Chapter 73: “Overrun”
The first person to notice the invasion was a player casually leaving town. He yelled something, after which sellswords flooded out of the gate one after another. Rare was too far away to tell what they were saying, so she descended a bit and used the [Light Magic] spell [Camouflage] to ensure she wouldn’t be spotted as she got closer. The [Camouflage] spell shielded the target from sight using light. There was a noticeably unnatural refraction if you looked at the camouflaged object from different angles, but unless you knew there was something there to scrutinize then there wouldn’t normally be any reason to do something like that.
“Ants! I knew it! The event monsters for this city are the ants from that forest!”
“I heard it would mainly be undead, but we can’t just turn a blind eye to the monsters native to this region either! They’ve got compound eyes, after all!”
“Uhh… Anyway, there was talk of there being an undead boss monster in the forest, so we might get undead too!”
“It might have been hard inside that dark forest, but out here in the sun, an undead boss is probably weaker! Also, we’ve got tons of players here, and when the city is being attacked then the NPC sellswords will probably also help out, so we could probably at least keep it from getting in!”
How wonderful it was to see players having such a good time.
“Dammit! Why are there monsters attacking the city…? Nothing like this has ever happened before!”
“It’s probably because those newbies kept going to the forest and pissing them off! Those bastards!”
The angry yelling probably came from the NPCs. The “newbies” they referred to were clearly the players, but this invasion wasn’t their fault. However… Since Rare was in fact doing this for them, and the administrators had set up this event in the first place for players to enjoy, then from a certain perspective it really wasn’t wrong to blame the players.