For the sake of victory in war, some sacrifices had to be made. The Iron Blood Brotherhood's warriors had long since buried the principle of sacrificing themselves to protect their brothers deep in their hearts.
That night, Zhou Tianming began searching among the many warriors for suitable candidates, while Lu Yang used Bandalsburg Prison's teleportation array to travel ahead to the place he was heading this time—the dark world.
The difference between the otherworld and the human world was that Earth's planet rotated and revolved, while the otherworld's planets did not. They remained completely stationary within that universe. Although the otherworld also had celestial bodies similar to Earth's sun, moon, and stars, they were Holy Light Star, Dark Moon Star, Flame Star, and Extreme Cold Star.
These four celestial bodies were arranged in a square around the otherworld. As a result, two sides of the otherworld's planets were perpetually bathed in the intense light of Holy Light Star and Flame Star, while the other two sides remained forever under the weak light of Dark Moon Star and Extreme Cold Star.
This resulted in half the creatures of the otherworld evolving toward the light, while the other half had little need for sunlight.
The otherworldly regions Lu Yang had visited before were at the otherworld's North Pole. That place could receive light from all four stars at once, though none of it was intense, making it tolerable for humans. But the region he was headed to this time lay north of the otherworld's North Pole, near Dark Moon Star. It was called the Dark Forest.
Light flashed.
Lu Yang appeared within a black forest shrouded in hazy night. Every tree around him was black, yet the plants on the ground emitted specks of starlight. Looking up through the canopy overhead, he