ''Why are they so defensive?'' Eldrian asked himself, finding it strange that they immediately went to the contract to make a defense. Even trying to me the yerster on.


    Eldrian turned to thements after having finished the post. Which seemed very much like a denial of guilt to him. Just as he started reading thements he saw that a new post just made it to the top. Having been pinned by one of the forum moderators.


    This post was seemingly a conclusion on what happened. The post name was, [What happened with the first story event?]


    This post was made by a group of yers who loved data and had been going through all thements. Noting down theints of the yers as well as valid points brought up in either defense or criticism.


    The post started off by saying that each region or rather a kingdom seemed to have gotten a different quest, just like the developers'' post had promised. Many of them seemed very simr to some others, but after looking over most of the posts the creators of [What happened...] concluded that there was always a difference of some type.


    On the smallest level, this difference was that the monsters were of a different type. Or that the pack/horde was a few hundred more or less. But they added that there was also many major differences.


    Reading through this thread, Eldrian was left amazed at their ability to analyze such a messy forum so quickly. Seemingly very urate as well. All thements were praising the post creators for their objective post, while adding aint about the game''s unfairness if they could.


    The post went on to make a collection of all the monsters which had appeared. Making the first bestiary which yers could use with ease. In this collection, Eldrian found the Wolfbeasts and Direwolves which he had found. There was even a short description added, which was just the description yers had given them in their own posts.


    Eldrian found the description verycking as the only point he agreed on was that they were agile. But he knew that this was normal, seeing as it was the first time yers had faced the monsters. It would most likely be better with time.


    The creators of the post also stated that they were going to start a thread to catalog all the monsters. Asking yers to add any they discovered onto this thread.


    ''That''s it. I should start a thread with which to gather yers to help the NPCs in a better capacity.''


    Reading on another major point this post described was that due to the different enemies the quest ranks seemed to differ. Some kingdoms'' yers received bounty quests which were generally ranked E to C, while most of those facing an army/pack were rank B or A. A few kingdoms even received an S-ranked quest.


    Surprisingly the creators of [What happened...] even made links avable to the posts of special cases like these. Allowing readers to easily verify the information by going to the original post.


    Thest major point was on how peoplepleted the quest. Which Eldrian felt was actually quite fair and forgiving. From the post creators'' conclusion if a yer was actively part in the quest''s sess then they would receive the standard reward. Or at the least their quests didn''t turn into a failed quest, implying they couldplete it to get the rewards.


    Reading this Eldrian quickly connected it with how it would affect most yers. From their spections, it seemed that as long as a yer did damage to a beast, then they would seed in the quest. Even if they were to die right after.


    ''This particr part should help calm many yers'' Eldrian thought to himself.


    While they did die, maybe even as bait, they can still get the basic rewards of the quest. Eldrian felt that 10 000XP and 10 silver wasn''t bad for someone used as bait. He hoped yers would calm down from getting these rewards, and not try to get revenge on the NPCs.


    Eldrian followed the links in the post next, curious about how those kingdoms withpletely different scenarios were doing.


    The first he went to was an S-ranked quest link. This post was created by one of the yers of a kingdom called Ins and was called [Ins Starts Falling].


    They had failed their S-ranked quest. Reading this post Eldrian felt every kingdom facing an S-ranked would have failed.


    Unlike Phallos which had faced a monster horde just shy of 8000 beasts, Ins had to face a horde of over 50 thousand beasts and even an organized goblin army.


    Eldrian was surprised as he read the part about goblins, never having thought they would appear with the word organized. But a short video the yer supplied made it clear that they were indeed organized.


    This video was just a few seconds clip of the yer''s fight. He was desperately trying to not get killed in the clip and on the upper edge of his view was the army. There was a circle draws at their position to help people see the goblins, as the entire rest of the yer''s view was blocked by beasts. These beasts seemed to be a variation of hyenas. Just like Phallos had monsters of the wolf variation.


    Most of the goblins were in scrappy leather armor, but they were standing in a formation. With some beast riding goblins in the center, spear-wielding goblins in the front, and short bow archers goblins behind those spear goblins.


    Seeing all this Eldrian could feel his throat drying out. Wondering just how on earth were they supposed to win. He felt that the quest was simply impossible, making him question the quest ranks.


    ''If the difference between A and S is a factor of ten, then what are epic or legendary quests going to be?'' He asked himself,paring the numbers to what happened in Phallos. Realizing that it wasn''t really ten but adding onto the fact that the enemy was organized, he felt it was reasonable.


    Sure he felt that the goblins shown in the video looked weak. But he had already learned that looks could be deceiving, and they certainly looked like a real army. Certainly a poor army, but still an army.


    After thinking of all this he continued to read the post. Their kingdom, unlike Phallos, had sent an entire army division from their border city. Instead of treating it as a training exercise.


    From what the post creator of [Ins Starts Falling] heard and assumed, it seemed that this army was made out of almost 30 thousand NPCs. With the yer party size having only been 1700.


    Reading this Eldrian felt that yers would have no influence in the battle even if they were all as good as a normal soldier. He felt there were simply too few yers to make a difference. But he also felt that the NPCs should have won.


    Reading on he quickly realized why they hadn''t. The army had seemingly seen that goblins were leading this horde of monsters and believed that they would be stupid. So they had simply discarded their own tactics and faced the horde in a frontal battle. Which the goblins used to surround them with their beasts, mainly aiming for the mages and healers as the battle started.


    Eldrian could only specte that this is what happened from the video he was looking at. This video was the entire video of the fight, from the start until the yer died. After which no more information was avable, seeing as the post''s creator was dead at that point.


    While watching the video Eldrian started thinking that he should really start recording all of his gamey. It would make it far easier to share his experiences and information, which he was nning on doing. Wanting to help yers grow stronger so they could actually do something in the game. Not just being a spectator.


    Watching the 12-minute video Eldrian felt like killing the Ins armymander. It was clear this guy had a superiorityplex as he led his troops in a frontal charge, even taking to the front without choosing a second inmand.


    The yers didn''t really want to follow which was clear by their slow movement, but someone screamed in the video. They knew they would die if they were alone, so they followed hoping for the best.


    Watching the entire video Eldrian felt goosebumps over his body. He had counted more than five Alphas just from this one yer''s perspective. And one of them didn''t just have color in his fur, but the color seemed alive. Moving over its body as it moved, but the clip of it was too short for him to inspect it more.


    At the end of this post was the yer just describing their current situation. Where they were stuck inside the city they respawned in. If they tried to go out then they would quickly be monster food.


    The city was now in siege mode and more monsters were gathering in this kingdom. This was proven with one of the yers have gone up the wall, from where he had taken pictures of over six ck masses. Each seemingly being an army.


    ''Fucking hell!'' Was Eldrian''s only thought as he finished reading this. Realizing that this might be what every kingdom will face soon. Making him realize that they really didn''t have all that much time to prepare.


    Going back to the information post Eldrian followed a link to one of the kingdoms which had gotten a bounty quest.