Careless Blunder
The journey from there on took even longer than Rui had speculated. The two of them ran into all manner of environments, topographies, and ecosystems that defied what they thought was possible.
While they managed to overcome them, there were more close shaves than Rui had expected.
The Beast Domain was truly unpredictable.
It had an absurd degree of diversity and variance, and the very concept of consistency was foreign to the entire region.
Regions changed drastically every hundred kilometers; there was absolutely no continuity like there was in the Human Domain, where weather and climate did not change more than several percentage points across a hundred kilometers.
Rui had a hard time understanding how a piping hot desert could co-exist with a blizzard next door. It violated the laws of thermodynamics, as far as he was aware.