North of Mushroom City, Solalin led her squad into an abandoned village.
Thick dust accumulated everywhere, the cobwebs under the eaves trembled slightly in the wind, yet most of the wooden houses' structures remained intact.
After all, the villagers had only left a few months ago.
As the new city rose, these nearby villages naturally were the first to be affected, moving village by village, leaving only empty houses quietly decaying here.
According to the "northern ruins" clue provided by the blacksmith, the place that fit the description was here.
Further places that matched the description were out of reach for ordinary people by walking distance within a day.
The members searched the whole village carefully but found nothing.
Indeed, it had already been abandoned with no traces of human activity.
Several discovered cellars were merely ones where villagers had stored food in the past, long ago emptied.
It seemed to be another fruitless search.
