After listening to Mountain Tiger’s words, Hand Rubbing Diamonds didn’t say much and started to wait silently.

As time passed, more and more players arrived.

It became apparent that all the arriving players were flying players.

Within just half an hour, more than ten thousand flying players gathered on Flying Dragon Island.

Wangzai Little Buns also arrived here and started chatting with old acquaintances.

Meanwhile, all the legion commanders present began to consciously organize their army players, gathering a large number of players together.

Iron Black Pot surveyed the surroundings: “I’m afraid Mountain Tiger really guessed it right, at least 80% of the flying players are gathered here.”

Hearing this, Hand Rubbing Diamonds gently nodded: “It is quite a coincidence, just two flying legions are missing, and not a single player from those legions can be seen…”

Just as the two were talking, Wangzai Little Buns, who had finished chatting with other old friends in the distance, flew over to them: “Hi, Scapegoat, Diamonds.”

“Hey, Xiao Mantou.” Iron Black Pot immediately smiled warmly.

The two had already noticed Wangzai Little Buns earlier, but they were busy gathering the army players from other places, so they didn’t have a chance to contact Wangzai Little Buns before.

At this time, the army players under Iron Black Pot and Hand Rubbing Diamonds also started greeting Wangzai Little Buns one by one.

Wangzai Little Buns waved to the army players under Iron Black Pot and Hand Rubbing Diamonds, greeted everyone, and then said to Iron Black Pot: “It’s been a long time since I’ve seen you.”

“I still remember when we first received the exploration quest from the Underground City, there were only a few of us and we almost got wiped out by Aiman, time really flies.”

Hearing Wangzai Little Buns’s words, Iron Black Pot nodded with a bit of emotion: “Indeed, time flies quickly, and changes quickly too.”

“So, are you all set for this exploration quest, planning to take the opportunity to strengthen your profession to the Legendary Tier?”

Hearing Iron Black Pot’s words, Wangzai Little Buns grinned: “If I can, I’ll definitely seize the opportunity.”

“By the way, Scapegoat, Diamonds, do you plan to use this chance to reach the Legendary Tier?”

By the side, Hand Rubbing Diamonds quickly shook his head: “We’re still far off; in the last exploration quest, we only managed to advance to Epic Tier Advancement, didn’t even reach Perfection. This time, it’ll be great if we can reach Epic Tier Perfection.”

“By the way, we need you to show some mercy, Xiao Mantou, or we might not be able to compete with you.”

Wangzai Little Buns smiled slyly: “If I manage to strengthen my profession to Legendary Tier this time, I naturally won’t compete for experience with you, I’ll leave it all to you.”

Hearing Wangzai Little Buns’s words, Hand Rubbing Diamonds rolled his eyes speechlessly.

The implication was clear: before reaching Legendary Tier, there’s still competition, and no mercy will be shown.

Wangzai Little Buns patted the shoulders of the two: “I’ll go prepare my Snowgaze Corps. We’ll chat more when we set off later.”

With those words, Wangzai Little Buns flew off into the distance.

Watching Wangzai Little Buns’s silhouette, Hand Rubbing Diamonds said: “No worries about tough bosses with Xiao Mantou around, but we have to worry about not being able to compete for experience.”

Iron Black Pot laughed upon hearing this: “Nothing is perfect in the world, there are gains and losses; we’ll rely on our skills at that time.”

With those words, Iron Black Pot continued organizing the army.

The whole of Flying Dragon Island became bustling.

After the legion commanders finished organizing their armies, they began searching for familiar other legion commanders to discuss cooperation.

Players are now used to several legions teaming up for each action.

Before the departure time, players started leaving Flying Dragon Island in large numbers.

As for the players on Gemini Island, they considered the slower pace and longer travel time of non-flying players.

Therefore, the departure time for Gemini Island’s exploration quest was set much later than that of Flying Dragon Island.

With this consideration, Fang Ka also contacted Mohammed and Azure Moon Dragon Xiaojing, asking them to set off and transport players to Gemini Island in batches along the way.

This way, non-flying player corpses can save a lot of travel time.

The situation on Gemini Island is left aside for now, as players on Flying Dragon Island set off, quickly passing through the Vortex Zone, and then began exploring deeply southwards.

Because they were all flying corps, the players’ travel speed was very fast, and it didn’t take long to spot the outline of an island.

Players eagerly rushed towards the island.

Especially Wangzai Little Buns, filled with excitement in her eyes.

Based on the findings from previous exploration quests, each explored island had several Epic Tier bosses; these bosses were her hope for strengthening her profession to Legendary Tier.

She eagerly anticipated the power of the Legendary Tier.

Despite the wealth of descriptions at the Legendary Tier level on the game’s trading platform’s information board, no amount of textual description could compare to personal experience.

At this moment, on the island, two people were sitting in a large hall chatting.

“These days have been comfortable, unlike before when Epic Tier presences loomed over us every day. Now, we’re free, we can do whatever we want.” A man in a gray long garment sipped his drink.

Sitting opposite him was an elderly man in armor, who said nothing upon hearing this and continued eating.

After a long time, he finally spoke slowly: “You’re certainly optimistic, even knowing the reason we’re here, you can still maintain this mindset.”

The man in gray laughed heartily: “So what if I know? Should I be anxious every day? I don’t want that; my son got assigned to Shadow Island. If it weren’t for this opportunity, how could he have gone there? What more could I ask for?”

“You should come to terms too, look, you’ve lived so long, even if you die, you’ve outlived me, right? Besides, hasn’t your granddaughter been absorbed into Shadow Island too?”

The armored old man laughed at himself: “It’s really embarrassing, the longer you live, the harder it is to face death calmly.”

Hearing this, the man in gray laughed: “We were left here not for any other reason but because our potential has been exhausted, with no room for advancement. Living meaninglessly… what’s the point?”

At this point, the man in gray also laughed to himself.

They were exactly the people left on Shadow Island.

Their only duty was to maintain the island’s normal operation, doing whatever they usually did… until the Undead Forces arrived.

At that time, once they transmitted the message back, they would have completely fulfilled their mission.

Both Shadow Island and Wind Chime Island had absorbed Epic Tier presences and potential seeds, drawing them into their inner-circle territories.

The highest level remaining on the outer-control areas were Top Tier existences, and even those who could never hope to break through to the Epic Tier in their lifetime.

In simple terms, it was waste utilization.

Under normal circumstances, both Wind Chime Island and Shadow Island wouldn’t absorb peripheral manpower like this, as they usually held themselves in high regard.

However, given the special situation, they couldn’t turn potential enemies, and outright killing them seemed too wasteful.

So they could only manage them in this makeshift way.

Source: Webnovel.com, updated by NovelKeep