"When did the Scorching Red Desert get a ruler?"
The Wrynn Family's planar territories had been under constant development.
For territories of fixed size, once the surface was fully covered, they dug deep and built underground block cities.
For territories with room to expand, they kept building block cities across the surface and into the surrounding areas.
There were three block cities in the Gamma Plane. Golden Wheat City lay in territory occupied by the Odyssey City-State, leaving it no room to expand.
Blue Bay City was on the edge of the city-state's territory, bordering the Gnoll Kingdom. Without starting a war, it had no room to expand either.
Crimson City lay in the Scorching Red Desert, an area no one had cared about. It had great potential for expansion.
Over the years, the Scorching Red Desert, covering more than a million square kilometers, had been completely covered by block cities. Crimson City was now swallowing up the Fire-Prayer Stone Forest and the desert regions in three other directions.
The desert wasn't fertile land. It was barren, though quite a few creatures still lived and bred there.
One day, a hunting party was hunting in the northern desert beyond the Scorching Red Desert when they spotted Crimson City reaching out from the desert.
Crimson City, spread across the edge of the desert, was a breathtaking sight.
The hunting party didn't think any intelligent race could thrive in the Scorching Red Desert. At first, they thought they were seeing a mirage.
They hunted the herds for more than half a month. The mirage not only failed to disappear, it kept expanding.
They cautiously approached and discovered that Crimson City wasn't a mirage at all. It was a real city.
They were astonished, wondering which intelligent race had managed to prosper in