The Ashen Expanse.
A name so edgy it sounded like it belonged on the cover of a metal album.
It was once considered the most dangerous region in all four kingdoms, where corrupt mana choked the air and beasts mutated into nightmare fuel—now it served a new purpose.
It was Raven's unofficial romantic boot camp.
However, it was safe only because it was the outer region.
If they were to go deeper, then things would be dangerous.
But since they didn't, it wasn't something they had to worry about.
Right now, deep inside a moss-covered cave, lit by soft blue because of the mana stones kept in the surroundings, the group sat comfortably on conjured stone benches as distant howls echoed through the corrupted forest.
The cave entrance lay littered with twitching wolf-like beast corpses, all in various states of very-much-dead.