These new players hadn't even gotten to begin their newbie adventures in Scarlet Castle like the players before them. As soon as they emerged from the Midnight Escape Room, they were sent straight to the Maginot Line.
Although the portal network still couldn't transport people on a large scale, luckily, this wasn't wartime, and the newbies didn't really need "fast travel." Besides, security across Transia was excellent at the moment. After several rounds of cleanup, there wasn't much left for the newbies to do on Murphy's land.
It was clearly more worthwhile to ease them into the war preparations at the Maginot Line. From there, they could enter the swamp, rest up at Wolfburg, then grind monsters and level up before heading through Baphomet Canyon to Shadow Valley and joining the Black Calamity defense line. It made for a rather clever leveling route.
As for Transia's local customs and traditions?
They could take their time experiencing all that after the war was over.
Of course, the last batch of players in this closed beta weren't all battle fanatics. Some crafting and administration players had stayed in Transia's main city.
They were assigned to logistics.
But they couldn't stay in this safe zone for long, either. According to the "Transian Wartime Management System" Mirian had just announced, all crafters had to bring their gear and gather in a military town five kilometers behind the Maginot Line.
That was where the field hospital, still in its "break-in period," was located. It was also the base of the People's Army Logistics Department, which supplied the defense line. The Avalon Church, the Wolf God's Eye Monastery, the Blood Rat Gang, the Batasin Merchant Company, and a whole slew of other organizations had all set up temporary camps there.
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