A steel forest—literally. It was a forest made entirely of metal.
As far as the eye could see, everything—trees, plants, even the ground—was made of metal. Since it was all a dark color, the forest looked gray and hazy from a distance. But once they landed, they could clearly see the metal forest, its every surface gleaming with a cold, murderous sheen.
"What is this place?" Bubble Bean carefully avoided the sharp branches jutting out from a nearby tree. "Those people with Valen just now, right? What are they trying to do? Kill us to cover their tracks?"
Xu Huo looked grim. "I'm afraid we've been dumped in a relic zone."
"What?" Bubble Bean raised his voice. "Didn't they say the entrance was blocked by Outer District Players? ... So that old bastard didn't tell the truth about a single thing!"
The entrance was blocked, so they couldn't leave—but that didn't necessarily mean they couldn't get in.
After cursing Valen and his whole family, Bubble Bean said, "I should've known better than to gamble on clearing this Dungeon. We could've stayed in Cat Fruit Town and nothing would've happened!"
Who could've seen this coming? Xu Huo had suspected beforehand that this was related to a Super Player's relic, but instead, they'd walked straight into a Sub-district defense war. Valen and his people were prepared to go all in, willing to pay any price. Of course, at a time like this, they wouldn't care about principles or a moral bottom line.
They'd been standing there for less than half a minute when the sound of metal grinding and clashing rang out in the distance. As it drew closer, the ground began to tremble. Before long, a ten-meter-tall metal Mutant Beast came charging toward them, smashing through the metal trees in its