Five years later, at the southern end of Duronger Fortress.
With a secretive smile, Bloodthirsty Keller, Lonely City, Yue Lingzhi, and several other human players were ambushed behind a small mound.
Today, five years later, the dozens of players who had been banished to the Void had mostly arrived at the Ornell Planet, the only life-sustaining planet in this Void. Initially, dying in the Void meant repeatedly going through the cycle of immediate death after resurrection, followed by another death and resurrection.
As the only world with life in the nearby Void, their resurrection point moved closer to the Ornell Planet with each death, until after sufficiently many deaths, they would eventually resurrect on the Ornell Planet.