While Zane and the girls began searching for another Tier I Horde King to eliminate, Gravestone continued to slowly but surely expand. The ruins of Carson city slowly but surely became reclaimed. With the settlement's walls being pushed further and further outward, encompassing new portions of the small city that had once been the Capital of Nevada.
The residents of Gravestone began to level up quite rapidly, not only through their own gains in battle against the hundreds of thousands of undead monsters which plagued the ruins of Old Reno, but also through the spoils which Zane and his party gained, and distributed to them.
Though Zane himself was the highest level among humanity's awakened warriors, or as far as he was aware. What with his level being twenty-five, the women by his side were not far from behind. With their levels being all the same at 21.