Vivian decided to meet with the Lucas Family first. She had never been particularly interested in other supernatural beings, and was especially annoyed by people as rigid, conservative, arrogant, exclusionary, and obsessed with carving out territory as those of the Lucas Family. But given the current situation, there was no avoiding dealing with those hardliners if they wanted to enter the ruins. She had interacted with the previous head of the Lucas Family several times and had also met his younger brother, the current head of the Lucas Family, so she felt she could at least have some influence with him.
Besides the ruins, Hao Ren had also grown curious about the Others' presence in this city. He really wanted to know how many "sanctuaries" like this still existed in the world, but Heiserana was vague about it. "To be honest... it's not that I don't trust you, but I don't know either. By the time these sanctuaries began to be built, the Mythical Era had already entered its collapse. The surviving groups of Others around the world had been isolated and surrounded by Demon Hunters in different places, and all contact between them had been severed. That situation lasted for over a thousand years. Once the sanctuaries had barely stabilized, the Human Church began its campaign to exterminate witches, so everything was in chaos and nobody dared go outside. Staying in the sanctuaries kept us safe, but it also left us far behind in terms of information about the outside world. Of course, that isolation didn't last forever. We gradually started venturing outside again, but the number of other settlements we could contact was far lower than expected. We suspect that many sanctuaries are still completely sealed off even now. No one knows whether they were destroyed or are