In the following days, Duanmu Huai and Mary did relax a bit, avoiding further battles with any ghouls and instead wandered amidst scenic mountains and waters—not that they didn't want to trouble the ghouls, but most had gone silent and disappeared without a trace.
Of course, not all of them were wiped out. The Tribunal's warships had been monitoring these ghouls' movements and found that most had already retreated underground—a piece of good news for Duanmu Huai. So now he was just waiting, waiting for all the ghouls to voluntarily hide underground before he could eradicate them all. Before that... Well, it wouldn't hurt to enjoy a bit of shopping, right?
But for the ghouls that had gone deep underground, it was a disaster.
Each district had its own ghoul groups. Over the years, they had established their territories, like gangs, each occupying a patch of land for survival, not encroaching on each other.
