Gobada

Biodata

Nature and Environment

Gobada is a desolate prison realm described as the reverse side of a material plane. Its inhabitants endure perpetual twilight, silence, barren terrain, and constant slaughter; it has neither day and night nor seasonal change. 1

• A pervasive rule of decay continually weakens living beings and turns ambient elemental energy into difficult-to-absorb “dead matter.” 1
• Elemental energy is thin, while the land is too barren to naturally sustain much life. 1 2
• Gray mist obscures the sky, beyond which multicolored spatial turbulence can sometimes be seen. 2
• The plane’s instability produces spatial rifts at roughly one thousand meters above ground; in hazardous regions, rifts may form only dozens of meters overhead. 2
• Living beings are restricted to a narrow survivable zone extending approximately one thousand meters above and below the surface due to spatial barriers. 2

Survival Conditions

Saint-domain inhabitants are among Gobada’s most vulnerable residents. Although they can resist the plane’s decay through cultivation and expend mental energy to draw in scarce elements, this only preserves basic bodily function; it does not remove hunger. 1

Food, fruit, magical-beast corpses, Soul Gold Beads, divine artifacts, and godheads are therefore treated as major survival resources. 2 18 45

Society and Power Structure

God-level practitioners are divided into three major ranks: Lowgods, Midgods, and Highgods, with qualitative gaps in divine power and soul strength between each tier. 13

• Saint-domain beings generally occupy the lowest level of Gobada’s hierarchy and are often used by deities as resource gatherers or expendable fighters. 3 13
• Lowgods can escape starvation but remain heavily dependent on missions, resources, and factional protection. 35
• Midgods are the backbone of the Royal Cities; independently ascending Midgods possess far greater status than those who refined godheads. 23 35
• Highgods stand at the plane’s apex. The five Royal City Kings are portrayed as overwhelmingly stronger than ordinary Highgods. 34

Godheads are particularly valuable because they allow Saint-domain beings to ascend immediately, even though refining one damages the user’s future cultivation potential. 17 45

The Five Great Royal Cities

As Gobada’s population grew, powerful deities established five Royal Cities around permanent Sealing Arrays connected to the outside world. 13 29

Known Royal Cities include:

• Ice Prison Royal City — A northern power associated with the Heavenly River Legion and Ice Blade Squads. Its badge bears a single eye entwined by chains. 14 18
• Evil Royal City — A hostile faction marked by a hollow skull badge; it frequently contests resources with Ice Prison Royal City. 12 18
• Azure Fire Royal City — Another rival city involved in raids on Ice Prison resource points and conflicts over supplies. 12 23

The Royal Cities compete for resource points, orchards, magical beasts, and other sources of cultivation materials. Ice Blade Squads operate as supplementary forces, with deity leaders directing Saint-domain members in raids and defensive missions. 13 23

Resource Points

Resource points are rare safe zones with denser elemental energy than the surrounding wasteland. They support cultivation, produce food or materials, and are consequently frequent targets of factional warfare. 23 24

Confinement and Escape

The five Sealing Arrays have fixed locations and seal permanent passages out of Gobada. Beyond them, several unstable space weak points may offer another route of escape. 29

• Space weak points shift approximately once every one hundred thousand years, prompting large-scale resource-relocation missions. 29
• A legend claims that a living being once escaped Gobada through a space weak point, making such locations a source of hope for prisoners. 29
• Escape from Gobada is the central aspiration shared by both deities and Saint-domain inhabitants. 29 35

Story Role / Major Arcs

• Bane Boley is exiled to Gobada after being pursued by peak Saint-level experts and awakens there following his transmigration. 1
• The plane’s starvation conditions force Barn and Declan into hunting Saint-domain magical beasts and rationing their food. 2 3
• Fukaloss recruits Barn, Declan, and Gideon into an Ice Blade Squad serving Ice Prison Royal City, introducing them to Gobada’s factional conflict. 12 13
• The Ice Blade Squad guards orchards, transports Iron Cypresses, and competes against rival Royal Cities for scarce resources. 23 30
• The shifting of space weak points renews the imprisoned inhabitants’ hopes of eventually leaving Gobada. 29