Steampunk Era: Mad Abield

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The route at Sharval Cape was the only passage to Farole from the south of Sydney—the massive transverse mountain range blocked any railway lines heading south from other locations. Malin had read a story from the Tech Hunters’ books.

Someone had once discovered caves left over from the primal era before the Great Destruction, big enough for trains to run through.

The only problem was that the caves were so profound that they housed many Spirits, and even humans who had become completely mutated.

Corpse Ghouls.

That was the name given to them by the Tech Hunters.

These humans had no skin and moved like beasts on all fours, attacking the Tech Hunters—they had entirely lost their reason and intelligence, leaving only pure animal instinct.

So, more often than not, they were called zombies—because their biological characteristics were very similar to those of the Undead, such as Ghouls, but the Tech Hunters had captured zombies by family units; they had genders and could even give birth to offspring.

It sounded as though this world should have already been overrun by such monsters, but they seldom managed to leave the mountain ranges, as Spirits, Chaos, and even living humans were hunting them.

Whether for sustenance, for a few more trophies, or simply to survive.