Chapter 566 - 560. Substitute Dungeon Core
"Alright, you can leave it to us now," Naoya said with confidence and strong conviction. He might fail to cross the field by himself, but he’d make sure he’s succeeded this one.
After Bassena and Han Joon found the ruin, which turned out to be bigger than they thought, they concluded that something was there in the ruin, based on the shard’s reaction. Unlike before, when the shard barely reacted, it buzzed hard along the wall of the ruin.
When they came out later after leaving a mark and making a guide rope from the ruin to the first rope, they received confirmation from the shard-sitter.
Indeed, Zein told them that the shard felt a confusing presence deep in the ruin.
Of course, it could be something else entirely, instead of the source. But they still found something, and Naoya was determined to uncover it this time.
While doing that, some of the espers would also make another camp on the canyon side. It would be bad if suddenly a horde came in the middle of their investigation after all. The camps were established in the morning the next day, just in time for the dungeon team to resume their mission.
"Good luck, Naoya," Bassena patted the archer’s back. As someone who put the archer as the captain of the fog erasure operation, of course Bassena wanted him to succeed.
"Here are the beacons you requested," the archer placed a chest in Han Shin’s hands. "Are you going to install them all over the region?"
"Since we can’t build a watchtower yet," Bassena turned to look at the vast meadow and canyon, stretched all the way to the field and at the end of it, a mountain range. He felt like they would come across a dungeon with an area bordering the one they had already mapped, so they might as well build a communication line. "It’s always good to have a method of communication in a pinch."
"I guess we’ll need it eventually," Naoya nodded. Who knows--they might need to fight right away after crossing the field of fog, without a chance to make a base. So it’d be better to establish it now while there was no fight. "Anyway," Naoya looked at the dungeon team and shrugged. "I think you need more luck than us."
Bassena chuckled. Well, it was true that they were the ones who delved into unknown territory. "Give a signal if you find the source."