While Nightingale took down her opponent and Sato was on the run, a scene was currently taking place within the forest that attracted the attention of the majority of the audience. Two monster rank players had encountered each other in the forest for the first time since the tournament began.
The two monster rank players, unsurprisingly, were quite popular in the gaming community and heard of by every veteran.
One of them was the internal affairs elder of the true body of Emperor's Might, and the current head of the sub-main branch in Infinite Realm, elder Green Sage. Being the guild leader of the sub-main branch meant that the Green Sage was in charge of all of Emperor's Might's operations in the game and had authority superceding all branch guild leaders.
Sorry for being gone for so long. I experienced a writer's block.
At first, I wanted to keep going with the 'flow' but then I realized that if I did so, this arc could take way past 100 chps (just the 1st half of the 1st event was meant to be 20 chps).
I decided to not go with the flow and revise the plot to progress the story faster while making sure it has as much necessary plot as possible. I was supposed to use two days for this but it's pretty much almost four days; sorry for the delay.