Chapter 436: 436
You have informed an NPC from an unmapped continent about Immortal Adventurers . All NPCs will now receive this information by default . 」
As soon as Eva was done, every NPC in the entire Shinoka Continent froze for a split second as if they were dazed, but then shook it off a moment later . Just like Qiong Qi and Roma had been auto-furnished with information after they had escaped the Unique Quest, the same had just happened to the NPCs of the Shinoka Continent .
Eva raised an eyebrow as this was new to her as well . She had concealed her true nature and had used horrific means to get herself back to her homeland as soon as possible in the previous timeline .
In fact, neither she nor Draco had ever entered unmapped continents willingly because they had already been having a tough time going through all the mapped ones .
Anyone with the knowledge of where unmapped lands were, would have explored them for it would be much more thrilling and lucrative than vying for the lands that had already been mapped by other players .
Just imagine if Eva had built a base of her own on Shinoka Continent . Apart from the Gods, who else would know? She could have amassed a great force in secret and then invade the known continents in conquest . Her location would have remained unknown to her victims as they sought to defend against her sudden attacks .
If the known continents of Boundless were a goldmine, then the unmapped continents were platinum mines . Each one promised rare monsters, resources, and techniques/classes never seen before!
Wait, if this was the case, why had those retarded players from the previous timeline been farting about for 15 years? Also, why had the Rank 7 NPCs not gone around discovering that stuff so they could expand their power???
Well, for the former, it had been a case of having a huge bowl of noodles before you that had to be eaten quickly, but instead, you got up from your seat and tried to order a serving of pizza three times the size . With you having a poor appetite, eating the noodles would already have been hard enough .
As for the latter, it was the case of trying to keep a wolf that was howling and snarling at you, while it was doing its best to rip out your jugular at arm's reach while you both were struggling on the ground .
If you're barely able to keep your dog life by using both hands and putting in your full concentration, you suddenly turn your head and use one arm to try and reach the nearby stick .
With one arm, can you prevent the wolf from reaching its goal?
Boundless' mapped land had made up about 5% of the total - or at least that was the playerbase's best estimate - the remainder had been left unmapped . Ironically, continents like that were being spawned by the AI in regular intervals as it absorbed new information or extrapolated new data or scenarios .
Heck, even around mapped continents, the maritime activity had been weak because the concentration was too damn high . Who knew what kind of sea beasts existed in the black areas of the map?
Naturally, some players had taken that risk since they could revive, but 99 . 9999% of these expeditions had ended in the same outcome . The players had hired/bought/built a ship, had gathered a player crew (because NPCs would never go) only to get swallowed up by a monster .
To revive back where one started, with nothing to show for your efforts, except the horrendous exp loss and a piece of equipment most likely forever lost, because the sea monster that ate you was 300 miles away, was just too brutal .
Realistically, this only left air travel as the reasonable option . It might have been viable . . . in the old era . At least at that time, they had airships defended by scores of professional fighters from aerial beasts, not to mention the healthy supply of Aether Crystals to use as fuel for these kinds of long-distance travels, yet in the previous timeline, it would have been impossible .
Now though, one would have to rely on an aerial mount . Even if one could theoretically cross the air with their mount because they were OP, there came the problem of fatigue, navigation, and distance .
One would have to fly non-stop while dealing with the air monsters that would attack without rest . Resting at sea was also impossibly as it only changed the attackers to sea monsters . As for navigation, it was an issue because if you flew blindly hoping to luck out like Christopher Columbus, you would die without a grave 10 times out of 10 .
However, distance was probably the biggest issue of them all . If you knew where you were going - like Eva did - it only shortened the journey, but did not make it easier . It had taken Luxia 10 flaps to get from Cario Continent to Shinoka .
At least Shinoka was on the edge of the black area of the map, meaning it had just barely been missed from the known world . If it had been deeper in, Eva would not have easily made this decision .
The reason why Draco had never attempted something like this but Eva did was obvious: Luxia . The Light Phoenix was The Flash of the Skies . One flap could take her anywhere on Cario Continent, 2-3 flaps to go cross-continent, and 5 to reach the edge of the known world .
Where could Eva not go? Not only that, but Luxia was so fast that aerial monsters could not see her, much less get in her way . Since the Light Phoenix subsisted off Light Energy and not food, she would never tire in that sense .
Even if the sun went down, Eva could create the purest Light Energy with her bloodline to feed her . The combination of Luxia and Eva was greatly underrated, and was why Draco was endlessly jealous of his soulmate after she had contracted the Light Phoenix .
Hence, the current development .
Another reason Eva had chosen Shinoka was because she had gained some basic knowledge of the land, as well as some ties/advantages due to her bloodline .
Nobunaga nodded once he had soaked in all the information . He rose to his feet and gazed at Eva solemnly . "I understand everything now . While you might be Amaterasu of a foreign universe, you are still an incarnation of our Goddess . You have the same powers, abilities, and beliefs as her, right?"
Eva smiled . "My powers and abilities are the exact same, though I'm currently slightly weaker . As for my beliefs, Amaterasu and I have our differences, but we chose to compromise because, at the end of the day, we are one and the same . "
Nobunaga nodded . The fact that Eva, a different version of Amaterasu, could trigger his apostle powers at will showed that Eva and their Amaterasu were fundamentally the same as well . They might be from a different universe, but they were the same existence .
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