Ayase Kazuki and Teresa Hussey readily agreed to participate in the expedition. With a skilled High Ranker Archer and a Warrior joining in, Seol Jihu felt much more confident in succeeding.

That night, Seol Jihu revealed the expedition plan to his teammates. He told them about the information he gathered at the library and surprised them by mentioning Kazuki and Teresa would be coming along.

Of course, it was normal procedure to first tell one’s teammates about an expedition before recruiting any additional help, but it didn’t matter all that much, because Chohong and Hugo were already heated up and impatient.

Their reactions were pretty much what Seol Jihu expected.

“Agree, agree, I super agree!”

“Kyaa! We’ll finally get our hands on some money!”

Chohong shot her hands up and danced, while Hugo laughed with a big grin.

Meanwhile, Marcel Ghionea looked at these two strangely.

Normally, explorations and expeditions were more likely to fail than succeed. In terms of pure numbers, failure to success ratio was about 7:3.

But the way Chohong and Hugo were acting, it was as if they had already finished the expedition in success. They seemed sure that there was a ruin there.

Jang Maldong, who was silently staring at the map, muttered in a low voice.

“The border region…”

Seol Jihu raised his eyebrows.

“Is there a problem?”

“You should be careful, obviously, but just going there shouldn’t pose any problems. After all, it’s just the border region. But you should be careful not to go too deep since this place practically has a foot in the Federation’s territory.”

“Does the Federation...