Surrounding the Unity Seekers were a large number of goblin knights, minotaurs, and trolls, which indeed looked like a rather formidable team, requiring at least two squads of Silver Rank adventurers to eradicate them.
...
Wait, goblins, minotaurs, trolls?
Why are the monsters used by Sain Dungeon this time so normal?
And those few Unity Seekers, although they seem quite capable, have unfamiliar faces, the kind that could go unnoticed on a busy street, less famous even than Fishing Man Chiraj's "Hammer Fall" squad.
Such people have a fixed title—extras.
But they are not ordinary extras, they are carefully selected extras, those with Bonds values slightly higher than true cannon fodder.
These people have something in common:
Their eye sockets flickered with yellow flames, their bodies sprouted crimson pustules, their arms entwined with black, thorn-like growths, their feet steeped in sticky black mud.
