Entering the Dark Deity Ritual dungeon, players are split into Rescue and Allegiance factions; our narrator joined Rescue and grudgingly paid 1,000 Null coins for info. While hunting monsters she’s ambushed by an Allegiance player who chases her into a dead end. He boasts that Allegiance can kill and devour to gain abilities and then uses a hypnosis skill to seize talents. She realizes, "It's a hypnosis skill," but is immobilized as he declares, "I'm taking that skill for myself." Teammates promise backup any second, but she’s cornered and her skill is about to be stolen, leaving her fate uncertain.