The map was laid out in front of them at noon the next day.

The tables and chairs in the living room were all moved to the wall, otherwise there would be no way to spread out the map. It's ridiculously large, and Rosa and Cesyana teleported directly to Neo with the help of Eren's friends, just as the fact that they teleported directly to Neo with the help of the dwarves is too remarkable.

Is's face was ugly, and the anger gushed out of his silence, so scorching that even Tess carefully stayed away. She hadn't dared to mention it last night, and half of it was because it felt like she had seen a map made of the skins of her own kind...... What's more, the dragon is such a proud race.

But he had to look down at the picture carefully. Even Ed didn't recognize much of the text on it.

But there are some that they can recognize.

"This is Rainbow Bend Island. Ed whispered.

Of all the land and sea on the map, the small Rainbow Bend Island is the most recognizable in its unique, crescent-like shape, almost no different from what it is now.

To the north of Hongwan Island, across the Summer Sea, is the Obai continent where Lutgar is located. The vast expanse of the earth was like a moth-eaten wax leaf, and the warm south spread out to the cold north, and the outline of the east and west sides was roughly the same as it is now, but the north and south ends were completely different.

The southeast, close to the desert, is missing a large piece of land.

"Nakdana. Is, grimacing, uttered the name of the Lost Land, "and sank to the bottom of the ocean with the giants who inhabited it." ”

Ed nodded thoughtfully, he saw the remains of the giant at the bottom of the sea, which should be Nakdana.

"Ice Plains. Iss stretched out his hand to the north, "...... It was the habitat of ice dragons, which later broke into many small islands. ”

His tone was as cold and stiff as his expression, and no one dared to ask him what the reason for that "later" was.

"Here, it's Hertland. Ed continued softly, pointing to a smaller continent southwest of Rainbow Bend Island, across the wide sea, "My family's fleet can only go as far as here, because ......"

Because further south is the end of this world. There, the sea fell into the dark void, and the stars twinkled above the abyss, which was said to be hell, but no one ever really saw it...... Except, perhaps, of Romuen West, the mad mage who claimed to have stood on the edge of the world.

In the same way, to the north, in the north of the ice sea, where there are now only a handful of tiny, eternally ice-covered islands, is another end.

To the east, to the Zia Islands, to the west, to the Elven Holy Island, whose exact location no one knows, within a perfect circle is the whole world as they know it.

The continent of Obai is the largest continent, and the smaller Hertland, despite its abundance, is considered a wild land. Many of the extinct races on the continent of Obai still live in that mysterious land, but there are no cities...... By today's standards, it can almost be said that there is no civilization.

The intelligent creatures of that continent also believed in gods, but their gods were very different from those of Obai, they had their own priests and wizards, but they could not cast spells, even if the priests and mages of the continent set foot in Hertland, they could not cast spells.

Thankfully, and because the long journey at sea was too arduous, he denied that the Minotaur and Centaur from the Hertland had been captured on the continent of Obai as experiments or playthings...... It's not that humans can't do such things.

In any case, Hertland is a land of exile forgotten by the gods, and the continent of Obai is the unquestioned center of this world. Elves, dwarves and humans have believed so for thousands of years.

But on this map, outside the Ring of the Beginning as they knew it...... The endless sea stretched out in all directions, representing the undulating lines of the waves, drawing huge creatures they had never heard of, farther to the east, another land almost the size of the continent of Obai, and farther west, among the floating archipelago, three landmasses that could not be called continents but were much larger than the islands they knew of were arranged in an extremely regular triangle......

“...... Do you know that?" Ed, who was already unconsciously crouching on the ground, looked up and asked Is.

Isis shook his head, "We can't fly the Circle of the End. ”

"But it's a dragon language...... "Tess finally couldn't help but interject, "It's dragon language, right?"

Iss was silent.

"So, this picture must have been left by your ancestors, wasn't it?" said Tess, "so ......."

"No!" Eth snapped interrupting her, "you humans...... Do you know how to use human skins to make maps?!"

"Yes. Tess replied very simply.

Isis glared at her, choked speechless, and he remembered that humans do this, and even more than necromancers do it. To deter the enemy, or for some more frivolous reason, humans may skin their own kind.

Extreme savagery and extreme elegance, extreme evil and extreme goodness, are all in the heart of human beings. This race created by the gods in the end, there are no innate shackles in the soul, so there are infinite possibilities.

"Whoever left this map," Iss said stiffly, "there are only two possible worlds outside the Circle of the End, either out of fantasy at all, or...... It was drawn thousands of years before the dragon's memories could be passed on. ”

And everything that the dragons knew before that, not to mention that they had no habit of leaving written records, and even if they were, they had long since disappeared for a long time.

Everyone was silent for a while, and everyone didn't even think about the first possibility.

And the only possibility, on this map that was already special enough, was enveloped in the mystery of thousands of years of time...... An almost divine mystery

The little mongoose crouched at the edge of the map and chirped twice, trying to make complex gestures with its paws, which were far less agile than the elves.

Norway thought it was likely that the map had been left behind by the giants. Tess explained the somewhat distorted sign language for him, "though I don't know why it's called dragon language...... Maybe it's because only dragons can fly all over the world, and they're the only ones who give names to places that even giants can't reach. And most importantly......"

She cleared her throat as a sign of solemnity: "The most important thing is that if this is the whole world...... What is happening outside the Circle of Beginnings, beyond the edge of this world today?"

“...... And you think figuring this out will help us now?" Ed asked the little mongoose earnestly, looking down.