When the sunrises, its rays of light then shone brightly on Leo's face, causing him to slowly opened his eyes.

"Argh..." Leo held his head as he suddenly felt a headache. Though he quickly forgot about such feeling as he noticed the really unfamiliar place around him.

At this moment, Leo was able to quickly noticed that his inside the wooden house, or rather it's more appropriate to call it a bamboo hut, with only a bed, an open window at the left side, and both a table and cabinet at the right side of the open door.

Leo carefully tried to stand up his upper body from the bed as he then thought about what had happened to him for him to arrive in this unfamiliar place.

In his memories, before finally losing his consciousness, a white sphere that suddenly came out from the Defensive Magical Artifact that his Master Olivia had given to him enveloped his entire body and Levi on his shoulder, before it quickly flew up high in the air and went somewhere else.

The next thing he remembered was when he first opens his eyes he was on a shore with dense tall trees in front of him.

A group of unfamiliar Magical Beast also attacked him, causing him to receive some injuries and losing consciousness once again.

Taking all of those memories into consideration, he can't remember going into some kind of bamboo hut. Or perhaps it was Levi who had bought him over here.

"Now that I thought about Levi, where the heck did that little guy go?" Leo said as he finally got out of the bed and slowly walked out of the bamboo hut.

The moment he got outside, he was immediately greeted by dozens of bamboo huts similar to where he was sleeping in materials but only different in size and shape, specifically; the huts were in various forms such as triangular huts, square huts, long huts, a tall hut, and even more unique was some huts actually has some sort of unfamiliar and familiar Magical Beast form.

Suddenly, a man walked up to Leo and greeted, "Oh, you're already awake. I'm Brad, welcome to Eclipse Village."

"Eclipse village?" Leo dubiously asked, "Is this some kind of village on the west shore of Silver Kingdom?"

"Silver Kingdom? Is that the place where you have come from? If you're looking for that place, then you need to cross thousands of kilometers before exiting the Twilight Forest and arriving at Southeast Fortress." Brad replied.

"Oh..." Leo finally realized where exactly he was. Basing on what Brad had said, this was a village inside Twilight Forest called Eclipse village. In other words, a neutral territory.

If his memories serves him right, then neutral territory should be the territories that are independent and aren't part of any Kingdoms or Empires.

Such territory though only belongs to three groups of people, the Outlaws, the Nomads, and the powerful Foreign race such as the Dragon race, Devil and Demon race, Giants race, and many more other powerful races.

In the case of Outlaws, they are people who were exiled by their respective race due to violating their laws and ethics. However, since because they are people of status, they are not killed due to their contributions and were instead just banned from any of that certain race's territories. Simply put, Outlaws are from Noble Households.

In the case of Nomads, they are people who don't have any permanent address. They just keep on traveling from one place to another, usually because their former place was destroyed and became unhabitable for them, hence prompting them to change their location instead of rebuilding from scratch.

Lastly, in the case of a powerful Foreign race like the Dragon race, they are so powerful that staying neutral is not a problem for them.

Humans and other weak or average Foreign races always rely on forming of alliances in order for their respective races to stay alive and not fall into extinction. On the other hand, the Dragon race doesn't need such a thing since they are so powerful to the point that even 2 or more alliances deciding to have a truce to group together and fight against them is still not enough to eliminate the Dragon Kingdoms and Empires. In fact, a powerful race such as the Dragon race is so powerful that they are considered as backers. If a race gets their backing, then it's a sure deal of being save as long as that powerful race is still alive.

The most important thing about the powerful race though is that they are so neutral that they don't even want to be part of anything related to the Celestial World. Those races are not even participating in the War of Races, but instead, they just created a tournament for themselves in order to determine who is the strongest in their race and just be done with it after it's finished.

Simply put, they are seemingly living in a separate world away from the other weak and average Foreign races such as the Humans, Dwarves, Elves, and many more.

Leo was really sure that Brad and these people part of the Eclipse village belong to the Nomads group.

What is really shocking for him, though, is they actually lived somewhere inside the Twilight Forest. This was a territory labeled as a Danger zone by not only the Humans but also the Dwarves, Sand People, Elves, and even the Orcs, Ogre, Cyclops, and lastly, the Vampires.

It was a place so dangerous that all of those races don't even dare to pioneer in order to expand in such a place.

Surprisingly, a village is actually located here.

"Isn't it dangerous living inside Twilight Forest?" Leo can't help but ask.

"It is indeed dangerous, but for us, it's just normal," Brad replied seemingly nonchalant about it.

Hearing Brad's words, Leo can't help but stared up and down at Brad, seemingly searching for where Brad's confidence came from.

Brad was actually just an 18 years old male, he was a Mage though, basing on the Mana circulating around him, but he's definitely not someone powerful. In fact, based on his knowledge about the Mages, Brad was actually only a 1 Star Mage.

Noticing Leo's reaction, Brad only laughed as he understood that this young man is definitely still ignorant about some things related to Mages. Hence, he decided to show him something.

*Whoooosh!

Suddenly, water appeared on Brad's hand as he then started playing with it. He made the water travel from his hand, then to the other hand, then head, and even in the middle of his stomach, and finally returned it back to his right hand, which then dissolved into the water.

"Was that a Water Bomb?" Leo dubiously asked. The water just now really looked like those of the Fire Bomb that he had seen from his Master Olivia before.

"Yes, and no!" Brad replied as he motioned Leo with his hand to come to follow him.

After a while, Leo and Brad arrived in an open space with tens or so of a young, adult, and even old and kids training with their Magic spells.

What's really shocking about the scene he is looking at this moment though is the fact that the people were actually of different Foreign races.

Some were from the Wolf race, some were from Ocelot race, and even some looked really similar to Humans, though there was just some uniqueness that separates them from the normal Human.

There were just too many different kinds of Foreign races here.

But what's even more shocking though is that these people were actually a mix of 3 or more Foreign races.

"Hybrids..." Leo silently muttered, but it was still enough for Brad to hear.

"Yes, people living in Eclipse village are Hybrids..." Brad said with a proud smile on his face.

Hybrids were people that have a combination of different Foreign races blood within them.

A Human and Elf had a baby together, that child would obviously have both the Humans and Elves traits. However, that is actually not considered yet as Hybrids, but instead, that's what they called as a Mix Breed.

What Hybrid exactly are were those people that have at least the traits of 3 different Foreign races. Taking the example before, the child of that Human and Elves is called Mix Breed. The moment that Mix Breed finds a partner that is entirely of a different Foreign race, the offspring would then have 3 or more different traits, entirely depending on the traits of the partner.

The blood of the husband and wife would become so mix that the blood of each Foreign race in that child's body is only so little, hence they can't be recognized as anything.

This had then caused the birth of the race called Hybrids. The race with no exact real identity.

Realizing that these people were actually Hybrids, Leo finally understood why they were living in the Twilight Forest.

Because Hybrids were people with no exact real identity, they were not accepted by the majority of the Foreign races.

Although they have some certain traits similar to other Foreign races, it is still a fact that they only have some. They are not considered as Mix Breed, nor are they Pure Blood. In fact, what they are really called are products, or more appropriately called as slaves.

Since Hybrids are only considered as slaves, they were then hunted by Slave Hunters, Mercenaries, and even some Mage would hunt Hybrids and then sell them to Slave Merchants in exchange for a few silver or gold coins, depending on the traits.

The Hybrid's trait is the most important thing for the Hybrids. For example, if a Hybrid is a beautiful woman or a handsome man, then they are immediately deemed as valuable. If they have the potential to become Mages, Magical Knights, or someone with a useful capability, then they are deemed even more valuable. And lastly, those with an inferior looks or capability would be sold for a very low price, even some were priced so cheaply that they can be bought only for a few copper coins, especially if they have disabilities or were already used products.

Obviously, because the Twilight Forest is a Danger zone, only a few people would dare travel in such a place, and the majority of them are the only passerby that used the Twilight Forest as a shortcut to arrive as soon as possible in other territories.

So, the Hybrids choosing to live in Twilight Forest is reasonable, since this kind of place is considered as a safe sanctuary for them.