Schemes × Human Nature × Threats

Throughout humanity's long history...

War had been an enduring theme.

Plundering and being plundered.

Birth and destruction.

Countless nations and civilizations had been born and destroyed in this seemingly endless cycle of war.

In their wake, like post-mortem relics, they left treasures, ruins, and other things that could drive later generations mad.

One could say that behind every treasure lay a civilization that had once shone brightly.

"The Monka Expeditionary Force."

It was an invincible army whose exploits were still recorded in ancient texts.

At its height, this army existed for the sole purpose of endless plunder.

It expanded its territory relentlessly and destroyed enemy nations with abandon.

Then, over expedition after expedition, it seized countless spoils of war.

Those spoils were the target of the bearded man and his two companions.

Even after obtaining the "treasure map," they had never been optimistic enough to believe they would definitely find the Monka Expeditionary Force's spoils.

After all, it was difficult to tell whether a treasure map left by their predecessors was genuine.

Even a genuine map could rarely provide the precision of a navigation system. Finding the "entrance" remained an extremely difficult task.

So—

The "teleportation ability," whose activation method they did not understand, had effectively spared them the hardest part.

Now, standing at the cave opening and gazing at the distant Underground City Ruins, the three men felt that luck was on their side.

And it truly was.

The teleportation ability's activation condition was tied to post-mortem Nen.

Without Moyu's ability to detect dead Nen like a metal detector, an ordinary person—or even a Nen Exorcist—would have been unlikely to find that stone tablet shrouded in dead Nen.

In other words...

Moyu's arrival had given the three men a chance to actually reach the treasure.

Otherwise, even if they