Chapter 718 - 503 The Origin of Demons (1)_2
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"At that time, what lay before my eyes and beneath my feet, what floated on the surface of the sea, were all corpses. If you dug into the soil at random, underneath was a sea of white bones. A great number of decaying corpses even gave rise to a breeding ground for plague."
"The extensive death led to a shortage of food and supplies, and all these factors together steadily increased the number of the dead."
Atreus’s voice carried a certain weight, and merely by listening to his narration, one could roughly imagine the horrifying disaster that befell his homeland a thousand years ago.
It was a death toll in the billions.
"I didn’t live through that era, and I could only search for records in books. Survivors from that age would even engage in large-scale brawls over a slice of bread, rivers would run red with blood, and the freshly-deceased corpses could even be considered palatable food."
"To satisfy their hunger, people were willing to do anything. They would consume their own children, murder their wives for food—it was a mad time."
"People yearned for the protection of the gods but could not elicit a response. Desperate survivors overthrew temples and smashed the statues of gods."
"That continent, its original name was Divine Grace Continent. After that, it became known as God Abandoned Continent, signifying a world forsaken by the gods."
Disaster is always saddening. Those who haven’t experienced it firsthand cannot comprehend what it was like to live through it; they only know that, at that time, what those so-called survivors possessed was nothing more than hunger, pain, and despair.
That was the surface world, not Hell.