Ambrera, the largest port city on the mainland of Hein and a paradise for adventure hunters, is known as the "City of Freedom" and "Pearl of the Coast", with a superior geographical location.

Whether it is the Sonia Federation in the north or the Ribeiru Empire in the south, if you want to go south or on your back, Ambrera is a must-go. The reason, of course, is the thunderstorm mountain range that runs through most of the Hine continent.

If you look down from the sky, you can clearly see that the thunderstorm mountain range shrouded by thunderclouds for many years is just right to divide the entire continent into two, due to the thunderstorm raging, no matter what method, it is a very dangerous thing to cross the thunderstorm mountain range, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is nine deaths, this is still the premise of leaving aside the powerful demonic beasts in the mountain range.

To the east of the Thunderstorm Mountains is the Sangya Plain of Wanma Pingchuan, where Ambrera is located in the easternmost part of the Sanya Plain, adjacent to the sea.

Between Ambrera and the Thunderstorm Mountains is the territory of the transcendent Holy Court on the continent of Hein. If you make a continent-wide statistics, then you will find that more than 90% of the people in the mainland are believers in the Holy Court. Fortunately, there is not the slightest message about worldly power in the dogma of the Holy Court, and it is purely an exhortation to do good and live in peace with all things in the world. Otherwise, with such a large base of believers, there is probably a big question mark over whether the Federation and the Empire will still exist.

Of course, this is also the fundamental reason why the Holy Court can maintain a transcendent position between the two huge state apparatus.

Strictly speaking, although it is only a city in name independent of the two political systems, Ambrera is geographically a third the size of a federation or empire.

It's just that because Ambrera's rulers have never had much ambition, and although the Federation and the Empire have different ideas, both sides need to have a buffer zone to reduce friction and concentrate on development, so that the rich Ambrera can maintain a peaceful state for a hundred years and not be disturbed by war.

Speaking of which, I have to mention that the Sonia Federation in the north implements the way of warfare that has been handed down since ancient times, emphasizing the continuous development of human potential, and warriors and mages are the main body of force in the federation and hold the vast majority of rights. Unfortunately, not everyone has what it takes to become a warrior or mage, which leads to a situation where the Federation is strong individually but slightly lacking in overall strength.

The Ribeiru Empire in the south was originally the same as the Commonwealth of Sonia, following the traditional old path, but a hundred years ago, a young man with no qualifications in warfare, but extremely smart, Kennedy Haydn, because he was unwilling to be ordinary, forgot to sleep and eat, inspired by ancient alchemy, and finally developed the first guiding weapon that did not require fighting spirit or magic to urge, and could also be used by civilians.

The Emperor of the Empire at that time, Ribero XVI, found a completely different path for the future development of mankind, and selected Kennedy as the Prime Minister of the Empire, and embarked on a path of scientific and technological development.

This epoch-making reform not only brought back the empire, which was in decline at that time and was almost destroyed by the Commonwealth of Sonia, from the brink of annihilation, but also quickly became stronger and stronger to the extent that it competed with the Federation. In the end, in order to prevent the casualties from continuing to expand, the Federation and the Empire signed an armistice under the coordination of the Holy See, and each side set aside a piece of land as a separation zone, which is the origin of the current Ambrera.

Although the road of science and technology can indeed achieve the level of all the people, after all, the development time is still short, and the empire is not the opponent of the Federation at all in terms of high-end combat power.

After the armistice, both the Sonia Federation and the Ribeiru Empire were deeply aware of their own shortcomings.

The Federation, which has experienced the power of emerging powers, has introduced new weapons from the imperial side through various ways to strengthen the overall strength of the army at the bottom, but because of the lack of professional talents, all it gets is obsolete weapons that lag behind the empire, and it lacks independent research and development capabilities.

On the other hand, the empire that tasted the sweetness also increased its investment in scientific and technological research and development again and again, but at the beginning, because of too superstitious belief in guided weapons, the whole country completely abandoned the inheritance of the way of warfare, which directly led to a bottleneck in the research and development of guided weapons - because the guided weapons were too powerful and the user's physical strength could not keep up.

After the heat subsided slightly, the old traditional way was picked up again by the Empire, but due to the waste of time, the Empire was completely inferior to the Federation in the teaching of the art of warfare, and the two sides once again reached a delicate balance.

However, due to various reasons, both sides refuse to admit the strength of the concept upheld by the other side, and the Federation uses guidance weapons but refuses to apply guidance technology to other aspects other than the army, and resolutely suppresses guidance technology in other fields; the empire pays attention to the training of the way of warfare, but the status of warriors and mages is completely inferior to that of a powerless research and development personnel of guidance technology, who has worked hard to cultivate and succeed, but grovels in front of an ant who can be crushed to death with a single finger.

The strange status quo has led to the fact that most of the qualified cultivators in the empire have used various methods to migrate to the Federation, and the intelligent young people who like the guidance technology on the federal side are very eager for the research atmosphere on the side of the empire, and they are obviously the talents that are urgently needed on their side, but they rush to the other party with their own hands.

Even if a reasonable person sees the crux of the problem, with the strong intervention of local interest groups, it will all be resolved in the end, and it will have no impact on changing the status quo.

In the entire Hein Continent, on the surface, the only way to recognize and implement the two paths of development that complement each other is the transcendent Holy Court, and the special and embarrassing Ambrera. Correspondingly, the individual combat capabilities of these two forces are generally far superior to those of the Federation and the Empire, but they are limited by the population base and cannot confront these two behemoths head-on.

Due to the simultaneous implementation of tactics and technological developments, the wide roads of Ambrera can be seen everywhere in place of traditional horse-drawn carriages, and the roadside is also full of urban facilities driven by the guiding force, and in addition to the common guide ships, the seaside port will often have expensive guide airships rise and fall.

In the huge courtyard near the city center, second only to the Lord's Mansion, is the home of Leach and Lena.

Legend has it that Leech's grandfather was once a wealthy and aristocrat of the Ribeiru Empire, and in order to escape the war, the family moved to Ambrera, and after the war, because he saw a huge business opportunity in Ambrera and loved the beauty of the sea, he decided not to return to his homeland and settled down.

With huge financial resources and connections in the early days, it can be said that the Hoffmann family is more than 10,000 people in Ambrera, which is why they have such a large foothold in the most prosperous city center.

But the good times didn't last long, after the death of Leach's grandfather, the descendants of the Hoffman family not only did not appear in the business industry, but even Leach's grandfather was a famous loser, and by the time Leach's father's generation, the family fortune had been gone.

But despite this, because of the good foundation, even if only thirty percent is left, although the Hoffman family is more downtrodden than before, no one dares to underestimate it.