After Timidit learned that all the villagers of Nami Village had entered a special space created within Aitaljia's body and realized they had not died, she sighed. "Going on adventures together with everyone? That really is a wonderful outcome!"
Then, Timidit led the group to the Sky Ladder where Nami Village was located.
It stood near the mountain wall that had originally been behind Nami Village.
There was a natural cave here. After entering it and walking nearly two hundred meters, they found a square, elevator-like device ahead.
Its material was a dark red.
Behind the device stood a straight crimson pillar. At its top was a groove roughly five meters in diameter, seemingly meant to hold Red Iron.
Timidit knocked on the wall to the left, located the Hidden Door by sound, and asked Dugu Bo to push it open. Inside were piles of refined Red Iron, crystalline and translucent, blazing red throughout.
"Were these accumulated by the Explorers who used to descend from Nami Village?" Romantina asked.
"No."
Timidit shook her head. "Nami Village is too far from the center, so few Explorers ever come to this area near the edge. The original villagers of Nami Village traded for all of it from Fallen One villagers from other villages. After all, village chief Hope had considered that outside Explorers might come, so he intended to prepare a stockpile of Red Iron in advance for emergencies... But over all these years, aside from the seven or eight Explorers who came here, the Red Iron here has never increased or decreased."
However, Nami Village was gone now, so this Red Iron was useless and thus became theirs.
Still, Zhou Qing did not take it all. He only collected one-third, intending to bring it back for Tang San to study. He