"Just happened to know? Is that the kind of thing someone can just happen to know?"
"It wasn't just a coincidence. The Sam Family had come here before and successfully made preparations, forging Orange Equipment.
Afterward, they recorded the matter.
Whenever someone in the family needed it, they would arrange for people to come here."
Whitley's ghost glanced at the corpses on the ground.
Then he added, "The Sam Family wasn't the only one to discover this place. While collecting materials, he found traces of preparations made by at least seven Celestial families.
Because of the network of relationships and factional alignments among Celestial families, there wasn't much communication between them.
But one thing was certain: many of the arrangements here had been left behind by Celestials."
"Celestials?"
Gu Xi fell silent for a moment. "So this place has already been confirmed as a Celestial hunting ground?"
"Not exactly. Only a few families discovered this place and made some arrangements. They didn't report it, and the Celestial Race hasn't been keeping an eye on it.
This place could only be considered Third Era."
Whitley's ghost shook his head.
"Third Era?"
Hearing a new term, Gu Xi curiously asked about it.
"Oh, that's a specialized term used by the Celestial Race. It is how they classify the Game World.
First Era refers to Game Worlds where the Celestial Race has set up numerous contingencies, completely cleared the area, and made it a Game World belonging solely to Celestial players.
Second Era is relatively more open. Celestials appear from time to time, but they have not cleared out players of other races.
Third Era is like this place: a Game World discovered by a few families or small factions, never reported, casually arranged, visited when they remember it and ignored when they