Chapter 915 - 459: Return to Stone Gate City
Although Long Dangdang and the team had discovered four wraith altars within a day, their exploration was centered around Stone Gate City. Moving forward, if they wanted to discover more wraith altars, they would either have to venture further away, which would significantly reduce their efficiency, or switch to another Big Wraith City as their core for exploration, such as Calamity City, the capital of the Wraith Empire. However, this would also increase the risk. How to choose was an important issue.
Long Dangdang opted for both approaches. They continued to explore the area surrounding Stone Gate City, heading towards more distant places, and then tried to find some patterns through the distribution of these wraith altars. If there were patterns to follow, then locating more wraith altars would become much easier.
But over the next two days, despite their continuous search, they only found three more wraith altars, with their efficiency greatly diminished. What made them most helpless was that there was no discernible pattern to the distribution of the wraith altars. It seemed as if they were randomly placed.
Then Long Dangdang decided to shift focus, continuing their exploration with Calamity City as the new center.
This undoubtedly required more caution, as the possibility of encountering powerful wraith scouts also increased.
As it turned out, their luck was still good, or perhaps it was because many of the Wraith Empire’s powerful experts were tied up on the front lines. In the nearly one week of exploration that followed, they managed to remain well-hidden and undetected. Long Dangdang even retrieved their Earth escape shuttle.
After more than ten days of effort, with Stone Gate City and Calamity City as their core, the spatial coordinates laid out by Long Dangdang and the team were as intricate as a game of chess. As they delved deeper into their exploration, they gradually began to uncover some patterns.
The distribution of wraith altars appeared random, but they were broadly scattered. The irregular distribution was related to the terrain and the distance and direction from the human world.
After eight days of exploration, they discovered a total of sixteen wraith altars, all of which were located outside the cities. Among these, the wraith altars near Calamity City were relatively large, with the smallest being about the same size as the first altar they discovered after coming to Stone Gate City. The largest was at least five times bigger; even from a distance, Long Dangdang and the team could feel an overwhelming pressure emanating from it. They could only imagine the terrifyingly powerful beings defending it. They didn’t come too close and quickly left after marking the coordinates, knowing that it was definitely beyond their current capability to destroy.