It was deep into the night when they parted ways with the adventuring party known as the Sand Wolf.
The commotion caused by the Succubus the night before had finally ended on a somewhat awkward, but peaceful enough note.
In the end, Cui Ciyou had declined the female warrior Lina's kind offer to "cure the poison," brushing the matter aside with a simple, "My constitution is unusual. I'm fine."
It wasn't that he was oblivious to romance. He simply believed that some things still needed an emotional connection.
A chance encounter and a night of pleasure meant nothing to him.
And so they parted. Their paths were different, and they would probably never cross again.
After bidding farewell to that party, a brief interlude in their journey, they endured several more days of grueling travel. On the fifteenth day of their journey, they finally reached their destination.
The Labyrinth City-Rapan.
When the legendary city first came fully into view, even the well-traveled Cui Ciyou felt a profound shock.
At the far end of the boundless red desert stood an enormous white fence that seemed to reach from earth to sky.
The fence stretched endlessly, like a wall the gods had built to enclose the world. Its primal grandeur possessed a magnificence no human creation could rival.
Only after riding closer out of curiosity did they discover that the so-called "fence" was made of bones.
Pure white bones of unimaginable size, towering like mountain peaks, formed the city's unique and incredible walls.
Rapan itself had been built beneath ribs enormous enough to cover an entire town.
It was easy to understand why the sight was so awe-inspiring, wasn't it?
The bones of a monster that could cover a whole city.
A passage Cui Ciyou had read in the adventurer Bradycond's