บท 174: Rice Field

As the warm morning sun began to set towards the horizon, the reddish light of the afternoon illuminated the landscape around the four travelers. The biome around them began to change, and vegetation slowly took over the bare, rocky terrain of the southern territory of Tentochu.

The mountains that dipped into the ground to the west grew taller and taller, traveling inland and forming the central area of the Southborne Mountains. That was the most extensive mountain range in the region and stretched from the far south to the far north, splitting Tentochu into two almost equidimensional parts.

While Enatsu continued to rest with his Moruba, Yoichi and Shioko looked at the surrounding landscape with more critical eyes than on the outward journey. How many other villages were scattered throughout the territory south of Blackborough? Had they too been wiped out like that poor fishing village?