The land in the northern continent is relatively barren.
We didn't see any decent towns along the way, only some backward villages.
Many of the humans who first came here were mercenaries, criminals, and adventurers, which led to the local customs being quite tough. Coupled with the prevalence of smuggling trade, the people here have inextricable ties with the gray forces.
Slavery still exists in the Northern Continent, and the slaves come from the human kingdom in the Southern Continent.
They were imprisoned in farms and mines and worked hard, and were occasionally sold to non-human creatures at high prices.
Since humans colonized the world and took the leading role, they successively defeated elves and dwarves to expand their territory, then expelled other aliens, and finally began to build their own kingdoms and kill each other. There are no elves, dwarves and gnomes in the southern countries now, and the number of halflings is even rarer. Now the targets of persecution are slowly turning to female sorcerers and demon hunters among humans.
It is said that the oldest texts record that humans came here to colonize because their own world was destroyed.
The city of freedom.
When Su Ziyu arrived at this legendary city, his expression was quite surprised.
Because he saw a rather grand and majestic city. The city walls here were more majestic than those of Lund. From afar, he could see many large buildings with pointed roofs. The style was quite elegant and gorgeous, with many pointed arches, ribbed vaults and flying buttresses.
To be honest, he almost thought he had come to a Renaissance city at first.
This city is completely different from the style of the entire Northern Continent!
If he had seen such a building in a king's capital of the southern countries, he might not have been too surprised, but Su Ziyu was quite shocked to see such a prosperous city in the desolate and barren northern continent.
"This city was originally built by the elves who retreated north." Ms. Enid's voice sounded in my ears.
There was a hint of sadness in her expression.
Unable to resist the expansion of humans, the original races of this world, elves, dwarves and gnomes, were forced to evacuate. The elves had fought with humans at first, but they were defeated and lost a lot of fresh blood. No race in this world could resist the expansion of humans, because the elves were so hateful that they would rather destroy their own cities when they evacuated than leave them to the expanding humans.
The strong prey on the weak and only the fittest survive.
The primitive indigenous people of the northern continent were also slaughtered.
"This place is a little different from what I thought." Su Ziyu said with a smile.
The group of people gradually approached the city gate.
Just as he reached the city gate, Su Ziyu felt the clover amulet on his chest move slightly, and his eyes fell on a man dressed as a guard.
This man is not a vampire.
He didn't have the cold smell of a vampire, and Su Ziyu didn't know what he was, but the clover amulet obviously detected something.
"Don't act rashly." Fantsin whispered.
He must have known a lot about the Free City. He lowered his voice and whispered in Su Ziyu's ear: "We are not welcome here."
The city does not exclude outsiders.
But this place doesn't look very safe either. Prosperity and decadence coexist here. Su Ziyu saw many mercenaries and adventurers with tough looks, and some were escorting a group of humans imprisoned in shackles. They might be criminals, bankrupts and deserters, but now they were just a group of slaves waiting to be sold.
Su Ziyu saw elves, dwarves and midgets here. Unlike the elves he imagined, the elves living here looked like humans except for their handsome appearance. They were shrewd and mercenary and would bargain with merchants. They were not as elegant as the legend said. Some elves even bought some human slaves.
Dwarves are not as honest as imagined, but they do care a lot about their beards and seem to have quite a bad temper.
The most surprising thing is the dwarf.
Because Su Ziyu saw a steam hammer in a blacksmith shop run by a dwarf, the weapons and equipment forged here seemed to be very popular.
Unlike the southern countries, people openly open alchemy shops on the streets, which are filled with all kinds of strange things. If such shops were in the southern countries, they would probably be demolished by the Knights of the Church on the same day. In the past two or three years, even humans who studied alchemy would be caught and tried by the Church.
certainly.
The church actually has a lot of alchemy, otherwise the alchemical kerosene they developed would not be more powerful than the witcher's. They occasionally capture witchers, but as far as Fantsin knows, many of the fanatics in the church have taken potions similar to those used in the witcher's trials.
"Let's go in," Ms. Enid said softly.
Su Ziyu didn't expect that Ms. Enid actually had a chamber of commerce here, and it seemed to be run by elves.
The surrounding land and houses are all owned by the Chamber of Commerce.
The elves were very respectful to Lady Enid and called her "Sage" in a special language. If Su Ziyu had not mastered the ability to translate languages, she would probably not have known the meaning of that title.
After arriving here safely, the sorceresses were obviously much more relaxed.
Here Su Ziyu saw halflings for the first time. They were only about one meter tall, with a pair of hairy big feet, lively personalities, and excellent cooking skills. These halflings seemed to be attached to the elf merchants here, and they were very humble to everyone.
"This place is indeed unsafe." Fantsin was sitting opposite Su Ziyu.
The two men had just started a game of Gwent.
On the way to the Chamber of Commerce, the clover amulet on his chest vibrated at least three times. However, because there were too many people on the road, he did not notice anything unusual. The vampires here could not be seen from their appearance, and they were not afraid of the sun. High-level vampires would even sunbathe.
There are a lot of aliens hidden in this city.
"There are a lot of vampires here."
Fantsin's expression was very serious when he was playing cards. He said slowly, "Griffin."
"I know there's a brothel here run by a vampire. Do you want me to take you there to see it tonight?"
Your recipes are too extensive, aren’t they?
"Dwarf defender." Su Ziyu frowned upon hearing this and said, "Vampire Banshee? Have you tried it?"
"Well. What else?" Fantsin said with a wicked smile: "They are quite special."
This guy must be fooling me.
So, Su Ziyu decided to play cards seriously and stop listening to his nonsense.
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