The boat carrying Green raced through the churning waves and delivered them to their destination in less than five hours.
It was a midsize port city with thriving trade and fishing. As soon as they disembarked, they felt its bustle and prosperity.
But Xisothon's preparations to enter the war had inevitably affected the city. People everywhere were discussing it and offering their opinions.
Older people were generally more cautious, some even opposing a rash war with the Holy Light Church. The young, on the other hand, were eager for it. They could hardly wait to take the battlefield themselves and fight for a noble title.
Green, Glasses Woman, and Erha drew little attention. Xisothon was an open island nation with a long tradition of maritime trade, and its people were used to all sorts of strange visitors and happenings. Only the occasional hormone-addled young man couldn't help giving Glasses Woman a second look.
But looking was all they did. Public order was quite good here; no one came over to flirt, much less tried to abduct a beautiful woman.
This port city was not Green's real destination, however. He planned to pass through it into Xisothon's interior, to a place 270 kilometers from Stopol City marked as desert on the map.
Its official name was Lake Zevar. According to legend, it had once been a sizable lake, but its upstream source had dried up. The lake had gradually vanished, leaving behind a lakebed that eventually became desert.
According to Black Claw, however, a vast Underground Factory lay beneath the dried-up Lake Zevar. It was the Lorenzo Kingdom's largest arms factory and Mecha production base in the Number One Void World.
That factory was Green's destination. This was not an Abyss Club mission. Though he had accepted another mission on his