Editing Monster Girl Encyclopedia II (section)

== The Noble Capital of the Undying (p. 118 - p. 119)==
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Lands overrun by monsters, and perverted in form by flooding mana, are said to belong to the monster realm, this realm includes a range of smaller territories scattered about the world that are characterized by various features and cultures. These territories are broadly categorized as follows: dark mamono realms(most iconic of the monster realm- shrouded in darkness and wreathed in the most sinister of plants; the sky there is always inky, and the land is eerily lit by a red moon and ambient mana), light green mamono realms(with soil and greenery just like that of the human world, as world as blue skies lit by the sun), and spirit realms(specific regions created on another plane by a god or powerful monster).

Each of these broad categories can be further subdivided depending on geographic features, as well as the kinds of monsters that live there. This treatise addresses one such finer category: the kingdom of the undead.
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=== The Kingdoms of the Undead ===
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These kingdoms are a kind of dark mamono realm; they encompass all lands that have become monster realms via inundation with the undead. Such lands are filled with monster mana that turns the human women within them into undead monsters. Most undead have the power to turn the living into the undying. By their hand, cities of the living explode with undead and become capitals of the undying. Alternatively, lands ruined by disaster or war may be resuscitated in undead form by the incursion of monster mana, rising from the ashes as kingdoms of the undead. Here, the black night-the time of the undying- never ends. Hedonistic dissipation pervades these murky lands, where vast numbers of the undead dwell with their husbands wallowing all night long in their unquenchable thirst for the life offered by sex.

The kingdoms of the undead are highly stratified. A wight rules over all as queen, while higher-order undead such as vampires and liches govern below her with wit and grace. The influence of these noble leaders can be felt keenly throughout the kingdom, for despite the darkness and gloom, a degenerate beauty, scrubbed finely of all the filth and contamination one might expect of the undead, can be found-in the castle and the fine halls where the noble leaders reside, as well as in the streets where the lower-order, common undead dwell.

Many places of gathering are situated throughout town, and theaters and museums great and small are scattered about in number. The arts - such as music, painting, and dance- are well developed under the patronage of the nobles. Hence, small performing venues and studios, as well as cafes, are common in the vicinity of the castle. Despite the dark image of the undead, lower-order undead do not actually spend every moment copulating with their husbands; they also spend their days with grace-enjoying art, dancing together, and having tea parties with their friends.

Noble higher-order undead are obligated to display to others their elegant defilement in degeneracy and dissipation, such as befits the undead. Thus, they allot consecutive days for soirees at gathering places where they may demonstrate the debauchery in which they and their husbands rot. These displays by the nobles draw great admiration from the lower-order undead, who dream of one day being so tastefully lewd; they apply this inspiration while copulating with their partners, day after day. The undead become more eerily beautiful the more they collide with their husbands and bathe in their essence. Thus, when a commoner wishes to ascend to the nobility, it is considered vital for her to show, through her beauty, just how foully she has besmirched her soul- and how deeply she has degenerated herself through pleasure. It is such noble character that determines nobility, rather than birth. It does not matter what a monster's race or standing is, or when she became one of the undead; if her body and soul are deemed noble, she will be welcomed into society.
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=== Undead and Incubi ===
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Almost all of the residents of the kingdom of the undead are either undead monsters or their accompanying incubi. Though most undead arise from human women, there are also undead elves and dwarves, as well as the dragon zombie described later in this volume. In fact, any monster that dies with regrets has the potential to rise as one of the undead. The kingdom of the undead is, therefore, quite diverse.

Age has never been observed as the cause of death in any of the undead. Undying, they are thought to be virtually immortal. Upon becoming incubi, the lifespans of the undead's husbands are drastically extended to match that of their partners. Such implies that the men, too, become virtually immortal and join the ranks of the undying.

Incubi are human men who have been adapted to the undead. However, there are also many in the kingdom of the undead who have died and risen as undead-through their difference in appearance may not be obvious. But while it is easy for human women to rise as undead when monster mana takes root in their corpses, raising the corpse of a man is not so easy, as his ability to produce essence must also be revived. Even so, it is possible to bring a man back to this world through a ritual(which will later be described) to borrow divine power and through a perpetual sacrifice that grants mana. In other words, a monster who will live alongside the risen man forever in carnal union.

In the towns, monsters such as ghost and will-o-the-wisps can be seen playing with substances that resemble the hazy glow of flame. This is the most a human can discern of the object, which can only be identified by monsters- but it is in fact the soul of a human man. Such monster races, mere materialized souls, are capable of interacting with those who are naught but soul. In this way, they come to live with them, together as husband and wife.
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=== Hel, Goddess of Life and Death ===
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Hel, goddess of life and death, is said to have the power to change the living into the dead and the dead into the living. She is described as a petite and beautiful girl, graceful and dignified as the daughters of the nobles. Her body is said to live on while greeting death, just like the power she wields - and just like the undead monsters. She is considered a relatively young god of willful and unrestrained disposition, who abhors the idea that death is dark, cold, and sad, and that the dead never return. Dismissing it as a foolish assumption of the old, she promotes the knowledge that death is a new beginning - beyond which lies reunion with loved ones and pleasure unending. As such, she is the most commonly revered deity within the kingdoms of the undead - in place of the Chief God's chalky white churches stand churches of Hel, fine estates decked in red and black.

Hel's followers are promised deaths of everlasting peace - good lives as undead. She lends her power to answer their call, turning the living into the dead and raising the dead as the undead. In the previous Mamono lord's reign, undead were vulnerable to holy power; lower-order undead were easily wiped out by clerics' spells of light-or even sunlight or prayers. At the time, the undead were quite fragile and weak-but in their new forms, undead races are far more stable. Beyond that, all are protected by the goddess Hel. Even a lower-order undead monster can no longer be eliminated by such methods.
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