Chapter 180: Ch178. Duties of a leader
The forge was quiet, the way it only ever got in the early hours before the sun burned away the city’s fog. Mara stood near the center of the room, her hands resting against the only anvil she had there, which was quite curious, since it wouldn’t be a forge without one, no matter how strange the rest of it was.
But that was not the focal point of her thoughts now. Her breath was shallow, and she still watched the faintly pulsing glyphs she had carved hours ago.
She hadn’t slept, yet again.
But not because she couldn’t. It was because she didn’t want to.
There was a weight in her chest that told her something was coming. That something was wrong.
It did after Miles went away to explore the other unique dungeons, once he realized that, if the [Mouth of the Abyss] had something particular to do with the [Ascension Fragment], there might have been other Dungeons with the same peculiarity.
After he vanished into the map and out into the world, Shinji also disappeared, but new dungeons began to appear, and some were not what they seemed, putting not only a bunch of rookie players at risk, but also putting guilds leadership on a tight rope, spending powerful players to find out why supposedly easy dungeons ended up being deadly traps for low-level players.
She never slept when she had these feelings. These... Inklings.
And now, just as she was rubbing the sleep off of her eyes, it came.
The system message popped up before her, cold and sterile in her field of view.
[Global Event Notification: DUNGEON WAR]