At the same time the Southern Islands Federation patrol team left, Elena and Gnome King Riches led their exploration team deep into the jungle from their camp.
This makeshift team comprised only ten members, including two leaders; the other four were just players who had surpassed Level 10, equipped with basic miner's exoskeletons and both light and heavy armor plugins.
The flames ignited by the incendiary bomb had extinguished, and the rustling of insects around them resumed as if nothing had happened.
No one dared to take it lightly.
The locals would rather live on the islands than dwell on the mainland, and not because they had a particular fondness for the island scenery.
Though most players were fueled by a passion for the new map as they stepped onto this unfamiliar land, none wanted to literally end up as Variant fertilizer.
Especially not on their first day, when they hadn't even earned back their plane ticket money.
