Ten thousand miles from the battlefield, on the frontier of Hell.
The Blue Rock Tribe, Falling Maple Tribe, Blackstone Tribe, Moon Creek Tribe, Yellow Sand Tribe, and Rending Wind Tribe-the six surviving great human tribes-quietly occupied what remained of Human Territory along the chaotic frontier.
These six great tribes were the last six core powers the Human Race had desperately preserved amid the slaughter among Hell's myriad races and the desperate upheaval of a world in chaos.
Back in the ancient era, the Human Race had once stood at the pinnacle of the frontier, flourishing for a time thanks to its rapid reproduction.
In those days, the people of the six great tribes had spread across hundreds of millions of miles, their combined population numbering in the millions, even tens of millions.
With their vast population and extensive territory, they had firmly held a place on Hell's frontier, and no one had dared bully them lightly.
But time was merciless, and a million years passed in the blink of an eye.
Hell's frontier had never known true peace. Wars among the different races never ceased, flames of war swept the land year after year, and plundering, slaughter, and wars of extermination rose one after another without end.
As a disadvantaged race on the frontier, numerous but not strong, the Human Race had borne the brunt, reduced to prey that the myriad races devoured piecemeal and slaughtered at will.
Years of war had left countless humans dead or wounded.
Countless tribespeople had died on the battlefield, countless elderly people, women, and children had been massacred, and countless able-bodied adults had been carried off by other races as slaves, never to return home.
After a million years of blood and tears, the once-flourishing Human Race had fallen into utter decline.
By now,