The entire process of entering the city had completely piqued Yi Chen's interest in this City of Lamps,
On the way to the Duke's Merchant Guild, he slowed his pace and randomly visited a few lamp shops along the road, learning about the uses of the lamps in advance while also trying his luck to see whether he could find any clues about firewood.
After visiting several shops, he gained a rough understanding of the so-called lamps.
Besides providing ordinary illumination and supplying some Sick Ones who required constant sunlight,
the lamps also served the main purpose of exploring the "dark corners" of the Old World.
The fall of the Old World's Evil Sun had disrupted a certain ecological balance.
The dark zones once suppressed by the Evil Sun had begun to inflame and fester, undergoing uncontrolled pathological deterioration beyond the control of their original pathogens and slowly transforming into something known as an "Extreme Dark Zone."
A tiny number of Extreme Dark Zones had even evolved into "Abysses" completely beyond the control of disease, devouring any explorer who dared approach.
Even so, quite a few people still ventured inside to explore,
because the depths of the Extreme Dark Zones were scattered with things left behind by the war.
Besides the corpses of Sick Ones from the Old World and various treasures, there were also the skeletons of outsiders who had once invaded the Old World, as well as exotic treasures from other worlds that did not belong to the Old World.
When the first explorer brought a treasure out of an Extreme Dark Zone, an unprecedented craze for exploration was ignited,
and as the Old World's largest lamp-supply district, the City of Lamps naturally became the greatest beneficiary. Countless explorers came here to purchase lamps as the foundation for