Dirty Blood

What was Chloe doing, not answering my messages?

He was out on the streets, pouring heals on users. You could easily tell from his expression how surprised and flustered he was.

Low-level users couldn’t withstand the damage from the Dirty Blood and died.

The users who were barely holding on were the tank users with high health.

But not everyone was just standing still and receiving Chloe’s heals.

A user who confirmed a strange debuff attached to their body said they were okay and ran off elsewhere.

The green Dirty Blood, scattering as they moved, infected other users passing through the street.

The problem wasn’t just them. The most serious problem was the NPCs; the NPCs, who basically couldn’t die, stood there constantly spreading the Dirty Blood.

The NPC managing the return stone standing next to me was doing the same.

The capital city, Lunaris, Deron’s largest city, was used by everyone, regardless of whether they were demons or humans.

As such, the floating population was quite large, and using the return stone would send everyone to the same place.

That was the problem. Even now, users appearing on the return stone were stepping on the blood of the NPC standing next to them and getting infected again.

“No!!!”

Chloe endlessly poured heals on a low-level user, but ultimately couldn’t save them.

He screamed in front of the user who had turned gray and collapsed to the ground.

I approached him and said.

“Chloe-nim.”

“Yes…?”

“Put that imp away first.”

“Ah…”

Behind Chloe, a small imp was running around wildly, spreading Dirty Blood.

Chloe seemed to have been too busy saving others to pay attention to it.

He put the imp away, but the situation was spiraling out of control.

This was because users who continued to appear using the return stone were scattering throughout the capital city with the Dirty Blood debuff.

“Oh, what do we do?”

“It’s just a game, why are you so worried? And there will be a patch soon.”

I frowned and looked up at the sky.

It was Deron, who had quickly released a reincarnation-related patch even on weekday evenings when everyone was about to leave work.

There was a high possibility that they were watching this situation as well.

But Chloe’s following words planted a small seed of anxiety.

“But, but today is the weekend…”

“Hmm…”

“The customer center is closed on weekends too, you know.”

“Um…”

But knowing that fact didn’t mean there was anything we could do right now.

I went to a small bench nearby and sat down.

I was also affected by the Dirty Blood debuff, and green blood was flowing from my body.

The same was true for Chloe.

Chloe seemed unable to watch this situation any longer and logged out of the game.

He was truly a man of weak heart.

I watched the movements of the users in this state.

All users who entered the capital city through the return stone were infected with Dirty Blood.

Low-level users couldn’t last long and turned into corpses, but high-level users headed elsewhere with the blood on their bodies. That’s how new infections began to occur.

It didn’t take long for the Dirty Blood debuff to cover the entire capital city.

Everywhere was filled with corpses. Green blood flowed endlessly. It was as if the entire capital city had become the plague city Pest, a raid dungeon.

Users who died and were resurrected would have the Dirty Blood debuff removed, but NPCs who didn’t die continued to transfer the debuff to users.

At that moment, strength drained from my body, and I collapsed to the floor.

I hadn’t recovered my health, so I died as well.

If you die near the capital city, you are resurrected in the resurrection temple inside the capital city.

I was resurrected there as well.

At that moment, with a *pik-* sound of being hit, green blood splattered again.

“Ha.”

A short exclamation escaped my lips.

The healer NPC responsible for the resurrection of users was also infected with Dirty Blood.

You can’t escape even if you die.

Low-level users died again as soon as they were resurrected.

The corpses of users were scattered around this resurrection temple, just a few steps away.

Gray corpses falling on top of the green Dirty Blood were endlessly increasing.

10 minutes passed.

It was a very short time, but the situation inside the capital city had changed drastically.

Some of the users who had identified the nature of the Dirty Blood debuff on themselves began to show malicious movements.

After all, it’s just the world inside the game. It’s just a simple bug.

Everyone must have thought so.

The infected users moved quickly and began to infect users who were not infected with Dirty Blood.

Their movements didn’t stop there. They left the city on foot with priest users in order to spread the Dirty Blood debuff to other towns as well.

20 minutes had passed since the incident occurred.

The world chat and guild chat were, needless to say, on fire.

The whole world was covered in green blood.

“Antidote!!! Selling antidote!!!”

At that time, a priest user ran around shouting in a loud voice.

Antidote? There was no way there was an antidote for the Dirty Blood debuff.

“Is that antidote really real?”

“Ah, of course. Of course!”

There were users who reacted to the word antidote.

They approached the priest user, dripping green blood.

“How much is that antidote?”

“Does it really work?”

The priest user nodded at their words and took out a purple vial from his chest and shook it.

“30 gold.”

“30 gold?”

“Are you crazy? That’s so expensive?”

The priest user nodded and continued.

“Look at this situation. Everyone is dying. There are no items for sale in the auction house either. It’s worth whatever you’re willing to pay.”

“How will you prove that the medicine works? If it works if I eat it right here, I’ll buy it.”

The priest user frowned at those words and shook his head.

“Even if you eat it now, you’ll get poisoned again anyway. You have to eat it safely in a distant place to survive. It’s a waste. It’s an antidote worth dozens of gold each.”

It sounded plausible at first glance.

The users standing in front of the priest were nodding with innocent faces, saying it sounded plausible.

At that moment, one of the users who had shown interest in the antidote collapsed to the ground and died.

*Teolssok-*

A user who was watching the scene opened his mouth as if he had made up his mind.

“Give me two. I’ll buy them.”

“Excellent choice.”

I watched the scene and gaped blankly.

It was because I never thought they would fall for such a simple scam.

Was it because one person started first? The user next to him also made an exchange with the priest and purchased the antidote.

The users who purchased the antidote held the purple potion in their hands.

They really purchased the potion for a whopping 30 gold.

The users who purchased the antidote exchanged glances and then hurriedly left the capital city.

They seemed to be planning to use the antidote in a safe space where no one was around.

It was truly an absurd sight.

The priest user who had fraudulently sold the antidote carefully moved his position, watching his surroundings. And he started scamming again.

***

30 minutes had passed since the [Dirty Blood] incident occurred.

Now all the users realized.

That Deron’s operators had all left work, and that this situation could not be stopped.

Now, not only the world inside the game but also the world outside the game began to be turned upside down.

[Deron Online Gallery]

[Who’s the bastard who sprayed blood on the hunting grounds? lololol] [8]

(Image of elite monsters of level 65 infected with Dirty Blood)

lololol no way lololol there’s nowhere this hasn’t spread?

Can’t even hunt lololol

frickin’ sucks lololol who spread this?

[Comments]

[lololol even the monsters are getting it?]

ㄴ[yup most of the hunting grounds in the upper regions are infected]

[There are some bastards dragging around a few priests and spraying blood]

ㄴ[Spraying blood?]

ㄴ[The debuff is called [Dirty Blood].]

ㄴ[frickin’ bastards are they humans?]

ㄴ[They were demons?]

ㄴ[There’s no way our demons would do that it’s all the humans’ doing]

[Newbie got scammed with the antidote…] [22]

(Image of a priest user finishing a transaction)

I couldn’t go outside the field so I bought the antidote but it doesn’t work even if I drink it.

I couldn’t even chase after that scammer bastard…

Because I’m low level I die 20 seconds after resurrecting, but that scammer ran away far while healing…

[Comments]

[lololololololololol]

[so funny lololololololololol]

ㄴ[don’t laugh frick…]

[I got scammed too when I heard this bastard I thought it was real.]

ㄴ[Gayya…]

ㄴ[Please vouch for me.]

[As expected humans lololololololol]

ㄴ[Is that priest human?]

ㄴ[yup lololololololololol]

[This is a debuff from a raid so antidote potions don’t work]

ㄴ[Why is a raid debuff coming outside the field…?]

ㄴ[idk isn’t it a bug?]

ㄴ[Looks like the Blood Demon King spread it]

ㄴ[Is it real?]

[The Blood Demon King spread blood in the capital city!!!!!]

[No matter how I look at it, it seems like the middle school girl Blood Demon is the culprit] [22]

The name of the debuff spread throughout Deron right now is [Dirty Blood].

But I heard this is a debuff that comes out in raid dungeons…

Then the culprit who spread this blood is a user who can do raids.

My brilliant brain found one suspect with this clue.

That’s the middle school girl called Blood Demon King [Yeon]…

Doesn’t it sound plausible? Blood Demon = a very strong being who handles blood.

Blood Demon King-nim is a powerful being who does raids and wins arena tournaments.

So this [Dirty Blood] was spread directly throughout the capital city by Blood Demon King-nim.

*Pusshus-*!!!

Or not.

[Comments]

[This bastard is so smart it sounds plausible]

ㄴ[fr let’s just say Blood Demon King-nim spread the blood]

[Does this bastard have a mental illness?]

[Or not lololololololololololololol]

[But it really sounds plausible lololol]

ㄴ[frlololol Blood Demon King-nim seems super angry lololol]

[I knew it. The evil demons were the culprits lololol]

ㄴ[There’s no way our Blood Demon King-nim would do that it’s an evil plot by the humans (not that)]

ㄴ[I knew it from the moment those demon bastards were walking around with bat wings lololol]

[Aren’t overseas users watching this too? lololol I think the rumors have already spread]

ㄴ[How would they know this?]

ㄴ[Someone scraped the popular posts and spread them.]

ㄴ[This is real lololol I was watching a broadcast and a bunch of yankees came over]