Frostleaf City.

One of the great northern cities of human power, it has a prosperous business, convenient transportation, and a long history.

Here, the power of the human city radiates outward for hundreds of miles, and towns, villages, and farms have sprung up one after another, and they will not be suppressed by Frostleaf City, but will receive a lot of support.

Because the population carrying capacity of Frost Leaf City alone is limited, the more towns and villages around, the more it can revitalize the entire area, forming a complementary material and even a new source of troops.

After hundreds of years of evolution and development, all the citizens in Frostleaf City are now all citizens, aristocrats, rich peasants, and small traders, and the surrounding towns and villages have families who have accumulated a certain amount of wealth moving to Frostleaf City every year, and there are bankrupt people leaving every year, they can no longer afford the taxes of Frostleaf City, and have to go to the surrounding towns to seek a new way to live. The farther away from Frostleaf City, the less taxes are collected, and the outermost ones even distribute land and farm tools, but the beneficiaries also have to bear the dangers behind this income.

Robbers, goblins, kobolds, and even more terrifying lizardmen, gnolls, and even centaurs, ogres, and the tribes of Amazonian warriors entrenched in the primeval jungle. Ant-Men, gray dwarves, drow elves, and even Eye Demons, Mind Flayers, and even black dragons that mortals can't fight.

The farther away from Frostleaf City, the higher the chance of them appearing, three or five kobolds may kill a farmer's family, once hundreds of lizardmen come out of the swamp, they will attack villages and towns at every turn, killing, burning, and robbing them all, if they are the same kind, they may also be open to women, children and children, but the war for survival between different races is no cruel.

If one side wins, it will be a catastrophe for the other.

Therefore, even though Frostleaf City has high taxes and heavy labor, the vast majority of people are still reluctant to leave if they choose, there are military guards, patrols guarding day and night, temple priests doing charity, more employment opportunities, and superior honor.

If a family has a household registration in Frost Leaf City, men don't have to worry about marrying, there are a large number of school-age girls to choose from, and the parents of the farmer are more willing to marry their daughters into Frost Leaf City, the most realistic point of view: daughters live in the city, at least don't worry about being stoned to death by a few goblins who suddenly jump out when they are doing farm work one day.

Of course, it is not that there are no citizens who have taken the initiative to go to Siye to develop new settlements, in fact, many retired officers of Frostleaf City are very willing to go out and fight, so that their families can directly step into the middle or even upper class, a township that is prosperous enough, and those in power have the opportunity to obtain noble decorations in the hands of the city lord of Frostleaf City.

Although, that may require a generation or even several generations of constant effort.

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Half a year has passed in a flash, and there is a dense forest in the mountains and fields in the southwest of Frost Leaf City.

Because of the mountainous terrain, this is one of the few places in Frostleaf City that has not been fully developed, and there are still a small number of wild wolves and even giant bears infested so far, so it is relatively inaccessible unless necessary.

A wooden house was built at the slope of a large waterfall, with several wild wolf and even bear skins hanging from the walls, and white waves rolling down on slippery boulders directly below the rapids.

A handsome short-haired half-elf boy with short blond hair was naked, wielding and spinning with two special wooden swords, in just half a year, under sufficient nutrition and high-intensity exercise, the white and emaciated body that was originally unique to the elf clan had been polished by Zhu Peng's exercise to polish clear muscle lines.

It's not bulging muscle tendons, but slender streamlined muscle communities, with some small muscles at the point of force, like the most exquisite set of armor.

After fully exercising his strength, Zhu Peng jumped down and dived into the water, he grabbed the lake sand with his feet and practiced martial arts, his body and double swords, shuttling in the lake water, like a swimming fish, taking advantage of the situation.

Martial arts, to put it bluntly, is the refining and polishing of one's own body and spirit, Zhu Peng's mind is as strong as steel, and he has enough experience, so after a little time, his martial arts combat power will naturally advance by leaps and bounds.

After half a year of hard work, he not only raised his Iron Heart (low) to the intermediate level, but also gained a focused personal specialty.

Personal Expertise:

Heart of Iron (medium), your concentration is greatly increased in combat, because of your strong willpower, you have a high resistance to almost any charm control spell, your reaction speed is increased in battle, and your ability to continue fighting is enhanced due to your ability to distribute physical energy. Strength +1, Constitution +1.

Focus, when you are highly focused, your personal sense of time will even increase, and your attack hit rate will increase as a result. Concentration can be applied in many ways, and those with this ability will learn more efficiently. +1 Perception, +1 Charisma.

It's just that the physique of the half-elf is different from that of pure humans after all, and even the physique of the humans in the Faren Continent of the World of the Gods is slightly different from the humans of other worlds, so Zhu Peng needs the secret swordsmanship of the dark elf Zhuoer clan in this world, not only is the martial arts memory in his mind incomplete, but also some of them are not suitable for the physique at this time.

Shadow Swordsmanship is a set of high-level swordsmanship skills derived from the dark elves of the underground world, these alien elves who live underground and have always maintained close ties with the life of the lower planes are far more powerful and terrifying than their counterparts on the surface in terms of hand-to-hand combat skills.

The harsh and terrifying living environment of the underworld forces the Dark Elves to reach their full potential.

Especially the dark elves are a matriarchal clan society, and the status of male elves is almost no different from that of slaves, and if they want to gain some dignity, the only way out for male dark elves is to become the clan martial arts chief.

Melee martial arts have been refined to the top of divine arts and spells, and it has been the goal that the men of the dark elf clan have been chasing for thousands of years, although they have never succeeded and there is almost no possibility of success.

However, after all, the Evil Shadow Sword Technique is the crystallization of hundreds of thousands of years of life and experience condensed by the dark elves of the underground world, and among all the swordsmanship in the underground world, the Evil Shadow Sword Technique can be described as the highest level of agility swordsmanship, and the lethality is also very high, which can be called a powerful swordsmanship that can be called an instant killing with its own high agility.

However, it was also due to the extremely high requirements for the agility and speed of cultivators in this set of evil shadow swordsmanship, because it was almost impossible for the vast majority of humans to learn this swordsmanship.

Moreover, swordsmanship cultivators should not be able to wear too heavy armor equipment, otherwise, once the evil shadow swordsmanship has no speed, the power of swordsmanship will not be able to be discussed.

(This set of swordsmanship is the purest killing technique, somewhat similar to yoga, through the extreme exercise of body flexibility, you can finally burst out all your physical strength and quickly kill the opponent at an almost incredible mysterious angle, which can be called a typical trick sword.) ）

(There is no such thing as vindictive spirit in this world, it may be because of the high-intensity chain of the rules of the gods that leads to unconscious suppression, or it may be due to the deviation of the physique of the life body in this world.) However, if the Evil Shadow Sword Technique is cultivated to the middle and high level, it can induce a wave of dark energy to increase the sword pressure, and finally almost reach the level of "shadow control" like a spell. I'm not a dark elf, though, though I can transform through rituals...... Wielding a sword in the tumbling and fluctuating lake water to perform qi luck, a stream of breath runs through the five internal organs, the internal organs, and the outer skin, with thousands of times of tempering and strengthening, almost faintly let Zhu Peng reach the point of "looking inside" the internal organs.

Zhu Peng consciously used the light and dark power skills in the national art to replace the part about dark energy in the evil shadow swordsmanship, the wood elf bloodline is different from the dark elf bloodline, the former is strong in vitality and recovery, and the latter is strong in energy sensing and control, in fact, the dark elf bloodline is indeed stronger.

But the Wood Elf bloodline is more meaningful to himself, if he wants to hold Dan Dacheng and be promoted to the demigod rank, Zhu Peng must have enough comprehension and experience of the way of water and wood.