The Earth Vein Wizard set up a "Disengagement Technique" Magic Circle, teleported away from the Pollution Zone, leaving behind a pile of discarded Magic Stones and magic materials that had lost their essence.
Noland Lee and the Dusk Giants embarked on their journey toward the Core District.
Along the way, they encountered many wizard forces.
The wizards' penchant for courting death was fully demonstrated in this Pollution Zone.
There were those obsessed with studying Bloodstains, and those who wanted to transform the monsters within the territory into magic puppets.
Even more extreme, some dreamed of cutting through a Stone Passage, taking both the passage and its Bloodstains out of the domain to perform Magic Experiments.
These folks had also discovered the visual discrepancies between the inside and outside of the domain—why does the Pollution Zone look like flesh and blood from the outside, but turn into a Stone Passage smeared with Bloodstains once inside?