Everyone was so busy—both in-game and in the real world—that days slipped by without anyone noticing. Missions piled up, deadlines appeared out of nowhere, and exhaustion settled deep in their bones. Before they realized it, Silvia's twentieth birthday was right around the corner.
After that would be the much-anticipated Guild Wars, followed immediately by the massive Halloween event in COVENANT. And when all of that ended, exams would arrive like a final blow before the holidays.
Events came one after another, too compacted for anyone to breathe. Among those struggling most were the members of World Conqueror.
Ren, especially, buried himself in work—so deep that even sleep felt like a luxury. He poured every bit of focus into the guild, using the chaos to distract himself from two things that twisted painfully inside him: his miserable, forced "relationship" with Saya… and Evie's quiet rejection.
