The history of the Neville Federation is quite long, even dating back to the era of the Zelas Empire, two thousand five hundred years ago. The Empire of Zelas was the territory of the current Neville Federation, the Neutrals, and parts of the Farrar Empire. When the Empire of Zelas collapsed, part of the land was occupied by the predecessor of the Farrar Empire, and the Neutral Land became a buffer land, while the original theme of the Empire of Zelas was divided into nineteen small empires of various sizes.

After thousands of years, the nineteen small countries have been destroyed and reborn after countless baptisms of intrigue and war, but they have always been divided. Finally, five hundred years ago, due to the excessive encroachment of several small border countries on the orc grassland, a war between man and beast broke out that changed the course of history.

Before this war, because human beings are the most numerous races on land, they have a discriminatory heart against other races, believing that if a full-scale war really breaks out, human beings can drag other races down with hundreds of times the number of people, so they have been treated with a condescending and arrogant attitude towards other races, often bullying and oppressing the alien races in their own territory, this mentality and practice has not improved even after the 214-day war with the elves 1,200 years ago, which has not improved after the painful defeat, so it has led to other races being very hostile to countries composed of pure human beings, and almost never interacting with such countries。 Although isolated by the world, these purely human countries are still the same, and there is constant friction with neighboring countries, even orc countries.

Orcs are the second largest race on land, with a population of nearly one-third of humanity. This race, created by the god of war, was still in a fairly primitive nomadic and tribal era due to the limitations of racial talents. But the individual combat power of this race is quite strong, as if it was born purely for battle. Due to their barbaric habits and geographical location, this fighting race is often deceived and encroached upon by the small human nations bordering on the border, and after being deceived of the territory pasture on a large scale again, the orc tribal alliance finally couldn't bear it anymore, and the fiercest war with humanity broke out in two thousand years, and the rapidly expanding war affected all the small empires in the current Neville Federation, and the long war lasted for five full years. Five years later. The Terran Coalition, which had lost half of its population, declared defeat and withdrew from all occupied orc territory, apologizing for previous violations, ending the Human-Beast War.

Postwar. The Nineteen-Nation Alliance, which suffered heavy losses, did not get a chance to recuperate, and was stolen from the command of the coalition by the old nobles Neville's family, and quickly annexed other countries through coercion and inducement, establishing the Neville Empire. Having learned its lesson, the Neville Empire has changed its previous attitude. Taking the initiative to deepen the hand of friendship with other races, and vigorously developing commercialization and cooperation, the empire quickly rose from the post-war quagmire and regained its former vitality. However, the rapid commercialization process also had bad consequences, and the control of the central government of the empire became weaker and weaker, and finally the centralized power of the central government lasted only 70 years before it completely fell apart, and was taken away by dozens of business families, and finally the empire fell back into fragmentation. But the split lasted only ten years before it was reunited in the form of a federation. The name Neville continued to be used, and the Neville Federation, which had lasted for more than 400 years, was established.

Due to the peculiarities of the Federation, the atmosphere of commercialization in the country is extremely obvious, money worship and the idea of the supremacy of money occupy the mainstream, and the power of large consortia is amazing, and some poets once satirized that everything here, including human nature, conscience and justice, is measured by money. This is not evident in small villages or border towns. But it can be found everywhere in large cities with large populations. Obviously, Dirsalen belongs to one of the largest cities in the eastern part of the Neville Federation, and is also the headquarters of the Earth Goddess Church in the Eastern Diocese of the Neville Federation.

"Buzz, buzz. Buzz", the roar of machinery came from far and near, from the end of the road. With a violent roar, a golden magic car brought up a cloud of smoke and dust, and approached from a distance like lightning.

In the driver's seat of the locomotive, Pannis was dressed in a black trench coat. Wearing a pair of windproof goggles on his head, his hands are tightly pressed on the rudder of the locomotive, and the magic power is continuously transmitted to the magic circle on the rudder to maintain the running energy of the locomotive. On the tailgate of the locomotive, Lina's long silver hair fluttered high in the wind, and the evening sun sprinkled on Lina's white priest's robe, adding a touch of golden brilliance to the robe, exuding an aura of holiness. Lina's hands were wrapped around Pannis's waist, and the two of them pressed together, leaning forward together, reducing the pressure of the airflow.

Two days ago, the two set off from the Holy Capital. After weighing the pros and cons of riding a horse, it would take at least four days to get from the City of Knowledge to Dirsalen, and after weighing the pros and cons, Lina and Pannis, decided to drive the enchanted cart first, while Mento and the ascetic returned the same way. The speed of the magic car is much faster than that of horses, as long as the supply of energy is sufficient, and there is no need to rest like horses, it can move forward for a long time, so the original four-day ride was expected, but the two of them arrived in less than two days.

The closer they got to the city, the more pedestrians there were on the road, and the two could only fill the speed of the locomotive, following the traffic and horses on the road, and heading towards the city gate. Along the way, many passers-by cast strange glances at the two, with envy and disdain in their eyes.

In fact, it is difficult for a layman to tell the difference between a magic car and a crystal machine workshop, and only those who have a certain understanding of mechanics can notice the difference between the two. Magic locomotive and crystal locomotive, as the name suggests, the former uses the rider to input magic as power to drive the locomotive forward, while the latter uses spar as the energy source, the magic locomotive must be able to manipulate the magic power of the professional to drive, while the crystal locomotive is different, everyone can drive. The biggest disadvantage of the crystal locomotive is that every time it is charged, it must consume a 5,000 terr of spars, otherwise it will not be able to activate the charging circle, and the energy of these 5,000 terls can only last for a journey of 500 kilometers, and then it will have to be consumed again. Five thousand terr's spar, even the cheapest dark attribute, means the price of one thousand gold coins, this price is tantamount to an astronomical amount compared to a distance of five hundred kilometers, so in people's hearts, there is no difference between the people who play the crystal energy locomotive and those rich people who show off their status, plus the two of them look so young, they must be two children who grew up in the shadow of their parents, and they only know how to squander the wealth left to them by their parents, such people will inevitably be despised and envied and jealous by the people around them.

"Stop. As he drove slowly through the city gate, the guards guarding both sides of the gate stopped the front of Pannis's car: "Who are you, where are you from, and what are you going to do?"

"Huh?" Lina said in surprise: "In the past, there have never been guards who have ever asked every passer-by when entering and leaving here, is there any new regulation in the recent period?"

"Are you a local in the neighborhood?" the guard looked at Lina with a puzzled look, "Your features are so obvious, why have I never seen you?" ”

"I've been gone for almost ten years. Lina smiled, took off her backpack and began to rummage through the church badge, asking as she searched, "Is it because of the last four cases? ”

"How do you know?" The four guards at the city gate immediately pressed their hands on their weapons: "Say, who are you? I said that I have been away for ten years, why do you know these things?"

"What do you say?" Lina pointed to the priest's robe representing the Earth Goddess Church, "That's why I was called back to join the inspection team, ah, I found it." ”

"Are you a member of the inspection team?" The guards immediately became respectful, carefully checked the badge that Lina handed to prove the official identity of the Earth Goddess Church, and then said with a smile: "I'm really sorry for delaying your time, but this is my duty, I hope you can understand." ”

Of course, and you don't need to understand, it's your job to stick to your duty. Lina holy, she stretched out her hand and painted a virtual picture above the guard's head: "May the God of mercy grant you good luck, dutiful guards." ”

"It's hard to imagine that in a purely commercial federal state, the guards would be so incorruptible. Not long after the two passed, they looked back and saw that there was a smuggler who wanted to evade inspection by bribing, but was mercilessly rejected by the guards and handed over to the city for inspection, Pannis said: "I have been in contact with many people before, and they all feel that the more they value money, the more ** breeds, especially in the eyes of the people of the Farrar Empire, the Neville Federation is almost like a hell of money." But often the more commercialized and developed the place, the less **, which cannot but be called magical. ”

"That's true. Lina nodded, "The main hall of the church is in the Commonwealth of Neville, so I have often seen it since I was a child. It's a bit of a human touch, but it's exactly as you said. ”

"Why is this happening?"

"Maybe it's because countries that operate commercially need a higher level of transparency, who knows. Pannis shrugged and looked back at the stranger behind him who was talking, "Who are you?" ”

"Uh, sorry sorry, forgot to introduce myself. "There is a beautiful man standing behind him, and this description is not wrong, he is a beautiful man. She has fair and delicate skin like a woman, her eyebrows and facial features that are as charming and delicate as a woman, and her slender body as graceful as a woman, but Pannis dares to swear with her judgment of more than a hundred years, this is definitely a man: "I am Anbo, the guardian of the Guardian of the Temple of Balance, and the Warrior of the Two Swords, I am very happy to meet the two, maybe in the next few days, they will be the two of them, I hope that the two of them can take care of them more when the time comes." (To be continued.) )

PS: Thank you to the book friend Heiliu Ryoma for rewarding 588 starting coins again