The exit Azure Tide and the others had taken was not actually meant for people on the map recorded in the Silver Chip, but a freight entrance and exit.
If the transport tower had not risen, getting out from there would probably have required a very long swim, and no one knew where they would end up.
But thinking about it carefully, his group consisted of sailors and pirates, along with several Ascendants. As long as there was no storm outside, with their swimming skills, they would not drown.
And honestly, precisely because it was a freight entrance and exit, it was actually safer.
By contrast, the route Ian and the others had taken, though it was the proper main entrance, was far more dangerous along the way.
After all, this was a "main entrance" lined almost entirely with Magic Beast nests, ancient traps, and mechanisms.
"Are the natives out of their minds? Why put so many traps at the exit of their sacred land?!"
As he dismantled the eleventh sensor-triggered poison gas trap under his care, pirate captain Andor could not help loudly complaining, "Did they want to get out, or did they not?!"
In truth, eleven was already a small number. The Magic Beasts that had wandered here over the years had destroyed the vast majority of them. Only reusable traps and pitfall and toxin traps with long shelf lives remained.
"This isn't strange. After the Redwood Natives fought the Brain-Eating Worms back then, they probably lost control of the relic's core. Having lost their living environment, they had no choice but to fight all kinds of released Magic Beasts. Their so-called sacred land was merely a settlement after they lost their original home."
Compared to Andor, who still needed tools and his hands to disarm traps, Ian's