Steampunk Era: Mad Abield

Normally, a standard Dark Zone adventurer squad should have six to eight members, but here there are only four people visible, and each is injured. The young Awakeners, holding herbal ointment taught by Malin, are tending to their external injuries. As for internal injuries, the young Awakeners don’t have a good solution — Malin has confirmed, these little fellows simply lack the Blessing Spell talent, and it seems they can’t establish the faith required to acquire spell abilities. So, Malin personally treated these four unlucky ones and then asked the young Awakeners to take the critically injured back to the medical facility in the city. Malin called over the female giant who could still walk on her own; her physical condition was quite good, Malin thinks the other three owe her a debt as valuable as a life.

"Sir, is there anything else you require?" Because Malin saved her, this female giant asked very respectfully.

"You must have heard of Sage Yu. There are Awakeners in this area, right?"

"Yes, he also said that you, sir, are here, and would never leave someone helpless." Saying this, the female giant directly knelt down: "Sir, please save my teammates!"

"Before I take action, you at least need to tell me the predicament your team ran into." Malin also wanted to help, but he didn’t even know where their incident occurred, let alone talk about a rescue.

The female giant then detailed the situation of their team—three days ago, they heard stories about Awakeners and confirmed that there was a group of zombies with red-painted forearms claiming to be Awakeners, making peace with humans, and even able to trade with them. Thus, they eagerly came to this area, and upon confirming such an Awakener existence, they traded chocolate with a young Awakener who could speak for information on various locations and chose one of them happily. During the day, they found a small shelter yielding substantial gain.

As night approached, out of habit, the team exited the small town, set up formations in the wild, and rested overnight.

Then, the night watchman, a half-blood Elf, went missing.

Such situations are not uncommon in adventuring teams, initially assuming his death, the team decided to quit while ahead and prepare to leave. As the weather began to turn gloomy, they encountered the sentry on their northbound path, who had been corrupted by Chaos, followed by a sizable Chaos squad, the adventurers were chased relentlessly, barely escaping by jumping into a river, all present when they came ashore, but as they were fleeing, something went wrong... The eight-member team had a ninth shadow appear mysteriously, a Wraith emerged from nowhere affecting nearly everyone, except the highland gnome who was still conscious using her Immortal Master gifts, she ignited her essence blood, freeing all teammates from control.