Chapter 80: Rescue Mission

Jayce stood like a sentinel, observing as the party worked with a sense of urgency to dismantle their camp. His gaze, however, held a knowledge that set him apart. He alone comprehended the horrors that the impending Beast Tide would unleash, a calamity that now bore down on them sooner than he had expected due to the altered timeline.

Three months might seem like a trifling span in the grand scheme of things, but it deprived them of valuable time to grow stronger and fortify themselves against the relentless wave of monsters that would soon descend upon them.

Among Jayce's objectives for this journey beyond Bastion was to locate the town of Qinling, or what had been known as such before the Apocalypse. With the reshaping of the Earth's surface during the game's descent, most maps had become obsolete, rendering navigation a perilous endeavor.