Searching for the Divine Fall Land, or rather the entrance to the ruins, had reached a deadlock. Basford, although he kept saying that he would never give up, was clearly running out of patience after a month of fruitless effort.
As for the search around the City of Hope, the focus had shifted to the areas surrounding the city. It should be noted that the territory around the City of Hope is also vast, and many small and medium-sized copies have been found, but not a single large copy, which is somewhat odd for a level-five city.
The higher the level of the city, the more copies nearby, and the higher their levels. For example, the City of Sin, a level-five city, has thirty to forty low-level copies, and over a dozen medium-sized copies, as well as five large forty-person copies.
Around the City of Hope, only a dozen or so small copies have been found, and even medium-sized copies number only three, which doesn't quite match the city's level.
