Chapter 459: Borrowing the Gospel
After a brief rest, Ashe continued driving towards the unknown area to the left of the white bull. Since the white bull generally moved counterclockwise, its left side led to the interior of Time Continent, the area most likely to house the main city.
Since the Oasis war, Ashe and his team had passed through the Blood Tomb, Spider Tower Area, and Star Shrine Area. There wasn’t much to say about the Spider Tower Area; although the Empress’s commander was probably still out fighting, Ashe’s team prioritized safety, collecting spellforce at high speed, and logging off as soon as time was up, never working overtime.
They had maps for the Blood Tomb and Star Shrine Area. Since it was the first round of the war and various factions needed time to consolidate their resources, they hurried to scavenge at the mapped resource points. Despite taking quick action and excelling at looting, they found that two out of every five resource points were already empty.
As time went on, the likelihood of finding resources at these points would further decrease.
That night, they left the Star Shrine Area and entered a territory unknown to them without any maps, making it impossible to scavenge even scraps. Thus, a plan they had formulated days earlier came back into play—to locate the main city of another region, guide the Spider Tower forces there to spark a conflict, and then profit by collecting soul summoning spirits, commander handbooks, and maps!
If they could gather maps of the entire Time Continent, they might uncover the truth about the Rainbow Tail and unlock the grand prize—a shortcut to the third layer of the Virtual Realm!
But the question was, where was the main city in the other regions?
The main cities of the Star Shrine and Blood Tomb regions were near the interior of Time Continent, so Ashe drove towards the interior area hoping to get lucky. He didn’t necessarily need to find the main city outright because, based on past experience, there would definitely be patrols by the heroic soul legion around the main city. Finding these patrols would naturally lead them to the main city.
In theory, given the exploration efficiency of a sports car, running into the heroic soul legion several times in one night would be normal. However, Ashe and his team had been wandering the interior area for almost two hours without finding a single heroic soul legion patrol. When they didn’t want to encounter them, the patrols followed them like stalkers; now that they were looking for them, they were nowhere to be found.