Six days later, Xu Yi arrived on an unnamed island roughly two hundred kilometers northwest of Space Island, where the Overseas Base was located.
"Where are the ruins?" As soon as the Mana Airship settled into place, Xu Yi asked Santander, the commander of the airship that had brought them here.
The island was small enough to take in at a glance from the air, but nothing particularly unusual had caught his eye.
"Mr. President, look over there..." Santander pointed through the Mana Airship's window toward the center of the island. "See those exceptionally thick trees? The place we found that looks like ruins is beneath them."
"All right, let's get ready to move." Xu Yi nodded, then turned to look around at the others. He saw Akali's excited, expectant expression, as well as Elder Windini's noticeably more solemn face. "Elder Windini, you're more familiar with these ruins. Is there anything you need to tell us?"
This time, Xu Yi had led the Xinfei Merchant Guild's team away from the Main Base with the publicly stated purpose of traveling to the Demoncloud Continent to personally oversee the guild's development there.
Privately, however, he had two objectives. One was to visit Akali's overseas research base to check on everyone and ask about their research progress. The other was to explore the Abyssal Demon Race ruins believed to lie somewhere in this region.
Xu Yi had first heard about the Abyssal Demon Race from Archmage Camilla, then learned a little more about them from Cassandra.
But it was through Elder Windini that he had truly gained a basic understanding of them.
Even among all the Elf Race tribes on the Sains Continent, the Azshara Tribe had preserved the most complete heritage. It also possessed part of the legacy of the Elf Race's