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"That's not necessary," Arc answered.

SHING!

A token appeared in front of Gravis. "As soon as you reach an isolated place in the eastern continent, crush this token. Exar will quickly arrive and talk about the specifics."

Gravis nodded. "Thanks, Arc."

Arc smiled. "Wish you luck."

"Is that a joke?" Gravis asked.

"Yes," Arc said with a slight chuckle.

Gravis rolled his eyes.

Then, Gravis and Stella waited for Liam's return. They wanted to give him enough time to think about his current situation.

In the meantime, Gravis and Stella talked to some beings in the clearing.

Gravis and Stella had to deal with a lot of insinuating comments and jokes made at their expense. After all, making someone embarrassed was always fun.

A couple hours later, Liam returned.

This time, he didn't have a cold expression but a relatively neutral one. However, he still shot Gravis a couple of complex looks.

To Liam, the situation between him and Gravis still felt a bit awkward.

Luckily, Gravis was good in conversations and could reduce the awkwardness to a minimum.

After talking for a bit more, the three of them set off.

SHING!

All three of them broke their emblems as they returned to the hot and uncomfortable underground room that Gravis had dug out.

Gravis quickly put the two of them into his Life Ring and transformed into his beast form.

After that, he passed through Narcissus' barrier and entered the beast territory. Traveling across the river in the human territory would be risky. After all, the Purist Sect controlled that river, and Gravis didn't know how their defenses were set up. It was far easier and safer to go through the beast territory.

After a couple of hours, Gravis reached the barrier to the eastern continent. Gravis dug into the ground again and officially entered the eastern continent.

the ground. He had no map of this part of the world, which

CRACK!

of the ground, and he saw a mortal woman that had just

around and noticed that he had appeared in a

lost the focus in her eyes as she looked

the perception and memories of a mortal was not hard

in his human form and manipulated perceived reality in such a way that he

Gravis searched for some isolated

SHING!

half

"You're ready?" Exar asked.

why did you want

you the location of your shop directly. I don't like to waste time," Exar

eyebrows shot up in surprise. "Oh,

leads into a big city while the other one goes directly into the beast territory. However, you should build something that makes it impossible to see the other tunnel. After all, not many people

couple of times. "Sure, sounds great!" he

gestured to a direction with his head and teleported away. Gravis

hour, Exar and Gravis

was directly at the frontlines, near the coast of

about this location. It was very

obvious difference was the fact

no beasts in this location, even though

was the gigantic wall of roots that seemingly split the

for a bit and noticed that this was

yourself above ground, Narcissus?"

neutral Immortal Emperor plant," Narcissus answered. "I won't let beasts pass through, and I won't let humans survive in this

expression on his face. "But wouldn't the

random but powerful plant myself and noticed that its intentions of neutrality were pure. I came into an agreement with it. It would not let any beasts pass through this territory, but in exchange, we have to leave it alone. As the Ancestor of the

was already far better than anything he

that he had two of the most powerful

again, and

was around a hundred meters wide and a kilometer long. At the long ends of the cave, two

to the beast territory was millions of kilometers long, while the tunnel leading to the human territory was very short. In

the tunnel to the human

one of my Underworld Elders to you later," Exar explained. "We don't want the location of the trading firm to become public knowledge, or people

Formation Arrays so that people can't just look through your trading firm to see the other side or look into the

nodded. "I guess since the Elder hasn't been here yet, he also shouldn't know about

the Formation Arrays. I don't like to force my Elders to do anything they don't agree with. Just answer his questions honestly, and there shouldn't be