Yamato leaped several times and soon disappeared from sight.
Ye Chen waited a while, but no other "scouts" approached.
Only then did he return to his lodgings, feeling rather bored.
Hidden Jun Village had successfully reached level five.
The former site of Kusagakure needed a large workforce for renovations.
And Hidden Jun Village could not sit idle, either.
It was time to "arrange" the two sets of new facility rewards.
He had thought he would have some leisure time after the war between ninja villages.
He had never expected that as the village grew larger, he would have more and more matters to worry about.
Ye Chen sorely missed the days when he could lie in bed and have countless rewards "fall from the sky."
Of course, the benefits of expanding the village could not be compared to short-lived "immediate gains."
So Ye Chen prepared to lurk on the game's official forum and post another recruitment thread.
Just as he was about to slip away, a notification suddenly sounded in his ears.
[Ding! Map unlocked: Land of Rain. Land of Grass exploration areas completed: 6/8.]
"The Land of Rain?"
Ye Chen's heart skipped a beat. He thought he had misheard.
He immediately pulled up the precise "terrain" map charted by the system.
Sure enough, the area connecting Hidden Jun Village and the former Kusagakure was brightly lit. These were all areas that had been explored and unlocked.
Surrounding that area was pitch-black territory that had never been explored.
But now, a long, narrow arc had suddenly appeared in that expanse of dark, unknown territory.
Someone had actually explored an unknown area without any guidance and successfully unlocked an adjacent map?
Ye Chen's pupils trembled slightly. He had not known that the Land of Grass bordered the Land of