The flames burned fiercely, crackling and popping!
They roiled endlessly in the brazier, casting a fiery red glow in every direction.
The light bathed the entire building in a dark red hue. A group of people sat in a circle around the brazier.
Rex stretched out his arm and moved it gently, making a long black shadow sway. He listened closely to Evely's explanation beside him.
Evely was giving Rex an overview of the Arathi Highlands.
He described the distribution of the various powers, focusing mainly on the Humans and how they were faring.
As Evely explained, Rex gradually gained an understanding of the situation in the Arathi Highlands.
Rex was not far from the areas where Humans were active. This place was essentially a buffer zone between the Humans and Trolls. There were no particularly large Troll tribes here, nor were there any powerful Human tribes.
Those that existed were much like the Troll tribe Rex had wiped out, numbering only a few hundred at most.
There were quite a few tribes nearby, though the distances between them were considerable.
Rex simply disregarded those tribes of several hundred or even a thousand people. He could not be bothered to remember their names.
Although Rex was in rather wretched circumstances at present, he possessed the strength of a Hero Rank fighter. Such strength was exceedingly rare among Humans.
Even in the future a thousand years from now, the number of Human Heroic Powerhouses had not exceeded ten. In this era, they were even rarer. As far as Evely knew, only one powerful Human tribe in the eastern Arathi Highlands had a Heroic Powerhouse overseeing it.
That Human tribe was immensely powerful, with a population of over a hundred thousand.
In Rex's later era, that would have been no more than