The land in the northern continent is relatively barren.

I didn't see any decent towns along the way, just backward villages.

Many of the humans who first came here were mercenaries, criminals, and adventurers, which led to the fierce folk customs here, coupled with the prevalence of the smuggling trade, so that the people here are inextricably linked to the gray forces.

Slavery also existed in the Northern Continent, and slaves came from the human kingdom of the Southern Continent.

They are imprisoned in farms, mines, and hard work, and occasionally sold to inhuman creatures at high prices.

Since humans colonized the world and gained dominance, they defeated the elves and dwarves to expand their territory, then expelled other aliens, and eventually began to establish their own kingdoms and fight each other. There are no elves, dwarves, and gnomes in the southern kingdoms anymore, and halflings are even more scarce, and now the persecution is slowly taking the turn of the sorceress and witchers within the human race.

It is said that the oldest texts record that humans came here to colonize because their world was destroyed.

The capital of freedom.

When Su Ziyu came to this legendary city, his expression was still quite surprised.

For he saw a large and majestic city, where the walls were more majestic than those of Lund, and in the distance you could see many large buildings with spires, in an elegant and ornate style, with many pointed arches, ribbed vaults, and flying arches.

To be honest, he almost thought he was in a big Renaissance city at first.

The city is nothing like the whole of the Northern Continent!

If he saw such a building in a certain king in the southern countries, he might not be too surprised, but in the desolate and barren northern continent, Su Ziyu was still quite shocked.

"The city was originally built by the elves who retreated north." Lady Enid's voice rang in her ears.

There was a hint of sadness in her expression.

Unable to resist the expansion of humanity, the elves, dwarves, and gnomes, the native races of this world, were forced to evacuate. The elves had fought against humans at first, but they were defeated and lost a lot of fresh blood. No race in this world can resist the expansion of humanity, as the Hate Elves would rather destroy their cities than leave them to the expanding humans when they leave.

The weak eat the strong, and the fittest survive.

The primitive natives of the Northern Continent have not been slaughtered in the same way.

"It's a little different from what I thought it would be." Su Ziyu smiled.

The procession gradually approached the city gates.

As soon as he walked to the position of the city gate, Su Ziyu felt the clover talisman on his chest move slightly, and his eyes couldn't help but fall 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 talisman had clearly detected something.

"Don't act rashly." Fantesin whispered.

He should know a lot about the Free Capital, so he lowered his voice and said in Su Ziyu's ear: "We are not welcome here. ”

The city does not exclude outsiders.

But it doesn't seem safe either, prosperity and depravity coexist here, Su Ziyu sees many fierce mercenaries and adventurers, and there are also people escorting a group of shackled and imprisoned humans, they may be criminals, bankrupts, and deserters, but now they are just a group of slaves waiting to be sold.

Suziyu saw elves, dwarves, and gnomes here.

Unlike the elves he imagined, the elves who lived here seemed to be similar to humans except for their handsome appearance, and they were shrewd philistines who would bargain with merchants, completely lacking the legendary elegance, and even some elves had bought some human slaves.

The dwarves weren't as honest as they might think, but they did care about their beards, and they seemed to have a pretty short temper.

The most surprising thing is the gnomes.

Because Su Ziyu saw a steam hammer inside a gnome-run blacksmith shop, the weaponry forged here seems to be very popular.

Unlike the southern countries, there are blatant alchemy shops on the streets, and there are many strange things in them. If this kind of shop were in the southern countries, it is estimated that it would have been demolished by the Church Knights on the same day. In the last two or three years, even humans who study alchemy have been caught and judged by the Church.

Of course.

In fact, there is a lot of alchemy within the church, otherwise the alchemy oil they have researched would not be more powerful than that of the witchers. They occasionally hunt witchers, but as far as Vantesin knows, many of the fanatics within the church have taken potions similar to the witcher's trials.

"Let's go inside." Lady Enid said softly.

Su Ziyu didn't expect that Ms. Enid actually had a chamber of commerce here, and it seemed that it was still run by elves.

The land and houses in the nearby circle are owned by the Chamber of Commerce.

The elves had a very respectful attitude towards Lady Enid, and called her 'Sage' in a special language, and if it weren't for Su Ziyu's ability to translate languages, I am afraid that they would not have known the meaning of that title.

After arriving safely, the sorceresses were visibly much more relaxed.

Here Su Ziyu saw halflings for the first time, they are only about one meter tall, with a pair of big furry feet, quite lively personality, and have a rumored excellent cooking skills. These halflings seem to be elven merchants attached to this place, and they are humble towards everyone.

"It's really not safe here." Opposite Suziyu sat Fanteshin.

The two have just started a round of Gwent card matchup.

On the way to the Chamber of Commerce, the clover talisman on his chest vibrated at least three times. However, because there are so many people on the road that they don't find anything unusual, the vampires here are not visible from the outside, and they are not too afraid of the sun, and the high-level vampires will even sunbathe.

There are a lot of aliens hidden within the city.

"There are a lot of vampires here."

Fantesin had a serious expression when he played cards, and said slowly, "Griffon." ”

"I know there's a brothel run by a vampire banshee, would I like to take you over to see it at night?"

Your recipes are too extensive, aren't they?

"Dwarven Defender." Su Ziyu frowned when he heard this, and said, "Vampire Banshee? Have you tried? ”

"Hmm. So what's not? Fantesin smirked, "They're pretty special." ”

This guy must be fooling me.

So, Su Ziyu decided to play cards seriously and no longer listen to his nonsense.

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