Chapter 18: Dark Canyon [Part-2]

Dark Canyon is located to the eastern most part of the Evergreen Kingdom, it is situated bedside the sea. Dark canyon is covered by mountains on the three side i.e., north, east and south.

Only West side is open but the center and the west side is covered by dense forest, the mountains that cover the three side are above 2000 meters in height and 800 meters wide.

Due to there height the canyon is always in dark. Only at noon when the sun is high above, the canyon gets the light and, in the evening, even before the sun goes down the light in the canyon fades away.

Due to having only few hours of light, this canyon is known as Dark Canyon.

The area at the center is 50 sq. kms, the shape of the canyon is square. Due to few hours of sunlight, the canyon is always cold and it is not possible to do agriculture, although the canyon is filled with the trees, these trees have mutated and are only grown in this type of place.

Due to low temperature, and difficulty in agriculture and also because of dense dark element present in the place, it is not suitable for people to live in.

Because to this the kingdoms surrounding this place never tried to conquer this place.

Since the place was never touched by the kingdoms, it is filled with many demon beasts and form early on a barbarian tribe lived in this place.

Due to living in this place for long time, these people or barbarians also got mutated along with the beasts, land, trees and air itself.

Due to mutation of everything in that place, if a person or a beast from outside of the place tried to enter it, they would be poisoned by the mutated air and their chances of death is 99.99%.

If is barbarian or a demon beast from inside tried going outside then due to the different environment, they would loose there strength first and they would once again start to mutated which would result in the death due the death percentage of 98.9%.

Due to these conditions Dark Canyon has become Forbidden place. Even after so many decades or centuries there is no cure for the poison from this place.

But there is time when the when the mutated air or the poison in canyon is suppressed to 10% from 100% of its full capacity. It is on hottest period of the region during the year.

During this time many adventures and mercenaries travel into Dark canyon to catch the demon beasts or to gather resources like herbs or ores.

The blood and meat are used in alchemy and the bones and skin are used to make weapons and armors, the herbs and ores are also used in same way.

Due to suppressed conditions of the poison, the death rate decreases drastically and the poison itself can be suppressed by the potions or medicines prepared by the alchemists.

Although all the conditions of the Dark Canyon look good for Lucas's requirement of a place far from Princes' and Nobles' influence and also a place that is rarely visited by the people of the kingdoms.

But the conditions in that place is harsh and s not a got place to live or settle on. Thinking about it, Lucas signed and started to look for different place reluctantly.

Just as he started looking at different place on the map, suddenly a sound of message ringtone rang from his mobile beside him.

He picked it up and looked at the message that was sent by Chaos stones to him, it said that…