Traveling through regions in PS2

[Death2All]

They stated in their panel that the continents are broken up in smaller regions throughout the continent.

I was curious to know how travel works with these regions. Can we seamlessly travel through each region or is there a load time when going into that region? Are we going to be able to fight at the edge of the region trying to push into another one much like how you sometimes fight at a warpgate trying to get into the cont?

Personally, I'd much prefer being able to seamlessly travel through regions since there can apparently be hundreds of them on a single continent. While a loadtime probably wouldn't be too long I feel that it could possibly break up the game and tarnish the "persistence" of it if we need to load a region everytime we go to one.

Just my thoughts