The Martial Unity

He wasn't kidding when he said the name was fitting. The Valley of Prisms was a region where the optical density of the air was not consistent, causing light to bend midair, turning in different directions.

Almost as though the atmosphere was a collection of prisms.

Hence the name of the region.

"Man…" Kane murmured. "Just looking at this place is giving me a headache."

"So this is where the Divine Doctor entered the Beast Domain," Rui remarked, turning back as he glanced towards the Human Domain in the distance. He could see that as the alien-like flora began to grow scarce and peter out into barren land, traces of the touch of humanity could be seen at the horizon.

He turned back and faced the Valley of Prisms with a deep breath. "Let's get going. I'm sure that we'll find some clues."

Rui surged forward intently. Yet it was hard to hide his nervousness. This was the first juncture in searching for clues for the Divine Doctor. The outcome of this particular investigation would drastically alter Rui's evaluation of the likelihood of success. Thus, he was particularly anxious to find something that could point him in a definitive direction.

The Valley of Prisms was definitely most defined by its eye-drawing characteristic and its highly uneven distribution of optical density. However, it wasn't the only aspect of the region that mattered. The valley was quite large, surrounded by the Hroul Mountain Range.

It had lush greenery with a wide stretch of grass and shrubs and other flora thriving in the fertile soils of the valley, which was glowing vividly in myriad colors. Its fauna seemed surprisingly normal and sane, in a way. He saw herds of herbivorous monsters peacefully grazing on the grass.

It was weird and out of place for a region like the Beast Domain.

and Riemannian Echo, he was able to sense a large amount of area and simultaneously ignore the vision distortion caused by the refraction of the atmosphere. He immediately began scanning the entire region with a zig-zag grid-mapping system, ensuring that he would have covered every inch of the

his initial survey was complete, he had already begun to note oddities in the region half a day ago. The fauna surprised Rui even more, for it struck him as imbalanced, as though

were no

that he could

his eyes. "No wonder they're

intrepidly. It was an odd sight in a domain that was characterized by harsh conditions and elevated difficulty of survival due to

and steering away from him every time he got too close

a variety of other monsters that seemed to coexist in the region in

Rui finally arrived at an enormous freshwater lake in the middle of

powerful predatory fish-like monsters the size of small buildings within its depths. These

Rui frowned. "So, the only predators are in

turned out to inspect the rest of the valley. "…most of

unable to set foot on land truly regulate the population

its eyes.

and models with safe estimates for variables such as reproduction and hunting rates, and in most cases, unless these monsters were extremely aggressive, it was not feasible for the populations of the herbivorous animals to be kept in check by the

noted. "It begs the question of whether these monsters even

found it rather hard to believe that herbivores necessarily even relied on the

environmental oddities were strange and pointed to an incomplete food chain and ecosystem that would eventually overload the