Rose Town.
The 66 towns designated by the Doomsday Vanguard were evenly distributed throughout this Doomsday Domain.
Within the Doomsday Domain, only these towns could be considered relatively safe places—or rather, these places had originally been established for ordinary people.
As for how dangerous it was outside the towns, Backside Salted Fish's experience alone was enough to make that clear.
The only things that could travel safely between towns were those Driverless Buses. However, the buses—and even those Anomalies that guided the way—were essentially the result of ordinary people being transformed by the apocalypse...
Ordinary people were simply far too fragile in the face of the apocalypse.
The town flag contests were only one part of it. If the Players failed to rescue all three million people from this Doomsday Domain, the ordinary people in the towns would still be taken away along with the Doomsday Vanguard when it left.
The Doomsday Domain was already easy to enter and hard to leave, let alone taking three million ordinary people out together.
—This was a naked open scheme.
Of course, the lower-ranking Players and those ordinary people knew nothing of this. Even now, they still clung to the most basic hope in their hearts.
But unlike them, Zou Mingxue's heart had already sunk to the bottom.
[Senki Zessho] was a somewhat well-known Player Guild in Japan, and as the Guild Master of [Senki Zessho], he naturally knew more than Normal Players did.
The expected rescue had not arrived, while a disaster Player like [Undying Priest] had instead appeared here openly and without restraint. The meaning behind that was already obvious.
...They had become abandoned pawns.
"How about it? You believe me now, right? Like I'd lie to you?"
Just as the troubled Young Girl returned to town, a rather punchable voice