Zothique Continent, capital—Zulbahar.
It was utterly different from the Abyssal Demon Cities Han Dong had seen before.
There were no streets covered in intestines like Toad City, nor flesh-balloon buildings floating in the air.
Nor did it have the preserved medieval human architecture of London City.
Instead, it was an exceptionally bizarre city centered around a "graveyard" aesthetic...
In other words, there were hardly any buildings rising above ground.
Both sides of the streets were lined with mass graves and communal burial grounds of varying sizes.
Some were cemeteries governed by gravedigger rules.
Others were independent underground tombs guarded by powerful Living Dead.
If compared to human society, they roughly served as dormitories, apartments, residential compounds, and villas.
Whether residences or shops, everything was located underground.
The only structures above ground were several Mechanical Factories themed around flesh, blood, and bone.
Some visibly pulsed with biological energy and appeared to be power plants.
Others had enormous gear structures mounted on their exteriors, with chimneys constantly spewing steam. They were likely processing plants for machinery-related materials, props, or equipment.
However.
Among them stood one especially conspicuous and unique structure.
It was a peculiar building over a hundred meters tall, with a gigantic meat-grinding turntable installed at its summit... the entire factory emitted an intensely pungent smell of raw meat.
Han Dong guessed that it was a slaughterhouse used for "Body Modification," "food production," or "stitching."
After all.
Han Dong had been studying ghouls for several years and had reached a fairly advanced level of research.
He knew very well that "ghouls" were perfect Experimental Subjects with extremely high plasticity and almost no rejection response.
Whether selectively bred for reproductive traits.
Or injected with enhancers, or even dismembered and reassembled with flesh—they could endure it all... As the ghoul capital, it would