By the next morning, the first group of individuals that would be taking part in the expedition entered the forest's clearing. It was basically a small army, since it wasn't only fighters that were going to take part in this. Beside the fighters, there were numerous support roles that had to be taken care of during the dive, which may very well take some days or even weeks, depending on how fast they were going to head down to the bottom.
In the first place, not everyone that arrived would be heading down into the dungeon. A large group of them were going to stay up here and prepare for some semi-permanent settling. For one, they were going to prepare things for the players that would arrive at some point in the future, but there was more to this. It was very likely that it would take a long time for the general playerbase to reach a level of strength where this dungeon became available to them. So, before then, Asgard was going to monopolize this place.