It took several hours for Party B to traverse the outer layer of the secret plane that consisted of only the bloody marshes.
The further they went, the darker their expressions became—except for Merlin, who was constantly smiling and laughing without a care in the world.
They had come across over two dozen bloody beasts of the Mana Liquefaction Rank, and countless more bloody beasts of the Mana Foundation Rank.
Merlin's claim of someone having tampered with the secret plane made more and more sense with each step they took.
Mana Liquefaction-level beasts were not supposed to be present in the outskirts of the secret plane at all. They were supposed to be clustered towards the center.
Something had terribly gone wrong for such creatures to be located at the peripheries. Moreover, the deeper they went, the number of these creatures increased steeply.
