The Humanoid Dust's trail led to the Sky Island overhead.
The player in charge of tracking looked up. Thick bolts of lightning flashed through the dense thunderclouds, briefly brightening Gray Castle's main city from time to time.
Beyond the distant edge of the dark clouds, the sky was clear. The sun rose as usual, casting broad swaths of sunlight diagonally into Gray Castle's main city.
"It's a monster from the forbidden zone up there. No wonder it's so powerful. Its attacks are bizarre, too," the player muttered, as though he had seen some sort of monster.
The timing of the Humanoid Dust's appearance was strange. Everyone who had analyzed the game footage frame by frame discovered that it had appeared instantaneously, without any warning.
Even in slow-motion footage broken down into individual frames, it had suddenly appeared behind A Meng. There wasn't even an image of the void splitting open.
"That island was documented in our game data. The being there is connected to the First Playthrough Boss. Both are avatars of Nya. This avatar is weaker than the First Playthrough Boss. Some unknown error might have occurred after the game changed, creating a game monster that isn't in our records," people analyzed.
They had designed the being on that island as an enemy on relatively poor terms with the First Playthrough Boss. Precisely because enemies knew their enemies well, they had left direct clues related to the First Playthrough Boss on the island.
Finding those clues would give them a chance to track down the First Playthrough Boss directly.
But the prerequisite was for players to reach the level cap before attempting the island. Otherwise, the entire attempt would be extremely painful.
"We have the manpower to avoid the pain of soloing it. Orange Mother, please calculate roughly what