Chaos was not merely a monster that emerged from the mist, nor were monsters simply things that appeared from the mist.
The lightly equipped knights trudged on foot across the desolate wilderness. With no monsters harassing them, the flat plains were not difficult to cross. As they made their way across, Hao Ren gradually learned many basic facts about the Kolo World from Veronica.
Knowledge of chaos, monsters, mist, Order, and darkness.
At first, Hao Ren had thought the mist covering the plains and the monsters condensing from it were chaos itself. Only now did he learn that the mist was merely a phenomenon unique to the Desolate Wilderness. Different chaos domains had different mutated environments, and monsters were born from those environments in all sorts of forms. In the Desolate Wilderness, there was undispersing mist; in the Shadow Jungle, there were lands of shadow; in the Dark Swamp, there were ever-changing bottomless mire pits. There were also the Annihilation Desert, the Storm Cape Coastline, the Ash-White Sea, the River of Deep Space, and countless other chaos territories, large and small. Almost every place had its own unique traits, but they all shared one thing: rejection of life and destruction of Order.
Kolo was a vast world composed of many independent continents. According to Veronica, those continents floated in the void known as Karnos, revolving endlessly according to some profound rule established by the gods. The powers of chaos and Order ebbed and flowed within Karnos's void, and the waves they raised crashed against the continents, giving rise to the children of Order and the servants of chaos. The repeated struggle between believers in Order and followers of chaos was the physical manifestation of the conflict between the powers of Karnos.
This was an endless war that had continued ever