As time passed, Lin Yun and the others continued in the direction Gazi had indicated, "safe and sound."
Well, more or less safe and sound.
After all, with Gazi around, there was no way they could truly stay out of trouble. At most, it was a question of whether they ran into a few monsters or a lot of them. They had to admit that the young lady and Lin Yun had been right: with Gazi around, it was... really easy to draw monsters.
No wonder Gazi had gone from being just an "ordinary person" at the start to becoming this much of a hentai.
However, once they entered Averland, things took a bit of a turn for the worse.
One problem was the weather. East of Averland, aside from Mut, the Halflings' special territory, lay Sylvania.
In fact, Sylvania should originally have been part of Stirland, the Empire's largest province.
But during the Second Incursion of Chaos, while the human Empire was united in resisting Chaos alongside the Dwarfs, the despicable vampires seized this land. Through their corruption, they turned it into a place unfit for human habitation.
Even human armies suffered the effects of Negative Energy when they entered the area.
It was a very troublesome problem.
That was why the human Empire had been unable to reclaim the land, even after all these years.
The largest province, Stirland, had been forcibly carved up, leaving it in its current diminished state.
And because Sylvania had been corrupted by vampires, the weather in southern Averland was poor, much like the smog in the world Lin Yun had originally come from. On top of that, Blackfire Pass lay just south of Averland.
The area around Blackfire Pass was dotted with volcanoes. Perhaps because of that, the weather there was extremely