The Nightmare World had no winter, yet it had places of extreme cold, such as the Blood Sea, which even Strange Creatures were reluctant to approach.
The Blood Sea did not refer to any particular stretch of sea in the Nightmare World, for most of the world's water sources had long since been contaminated by it. Even when rain fell from the sky beneath the Red Moon, its drops were inevitably stained with blood, mingled with the Blood Sea's rotten, bloody stench.
Legend had it that whenever a new civilization arose in the Nightmare World, the Blood Sea would retreat from the land that had given birth to life. But the Blood Sea would never disappear forever. Whenever that newborn civilization collapsed again, whenever the blood of the dead seeped endlessly into the earth, the Blood Sea would revive in the Nightmare World.
Each time the Blood Sea reappeared upon the land, it grew more terrifying, and its waters, brimming with Red Moon Power, grew colder still.
If any living thing had the misfortune to fall into the Blood Sea, it would instantly be enveloped in thick, bitterly cold blood, suffocated by the rotten, bloody stench. Its eyes, ears, and even its mouth and nose would be submerged in blood. The endless cold rising from deep within its body and the suffocating pressure bearing down from outside needed only a few seconds to kill it.
Not just living things-even weak Strange Creatures would be reduced to ash in moments, unable to withstand the rotten yet terrifyingly powerful force within the Blood Sea!
Weak Ghost Creatures dared not approach it, while powerful ones regarded it as a place of filth. Thus, wherever the Blood Sea lay became a hopeless wasteland, a deathtrap, even a forbidden zone. Not even the winds of