Having made thorough preparations, Malin and his group first traveled through the teleportation gate to the border area between Sydney and Farole, near the edge of the mountains. The Sydney side had complete defense installations and a castle, so it was chosen by the Church of Justice as a forward base—there was nothing on the Farole side, currently an uninhabited zone, amidst a landscape infested with zombies.
"We're not going to walk all the way there, are we?" Malin asked Dante, who was leading the way, while adjusting his helmet—a specialty produced by Carterburg, originating from the most commonly found tide crabs on the Western beaches of Carterburg.
These tide crabs could move like humans—straight ahead. Their shells were very hard, with huge and powerful pincers capable of killing an adult human.
