A Heretic Has Entered the Online Gaming World: Righteous Players, Retreat!

[Regional Chat]

[What the hell! Where are the NPCs?? Why have they all disappeared?!]

[I was at the blacksmith's, about to turn in a quest, when he suddenly vanished on the spot with an axe in his hand...]

[The owner of the cloth shop is gone on my end too... What's going on?]

[No idea! Some rich player, buy a megaphone and yell in World Chat. Let's see if it's a bug in our region or the whole server!]

[I love bugs. Maintenance means compensation.]

[Compensation, my ass. I just shouted with a megaphone. Look, everyone else is doing quests normally. It's just our area that's messed up.]

[Damn, the devs are shameless. I just submitted a bug report, and they replied that it wasn't a bug and told me to enjoy the game. The NPCs are gone, I can't turn in quests or accept new ones. How the hell am I supposed to enjoy it?]

At that moment, on the riverbank west of the village,

Every NPC in the village had gathered there, with the village chief at their head.

“You reckless brat! Look at the mess you've caused. Are you trying to drag every NPC in the village into this?” the village chief shouted, swinging his staff to hurl fireballs.

The cloth shop owner: “Cut the crap. Take care of this beast first. You lot standing around over there, get over here and help!”

Su Mu calmly switched to a thicker branch.

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The damage numbers were pitifully small, but damage had never been the point. He only needed to keep the monster from breaking away.

Who says you have to dutifully grind quests to level up?

While players across the server were still following the usual routine of taking quests in the beginner village, Su Mu was exploiting a bug to make the NPCs work for him.

Standing at the edge of a rift in the data stream, he looked down at the players still going in circles through their quest lists.

The real guide to this game had never been in the System prompts.