They feared no challenge and dared to face any danger.
They would rise again where they had fallen. Even if a thousand mountains barred the way, they would never retreat or give up.
That was Beyond's creed.
He shared something with Nasubi Hui Guo Rou, king of the Kakin Kingdom: in their ambitions and goals, both wanted to become the first of their kind, unmatched by anyone before or after them.
Now that Nasubi Hui Guo Rou had fulfilled his wish and engraved his name on the monument to the exploration of the New Continent, Beyond could not fall behind either.
The coastline looming through the mist filled him with excitement, and his eyes shone.
"This time, I will not fail..."
Beyond suddenly thrust an arm high, his face radiant.
Behind him, his teammates, who had also come for the Dark Continent, wore expressions of eager anticipation.
Whatever dangers awaited them ahead...
They would carve their names into this vast continent.
Filled with anticipation for the journey ahead, the members of Beyond's Team had no idea that the Hunter Association, led by Moyu, had already beaten them to it.
They had not only obtained a hope capable of accelerating plant growth, but had also dealt with a Calamity named "Black Pit."
The mechanics of this Calamity involved light and shadow. It had no physical substance.
If they had to describe it, it was a two-dimensional existence much like a shadow.
It covered an area no larger than a disc, resembled a shadow, and could move freely across flat surfaces.
It attacked by assimilating its target's shadow, then dragging the target's entire "existence" into the depths of its profound darkness.
Like a two-dimensional eraser, it could forcibly erase a three-dimensional existence.
In theory, this silent erasure ability posed a lethal threat