***
Six days later.
Days kept passing—day turned to night, and night to morning again. The village had become busier lately because many players from the Porco Guild Alliance kept arriving.
Ethan was still hiding in his inn room. He had already spent about nine thousand gold to rent a room for six days.
Unlike before, he chose a regular room this time to save money. Luckily, the incognito feature still worked for regular visitors like him.
Still, he had to stay alert. The alliance players had searched the forests and city areas before, but their search turned up nothing.
[PING!]
[You have received 5 friend requests]
The system notification kept echoing in Ethan's ears day and night. When he opened the panel, he saw the messages attached to those requests.
Most were challenges, insults, or traps trying to lure him into joining their guilds.
Ethan was far more cautious than them—he didn't care about any of those messages.
