Chapter 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."