William left.
Lotner handled everything that followed.
As the esteemed Lord, he could not let such trivial matters take up his precious time.
So, that very day...
The Lord of Dawn City donned a black cloak and stood beneath a cliff, gazing out over the boundless grasslands. A breeze swept past, and the tall flowers and grass swayed in the wind, giving him a sense of broadening his mind.
William mounted a black horse. Facing the blood-red sunset, he gently pressed his heels into its flanks and galloped north.
The feeling of racing freely was amazing, especially across my own grasslands. There was none of that frustration of driving a sports car only to wait at red lights.
Both the Steel Duchy and the Blackrock Duchy lay north of the grasslands. Dawn City was roughly three hundred li away from the borders of both nations in a straight line.
As for these grasslands, which stretched a thousand li from east to west, many races lived here: Minotaurs, Gnolls, Goblins, the Dwarf Race, and even Murlocs near the swamps and rivers.
In truth, whether before Gods Continent split apart or across the many continents of today...
Of all the races in the world, Murlocs were the most numerous.
These little creatures wielding tiny tridents ate anything, raw or cooked. They were the purest sort of chaotic race: they killed whoever they saw, attacked when they outnumbered their targets, and fled when they were outnumbered, without the slightest hesitation!
They were also known as Newbie Killers.
When the game had just entered Open Beta, there were countless Players who enjoyed nighttime Adventure in the wilderness and had been slaughtered by swarms of Murlocs...
They appeared around every water source—rivers, swamps, lakes, and oceans alike. Unless stronger creatures occupied those waters, they were