After some preliminary negotiations, Su Xiao learned the name of the "Holy Goddess." Her name was Dorothea, and she was a hybrid of a human and an Other.
Hearing this introduction, Baja grew curious and bluntly asked Dorothea how her parents had managed that.
Dorothea grew a little angry and muttered, "How rude."
Naturally, the burrowers and mutants couldn't crossbreed with humans. Parasites, however, could crossbreed with humans after taking over human bodies. There was a high chance of producing normal humans, a very low chance of producing hybrids, and an even lower chance of producing hybrids that inherited Other genes and possessed extraordinary talents surpassing those of beastmen.
Dorothea was such a hybrid. Her father was human, and her mother was a parasite. The two hadn't fallen in love in some melodramatic turn of events. Dorothea had been born mainly because her father was powerful and the female parasite who had taken over a human body happened to be attractive.
The Underground City was located beneath the earth, only dozens of kilometers from the Others' stronghold. Because internal conflicts among the Others had continued to fester, while nearly all the humans in the Underground City possessed extraordinary abilities, the two sides had reached a stalemate.
After the Space-Time Crystals began to fall, the Other King forced several commanding officers to stop their internal conflicts. The Other army took three days to destroy the Underground City. This underground city, hailed as humanity's last hope and sworn to bathe in sunlight, was annihilated by the Other army.
As for the Underground City Missionary Grounds, they were located fifteen kilometers east of the Underground City. Originally, they had been an insignificant little organization. After the Underground City was destroyed, several surviving humans hid there, planning to eke out the rest of their