[Great Demon Wasteland.]
The four large characters flashed before Jiang Cheng's eyes.
Opening the map revealed that this was an unexplored region. Apart from their current location,
everywhere else on the map was shrouded in fog.
An endless desert stretched into the distance, while the snowfield extended behind them.
From here onward, the snow thinned, exposing the grayish-brown frozen earth beneath.
The wind remained bitterly cold, but it no longer carried dense flurries of snow, only a few scattered ice crystals that melted away before reaching the ground.
Farther ahead, gravel and loose stones lay exposed, and the snow disappeared.
The environment here was harsh. The earth had been baked dry and cracked, with clumps of tough, yellowed grass poking through the fissures, trembling in the wind.
The chill lingered in the air, now mingled with a trace of dry heat.
After they walked a while longer, the wind here swept up fine sand and carried waves of heat.
The environmental changes lacked any natural progression. It was like passing through an invisible wall in a game and suddenly arriving in another world.
Jiang Cheng found this quite puzzling too.
Since Monster World pursued realism, each region's environmental changes should logically have involved a gradual transition in scenery.
Curious, he asked Guide and received this explanation.
Monster World's territories were pieced together around different nodes, like a gigantic world-sized jigsaw puzzle, which also contained large amounts of territory inserted by descending factions.
This resulted in completely different environments and climates across Monster World's regions.
Jiang Cheng's interpretation of Guide's explanation was: game lore.
"Tyrant Sword, where's the Blood Storage Cauldron you mentioned?" Xia Sheng asked from beside him.
"Just beyond the desert. There's still some distance to go."
As it said this, Tyrant Sword's heart bled.
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