Over three hundred years ago, a human set out to explore the entire coastline of the Dark Continent on his own.
Three hundred years later, he was still exploring that coastline.
During his exploration of the Dark Continent, he also wrote a book titled "New Continent Travelogue: East."
That book had once been published on the Six Continents.
It chronicled his experiences exploring the Dark Continent.
At first, few people paid any attention to a book filled with such outlandish imaginings.
But as the ages changed, people became more receptive.
And so this strange book, once dismissed as fantasy, ultimately brought humanity on the Six Continents information of incalculable value.
One could also say—
It was the New Continent Travelogue that brought humanity Pandora's Box.
Every expedition organized by the V5 with the full resources of its great nations sent hundreds, if not thousands, of people to the Dark Continent.
Yet every expedition ended in failure, and those sent there naturally died on that continent.
The officially documented expeditions alone numbered 149.
Even setting aside the clandestine expeditions, there was no telling how many lives had built that record of 149 failures.
That was the price of opening Pandora's Box.
Through this, humanity on the Six Continents had come to understand its dangers all too well.
But humanity never stopped on its path toward exploring destruction.
The man who wrote the New Continent Travelogue, the book that brought humanity Pandora's Box, was named—
Don Freecss.
Even now.
He was still alive.
Thanks to the all-cure herb and the lifespan-extending nitro rice, he remained active along the Dark Continent's coastline at over three hundred years old, still measuring that boundless land with his own two feet.
Because—
A human's stride and speed were limited.
And the Dark Continent's vastness defied imagination.