Mia and Molly, unaware of what had happened earlier, pouted over their store-bought breakfast, stirring at the now-lukewarm congee. When they were done, they grumbled their way back to their rooms, eager to dive once more into the game.
Ryan still hadn't managed to identify Molly's in-game character, which meant he couldn't help her directly. He suspected Mia knew Molly's ID, but she refused to say a word, and Ryan had no way around it.
When he logged in, Ryan appeared in Stormhold Fortress.
The moment he materialized, he noticed something was off. The capital was usually quiet and sparsely populated, yet today it felt more like a bustling metropolis. Players of every class filled the streets, and the Regional Channel scrolled wildly as people scrambled to buy resources, their prices already double what Ryan remembered.
The Nyman Revivalist camp had been discovered.
