Prologue: The Forest

In the far west of the main human continent of Usborne there exists a strange forest that spans 30 kilometres from bottom too top, this forest has no name to the humans as they try their best to avoid it apart from a few brave travelling merchants trying to get to the human civilisation and fairly powerful Ki practitioners from strong clans or popular schools but they only go in as far as 6 kilometres due to its inhabitants.

In this forest exists all sorts of mythical creatures, monsters or just plain abominations, the only reason people dare to venture into this forest is the thought of the expensive materials and treasure from the monster inhabitants or to test their newly found strength, but 3/5 of these people generally do not return without major injuries or survive at all.

Although this forest does not have an official name it is generally regarded as the ‘Demon Land’ by most of the continent, while the monsters are named ‘Demons’.

The ‘Demons’ here are what most humans make their fortune off of as the monsters have three uses to humans these consist of: their materials these are used for weapons, armour, medicine and magical items. They also have solid Ki cores which can be harvested and swallowed to increase Ki cultivation speed for humans as there cores are known as the soul and is not solid so the Ki core would dissolve into what is known as the soul. And due to the human-like intelligence the ‘Demons’ have they are very useful for humans to have as pets or mounts to both protect them and for travelling, but due to the arrogance they have they usually would die than submitting to humans so the humans use a magical item known as the ‘Demon Collar’ which controls the Demon so they have to obey the humans commands which to them is worse than death.

The ‘Demon Land’ is separated into the 1st circle this is where the weakest creatures reside and only spans 3 kilometres into the forest this part usually only contains monsters with little to no intelligence but there is many in number which makes it dangerous to a single or small group of humans, then there is the 2nd circle which spans 15 kilometres and makes up most of the forest this circle contains many strong ‘Demons’ with most of them having human intelligence but cannot speak as they are too low in Ki cultivation, then there is the centre circle which no human has gone into due to the terrifying ‘Demons’ here this is where strong ‘Demons’ battle for territory and the title of ‘Forest Leader’. The ‘Demons’ while they are strong and have above human intelligence and the ability to speak only few have the revered inherited memories of techniques and training methods and their divine abilities which vary from species to species, the ‘Demons’ which posses these are generally worshiped by other ‘Demons’ and are called divine species by both ‘Demons’ and humans.

Surrounding the forest are many outposts which belong to all of the human cities to protect the humans from ‘Demons’ from the 1st circle as some venture out of the forest and attack nearby villages, so a joint alliance from the human cities place many soldier to protect the close villages, and have jointly made a massive training city for future Ki practitioners for the safety of humanity.

Our journey starts at the edge between the 2nd and centre circle where a new unique ‘Demon’ has been born into a family of the divine species known as the Demon Fox.