The Gold Panning Plains lay beside the Golden Desert.
Because they bordered the Golden Desert, living conditions there were not particularly good.
However, that proximity had also once made the area rich in ore deposits, drawing numerous factions to establish a presence there.
Of all the ore deposits in the Gold Panning Plains back then, gold mines had been the most abundant.
That was how the Gold Panning Plains had gotten their name.
As time passed, the ore deposits in the Gold Panning Plains gradually ran dry.
With conditions there so poor, humans gradually left this land that had little value left.
But as the humans departed, some weaker nonhuman races gradually gathered in this place where they could barely survive, a place humans looked down on.
By now, the Gold Panning Plains had become a home for nonhuman races.
Normally, there was no need to pass through the Gold Panning Plains to reach the Rock Kingdom, where Sarna's family lived.
However, at Sarna's insistence, the group took a slight detour to the Gold Panning Plains.
Sarna mainly wanted to see the nonhuman races living there. She knew full well that once she returned to her family this time, it would probably be difficult to travel far from home again for the rest of her life.
The very first time they had let Sarna travel far from home, she had encountered an Adult Dragon, and someone of the fourth tier had died. Her family had been thrown into an uproar. If not for the presence of a powerhouse like Dunn, who had slain a dragon single-handedly, Sarna's family would have long since sent people to bring her home.
And our Miss Annie had always been very sympathetic toward useful people.
So Annie generously agreed to Sarna's request.
As for Dunn,