TEN MINUTES EARLIER
Master Rook received a distress signal from some students. Initially, he was slightly annoyed since they were first-year students who didn't even go farther than 5 kilometers from the barrier, but then, after seeing who made the call, he was confused.
To ask for help was the first-ranked team, with hundreds of kills on their backs, so he found it strange that such an efficient team could have problems against monsters that were way weaker than them.
He started heading in their direction, but he was several kilometers away. He knew that it would have taken some time before he could reach them, and he hoped the kids could survive until his arrival.
The man walked through the forest for a while, but after five minutes, he started getting multiple distress signals from the same place.
"What the...?"
More than thirty people were asking for help now. Master Rook's mind went blank at the sight of all those distressed signals. He had no idea what was happening.
