They both kicked their boots off and began their own activities. It wasn't hard to decide who got what bed, they only chose based on what side they walked in on, which was Junya on the right and Wrenlow to the left.
Junya took this time to search through some books. Many caught his eye about Mobs and the state of the world. He never had any other look at the book at Berger town since they mainly focused on protecting their own borders.
It was simply other towns in the surrounding area, which many people didn't even travel to except to lend aid or to share meagre resources.
"I wonder what the world is like"
He opened the book and saw the Map, immediately he knew that it represented the world. Many of the different continents had considerable grey areas. A quick look to the side of the page he realized it meant the area of the planet that was taken over by Mobs.
Simultaneously, there were also maps of different sheltered nations. There were many yet, in the vast expanse they didn't control it seemed like someone stranded in the sea. There were approximately 200 sheltered nations were on the planet.
Most of these sheltered nations were surrounded by sheltered cities which numbered in the thousands and often surrounded these nations and communicated frequently. This set-up wasn't intentional, however, it was crucial to protect each sheltered nation and city.
Further away, cities were in contact with sheltered towns which were significantly less defended, however, every sheltered grounds were valuable.
Junya ran his fingers on the map and tried to find the sheltered nation of Guram. Doing this he found a fun fact Guram was one of the smaller nations, even despite being so large. He was absorbed in the book for a few minutes simply reading everything he could.
"I never knew the world could be so big." He was delighted when he looked at the geography of the world and learning the different continents. While looking through the map he realized that Berger town was very far away.
He was more than 1000km away at the time. Berger town was in the Asian continent before, however, now he was in Europe where the Guram Nation sat close to the border. In the closer vicinity, there were at least 2 other nations further in Asia, there were a few other sheltered nations spread across Africa with the closest one being in Egypt.
Along with Guram, there were 5 other sheltered nations that occupied Europe. The least from all the other continents, which all had double digits, except Australia along with the arctic which only has one.
'The world is a really big place, I wonder what snow is like' He imagine travelling, however, even in his dreams he wouldn't take it lightly. He also learned about neutral nations that were not occupied by Mobs.
It was a region that served no point strategically and had no point in using resources to conquer.
A few pages later was another map, however, it showed the strongholds of some Mob entities. Vampires, Fairies, Crazed Armor Knights, Centaurs and more. These were very dangerous Mobs, with all of them fortified by structures of their own making.
This made it hard for anyone to conquer any stronghold. Not to mention hordes of Mobs were lying in wait for the sole moment someone would attack, this would be akin to stirring a ant nest, that wouldn't die even with bug spray.
It came with astronomical difficulty, for this sole reason, it was hardly ever attempted. Thinking about this made him depressed, so he went onto a different page, about history. In particular about, pre-Eve of Chaos.
Seeing the map on the page didn't do it justice, seeing all the countries obeying borders and not wantonly trying to kill one another.
'Must have been nice, I doubt it was perfect, yet anyone would take that over this.'
After the effects of the Eve of Chaos set in, many countries were forced to become one. It was even said that where humanity's greatest theocrats were pushed back is what Nations were built upon.
Along with Angel blessings, was to Sheltered cities and Spirit Blessing being a town. It just went to show the grand scale of power.
[PS: Only first god blessing are called theocrats, others are just normal people because most of them died off anyway]
It was often considered the death place of such people, so, the town or nation was named after such Mobsters, out of respect and honour for their lives.
"Guram, I wonder what he/she is like." Junya thought, he never heard any mention of the person, so he wondered if he was still alive and if not what could have killed him. He noted that his name was nowhere to be seen on part of the Apex families, which led him to wonder.
Was it his first name, or his last name…
If he isn't here, what is he doing?
Speculating was not enough, it could easily be a rumour, so he decided to not indulge himself in that rabbit hole.
He closed the Geography book and took another, which was a Mob dictionary.
Listed were approximately 150 different kinds of Mobs and variants. This included their meaning as well:
Crazed Armor Nights - These are ghosts that inhabit the shells of armours in order to interact and fight with the real world. They are considered evil spirits of the dead that have not found peace, therefore roam the world in hatred attacking anything they set their eyes on.
His eyes normally drifted to this, since he noticed the picture from the Morality test he had been through before. Just seeing and he was able to start reliving the moments from the test itself. It flared up like bad dream and his head started hurt which forced him to hold it
"Hey man, come back to earth. Your breathing fine"
"Wh- I, oh thanks."
"It seems that everyone has things they have been through. Try to avoid things that trigger it, or face it head on then, it won't bother you anymore." Wrenlow had one hand on Junya's shoulder while playing with his other hand.
"I'm fine, it's not that serious" Junya waved him of, yet Wrenlow only laughed.
"Yahahaha! I was right, you will become a good challenge. A strong mind is crucial to challenge me" Wrenlow laughed, simultaneously, just then an almost identical laugh came from his phone.'
'Wenji was right, he does sound like the creep from the game'
"Are you ready to try it?"
Junya shrugged, "Why not."
Wrenlow started explaining in detail and showed off his cards, even before the game finished installing.