The Black-Corner Region's Wild Bandit; Medusa: "You Want Me to Be Your Enforcer? Have You No Shame?"

The Black-Corner Region.

It was not a place name or a nation in the conventional sense, but a vast, uniquely peculiar region that had gradually coalesced around Jia Nan Academy, born of endless chaos, slaughter, and sin.

Some said that the Black-Corner Region was a sunless mire ten thousand miles southeast of the Jia Ma Empire.

That comparison was no exaggeration.

Jia Nan Academy, situated at its heart, could be called the only patch of untainted ground in that mire where a light still shone.

And once you took three steps beyond the academy gates, human lives in this hellhole were cheaper even than water.

Yet for certain ruthless souls with restless blood flowing through their veins, this utterly chaotic place, regarded by outsiders as a death trap with only one chance in ten of survival, was like the open sea to a fish, or the blue sky to a bird!

Blood Maple City, a sizable city on the outskirts of the Black-Corner Region.

At that moment, the atmosphere in the City Lord's Mansion's main hall was bizarre to the extreme, the air thick with a pungent, almost palpable stench of blood.

An Yi had returned to his signature White-Furred Beast form.

His long, silvery-white hair hung loose, a pair of beast ears atop his head twitched slightly, and the large patterned tail behind him swayed idly in midair.

He lounged with his legs spread on the throne that had originally belonged to the city lord, draped in luxurious magical beast pelts. In his hand, he toyed with a heavy, ferocious-looking Tiger-Head Halberd, its blade still stained with fresh crimson blood.

In the center of the hall before him lay a corpse.

It belonged to Blood Maple City's former lord, a Four-Star Dou Wang known as "Blood-Hand Tu Qian,"