We're Joining Up

"No, you still haven't found a place connected to the old areas?"

A series of slaps rang out inside the Starfire Church camp. Luluwo was smacking the table, caught between shock and impatience.

How had they gotten here and immediately become unable to return? What a damn scam!

"And you just said you discovered this place a week ago—maybe even nearly two weeks ago?"

She scratched at her hair and asked with a strange expression, "Um, let me ask this. What's the furthest point your latest exploration has reached?"

"We just finished exploring the three new areas: Northern Undead Asylum, Undead Town Outside the City, and the Undead Parish outside the city. We also discovered unexplored areas such as Darkroot Garden, Sain Ancient City, the Catacombs, and Lost Izalith Ruins, with fairly substantial gains."

Hewei stood with his hands on his hips, looking rather proud as he spoke.

Before Luluwo could say anything, Berto's mouth twitched slightly as he interjected, "We explored Northern Undead Asylum too. Judging by the efficiency of a normal exploration team, that place probably wouldn't take more than three or four hours to clear, even counting the time spent fighting monsters."

"As for Undead Town Outside the City and Undead Parish, we took a brief look around before coming out. Those areas were indeed more complicated. We only had time to find two hidden doors, three shortcuts, and five afterimages. In the end, we didn't look for the boss and just took the church elevator back to Firelink Shrine before leaving. It probably took a day and a half in total."

"By comparison, the combined exploration difficulty of those two places should be about on the level of Fort Faroth, perhaps with an additional section of the Road of Sacrifices."

"Overall, they're much less difficult than