Ultimate Flesh and Blood

On the outskirts of the fishing village.

An ugly merchant with severe dwarfism, his entire body draped in jeweled pendants, rode here on a mount pieced together from four monsters and a human head.

Some time ago, he had carelessly sold off a defective product and was later confronted by the buyer.

It should have been a trivial matter. By the usual rules of business, he only needed to pay several times the compensation.

But the man valued money as his life and refused to pay that much. He simply killed the buyer and took the item back.

Who would have thought that the newcomer he killed was actually a recent member of the Sisterhood? That stunt had drawn the pursuit of several Sisterhood members.

He could only come here to lie low until the heat died down.

"Strange. Why isn't anyone selling fish? Didn't the information say that outsiders would encounter fish sellers on the outskirts of the fishing village? As long as you have fish, you can settle into the village normally.

Never mind. I'll enter the village first."

The dwarf merchant controlled his mount as it traveled Between the Mists. Before long, however, the mount stopped.

"You damned thing! I just fed you, so why can't you move now? Hurry up! If those crazy bitches catch us, we're both dead."

The merchant lashed the mount fiercely, but it refused to budge. Just as he was about to resort to harsher measures—

Creak, creak~ He heard something.

Looking over, he discovered the true reason his mount had stopped.

Beyond the mist, roughly five meters away, stood what appeared to be a tall wall built of flesh and blood.

The merchant hurriedly took out his most precious monocular telescope and peered through the mist. He found that the wall