@CreasedKnight62If you die in Warlord, you literally just get a 48-hour respawn penalty and lose some loot. That's it. No level loss, no starting from scratch. It's hardly worth worrying about, so there's no reason to make such a fuss, unless the author forgot that the penalty was merely a pittance and is trying up raise the stakes.
Although, didn't Ahn Jaehyun take the watches of players he'd killed before? If that watch is like your entire in-game inventory - all your gear, your in-game currency, your special items, loot from boss drops - well, that's a different thing entirely, because if dying means you loose all that, well.... He would be hosed for real.
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