Victor had a look of worry on his face. Not for the players since they could always respawn if something happened... No, his worry was for Xuan Qing who was an NPC.
"I should have given her my anchor disk…" he muttered.
The piece of the anchor disk had allowed him to teleport instantly to players back then due to the corresponding piece. If he had given it to Xuan Qing, he could've reached her by now.
No time to dwell.
He asked for Aeri and Brin's location. After syncing coordinates, he blinked forward again and again, carefully skirting between bursts of lightning that turned the floating ridge into a death trap.
By the time he arrived, it was well into the "evening"—though in this realm, there was no sun, just endless night. Aeri Fan and the third player greeted him at a half-formed cave nestled in the side of a narrow peak.
"We've scouted about three klicks in every direction," Aeri reported. "But no sign of Xuan Qing or the others."
