Witchcraft was the only external power the inhabitants of the Black Marsh World could rely on besides their own physical strength.
This all-encompassing, unsystematic miraculous power had already existed during the Rakshasa era, and even earlier. Those whose bodies were not strong enough but whose minds were sufficiently clever realized that natural forces far beyond individual strength existed between heaven and earth.
Thus, they studied day after day, observing the few spirits and monsters and all sorts of strange natural phenomena. In the end, through sacrifices and prayers, they found a way to stably draw upon those powers.
After that, witchcraft became another choice for the inhabitants of the Black Marsh World who could not or would not temper their bodies. It proclaimed that in this world of the survival of the fittest, where the weak had not the slightest dignity or honor, any living being, even one born physically frail, had the possibility of becoming strong.
And so, witchcraft was passed down continuously, spreading among the various races.
A thousand years after the Rakshasa disappeared, witchcraft reached unprecedented heights on this continent and flourished beyond all measure.
There had even emerged, within the inheritance of witchcraft, a special race like the Spirit Race, whose every member relied on witchcraft!
A Player had once analyzed and studied it from a biological perspective. Just as Blood Rakshasa was essentially human by nature, the "Spirit Race" was actually nothing more than a special branch of the "Demon Race."
The origins of the Spirit Race were no longer reliable, but what was known was that they had most likely begun as a tribe within the Horned Race. Through some Secret Technique, they had abandoned the ability to return to their original forms, used the power of the "Ancestral Avatar," and gained an extraordinarily