Beneath Ten Thousand Mile City, dust and sand billowed across the boundless battlefield.
This was a vast desert, yet clusters of brilliant Lycoris Radiata still bloomed throughout it.
Watered with blood and nourished by corpses, thousands upon thousands of Lycoris Radiata bloomed together. The sight was spectacular, like a sea of flowers—beautiful enough to take one's breath away, yet just as beautiful in a bone-chilling way.
"So the Demon Race World really did withdraw its army..."
Several young women arrived at the Demon Race World's military camp, a hundred li from Ten Thousand Mile City.
The girls looked around. Aside from a few traces of the encampment left on the ground, nothing else remained.
It was as though leaving even a single rope behind for the Vast and Righteous World would have been too generous.
"Of course we withdrew. I heard the Demon Race World gained quite a lot this time," a mermaid girl said.
Merfolk were also called sea people. At the age of thirty, they grew a pair of legs and could walk on land.
According to rumors among the human race, merfolk were rather unattractive. But that was merely because a scholar had once failed to win the Mermaid Princess's heart and had turned around to slander her.
Thus, "merfolk are ugly" became the established impression in the mortal world.
Of course, there were also minor rumors claiming that the scholar had seen the Mermaid Princess and been dazzled by her beauty.
However, the scholar did not want the Mermaid Princess to be hunted down by mortals because of her beauty, so he deliberately spread the claim that "merfolk are ugly" to protect her.
But regardless of the reason, the truth was that merfolk had remarkably high average looks—second only to the Clam Race and Conch Race