After an hour of walking, the party finally returned to the village and it had become a totally different animal since they left . It seemed like the number of players had grown exponentially in the time that they were gone. The shouts of players calling out to make parties to go kill monsters. Merchants had even appeared, buying and selling loot as well as materials from monsters.
"This place got crowded real quick. The appeal of the game must be getting to people."
Sonata remarked as she landed in front of everybody, retracting her wings with a shrug. Horo glanced around at the crowd and noticed that everyone was beginning to stare at them. His brow furrowed when he noticed that there were multiple men shooting him murderous and jealous gazes.
"Why are these guys glaring at me like I killed their parents or something?"
He couldn't just understand it. He could see men spitting on the ground in his direction and discreetly cussing him out with colourful sign language.
