Some of them even lacked basic items like chest guards and bracers.
And on top of this, these players all looked absolutely frustrated.
Why wouldn't they be? They had just now lost a battle in the most ridiculous way possible.
To make matters worse… right when they had managed to gather sufficient strength and back up, enough to topple the opponent, the target had already disappeared!
There was no third chance!
There were no demons in the crater and the black-masked player had also mysteriously disappeared!
Sterling sighed at this depressing sight and he turned to look at Victor with his eyebrows drooped down. However, as soon as he did, he already regretted his actions.
If there was one person more miserable than him in the current crowd, then it was Victor. The man was dumbly staring at the system interface in front of him.
"The quest?" Sterling reluctantly asked.
"Guild leader… that…" Victor gulped.
"Just spit it out."
Though he sounded tired, Victor could clearly see that the person was extremely furious. He gulped and obidiently answered. "The quest is failed."
And befor he could say anything else…
[Ding. You have been kicked out of the guild]
"FUCK!" Victor screamed. The person was right there in front of him, so he rushed over there trying to seek justice.
"Sterling, you can't do this. I brought this quest to you. I know we failed, but we can try again and that time we can win. Why did you kick me out?"
"I am the one responsible for this. You can't just leave me like this."
However, hearing all his ranting, Sterling only sneered. "Useless piece of shit. Do you know how much our guild lost today because of this?"
"Did you even talk to the NPC properly?"
"You could have obtained more information! You could have gotten more details about the strength of the army. But no, you just came running to me and dumped this quest on top of us!"
"Get the fuck out of here and don't come back."
Victor gnashed his teeth at this unfair accusation, but he was helpless to keep talking back. If he did, he knew very well that Sterling would probably not hesitate to kill him on the spot.
The only option he had now was to simply leave quietly.
And as he was about to do that, a loud booming voice sounded with a thick Indian accent. "Hindsight is always 20-20, Sterling. Don't take out your anger on him."
One of the players from the smaller but remarkably geared support team walked over to Sterling and this was the same hunter who had crossed paths with Liam previously.
Madam simply smiled in a relaxed manner as if he was just out for a walk. He did not seem to care that the quest had failed and that the demon army had disappeared.
"Take him back to the guild. Though I would have preferred if you had called me over sooner, we still managed to get some information.. So this trip wasn't entirely useless."