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As everyone knew, in this world, humans were an extremely weak race.
Although humans had built many remarkable cities on the plains and even established several nations, living on the plains only highlighted humanity's fragility even further.
After all, plains were an exceptionally dangerous type of terrain.
First of all, if they were attacked, there was almost nowhere to hide.
Furthermore, even if they wanted to flee, they could be discovered by their enemies with great ease.
To other races, choosing plains, which offered no terrain advantage whatsoever, as the site for a city was simply foolish beyond measure.
However, humans were a race that possessed neither night vision nor, like Magical Beasts, naturally strong bodies from birth. They could only choose terrain such as plains as places to live.
Or rather, if humans did not choose open places like plains, where there was nowhere to hide, as their settlements, they simply could not establish their own sphere of life.
Races with bodies more developed than humans and civilizations more advanced than humanity's were everywhere in this world.
Yet not a single one of those races had managed to rule this land.
Several centuries ago, the world's developed races had fought against the Eight Greed Kings, who had sought to conquer the world, and were brutally weakened to the brink of extinction by the Eight Greed Kings' terrifying power.
Humans, who possessed no special power compared to the other races, had been overlooked by the powerful races of that era and had not participated in the Eight Greed Kings' war. Instead, they had survived the conflict.
The reason humans had continued to exist in this world without being eliminated