For the true core players of Dragon Kingdom, the little incident on Blue Star did not even qualify as after-dinner conversation.
Right now, they were having the time of their lives on Companion Star S-1.
Outside Shadow City, at the leftmost outpost.
The loot in the hall had just been sorted, and the air still carried the pungent stench of Mana Crystals that had nearly exploded.
Suddenly, the short-range teleportation array in the center of the hall, which the Star Spirit mages had just stabilized, let out a dull hum. Rings of dark-blue runes lit up again as space began to warp.
"What's going on? Didn't we already cut off its remote power supply?" Happy Fat Otaku cried, startled as he hugged a crate of high-grade materials. His fat jiggled wildly.
The Star Spirit mage stared intently at the array, his expression changing slightly. "A one-way teleportation has been initiated from another outer node! Something is coming through. If we forcibly stop it now, the array will most likely collapse and backlash!"
"Everyone back! Clear the center of the array!"
Great Wall No. 1 reacted quickly. Rather than making the Star Spirit mage forcibly halt the array, he immediately waved his hand, ordering all the players hauling loot in the hall to retreat behind the rock pillars and into the shadows on either side.
"Hide your weapons first. Don't make a move until we see what's coming," he ordered calmly.
The teleportation array grew brighter and brighter. Two seconds later, amid a wave of spatial distortion, more than a dozen ordinary Darklings bound by Shadow Chains were teleported over along with three cargo crates filled with Mana Crystals. Following behind them were six fully armed Tier Two Darkling guards.
The guards stepped out of the array, but before they could