Western region of West Nation, late at night.0

The town consisted mostly of patches of green interspersed with wide streets and buildings that were few and far between. Most of the houses were uniquely built wooden cabins. Under the moonlight, the town seemed silent and lonesome.0

In the back of the town stretched a vast pine forest and an empty grassland, beyond which snowy mountain ranges reached toward the sky—all part of the unreachable Mist, of course. In fact, half of the town was already devoured by the Mist, and no residents remained in the other half. It had become a forgotten ghost town.0

A middle school campus sat in the northern part of the town. The layout was strange with the running track and the teaching building squashed together,...0