Another journey across the Death Desert.
Once, this had been the richest stretch of southern plains in the Grand Duchy.
The boundless fields and farmlands had stretched as far as the eye could see. Merchants and travelers had passed through in an endless stream, carrying the south's wealth to the fortified cities of the north, where it helped them resist the Xilan People's powerful attacks.
Now, all of it lay buried beneath endless yellow sand.
Ever since the Duchy entered the age of the Radiation Wasteland, explorers in this region had suffered frequent, unexplained deaths. Fewer than one in a hundred ever returned, and most brought back no useful information. To this day, it remained a dark zone on the Radiation Wasteland map, a perilous place avoided by heavy airships.
Reilo had deliberately chosen to cross this region.
After all, it lay at the heart of the Grand Natural Sciences Academy and several important Eye of the Storm academies. The Superhuman crises that had struck the Grand Natural Sciences Academy several times in the past had mostly come from this direction. In recent years, the Superhumans' numbers had begun to dwindle noticeably, and Reilo wanted to see what secrets lay hidden here.
If he could even uncover the biological weaknesses of the Superhumans, that would be an invaluable bonus.
In recent years, the various Eye of the Storm academies had obtained specimens of pure spiritual-body Superhumans through secret means, to varying degrees. According to intelligence reports, several obscure, remote academies founded before the Wasteland Age had even used their research on Superhumans to develop extraordinary and powerful academic disciplines similar to Reilo's Superbody Transformation. They had risen to become leading academies in the Radiation Wasteland, forming new powers in the far distance that could resist the influence of the Fladick