AZI: The History Shattering Burial of a Selfish Lunatic Vol 1 to Vol 4

Volume 4 Chapter 54.5 Intermission

Intermission – The Boy Who Prays, and "the God" That Answers 

The inner domain of the Leng Bing Realm is divided into five levels.

The further away one is from the center of the domain, the harsher the everlasting winter's coldness is.

The first level is considered to be the slums. It is where non-Sinners are gathered. Housing here is rather rundown with a few being on the verge of collapsing.

The second level is the dwellings of the Ashen River Hall's lower-class members. The dwellers here are charged with the task of hunting and gathering.

A rural village with patches of farmland, that would be one way to describe the area. And to ensure stable productivity, the plots used for growing crops are kept in a usable state all year round by magic arrays.

The third level is made up of mostly inner members, along with core members of the hall.

Different from the inner members, core members are charged with leading ruins excavations and hunting and gathering activities with the former group.

Although inner members are able to act solo for hunting and gathering activities, they are not allowed to enter ruins without a core member leading them.

The fourth level is the inner domain's largest area. It is occupied by the well-established core members, along with the hall's executives.

The buildings here are all modern, no different from an outer domain's Grounded City—with towering skyscrapers and industrial structures throughout. This is the place that all inner domain denizens seek to enter.

As for the fifth level, it is the smallest area of the inner domain, and it is also where the hall master's residence is.

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Within the inner domain's second level lived a certain boy with black hair and dark eyes.

He wasn't anyone extraordinary.

However, there was one thing that made the boy different from others.

He is aware of the world's true nature—regarding the gear-filled skies over his head, being a mimicry of the true heavens, a place that is much vaster and more magnificent than the artificial scenery above him.

But that was all that made him unique, and it wasn't something to be bragged about—because he knew how insignificant of a knowledge that was.

Attire wise, the boy was commonly seen with a short-sleeved black shirt and a pair of dark blue jeans.

Despite being a Sinner, the boy was only an ordinary member of the Ashen River Hall, only slightly higher in status than those who lived in the first level areas. That being the case, he mainly performed odd jobs to get by—all of which, required some form of manual labor.

Within the inner domain, the moment a child is able to think, they're expected to work—regardless of their age. This is to drill the harshness of the inner domain into their bones early on.

Unlike others of his age, the boy was known to be fit physically and was quick to recover his strength, this was theorized to be the ability of his Relic that is merged with his flesh. But even then, this wasn't considered to be anything extraordinary.

One could consider the boy to be one of the weakest Sinners around, and because of this, he was often picked on by others—with most of these individuals being the jealous sort, due to the boy having a childhood friend of the opposite gender.

The circumstances of the two's meeting could only be described as ordinary—simply a matter of them being neighbors with one another, and the circumstances of their parting were just as ordinary.