Comment by Cainan Chambless on Surviving The Game as a Barbarian - Chapter 152

@Cainan Chambless A lot of adventurers died all at once, so when they returned there were significantly fewer than normal in the square, and then there was a trap laid for all the big important people that got to flee through the teleport spell.

@NotFromEarth thanks for the explanation

@Cainan Chambless noark sabotaged official teleportation scrolls somehow so the moment they appeared they've been blown up.

@Treasure_Hunter Hmmm from what I remember from the story is that they actually boobytrapped the square. The old wizard dude was one of the people that had a mission outside when the rest of Noark isolated themselves.