Published on 2023-10-01 21:27 | Chapter Notes
The map of the human world as it was known—
was actually nothing more than a supermassive lake called Mobius Lake, located right at the center of the Dark Continent.
According to statistics from the International Permit Office, there had been exactly 149 documented expeditions to challenge the Dark Continent throughout history.
Of those, only five expeditions had survivors return, with a total of twenty-eight people surviving.
Yet as time passed, only a handful of survivors from those Dark Continent expeditions remained alive.
Among those records, the most valuable references were undoubtedly the several expeditions that directly involved "Calamities and Hope."
In the perilous mountain range along the northeastern shore of Mobius Lake on the Dark Continent, a mineral called Unmanned Stone could be mined. It generated electricity simply by being submerged in water.
But that region was entirely the territory of Pap, the Nurturing Beast.
To map out the entire route, the Begerosse United Nations sent a survey team of one thousand people into those mountains. In the end, only seven returned, empty-handed.
At a landing site directly north of Mobius Lake, one only had to travel four hundred kilometers inland to reach an Ancient Labyrinth City with an exceptionally modern atmosphere.
The Saherta United States dispatched a large special forces unit there, where they were attacked by the plant weapon Brion. Only two ultimately survived.
Southeast of Mobius Lake, heading in a straight line would lead to a Swamp where the longevity food Nitro Rice grew.
The Oukima Federation selected this route and sent a large force of eleven hundred people, but ninety-nine percent of them became food for Hellbell, the Two-Tailed Snake.
After those expeditions became written records, the Minbo Republic chose another route and dispatched a force of as