The Black Forest was teeming with deadly dangers at every moment, and this was especially true in a world where Magic Power existed.
According to La Rian's ancient legends, the world had initially formed from a boiling, violent sea of "Primordial Element." Chaotic primal energy surged endlessly within that sea, and its collisions produced the first great bubble, named Anke. When that great bubble burst, the first Primordial Beings split off from within it. These beings struggled atop the fragments left behind after the bubble burst, constantly absorbing the energy of the Primordial Element and gradually cooling the sea surrounding the bubble. Thus, the world was formed, while the cooled Primordial Element became the first seawater, surrounding the continent of La Rian in the form of an endless ocean.
However, not all the Primordial Beings survived this process. Some of them went mad while absorbing the Primordial Element. They desperately devoured the energy until they finally tore themselves apart. These failures, which had annihilated themselves through greed, became the source of all monsters in the world. Their pulverized corpses drifted throughout the world, and every speck of dust became a monster. These monsters inherited their greedy nature and constantly craved the nourishment of Magic Power. Thus, they gathered near sources of powerful but uncontrolled magical reactions, becoming the opponents every Spellcaster feared most.
That was why Lia had trained in the thirty-six forms of the Mad Demon Staff Technique with an Iron Staff.
With a sharp, ear-piercing shriek, a pitch-black lizard covered in hard crystal scales was sent flying high into the air. When it crashed to the ground, it carved out a deep trench a full ten meters long. As its vitality drained away, its mutated crystal scales rapidly weathered away like dust and fell off, revealing the lizard's