Chapter 1156: Section 712: Nova_2
And those human children were even more so; many made some progress during the Node Transformation classes, and some even awakened from a state of bewildered loss.
"Is this the True Lord... it’s truly unbelievable." Nova expressed her astonishment.
But what shocked her even more was the repaired bridge, the adventurer teams coming and going between the banks, and the lucky ones returning fully loaded.
These people are known as Tech Hunters in the Western Human World, and Nova expressed some envy toward Thainan for having so many unexplored Dark Zones even though they were in a state of revival — the current Tech Hunters can only advance toward the dangerous Eastern Dark Zones, which are truly perilous lands, with an initial mission extinction rate of up to thirty percent for ordinary Tech Hunter teams, and even high-level teams can face death from a single misstep.
Here, though, Nova saw what seemed like a grand outing.
No wonder Nova felt this way. Malin had visited the Dark Zone himself and saw that the adventurer teams, upon entering the undeveloped Dark Zone, would sometimes form company-sized group actions with over ten teams, employing military-style coordinated tactics, and hiring Awakeners as mercenaries using food, rendering the scattered forces of the Dark Zone no match for them. At the sight of a difficult opponent, they would retreat and summon the military exploration forces to handle it — professional military equipped with self-propelled cannon cars and rapid-fire arms, where the so-called "tough opponents" wouldn’t last long under the rain of bullets.
Considering that misunderstandings could sometimes be harmful, Malin took the effort to educate Nova about the situation in the Dark Zone, personally taking her to see the cooperation among adventurer teams there.
Seeing the situation completely different from the Western Human World where Tech Hunter teams fought independently, Nova fell silent.
Finally, upon returning to Malin’s small house in the old city, the Queen sighed.