Protecting a secret is not an easy task. Secrets are always conspicuous; everyone who gets a whiff yearns to unearth them. The more desperately a secret is guarded, the more energetically these Excavators strive, because the harder something is to unearth, the more valuable it becomes.
The Yowein Continent was originally like a murky sphere, a vast, bewildering expanse. Within this haze, those who managed to discern patterns and uncover secrets naturally became the strong.
To secure their positions, these strong individuals devised every possible method to guard the patterns and secrets they had found. To protect these secrets, they stopped at nothing, employing intimidation, threats, temptation, and deception—resorting to any extreme.