Fardark County in the Revered Ancient mainland had belonged to humans in ancient times. In fact, it was actually a satellite county to the humans’ Imperial Region. It got its name from the fardark fruit, which was widely known to be very helpful when seeking enlightenment of magical laws.0

But then the broken face brought catastrophe. The aura of a god invaded heaven and earth, changing everything. The fardark fruits were never seen again after that. What was more, that county sustained a particularly severe invasion, and ended up with mutagen levels many times stronger than in other locations. As a result, it became unsuitable for habitation by intelligent species, and gradually turned into barren wilderness.5

That said, because of the mutagen, there were plenty of mutant beasts and grues who lived there. The species who had once called the place home were forced to migrate to bordering locations, where they were constantly harassed by the mutant beasts and grues. It wasn’t that such species preferred to stay there. But heaven and earth were so immense that, for small species like them, there wasn’t really anywhere to go. After all, places without a lot of mutagen were already occupied by much stronger species.0

Besides, though they lived in dangerous circumstances, they could at least stick together and defend themselves against the grues and mutant beasts.0

That was especially true considering that the county was in a unique location, positioned as it was between the Firemoon Darkheavens and the...1