Another day had passed. Since leaving the island where they had boarded the Giant Whale Ship, Odin had sailed with the others for a full day.
That morning, land appeared ahead of them.
It stretched as far as the eye could see, shrouded in thick fog that left only a hazy outline visible.
Netero and the others aboard the cruise ship were astonished by the sight.
Based on Netero's experience, they should have needed roughly another month at sea to arrive.
Yet now they had reached it in just one day?
Odin stood at the bow, looking at the land.
He was thoroughly satisfied and had no intention of explaining.
Ponzu walked up beside him. "We're here?"
She had heard the others say the journey would take a month, only for them to arrive in a day.
But Ponzu wasn't surprised in the slightest.
As far as she was concerned, if they hadn't needed to bring everyone aboard along, she and Odin would have reached the Dark Continent long ago and might even have spent several months exploring it by now.
Odin nodded and murmured an assent.
Ging walked to the bow and looked at the land, excitement and caution in his eyes, both born of his anticipation for the adventure ahead.
"That's the Dark Continent," he said. "A place humanity has never truly set foot in."
Netero rose from his chair on the deck. "Ho ho ho, it's been decades since my last visit."
Cheadle emerged from the cabin with a map in her hands. She unfolded it, examined it, then looked up at the land.
"It matches the location marked on the map," she said. "This is the place."
As the cruise ship drew closer to the coast, many of those who had been training in their rooms