For convenience, the surface and inner sides would refer to the real London City and its parallel world.
London City: Surface.
The Dark Forest outside the city was essentially part of London City's border defense line.
Within the Dark Forest surrounding the London Basin wandered hundreds of thousands of "dark abominations," including skeletal skeletons, black rock monsters, treants, and more.
Once they grew into Otherworldly Demons, they would gain the qualifications to enter the city.
Before that—
These abominations served as scouts within the forest. Their "death messages" would be sensed by the Church priests in the basin villages. Once large numbers of deaths occurred, it meant invaders had arrived.
At that point, the priests in the villages would dispatch Otherworldly Demon scouts to further confirm the situation.
However, what was happening in one part of the Dark Forest was somewhat different. No scouts had come here to investigate—or rather, they did not dare to come.
Thousands of abomination corpses were piled up here.
Broken bones served as supports, shattered stones as the foundation, and sticky flesh as adhesive, forming a temporary throne.
A "mad young man" sat upon this throne he had built himself.
Following the Game Rules of the London Game, he maintained a "human form."
He was gaunt, like an African slum dweller suffering from protein deficiency.
At roughly 1.7 meters tall, he looked quite ordinary, with messy black hair hanging loosely over his body.
Out of boredom, he gnawed on a "string of skulls," passing the time this way while grinding his teeth.
His eyes possessed a kind of "cave pupil."
In other words, the whites of his eyes were normal... but his pupils sank inward like bottomless caves.
This eye structure allowed him to glimpse certain situations within London City.
"More or less. It's time