"Great and cruel Master, you must make them understand your terror!"
Alda enthusiastically waved a little handkerchief, beaming as he watched Lin Qi and the others vanish without a trace within a long-distance teleportation magic array. He cried out affectionately, "Leave everything in Berely to me, Master. Rest assured, I'll make your business flourish!"
As the light of the magic array faded, Alda briskly gathered up the array discs, then gave a whistle and swiftly retreated toward Berely with his large entourage. Beside him walked a man wearing Wan En Longshan's Phantom God Puppet. Compared to Lin Qi, this Wan En Longshan seemed especially solemn and dignified, carrying even more of the air of a great family's chief steward.
In the southern seas of the Vias Commercial Federation, amid an archipelago roughly thirteen hundred li from Port Vias, a ripple of magical energy suddenly spread from the heart of a large island nearly a hundred li wide and long. Lin Qi and his party emerged from the teleportation array. With a casual toss, he threw Iseda onto the ground, and then a beastman warrior clad in heavy armor brutally stomped on Iseda's back, grinding his face into the dirt.
Iseda stared around in terror. Steep mountain ridges surrounded them, and within the basin ringed by mountains stood dozens of sturdy watchtowers. Nearly ten thousand heavily armored dwarves and beastmen bustled about the area, quarrying rock and, with the aid of a group of earth-element mages, constructing an enormous mountain city.
Flocks of seabirds flew overhead, while the wind blowing in from afar carried a thick fishy scent of the sea. This was an island—there could be no doubt about it. But where was this place? How could dwarves and beastmen be mixed together here?
It had to be known that