The war in the Bewitching Stone World finally came to an end after another four years following the Orc Legion's entry.
The level-five Bewitching Stone King had fallen.
Although Eugene had not killed it alone, he had proven himself.
He had won a place in the Orc World for himself and the Half-Orc race.
Besides the level-five Bewitching Stone King, the other two level-five Ghost Crows and one level-four Bewitching Stone had all perished.
The two level-five Ghost Crows had simply been an unexpected bounty from the Bewitching Stone World war.
What had also been harvested was the sizable Ghost Crow Army.
Ghost Crows, creatures with a voracious thirst for blood and souls, condensed a Soul Essence deep within their brains.
Some of these Soul Essences could be even smaller than a grain of wheat.
Yet according to evaluations by Wizard World magicians, these Soul Essences possessed greater purity than the Soul Essences produced by Undead Creatures, and their properties were exceptionally unusual.
During the final stage of the war, many Orcs and Half-Orcs had become especially fond of hunting Ghost Crows, because these creatures held greater value.
Unfortunately, their impoverished brains and ever-barbaric ways meant these Orcs had no understanding of what sustainable development was.
By the end, the Ghost Crows of the Bewitching Stone World had nearly been hunted to extinction by the Orcs.
Even if a few Ghost Crows remained, hiding deep within mountains and ancient forests or at the bottom of underground caverns, whether they could survive and reproduce in this Low-Level Plane amid the vastly different natural environment and rules of the Bewitching Stone World and Ghost Crow World remained uncertain.
After three successive guardians had been slaughtered, the fourth guardian of the Bewitching Stone World finally became a little more compliant.
Or rather, it