Adventurer Group

Biodata

Background

The Adventurer Group belongs to the established organizations founded by earlier players. According to Manager, these organizations contacted prospective newcomers before their entry into the game and established branches through them. He described the newcomer teams as extensions of older organizations whose true strength would become apparent beyond the Gate of Departure 36.

Spotlight formed and commanded the Adventurer Group’s Mist Island team. The organization supplied him with information about the Giant Tree Forest before his expedition reached it 45.

Objectives and Reputation

• Adventure before profit: Spotlight explicitly places exploration above materials, equipment, and loot. His team considers discovering the dungeon’s secrets sufficient reason to stop exploring rather than compete for its remaining rewards 45 50.
• Observation rather than conquest: The team’s objective in the Giant Tree Forest is to approach and investigate the Tree King, not kill it for materials 45.
• High newcomer mortality: Manager warns that the group’s pursuit of exploration gives its newcomers an even higher death rate than those joining the combat-focused Black Blood Society. This assessment comes from a Consortium recruiter 36.
• Troublesome cooperation: Spotlight says the group welcomes cooperation, but partners often abandon it because its expeditions cause trouble. Its reputation includes provoking dangerous situations and then escaping faster than its allies 46 48.
• Practical caution: Despite that reputation, Spotlight rejects fighting Rubber Beasts beside their nests and recommends hunting isolated beasts instead 45.

Equipment and Technology

Exploration Ship

Spotlight’s team uses a small exploration vessel approximately ten meters long. He emphasizes that it is not a warship: convenient exploration functions take priority over head-on combat 37 45.

Land-Travel Modifications

• Basic apparatus: Spotlight treats the land-travel apparatus as a relatively ordinary modification and offers to arrange its installation if Bai Ling supplies the materials 45.
• Craftsman requirement: Hull modification requires a skilled craftsman to measure the vessel and perform the work manually 49.
• Conversion diagrams: Spotlight later agrees to arrange a trade for the diagrams once the friends feature opens. Their delivery is not shown in the supplied chapters 50.

History

Mist Island Expedition

The Adventurer Group enters Mist Island after the Consortium and Black Blood Society teams. Its tracked vessel immediately attracts Lin Yuan’s attention because he wants a way to travel on land 37.

Lin Yuan later finds the team observing Rubber Beast nests near the Giant Tree Forest. Remaining hidden inside Lilia’s coffin, he sends Bai Ling to negotiate. Spotlight mistakes Lilia for Bai Ling’s subdued follower and consequently judges Bai Ling to be an exceptionally powerful independent player 44 45.

Cooperation at the Giant Tree Forest

Bai Ling offers to draw away the Rubber Beasts blocking the expedition’s route in exchange for land-travel modification assistance. Spotlight accepts, conceals the ship, and waits while Lilia attracts the beasts into a melee 45.

With the route clear, the Adventurer Group enters the forest without striking the giant trees or disturbing the beasts resting in their nests. Spotlight initially finds the expedition unusually smooth 46.

The team later flees a berserk herd and warns Bai Ling’s party to retreat. Bai Ling instead offers to cover their escape. Spotlight, unaware that Lin Yuan’s acquisition of the Captain’s Quarters Key triggered the beasts’ frenzy, believes she is generously cleaning up the Adventurer Group’s mess. He leaves intending to repay her 47 48.

Ship Negotiations and Exploration Results

To express his gratitude, Spotlight offers to transfer the exploration ship in exchange for an additional payment. When Lin Yuan tests boarding it, he cracks its deck and loses over a thousand durability points himself. Bai Ling declines the purchase, while Spotlight interprets the damage as further evidence of her companion’s terrifying strength 49.

The negotiations shift to obtaining conversion diagrams after the dungeon. Having explored most of Mist Island in just over half a day, Spotlight also directs Bai Ling toward underwater lake ruins occupied by the Consortium and Black Blood Society. His team chooses not to contest those remaining rewards 50.

Relationships

• Spotlight — Known expedition captain. He negotiates cooperation, commands the exploration ship, and intends to recommend that the organization cultivate good relations with Bai Ling 45 49.
• Bai Ling — Independent collaborator whom Spotlight mistakes for a powerful master of uncanny followers. Her apparent protection of the retreat changes his opinion of her from reckless and heartless to generous and dependable 45 46 48.
• Lin Yuan / Zero — The hidden initiator of the technology negotiations. Spotlight regards him as a powerful being associated with Bai Ling rather than recognizing his actual role 44 49.
• Consortium and Black Blood Society — Fellow established player organizations operating on Mist Island. The Adventurer Group leaves them to compete over the lake ruins rather than joining the struggle for loot 36 50.