Black Fortress City.
Thick columns of jet-black smoke pierced through every district of the city, shooting straight into the clouds.
This was a city suffering from extremely severe pollution.
But for the lowly creatures living within the city, it was not so bad.
For the divine barrier created by the great God of Black Mist shielded these weak yet devout subjects from the threat of pollution drifting down from above.
Quite a few city residents had once gone to the countryside. Though the countryside had much more greenery than the city, its pollution was also rather severe; at the very least, the water could not be drunk directly.
There were far fewer temples and priests in the countryside. Lacking the divine grace of the God of Black Mist, even life itself indeed became much more difficult.
Thus, more and more people preferred to move into the cities.
There, they could not only bathe more closely in divine grace, but also enjoy a better life.
Black Fortress City was located in the Twilight Plane, a plane situated at the outermost fringe of the Kels Starfield.
More than two-thirds of this plane worshipped the God of Black Mist, while less than one-third worshipped the God of Twilight.
Because settlements throughout the entire plane were centered around cities, and the creatures in nearly every city worshipped the same god.
Thus, intense clashes of faith and conflicts between believers rarely occurred on this plane.
Even if followers of the God of Black Mist and followers of the God of Twilight came into conflict over certain matters, priests from their respective temples—or even divine envoys—would soon step forward to mediate and resolve the dispute.
All in all, this was an exceptionally peaceful ordinary world, one that had not seen a major war in tens of