THE OUTLAND

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"Welcome to the world of Alien War. Warning: To avoid network latency issues, please select the closest local cluster to you!"

I hovered over a huge map of the world, made as if by a medieval cartographer - parchment yellow with age, puffy cheeks of the wind and, of course, the obligatory "dragons live here" somewhere in the western part of the map.

Most of the map turned out to be inactive, in fact, the choice was between the continent, which occupied the entire eastern part, a tiny island in the northwest of it, and an archipelago in the southwestern part of the ocean, uninventively named Western.

"Recommended Clusters:

Western Habitat

Oshtania

Limbo"

— Eh… Well, let's go first.

The map of the continent unfolded, approached, filled with conventional icons, rivers stretched from the mountains, and scary monsters inhabited the forests.

"Please choose a starting location. Warning: the starting location determines your future class!

Available locations:

Khaang's hand

Suburb Gary

Great C