The Northern Wilderness.
Miemie carried Yu Yuan through the air.
Yu Yuan looked at the Virtual Map on his Positioning Watch.
"We'll reach the Burning Fortress soon. Less than a hundred kilometers to go."
He had come to investigate the Oil Creatures.
Greenfield's warning had made Yu Yuan take the matter very seriously.
Even Greenfield, a silver-tier player with prophetic abilities, had been unable to find any clues about this race.
They were anything but ordinary.
They had appeared in the Greenwood World for no apparent reason. Yu Yuan had to get to the bottom of it.
And the leader of the Burning Fortress—Victor, "Black Lung"—seemed to have some inside information.
[Loyalty: Sir, Victor is even more dazed today. I feel like he's afraid of something?]
Hans's message came through.
Yu Yuan was about to reply when his Combat Scanner suddenly flashed, and a relatively large red dot appeared.
"A silver-tier creature!"
Another silver-tier creature!
What the hell!
He gave Miemie a light pat, directing Miemie to fly to the right.
The Combat Scanner had a detection range of only one kilometer.
When Yu Yuan arrived at the red dot's location, however, he frowned slightly.
There were no living creatures here at all, only a hill covered in snow and ice.
Yu Yuan checked the red dot on the Combat Scanner.
There was no mistake. This was the spot.
But why was there nothing here?
Yu Yuan turned his gaze toward the hill below.
As he stared, his eyes gradually widened, and a look of utter disbelief crossed his face.
That was no hill down there.
It was a giant crouching on the ground, dozing. A thick blanket of snow had simply accumulated on his body.
At first glance, he looked just like a hill.
But...
"How big