The smoke of battle over Purple Island gradually dispersed in the winds from afar, and the joy of obtaining the Reincarnation Fragment quietly settled with time.
The brothers of the Kindergarten Squad continued their journey to contain Darkborn fragments.
In the blink of an eye, three years passed.
Over those three years, the Kindergarten Squad left their footprints in dangerous regions throughout the vast territories of Monster World.
From poisonous marsh abysses thick with miasma to floating rift valleys swept by howling baleful winds, from frozen snowfields occupied by ancient giant beasts to underground crystal domains riddled with mechanisms-they explored and fought in all these perilous places.
Along the way, all manner of alien races appeared in turn, leaving impressions of varying depth on this long expedition.
Their journeys across domains also gave rise to a curious incident that the Kindergarten Squad would savor for a long time.
A year earlier, for instance, while crossing a desolate Gobi, they fell into a Spatial Passage connected to an "accelerated minor world," laid out by some unknown lost civilization.
To their surprise, intelligent life had already emerged in this minor world.
After some discussion, they decided to follow the veteran players' example and build a wishing pool there.
They would obtain derived energy through the wishes of the minor world's inhabitants.
On a whim, they brought over spirit crystals from the Gobi and taught the inhabitants, still in their primitive age, how to grow and cultivate.
Within the mismatched flow of time, they completed the construction of a "wish system."
Everyone treated this trip through the minor world as nothing more than an Easter egg in their long expedition and never took it seriously.
After leaving behind a Deity Calendar, they returned to Monster World through a spatial rift.
They immediately headed