Extra: Dark Continent · Wherever the Gaze Reaches (I)
Published on 2023-10-01 21:27 | Chapter Notes
The map of the human-known world—
was actually situated atop an enormous lake called Mobius Lake in the very center of the Dark Continent.
According to statistics from the International Permit Office, there had been exactly 149 recorded expeditions to challenge the Dark Continent throughout history.
Of those, only five expeditions had survivors return, totaling twenty-eight people.
Yet as time passed, only a handful of survivors from Dark Continent expeditions remained alive.
Among these records, the most valuable references were undoubtedly the several voyages directly concerning "Calamities and Hope."
In the treacherous mountain range along the northeastern shore of Mobius Lake on the Dark Continent, a mineral called Unmanned Stone could be mined. It only needed to be submerged in water to generate electricity.
But that area was the territory of Pap, the Human-Raising Beast.
To survey the entire route, the Begerosse United Nations sent a one-thousand-man expedition into those mountains. In the end, only seven returned, having found nothing.
At a landing site directly north of Mobius Lake, one only needed to travel four hundred kilometers inland to reach an ancient labyrinth city with an exceptionally modern atmosphere.
A large special forces unit sent by the Saherta United States was attacked there by the plant weapon Brion, and only two survived.
To the southeast of Mobius Lake, traveling in a straight line would lead to a Swamp where the longevity food Nitro Rice grew.
The Oukima Federation selected this challenge route and dispatched a large force of eleven hundred men, but ninety-nine percent of them became food for the Hellbell two-tailed snakes.
After these voyages became written records, the Minbo Republic chose another route and sent out a force of as many as