Deep in the Flora Cosmic Mountain Range - Vineroot Dense Forest.
Several World Tree areas in this region had been sufficient to give birth to a Transcendent Sequence Civilization, and the steam industry was thriving.
The World Tree communities connected by a large expanse of vines around it were still in a more primitive Dark Era.
Vampire creatures, Werewolf creatures, Demon creatures, and many other dark creatures proliferated their dark tribal power with the surging waves of darkness in these areas.
With the pioneering of the steam industry,
Transcendent Sequence Civilization began to experience friction with the ecology of the dark creatures from the Dark Era's World Trees around it, which eventually led to war.
But the newly developed Sequence Civilization was clearly at a disadvantage.
However, over the course of a year or two, a peculiar product called "Steam Core" was born amid the persistent steamy haze.