In Da Qing 274, you discovered that communications here were a disaster as well. It was manageable within the same Monarch's territory, but once it crossed borders, or when a stretch of land hundreds of miles wide lay between two places, any information sent across might as well have been myth and legend.
The clearest example was that you had destroyed the Great Wood Monarch two years ago, yet the Vine Forest Monarch a thousand miles away had only received the news: "Great Wood Territory is in chaos; its Monarch is suspected of being controlled by demons."
In Da Qing 275, you encountered the Great Demon God, "Blood-Drinking Evil Child," who was said to eat human hearts every day and commanded hundreds of Blood Drinkers.
The descriptions made him sound terrifying: a formidable Wild God who had rampaged across several Monarch territories, someone even an army of three million could not stop. You had nearly thought he was a Grandmaster.
In reality, the "three-million-man army" numbered three thousand, while the "Blood-Drinking Evil Child" was merely a dwarf barely capable of External Qi Projection... Well, the "child" in his title referred to the fact that he was a dwarf.
Anyone called a "dwarf" on this land had a height that was easy enough to imagine. He reached only your thigh, not even eighty centimeters tall.
In Da Qing 276, you arrived in the snowfield region and met the local object of worship, the "Ice Goddess," the incarnation in the mortal world of a Righteous God and mistress of the entire snowfield.
You could tell that she had originally been quite a beautiful girl. You said originally because her martial arts, like those of the ape-like freak you had encountered before, warped people into deformity.
Her skin was now the bluish-purple of