Chapter 320: Chapter 301: The Beginning of the Succubus Race Incident
On a small island named Kentril stands a small city called Moria City.
Moria City is built on the mountains, surrounded by them.
Within Moria City lives a peculiar race called the Succubus Race.
Members of the Succubus Race are all exceptionally beautiful, seductive, and alluring.
They do not eat meat; fruits of various kinds are their main food, and they have lived for generations in this small city, leading a peaceful life away from strife.
However, if someone provokes them, that is a different story.
Among the Hundred Races, the fact that the Succubus Race needs to use the Holy Blood Pool to nurture new life is almost an open secret; everyone knows about it.
Not only that, people also know that for generations, the Succubus Race has worshipped a Holy Beast: the Golden-Horned Winged Lion.
It is said that the blood in the Holy Blood Pool is supplied by the Golden-Horned Winged Lion.
However, this information has never been confirmed by the Succubus Race; it is merely a rumor passed by word of mouth.
The method of nurturing new life through the Holy Blood Pool evokes mixed reactions among the Hundred Races.
Those who hold it in high regard are mostly women, as this method eliminates the need for women to endure the hardships of childbirth.
There are also those who disapprove.
The most talked-about criticism is that the efficiency of nurturing new life through the Holy Blood Pool nearly stifles the possibility for this race to spread like humans do.
Perhaps because of this, the heavens compensated this race, so every member of the Succubus Race born from the Holy Blood Pool has unique talents.
Among them, the Phantom Assassins are world-renowned, and paired with their unique poison techniques, they are the nightmare that makes every opponent of the Succubus Race restless.
Besides them, there are the attack-defense balanced Succubus Warriors, who are extremely rare magic warriors among the Hundred Races.
Not only possessing sturdy defense, they also have certain magic damage, catching people off guard.
Overall, the strength of the Succubus Race, though not top-tier among the Hundred Races, ranks prominently.
This makes those who covet the Succubus Race hesitate.
Although the Hundred Races appear harmonious on the surface, where there are people, there will always be schemes and ulterior motives.
Before the anti-demon war, the Succubus Race, after proliferating for hundreds of thousands of years, had a population stabilized at around a hundred thousand.
With the sudden outbreak of the anti-demon war, the entire continent plunged into massive turmoil.
As one of the Hundred Races, the then Clan Leader of the Succubus Race, Sharon Zimmerman, did not choose to stand aside upon learning of this.
When the war was still far away, she stood up, defying opposition, resolutely deciding to lead her tribe to Flying Snow Peak west of White Tiger City, to resist the Demon Race’s invasion alongside the armies of the Hundred Races.
At that time, she took away more than eighty thousand of the Succubus Race’s viable members, and also the only Holy Beast: the Golden-Horned Winged Lion, leaving behind more than twenty thousand elderly, weak, women, and children in Moria City.
For the Hundred Races suffering hardships, this action was undoubtedly inspiring.
However, for the Succubus Race, the cost was intensely tragic.
No one expected the Demon Race’s army to be so powerful, fighting without fear, unstoppable even by death.
Although the battle of Flying Snow Peak eventually saw the Hundred Races victorious,
at that time, the Succubus Race’s clan leader Sharon Zimmerman, along with most of her clan and the Holy Beast, were buried with the soldiers of the Hundred Races beneath Flying Snow Peak.
Those who miraculously survived the battle could only describe it as: the victory of that battle was piled up with the lives of hundreds of thousands of the Hundred Races.
When the war ended and the Demon Race retreated,
what remained were millions of corpses of the soldiers of the Hundred Races and the Demon Race, with the bright red blood staining the land, leaving a tragic sight akin to a human purgatory.
In this battle, the role played by the Succubus Race was undoubtedly enormous.
It’s hard to imagine, without the support of the Succubus Race, whether the outcome of this battle would have turned even more terrifying.
After all, once past the natural danger of Flying Snow Peak, the entire White Tiger City and surrounding towns and tribes would be exposed to the terrifying knives of the Demon Race.
By then, the dead would not only be the hundreds of thousands of soldiers of the Hundred Races.
And if the Demon Race then went through Russell Port east of White Tiger City...
Perhaps the then Succubus Race clan leader Sharon Zimmerman anticipated this and chose to go to the front lines without hesitation.
At least she used her sacrifice to ensure the continuity of her tribe, preventing extinction.
The only thing she did not anticipate was that she would end up sacrificing along with the Golden-Horned Winged Lion in a combined ambush by the Demon King.
Losing the Holy Beast Golden-Horned Winged Lion was almost equivalent to a catastrophe for the Succubus Race.
The Holy Blood Pool, lacking replenishment of Holy Beast Blood, gradually lost vitality over the centuries, and the Succubus Race has not seen a new member born for nearly a century.
Since then, the population of the Succubus Race began to decline, becoming weaker with each generation, its strength far from what it once was.
During this period, the Succubus Race did search for other Holy Beast Bloods to replenish, but after the anti-demon war ended, no Holy Beast has appeared on the continent.
Rafam Continent almost overnight returned to a primitive state, leading to the decay of the Hundred Races.
Including the Succubus Race!
To prevent the Succubus Race from disappearing into the annals of history, many remedial methods were tried, but to no avail.
It was not until recent years that mysterious disappearances occurred within various races.
Alongside these events, a rumor emerged, instantly thrusting the Succubus Race into the spotlight.
According to the rumors:
The current clan leader of the Succubus Race hopes to restore the Holy Blood Pool’s vitality by collecting the blood of the Hundred Races to manufacture the Hundred Veins Blood Pill, as a substitute for Holy Beast Blood to avert the extinction crisis of the Succubus Race.
With these two events happening simultaneously, nearby tribes all fell into a state of anxiety.
Although the Succubus Race is not as powerful as before, it is still not something ordinary people can contend with.
However, what angered people was that even as this issue spread and fermented among the various tribes, the disappearances continued unabated.
This touched everyone’s nerve and aroused massive public indignation; soon, the quiet Moria City of hundreds of years became lively again.
The small city was filled with the missing people’s families and other tribesmen who came upon hearing the news, including nearly ten races such as the Human Race, Mouse-man Race, Fox-man Race, and Bike Race.
And now, these people initiate a fight against the Succubus Race!
They demand an explanation for those who ’died’ and insist on handing over the current clan leader to the White Tiger City tribunal for trial.
Once judged and convicted at the tribunal, surviving is rare, and even if they do, they are basically ruined.
As for the Succubus Race side, it is naturally impossible to easily hand over their clan leader.
Thus, fierce confrontations occurred in Moria City.
In the end, the Succubus Race, numbering less than ten thousand, had no choice but to retreat to Moria Inner City, shutting their doors.
...
The most crucial reason why things escalated to this point was that throughout the entire incident, the Succubus Race never once clarified that they did not commit the acts of slaughtering various races to make the Hundred Races Blood Pill.
For the various races, the Succubus Race’s silence was tantamount to a tacit admission.
This ultimately caused the matter to spiral out of control.
Sumiya looked at Lin Yi:
"Master Mage, do you believe this was truly done by the Succubus Race?"
"Me?"
Lin Yi was taken aback, then reflected on everything Sumiya just said, looking at Sumiya and asking:
"If none of this was done by the Succubus Race, have those innocent missing people been found?"
"Where have they gone?"
Upon hearing this, Sumiya was stunned, speechless for a moment:
"This..."