Reed Lady walked away from the arena while everyone was chanting her name. Sherwood has been stretchered out but has received applause from everyone. The guild XScythe was giving updates on forums about the event for the players who couldn't come to the arena. The hot topics on the forum were all about XWorld and the event XScythe was organizing. Forums were full of praise and were shocked as to how good the participating players were with the class they were in and with their skills.
On one side, the forum was all about this, but suddenly one single post overtook all the hype and stood at the top of the forum chart, It was titled, "I can't log out of the game any more.". The comments on that post were all agreeing and stating that they could not log out as well. This game was the only one that could allow players to post in forums from inside the game. Someone in the arena saw the forum post and tried logging out but couldn't, and he shared his thoughts to his fellow players that were sitting next to each other, and suddenly the post spread like a fire inside the arena.
Looking at the commotions the players started to make suddenly, Leo thought something was indeed wrong as he got the news that was spreading about the forum post. Leo saw the post and tried logging out, but couldn't, and then he remembered few days ago they tried to log out, and they couldn't, but after a while everything was sorted, and he thought it was just a bug, so maybe it's the same bug again, but now it's happening to everybody, but then he saw a text he received in game from hecktech; it was the username for Joey, He texted that this is dangerous, and before he could tell more, there was a huge video popped up in front of all the player.
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The video started playing for the players only; all the NPC present were frozen in their place, no matter the level or the stats of the NPC. In the video, there was a person with a black wolf mask saying, "Hello to all the players of The Lost World. We from the Black Wolves welcome you to an interesting part of the game, like most of you have seen in the fantasy novel of yours, where you are now transferred in the game, That's right, you are now your character, which means if you die here in the game, you die in real life out there as well, You guys must be wondering how? It's really simple We have invaded your game with a virus that has no antivirus so yeah, it just means you are fucked so try not to die and if you guys want to find us, look around you, We are everywhere. We know what you do and everything so try not to do anything or else you will die It's that simple, Just try to stay alive and follow the rules we give, especially you guys from XWorld. So other details will be given to you on another day, so try to survive and enjoy Goodbye!!".
The video and the pop-up screen vanished as soon as the masked guy stopped talking.