[Guard Captain] [Rank: Ember] [Level: 13] [Description: Though its Life Fire has been extinguished, it still faithfully carries out the orders it received in life.] [Exiled Prisoner] [Rank: Cinder] [Level: 5] [Description: Prisoners confined to the island. Before becoming like this, all they felt was terror and unease.]
"What's going on here...?"
Li Miao frowned. Rather than acting rashly, he carefully observed the camp's surroundings.
At the harbor, a massive ship's prow jutted out from the darkness. The horn had come from there.
Within the camp, aside from the captain and patrolling soldiers in the center, several soldiers armed with bows stood beside the rocks in the corners.
Near the mine's rocky wall stood a huge iron gate, which looked immensely heavy.
Other than that, there was the passageway opposite Li Miao, which presumably continued around the island.
There seemed to be nothing else of value... Wait!
"Is that... a treasure chest?"
Seeing the huge iron chest beside those Exiled Prisoners, Li Miao's eyes instantly went wide. He could barely restrain the Candlelight Saber in his hand.
But in the end, he held himself back.
"I can't be impulsive. The monsters here are too densely packed..."
Only after calming down did he have time to consider other things.
"Does this huge iron gate lead to the mine?"
The roads on the game map were all interconnected, so that was hardly surprising.
The troublesome part was figuring out how to deal with the Gullad Soldiers in the camp before him.
"This doesn't look like something I can resolve quickly..."
Though he desperately wanted to know what rewards these guys would drop, Li Miao had not forgotten the purpose of this trip—exploring the entire island.
Compared to that, killing monsters for loot was secondary. There would