Unusual Activity
After Haruki's body and blood both evaporated into thin air in a shimmer of light, the audience was clearly confused, but they just assumed the mayor or someone else removed the corpse like that using an art.
Of course, the truth was because Haruki was a player, so he was probably in the middle of respawning right now, but the locals of Ascentia had no idea about that. They would soon change, however, as more and more 'dead' people started coming back from the dead.
As time passes, more and more players will die when going to dangerous places not yet explored. Eventually, the scale would be far too large to explain it with some sort of necromancy art or powerful artifact.
So far, Ascension: Online had only been out for a little over a month. Even the topmost players were still in Azrine - I knew this since I could check the Top 100 leaderboards via my System.