Godforsaken Lands, a night with a low lightning frequency.

Several human-like creatures cautiously approached a lump of flesh with six legs and a dozen eyes.

Wrapped in animal skins or rudimentary clothes of indiscernible material, they walked through the deep darkness with the help of the light of a few lanterns, and their expressions were very solemn.

On their faces, some have more than a dozen or twenty sarcomas, some have two eyes almost squeezed together, and some have no noses directly, and there are black holes in that place.

After a fierce battle, they managed to deal with the monster without any problems, and then split into two groups, one to keep watch around and the other to harvest the loot.

In the process, the man with multiple sarcomas on his face was dissecting the monster's corpse and collecting edible parts, when his movements suddenly stopped.

"Adar, what's wrong?" asked the woman without a nose, confused.

The man known as Adar slowly withdrew his right hand, revealing an item he had found from the monster.

It was a stone-carved amulet with many signs of corrosion.

"This is ......" The man, whose eyes were almost squeezed together, seemed to understand the reason, and hesitated before he finished speaking.

Adar looked around and said:

"Sin, Ruth, this is what I gave to my father when I was a child.

"On the day I became an adult, he felt that he could no longer control himself, and chose to leave the city-state on his own and enter the depths of darkness......"

Xin and Ruth were silent for a while, and they could both feel Adar's mood.

In Moon City, this is something that happens all the time.

Because they don't have enough safe ingredients, they can only pick mutated plant fruits and collect monster flesh to survive.

This causes them to accumulate toxins and madness, and after their physical condition declines, they either die quickly or gradually spiral out of control.

In order not to affect the surroundings and not to cause damage to the city-state, the latter, after sensing that the state is wrong, will often arrange everything, take torches and a small amount of food, leave the defensive circle, and go away alone in the darkness that will never dissipate, never to return.

What will happen to them, the residents of Moon City can imagine, either they will be killed by monsters or become monsters, and there is no other possibility.

After seven or eight seconds of silence, Sin, a woman without a nose, hesitated to say to Adar:

"Perhaps, this is the monster that killed your father. ”

"It's got a belt made of animal skin...... "Adar's voice grew lower, and he lifted the dagger made of white bone in his hand and thrust it down, cutting out a piece of flesh that was normal.

The members of the hunting team skillfully completed the collection in silence, until Ruth, whose eyes were almost together, suddenly spoke in a low voice:

"Among the newborn children, there are more and more deformities......

The cost of accumulating toxins and madness from generation to generation is far more than just a decrease in average age, and those whose physical condition remains normal will gradually show certain abnormalities, like Adar, who has a lot of sarcomas on his face.

Similarly, precipitated toxins and madness can be passed on to future generations, leading to the appearance of deformants, such as Ruth and Sheen in the hunting squad.

Their lives will be shorter, and they will be more likely to get out of control and mutate.

What does it mean that there are more and more deformed children, the hunting team present knows very well in their hearts, that is, it may not take two or three generations, and the residents of Moon City may get out of control before their bodies have grown up and given birth to new generations.

In that way, even if there were no external blows, Tsukijo would quickly fall, leaving only stone buildings, wall paintings, etc., to prove that they once existed.

"Hopefully, the High Priests, they'll find a new direction......" Adar stood up with the lantern in his hand, and replied unusually weakly.

In the past two or three thousand years, Moon City has not sought a way out of their current situation, they have sent one exploration team after another to the depths of darkness, some have returned after serious setbacks and have gained nothing, and some have not been heard from again, and they have just disappeared into the boundless darkness.

In addition, some distance to the east of Moon City, there was a gray mist that covered the sky and the earth.

They act like an invisible barrier that not only cuts off the line of sight, but also prevents any living creature from passing through.

The inhabitants of Moontown once thought that this was the place of hope, that the place shrouded in gray mist was a normal country, and that on the other side of the gray mist was the uncursed land.

Again and again they tried to get into the gray mist, but failed:

They dug long passages, trying to get underneath the ground, where there was no invisible barrier, but the corresponding area in the depths of the earth was also shrouded in gray mist;

They managed to gain the ability to fly, and tried to cross it from above, but they could not see the top of the gray fog until they were struck by lightning;

They mobilized the power of all the demigods and seals, attacking their targets again and again, accumulating day after day for two or three thousand years, but they could not wear away the invisible barrier in the slightest......

Hearing the words of Captain Adar, the members of the hunting team were desperate and sad, as if they were slipping on the edge of the "abyss", but they could not save themselves.

Those deformed people belong to the type of emotions that are more difficult to control, and at this time, they more or less feel that they are suppressing something in their hearts and want to explode.

- In Moon City, two or three hundred years ago, deformed people could not become extraordinary, and they could only do gathering work when they joined the hunting team, but as the manpower became more and more tight, the high priest and the rest of the high-ranking people relaxed the restrictions.

"Let's go, this little food isn't enough. Adar looked around, carrying the lantern, and walked deeper into the darkness.

They didn't risk extinguishing the fire and letting the darkness flood out of the monsters, because they probably couldn't deal with them.

In a suffocatingly quiet environment, the members of the hunting team in Moon City couldn't help but feel that there was no end to the darkness.

It's as if Moon City is in a situation where there is never hope, and the lantern in his hand has less and less time to burn.

When the last shred of light dissipates, they will be silently engulfed in darkness.

As he walked, Adar's eyes suddenly reflected a faint glow.

It was a little fire, a fire that didn't belong to the hunting squad!

This flash of fire immediately shone into the eyes of all the members of the hunting team, occupying their pupils.

Adar, Sin, Ruth, and the others all opened their eyes uncontrollably, and strong surprises surged in their hearts.

In their lifetimes, in the historical records of Moon City after the Cataclysm, there had never been a fire from elsewhere!

It is true that many monsters have the ability of the Fire or Sun Realm, but before attacking, they lurk in the darkness without revealing a single light.

And now, a flash of fire has emerged in the depths of darkness!

The bodies of Adar, Sin, Ruth and others trembled slightly, and they thought a lot for a while, but they couldn't think of the answer.

They quickly recalled the arrangements for the hunt, and confirmed that there could be no more residents of Moon City nearby.

Since that firelight doesn't belong to Moon City, where did it come from?

The whole hunting party slowed down, shocked, stunned, curious, fearful, worried, panicked.

- They had also discovered some of the destroyed city-states, and knew that any anomaly in the darkness could be fatal.

“...... Alert!" Adar finally came to his senses and gave the order.

The hunting party immediately unfolded into battle formation, waiting for the dim light of the fire to approach this side.

Time seemed to freeze at this moment, every second was so slow, and finally, after the light of the fire became larger, a figure appeared.

Figure...... There is only one person...... The members of the Moon City Hunting Team held their breath at the same time.

They seemed, maybe, might be meeting an outsider!

Two or three thousand years later, someone else finally set foot on this land.

They are no longer the only ones in this abandoned world.

And who can pass through the endless darkness and get here, Adar and the others have no experience at all, and there is no way to guess.

As the light of the fire grew larger and more obvious, the members of the hunting team gradually saw the figure clearly:

It was a slender young man, with black hair and brown eyes, and a grim expression, not a deformant, nor abnormal.

Wearing a strange hat, wearing strange clothes, and carrying a lantern made of a special material, he walked step by step from the depths of darkness.

The light of his lantern was brighter than the hunting squad combined, causing the darkness around him to fade quickly.

It didn't take long for the light to shine on Adar, Sin, and Ruth.

The figure stopped, looked at the hunting team in Moon City, and said in a low voice:

"Where are you from? ”

It speaks the language of giants...... Clear-eyed and able to communicate...... Adar opened his mouth, stopping the urge to answer.

He asked rhetorically:

"Who are you?"

The figure with the glass lantern replied calmly:

"Gelman Sparrow. ”

After more than half a year of traveling and overcoming one obstacle after another, Crane's spiritual intuition finally told him that he was about to reach his destination.

And he also met the first living people in this "journey" to the Godforsaken Lands.

"Where are you from?" Adal asked, wary.

Klein's gaze swept over their faces, and he said in the same tone:

"I'm from Silver City,

"Also from beyond the Cursed Lands. ”

Hearing this answer, all the members of the hunting team were in a trance, wondering if they were looking forward to it so much that they hallucinated.

............

In the autumn of 1351, Beckland in the smoke of war.

Since Fenerport also declared war on Rune, the war that had been tugging for some time was finally out of balance, and Rune and his allies Lenburg, Marcy, and Segal lost a large amount of territory, leaving only the last few lines of defense to resist and crumble.

After seeing the long queue at the food distribution point through the carriage window, Audrey slowly withdrew her gaze and said to her personal maid Anne:

"Go to St. Samuel's Church ......"

PS: Double the last day to ask for a monthly pass~