Chapter 13: The City of Healing and the White Witch

The Central Plains region of the Raven Continent can be said to be like spring all year round, different from the western part where Su Xiao was located before, where the rainy season is perennial, and the climate is humid and cold.

According to what Su Xiao saw and heard along the way, more than 60% of the land in the Dark Raven Continent was undeveloped areas, with barren grass and fertile land.

This continent is not short of resources, what is lacking is civilization, as long as more than 10% of the land is sown, it can solve the problem of food and clothing for most civilians, but unfortunately, the war has made the land planting area of this world less than 4%, which is so exaggerated.

Witches, lords entrenched in various places, slave estates, indigenous tribes, if these problems are not solved, the civilians of the Raven Continent can only starve and freeze, and the information popularization is too backward, so that the civilians are not aware of this at all, in their opinion, most of the reasons for starvation are caused by the climate.

Don't think this is stupid, most areas are closed to information, even if one day the leading organization of the Holy Healing Church is destroyed, except for civilians in the Central Plains region, it will take at least a month, or even half a year for other regions to receive news, as for those indigenous tribes who are still drinking blood, they don't care about these at all.

On the way, Su Xiao had already finished reading the books he got from the palace, among which the two books "A Brief History of the Raven Continent" and "The Age of the Witches" were the most valuable, "A Brief History of the Raven Continent" was written by a certain prophetic witch 7 years ago, with the speed of development of this world, this thing is similar to the newspaper a few months ago, the news is not new, but it can be used.

According to the description of the witch named Selia, the Dark Raven Continent can actually be divided into three major parts, the Central Plains and the West, two large areas, are under the control of the Holy Healing Church, and the law is relatively perfect, and the east is dominated by indigenous forces.

The north is the ice field and the frozen soil, the civilians here are mainly hunting, the folk customs are extremely strong, not strong and not good, the north does not produce food in the four seasons and long winters, the civilians compete with wild beasts every day for survival territory, even the lactating women are also fierce women, one moment may still be breastfeeding the child, the next moment they have to pick up weapons and their husbands to defend against wolves.

The king of the north of Winterfell is extremely good at war, but unfortunately he is not good at strategy, and the resources in the territory are poor, so he can only entrench in the north, there are very few witches here, not that the witches are afraid of the fierce folk customs here, but it is too cold here, if you don't understand the environment, the witches may be frozen to death, or rather, there are not a few witches who freeze to death here, and the blizzard is no joke.

To put it simply, the central and western regions are stable, the eastern part is barbaric and basically has no laws, the northern border is cold, and as for the south, this is the territory of witches, the forbidden area for humans.

Su Xiao had a preliminary understanding of the Dark Crow Continent, he gradually passed the exploration stage, and now he was located in the Central Plains region, only about five kilometers away from Shengyu City.

After arriving at the direct jurisdiction of Shengyu City, Su Xiao rarely saw thieves and primitive natives wandering around, he slaughtered at least dozens of thieves along the way, and every few kilometers ahead, he could meet one or two groups of thieves, these thieves did not have this road I opened, leaving the style of buying road money, they would not negotiate with the travelers at all, kill directly, and loot the property on the corpse.

When he arrived at the edge of Shengyu City, Su Xiao saw many villages, which were mainly based on animal husbandry, and they were not enthusiastic about treating travelers, but if they were willing to pay money, they didn't mind travelers staying overnight.

After the team continued to move forward for 20 minutes, a magnificent city wall appeared in view, this wall was about 100 meters high, and you could vaguely see patches of filling marks on it, judging by the extent of the damage, it was likely to be done by a witch.

Before entering the city, Su Xiao saw a pair of patrolling soldiers, who were not wearing heavy armor, but were wearing more advanced and lighter scale armor.

Standing in the distance and looking at the walls of Shengyu City, it feels like looking at a big mountain, and looking up up up like a heavenly wall.

It is unimaginable that, with the level of technology in this world, how they can build such a wall that is 100 meters high and more than 20 meters thick, or rather, this is not done by humans at all.

As soon as Su Xiao approached the city gate, he heard the bustling voices, and after observing it, he found that it was much easier than he imagined to enter Shengyu City, there was no need to pay fees, and there was no need to be checked, those soldiers with old-fashioned shotguns stood on both sides of the city gate, their eyes were like eagles, sweeping over every civilian who entered the city, once they found a suspicious target, these people would do further inspection.

"Stop."

As soon as Su Xiao and his party arrived at the city gate, five soldiers armed with shotguns stepped forward, and it was Eminem who aroused their suspicions.

A soldier pulled out an egg-sized yellow crystal from his bosom that contained a mercury-like fluid, and the soldier held the yellow crystal close to Eminem, but the crystal did not change.

"Excuse me, let's go into town, and have a nice day."

The soldier was surprisingly polite, and he smiled politely at Eminem before returning to his usual serious expression.

Su Xiao was just about to enter the city, when there was a commotion from the rear.

"Slowly raise your hands above your head, and don't think we can't detect your avatar."

The soldier's drinking stopped attracting Su Xiao's attention.

"This little brother, don't be so scary."

A lazy female voice came, and Su Xiao looked at it intently, it was a plump woman wearing an off-the-shoulder long skirt and black gloves, holding a thin pipe in her hand and wavy purple hair.

“5,4,3……”

Dozens of soldiers in front of the city gate counted down in unison, and when the countdown reached 3 o'clock, they simultaneously pulled the firing pin of the shotgun in their hands, and after a neat crisp sound, dozens of muzzles were pointed at the purple-haired woman.

"Ahhh

The purple-haired woman spat out green smoke, she slowly raised her hands, and sighed softly.

A soldier's right arm was raised, signaling not to shoot yet, and he threw a yellow crystal into his mouth before slowly approaching the purple-haired woman.

"Origin, life, age, whether you are wanted or not, give you a minute to narrate."

It was clear that the woman was a witch.

"Ani Claudia, the White Witch, as for age, of course it's a secret, if you want it, I seem to be wanted because of tax issues, this time I came to Shengyu City for this purpose, but the scenery here is beautiful, and I suddenly want to settle here."

"Wanted for tax issues?"

The Soldier Captain was visibly confused, for it was the first time he had heard that witches also paid taxes.

"Of course, the armor you wear is all invented by me, and the tax issues in it give me a headache."

"You're Lady Anie Claudia Frederica Saxton?"

This time the captain of the soldiers was even more shocked.

"It's amazing that you can remember my full name, sometimes I forget it~"

"Ms. Aini, please show your identification."

The attitude of the captain of the soldiers took a 180° turn.

"I almost forgot, I had a certificate of identity from your Anglican Church, and I brought it with me when I came."

As she spoke, the purple-haired woman's hand was inserted into her chest, her black silk gloves contrasting with her fair skin, which made all the men who stopped and watched swallow their saliva.

Su Xiao was also looking at the purple-haired woman, and his thought was that he seemed to have met a big fish.