"You're just a cook, you know that?"

Two months later.

October 5, Year 10 of the Eternal Night New Calendar.

The Eternal Night Continent continued at full speed, gradually approaching the World Battlefield where it had once been. Very few continents remained in that once-bustling battlefield.

The continents had all left this World Battlefield.

They had gone to other seas to branch out.

In fact.

He could have sent the Stellar Gold to the Black Orchid Continent through a Teleportation Formation and had its people hand it over to Angler. But... he had to pass through here first and pick Angler up.

Otherwise, the world was so vast.

Finding them would have been a problem for Angler.

There was still a little World Tree Sap left. Although it had seemed like the last dregs, it had lasted another two months, entirely because the World Tree had continued producing sap throughout those two months of full-speed travel.

That made the consumption rate seem much lower.

He made a rough calculation.

There should be just enough to reach the Wind-Eroded Land, so he had no intention of stopping. He planned to rendezvous with Angler at high speed. The remaining World Tree Sap definitely wouldn't be enough to start up again.

On the Black Orchid Continent.

The Bronze Statue, who had been slumbering all this time, slowly opened his eyes. He looked at the hundred tons of Stellar Gold that the Black Orchid Continent's Continent Lord had carefully placed before him, then raised his gaze to the horizon.

After a long pause, he finally chuckled.

"That fellow..."

The next moment.

The Stellar Gold slowly turned into white light and dispersed. More and more cracks covered the Bronze Statue's surface, until a barely audible crack rang out, as though something had been released.

Immediately afterward.

The Black Orchid Continent's Continent Lord