Location: Crystal Peak

Scout Team Beta created a travel plan based on the provided map, and suggestions by Seer. They would first travel to Dirtmouth, which was very close by, at the bottom of the mountain in fact. There was an elevator that led there on the mountain top in fact. Then they would take the bridge in Dirtmouth to scout out an area the denizens of Hallownest call King's Pass, which also led to what they called the Howling Cliffs. David, Chris, and Matthew agreed that it would be best to scout out surface locations first before they descended into the subterranean kingdom.

However Seer seemed rather resistant to the idea, but relented after some convincing.

However they had to rest up first, they had to rest first, it had taken them most the day to get to Crystal Peak, and they needed to rest. Tomorrow they would continue in their scouting mission, but for now they were exhausted, a lot had happened in the three days since they woke up.

As the newcomers drifted off to sleep, Seer regarded them for a moment. David, who had first come off as a kind hearted soul, brutally tortured a prisoner, the reason for this change of behaviour was described by his comrades to be because of his military service in a place known as 'Si'beerya', Seer had never heard of such a place. When she asked them about it, they simply said it was a land far far away, and it was separated by a vast body of water know as the 'Pasifik Oshean' another thing she had no idea about.

Seer questioned the validity of the newcomers statement. If the distance was as vast as they claimed, then how could they possibly travel that distance. It did not seem possible, but she had no way of disproving it. She then asked what kingdom's flag they served under. This question had gotten a laugh out of them, they told her that they served under no kingdom, but a 'republek' damn these strange words.

Apparently a 'republek' was a system of governance that had no form of monarchy, and in their case at least, had elected representatives in positions of power. Seer wondered how such a system sustained itself, up until her shattering, the Radiance ruled over the Moth Tribe. Seer missed her, she remembered how in her youth, the Radiance would sing her and her fellow hatchlings lullabies. Seer teared up a little, she swore to herself that she would bring her back, she wouldn't stop until she did.

The newcomers told her some more about their fantastical war. Like how Chris and Matthew served in a place called 'Manchore-ia' which according to them was close to Si'beerya. Seer's head hurt, the day was long, she was tired, she wanted to go to sleep.

Location: Ancient Basin

The gene trooper dodged left and right, avoiding the white blasts the white bug was launching. When the trooper came in for a strike, the white bug raised some sort of shield, which his carbyne sword could not pierce, and had only just dodged a retaliatory blast from the white bug. The bug fired another blast, this one grazed the trooper on the upper outer leg, tearing yet more plating from the trooper's now battered armor.

The white bug didn't seem to tire, so the trooper knew he likely wouldn't be winning a battle of endurance. The trooper dodged yet another blast from the bug by jumping over it. The trooper was beginning to notice a pattern of behaviour, the bug didn't seem wholly invested in the fight. This was something that the trooper could use, if he could catch the bug off guard, he could likely at least incapacitate long enough to get past it. The killing of this bug was not required to fulfill his objectives.

The trooper took his heavy magnetic machine gun from his side, and fired. It didn't even seem to scratch the white bug's shield. That was when the trooper noticed a pattern, for every second the shield was raised, that was a second he was not being fired at, he could use this.

The trooper charged, and the white bug raised its shield to block his sword. Then the trooper pulled back before he swung. The white bug lowered its shield to fire another blast at him, unfortunately for it, the white bug didn't notice the magnetic grenade launcher in time. The trooper fired, and the air fuel grenade hit its mark, exploding, and launching the white bug back several meters. The trooper took his chance, and ran for the hole through the smoke where the single was coming from, and jumped down.

The Pale King groaned, that hurt, a lot, he was lucky to get his seal up in time, even if only partially, otherwise that might have killed him, and he really didn't feel like reincarnating again. The Pale King quickly scrambled to his feet to meet the giant before it could strike again, but as the smoke from the explosion cleared, the giant was nowhere to be seen. The Pale King felt something under his feet, he looked down, and to his dismay, 2 of his horns had come off in the explosion. Those would take days to regrow.

That giant appeared to be a bigger version of what his retainer described, was this the god of those tall beings? It was able to withstand strike after strike from him, he didn't know any none-higher beings who could do that. Why did the giant leave though? Was it because it found that he couldn't defeat him? Or was he not what the giant was after? If so he wished it could have vocalized that before it wrecked his kingdom's biggest city.

The Pale King sighed, where could it have gone? If it could teleport, it probably would have done so during the fight, the only place it could reasonably go was the… Abyss… this could be bad.

"My King! Are you Alright?!" The Pale King heard the familiar voice of Isma calling to him.

"Yes Isma, I am alright, I just fought with the giant" The Pale King said

"Did you kill it?" Isma asked, a serious and worried tone.

"I.. uhm.. Well.. no" The Pale King said slightly embarrassed "But I did destroy various parts of its armor" The King quickly added

"So, it took a god to damage it, but even then you were unable to kill it?!" Isma nearly yelled, if this was true, the situation was even worse than it looked, the Pale King wasn't left unscathed from that fight, and the giant was still at large.

The Pale King rubbed his horn stump, he could see why Isma was alarmed.

"My messenger said that the giant came out of King's Station, perhaps we could check Kingdom's Edge, to see where these tall berserkers are coming from" The Pale King said trying to change the subject.

"Yes, my king," Isma said, they would need to know more about their mysterious enemy before they could do anything about them.