<h4>Chapter 393: Information on ckhaven</h4>


    In the shallow jungle southwest of Jagem ins, Sein, having just arrived via a teleportation array, was pinching the spot between his eyebrows to regain his focus.


    Beside him, Yuri, who was supposed to be protecting him, looked even paler and more disoriented than Sein.


    Around them, the three individuals who had also been teleportedy unconscious on the jungle floor.


    Clearly, the stability of the teleportation array in the Monique ck Market left much to be desired!


    Sein was unsure whether this was an issue with their subpar teleportation technology or the absence of necessary adaptive devices.


    In any case, the disorienting experience reminded Sein of his first journey to the Yellow Sand World.


    "The Verdant me Body Tempering technique isn’t just effective for me. ording to the materials my mentor gave me, it can be applied to the flesh of other living beings. Once this journey is over, I’ll strengthen your constitution as well,” Sein exined to Yuri.


    He continued, “The constitution of engineers from the Neisse Civilization is weaker than that of mages, which indicates significant ws and drawbacks in your civilization’s evolutionary and developmental approaches.”


    Yuri made no objections to Sein’s suggestion.


    At this point, she would not oppose any of Sein’s proposals, no matter how extreme they might be.


    Once they had somewhat recovered, Sein and Yuri left the area.


    The three unconscious human ves, enveloped by Sein’s spell, floated in mid-air and followed behind as he and Yuri flew westward toward the denser parts of the jungle.


    ***


    They were currently in a recently excavated mountain cave, which had once been the home of an intermediate-level magic beast—a Mountain Tyrant Bear.


    The beast was no longer here.


    One of its paws had served as a meal for Sein, while the rest was consumed by Sev, who had a surprisinglyrge appetite.


    The cave had been significantly expanded from its original size, primarily through Yuri’s effort in her mecha.


    The once cramped space was transformed into a temporaryboratory for Sein.


    Apart from Sein’s various experimental apparatus, the temporaryboratory housed more crucial “experimental subjects”—the two magic initiates and squire.


    Sein never intended for the two ck magic initiates and ck squire he acquired at the auction to survive.


    After all, he was not some pervert with a strange fetish, nor was he interested in retaining three weak minions.


    Besides, keeping them alive would only add three potential threats to his surroundings, akin to time bombs that could explode if discovered by the divine towers or the orders of the knights.


    If Sein could craft spatial equipment that could store humans, he might have considered sparing their lives for future use in special experiments.


    Without this ability, he concluded that the most pragmatic approach was to extract whatever value they could provide before efficiently disposing of them—leaving no trace behind.


    Therge cave was divided into four distinct spaces.


    The three human ves were each strapped to a different experiment table in three of these spaces. The fourth area served as Sein’s personal quarters.


    Nearly a week had psed since Sein began his work in the mountain cave. During this time, through abination of interrogation and focus control, Sein had gleaned much of the information he sought.


    His proficiency in soul magic had significantly eased these interrogations.


    Terms such as Catb Chasm, magic beast forest, Trial of Despair, and ck magic academy provided Sein with a clearer and more tangible understanding of ckhaven, located in the northern part of the Western Archipgo.


    It became apparent that ckhaven had its own ck magic academy, an institution simr to the one in Mystralora City, designed to train ck magic initiates.


    Apart from the ck magic academy, ckhaven was also home to towering, ominous ck towers.


    These ck towers bore simrities to the divine towers found across the Magus World map. They were constructed by mages above Rank Four.


    In ckhaven, each ck tower symbolized despair and darkness.


    Unfortunately, the life level and knowledge of the ck squire enved by Sein were too limited to confirm the existence of ck knight organizations akin to the orders of the knights in the Magus Continent.


    Nevertheless, after calmly analyzing the situation, Sein surmised that such entities likely existed. Considering there were more knights than mages in the Magus World, it was likely that there were more ck knights than ck mages too.


    Given therge number of ck towers standing in ckhaven, it seemed reasonable to assume that there were also organizations established by ck knights above Rank Four.


    The three soul ves Sein held were originally from inds east of ckhaven, part of the Western Archipgo.


    Notably, two-thirds of ckhaven itself consisted of densely packed inds.


    The inds were immense, often rivaling entire continents in low-level nes.


    Two of the three soul ves Sein acquired originated from Mishra Ind, located in the eastern part of ckhaven.


    This “ind” hosted three human kingdoms with abined poption exceeding two million and the two soul ves came from different kingdoms on this densely popted ind.


    The female soul ve came from a location closer to the heart of ckhaven but still within its eastern periphery.


    Through her, Sein learned about the ck towers and the “Trial of Despair”, a harrowing ordeal far surpassing the intensity of normal regional academy wars typically organized by the divine towers.


    The rigorous nature of these trials exined why the ck mages from ckhaven were considered elite.


    After briefly hearing about the Trial of Despair, Sein could vividly imagine the intense pressure and despair those ck magic initiates endured during the elimination process.


    In typical regional academy wars, casualties were intentionally kept between ten and thirty percent by the divine towers to ensure a bnce.


    In stark contrast, the survival rate for initiates in the Trials of Despair, as organized by the ck magic academies in ckhaven, hovered between fifteen to as low as only one percent!


    This startling statistic reflected a brutal educational approach—the academies seem indifferent to the possibility that only one percent of their initiates might survive the ordeal.


    The scarcity of resources in ckhaven meant that the training and development of mages were far harsherpared to the gentler approach in the Magus Continent.


    On top of that, the Regional Inter-Divine Tower War hosted by the divine towers in the Magus World was funded by the Magus Alliance.


    In contrast, ckhaven,cking sufficient resources, waspelled to adopt an elitist approach.


    In the eyes of those vicious ck mages, the life of a magic initiate was deemed less valuable than a magicoin.