469 Stronghold in Unknown Fores (2/2)

Arthur wasn't worried that the Changan City members would take revenge. As there were many gamers, if the Changan City members attacked, there would be accidental damage to other gamers, who would retaliate immediately. Changan City would have antagonized other Guilds and unaffiliated gamers besides the Pioneer Alliance and its allies. Changan City wouldn't be so foolish as to do that.

Arthur and his 300 members brought along their essential equipment and entered the tunnel of the Unknown Forest.

Almost a thousand gamers were jostling in the tunnel. After 30 minutes, they exited the tunnel and arrived at the spacious top of the cliff.

The gamers had to find a way to climb down the cliff, like what Marco Polo encountered.

They walked around but didn't find any tunnels that went down. They could only scale down the steep cliff. Though the constitution of Orcs, Gnomes, and Goblins was pretty good, without proper training and safeguards, it was as good as suicide.

The gamers were multi-talented. They chose a few expert rock-climbers from the 5000 gamers of Eternal Kingdom to scale down the cliff.

Many gamers came forward and revealed their professional rock-climbing experience. They also requested Spider Silk and ropes to create a ladder. It wasn't difficult to overcome this cliff.

The gamers were familiar with the tensile strength of the Spider Silk. Even if tens of Orcs bore weight on the Spider Silk, it would be able to support them.

Once the gamers were united, their efficiency skyrocketed. Before long, they created tens of meters of rope ladder using the contributed Spider Silk.

Then they used wooden stakes and rocks to fix one end of the rope ladder before throwing it down the cliff.

They climbed the rope ladder down in an orderly fashion.

This took quite some time, but there were no other choices. The impatient gamers could choose to climb down by themselves, but those without proper training met with a grotesque end.

Arthur and his members contributed the most Spider Silk, so they had priority in using the ladder. The 300 members spent more than an hour to gather in the forest.

The forest was lit up by faint light, and it looked like a fantasy scene.

The gamers' mission was to make a clearing in the forest so that they could build a Stronghold and a Teleport Portal. Then, Brainiac would activate the Teleport Portal.

When the gamers were scaling the ladder, Brainiac used Mana to float down the cliff. He chose a good location for the teleportation of the Rune Mana Formation's materials. The learned gamers started logging the trees while the other gamers explored the area.

Learning couldn't be forced on the gamers.

Though Arthur was good in his studies, he didn't stay at the Stronghold and log trees. He didn't require any wood, and his improved equipment was at the maximum level.

Arthur didn't want any furniture or need to make Bows or Arrows.

He led 100 members to explore other parts of the Unknown Forest. According to Marco Polo, there were other Orcs. Perhaps, there might be other Strongholds at the far end of the map. Arthur was going for the equipment of those Orcs.

Compared to logging wood, they preferred to obtain the NPCs' equipment.

The size of the Unknown Forest went beyond Arthur's imagination. After exploring for more than two hours, they didn't reach the forest boundary. They didn't find any Strongholds or traces of the Orcs either.

On the other side of the map, other gamers discovered something and shared their findings on the discussion forum.

It was a Stronghold with a campfire! From the Stronghold size, there were a lot of creatures!

There were hundreds of Orcs and Gnomes patrolling the perimeter. They cleared a large area for defense purposes.

It wasn't clear where they came from. After all, the Underground Forest was so huge that it could be connected to other tunnels. So, they could have come in from other tunnels.

To the gamers of Eternal Kingdom, they were enemies. Even without being antagonized, the gamers saw them as enemies with red names.

The gamers who discovered the Stronghold were small in number. They didn't have the courage to dash in and take a look. They would lose all of their equipment if they died.

They retreated immediately after discovering the Stronghold and shared the information on the discussion forum. The other Guilds learned about this and deployed a group to the enemy Stronghold location.

The Orcs in the enemy Stronghold weren't aware of an impending attack.