Stepping through the foul, sticky green liquid tentacles.
Braving the biting wind and squeezing along an extremely narrow rock crevice, they finally escaped the teleportation cavern built by the Shoggoth.
One foot landed in the thick snow.
Outside the cavern stood the dormant volcano at the center of the island, its slopes above the foothills entirely blanketed in snow.
Their current position was roughly eight hundred meters above the island's surface.
The island was still quite a distance from Antarctica.
When Han Dong looked south as far as he could, he vaguely saw a thin membrane glowing with faint rainbow light, connecting the sky and sea.
Just as Eugenis had said, the Antarctic region was under some kind of Spatial Lockdown... Even though Antarctica was Eugenis's homeland, they could only enter from the outside through the most basic physical means.
Why had such a massive Spatial Barrier been erected?
Keeping this question in mind, Han Dong slowly shifted his gaze down the mountain and, to his surprise, spotted a rather bustling Port Town along the island's shore.
That was strange.
Never mind whether this island had existed on world maps during the human era.
Even if it had, it was so far from the mainland and had no valuable natural resources to export. No one would have established a town here... At most, there might have been a village inhabited by a primitive tribe cut off from society.
Yet what lay before his eyes was indeed a Port Town.
Several huge buildings dozens of meters tall stood within it, along with a bustling dock district and massive ships moored at the harbor.
Eugenis offered a brief explanation.
"Almost every week, expedition teams gather here and head to Antarctica in search of opportunities... Before the World Cataclysm, Antarctica could be called