To her, everything about Dusk was unfamiliar. This foreign invading force was incredibly vast, even capable of crossing worlds. Going to such a distant otherworld was, at least for Philin as she was now, deeply unsettling.
"Alright." F5001 smiled faintly and agreed without hesitation. "Follow me."
In the heavy rain, the girl in white stockings walked ahead just like that.
Philin followed. Dense primeval forest stretched along both sides, though there were clearly many signs of human construction within it. There were pavilions nearby, as well as high walls built in the distance, stretching out in connected sections. Human soldiers patrolled atop the walls, all wearing heavy equipment and seeming quite powerful.
"Not long ago, this was still the monsters' territory. You could encounter gigantic monsters over ten meters tall in the forest. The advance forces sent by the Lord of Dusk carried out a difficult campaign here before they could establish a foothold. By now, they can be said to have claimed quite a large territory."
Calling it quite large was a bit of an exaggeration. It was only a little over a hundred square kilometers.
A few tens of thousands of people were clearly not enough to defend these areas, but Ye Qian had not sent more people over. Mainly because, as the outward expansion continued, he discovered that there were far too many Black Iron Rank units in this forest. Ordinary melee units often suffered grievous losses whenever they went out, so in the end, Ye Qian left behind only a small number of Black Iron Rank troops such as Berserkers, along with a large force of Elite Magic-Equipped Archers.
These soldiers fought on the front lines, while batches of former Main World farmers were sent from the rear to carry out construction.
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