Inside Godforsaken Game.
Across a boundless, snow-white ice field, many teams of players could be seen farming monsters, traveling, taking on bosses, and so on. Some teams were also fighting each other over various conflicts...
They were all players who had transferred to the "Arctic game zone."
This Arctic game zone was different from the "Arctic Circle" previously defined on Blue Star.
There was still some land within the Arctic Circle, but those lands belonged to various countries, so they were not part of the "Arctic game zone" in Godforsaken Game.
The actual Arctic game zone consisted only of the glaciers surrounding the North Pole.
Since this place had no clear ownership, any player who came here in reality could pay a very small price to undergo a Forced Transfer to the Arctic game zone in Godforsaken Game as well.
Teshima Ichirō was one of them.
He and his team had been in the Arctic game zone for a long time.
Ever since the Long-Tailed Serpent Woman Demon Idol incident broke out, Teshima Ichirō had become a target of universal condemnation in Sakura Country, cursed by countless people... But it was not other people's curses that had actually driven him to flee.
Rather, the Sakura Country Government had tried to place him under a "Soul Reaper's" control.
On the surface, they claimed they wanted to protect him, so he would not drop all his lifespan and then die.
In reality, they wanted to bring him completely under their control!
Naturally, Teshima Ichirō could not accept this, so before the Sakura Country Government could bring a Soul Reaper to his door to subjugate him, he fled Sakura Country with his team...
"Hahaha! This Arctic really is a paradise for the strong!"
A burst of laughter came from an ice cave.
Inside