The auction ended.
The pirate left with the Monster Blood.
The auction had taken place at night.
Hurried footsteps echoed through the silence.
From the shadows, greedy eyes followed him.
Monster Blood held a deadly allure for those desperate to grow stronger, as well as for Monster-Men and Wild Beasts that lacked Mutation Factors or had not fully evolved.
Around the auction house, Monster-Men and Wild Beasts lay hidden in the night of Monster Paradise.
Inside the auction house, some wanted to steal the Monster Blood. Others only wanted to watch and see what it would do.
In Monster Paradise, Typhon was the only rule that mattered. Beyond him, there were few fixed rules.
In practice, Monster Paradise was a place of chaos.
Even members of the Monster Legion killing one another was hardly unusual.
The main reason was that every member of the Monster Legion had drunk Typhon's blood.
They carried Mutation Factors within them. Even after those factors had become part of their bodies, they still held value for other Wild Beasts and Monster-Men.
Wild Beasts were the first to show the effects. After drinking Monster Blood, those that devoured the corpses of other Wild Beasts and Monster-Men mutated far faster than the other members, and the effect kept working.
That was why the Monster Arena had come into being.
Most of those who fought and killed inside it were Monster-Men from the Monster Legion and Wild Beasts that had drunk Monster Blood.
Wild Beasts ate people, but few Monster-Men were willing to do the same.
Bathing in an enemy's blood also had a considerable effect.
Typhon's blood was alive. These Monster-Men and Wild Beasts, whose lives and deaths Typhon controlled, also carried his will within them.
Driven by the instinct to survive, the Mutation Factors inside a