"Show me only items that aren't equipped and aren't owned," Kael muttered.
The map obliged, and the whole map turned into green dots instead.
'Figures,' he thought, lips twitching. 'It's a city. Not a treasure room.'
Still, seeing it laid out like that made the scale of this place sink into him properly.
He zoomed out and noticed that he was wrong; there weren't just thousands, there were many more than that.
It wasn't a camp. It wasn't a base. It was a whole damn population. Streets thick with movement, layers upon layers of dots stacking into clusters like anthills.
He frowned, 'How come there are so many climbers on the second floor…'
But once he took another look at the city, and realized that he never received a quest to go to the second floor, he understood the reason immediately.
'A community floor… where climbers gather…' he understood the purpose instantly.
That explained the fortress. The funnel. The recruiters. The hungry eyes.
