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The neutral land of Rhea, the capital of knowledge.

Facing the sea to the south, the Inner Verdez to the west, the Falar Empire to the east, and the land of sand to the north, Bartom, it is a veritable choke point.

If you start from the country of mages in the east of the continent Bute and the country of knights Falar, and go to the west including the commercial country of Neville, the country of the sea Casa, the mountain country of Kuran, the orc steppe and the elven territory of the Lost Forest, there are only three options to take the land route, or through the rare area of the human life forbidden area of 100,000 square kilometers of the sighing desert, or across the Pandora Mountains in the east of the country of sand Bathom, or through the narrow east-west corridor of the neutral land.

Before the continental calendar 3148 years ago, there was no Rhea, let alone the capital of knowledge. Five hundred years ago, it was a land of war on the border of three countries. At that time, the three surrounding countries wanted to occupy the corridor that connected the east and west of the continent. But whichever country occupies it will be attacked by the other two countries. For more than 200 years, from 2925 to 3148, the three states made several attempts to control the land, all of which ended in failure. After more than 200 years of hard work, all three countries relinquished control of the neutral land, and finally allowed this barren land of more than 100,000 square kilometers to remain in a state of disorder for many years.

More than 200 years of governmentlessness have led to a large number of bandits in this land, and countless bandits have taken root in this land of more than 100,000 square kilometers, making caravans and pedestrians miserable.

The chaos continued until 500 years ago, in 3148, when the strongest human demigod Hughes White led his White mercenary group, suppressed the bandits that were comparable to the regular army, and fought with the surrounding three kingdoms for five years, finally making the land completely independent, named the neutral land of Rhea, and established a free city on the southern coast of Rhea.

In the declaration at the time of its establishment, Rhea will always remain neutral, will not be involved in any war with any country on the continent, will not form an alliance with any country, will not be controlled by any country, and will not have an army, only a large number of city guards will be retained to maintain law and order. This proclamation, known to later generations as the Declaration of Theseus, was recognized by more than 90% of the demigods in the entire Yala world, and they swore to uphold it with their own inherent spiritual barriers. In other words, any force or individual who wants to violate this declaration will have to pay the price of being the enemy of almost all the demigods in the entire Yara world, a price that no one can afford, not even Theseus himself.

Since then, Hughes has taken the initiative to split the White Mercenary Group and established the Mercenary Guild with it as the core. For a time, there was a moving boom in the mercenary community of the whole Yala, and more than sixty percent of the mercenary group moved their headquarters to the free city, setting off a wave of development for the free city.

In 3201 of the continental calendar, the Alchemy Guild and the Mage Guild, which were originally headquartered in the country of mages, were invited by Xiuth in his later years to move to a neutral place, and united with the adventurer guild who moved from Neville to establish the City of Knowledge, and in 3319, the three leaders of the Shadow Hand of the Thieves Guild joined forces to invite the leaders of the two major cities in the neutral land, and after setting up a gambling contract, they won the trick and were able to establish the city of urban innocence in the neutral place.

Since then, the Neutral Land has continued to grow under the leadership of the three major cities, and various small towns, small towns, and small villages have emerged from the three major cities, becoming a force to be reckoned with in the whole of Yala.

In the Neutral Lands, if the City of Innocence is a paradise for all criminals, and the Free City is a paradise for all mercenaries who live on war, then the City of Knowledge, built in the southwest of the Neutral Land, is a sacred place in the eyes of all scholars and mages. It is home to the best mages and scholars in all of Yara, as well as a large number of adventurers who have been hired to explore ruins in search of ancient knowledge, as one scholar who worked as a bard once said, "In this city, every breath of air you breathe carries the scent of knowledge." It is no exaggeration to say that the people who live in this city, even the most ordinary roadside vendors, are knowledgeable enough to put scholars on the outside world to shame. ”

In the intellectual capital, each of the streets crisscrossed is named after a scholar who has left a strong mark on history, and Fox Street is one of them. Fox Street is a small commercial street with bookstores, stationery stores, grocery stores, tailors, leather goods stores, daily necessities stores, and many other small shops. In the middle of Fox Street, there is one of the most incongruous buildings, No. 6 Fox Street, where a gate and fence occupy half the street.

Although the Western-style restaurant occupies the most central part of Fox Street, and although the existence of the Western-style restaurant has made the other small shops on the street more inconspicuous, all the shopkeepers on the whole street do not hate the owner of the Western-style restaurant. This is not only because the ownership of their small shop house belongs to the owner of the Western-style house, but also because the owner of the Western-style house is a beautiful, upright, kind and polite knight girl, and although the other two residents of the Western-style house are not knights, they are equally beautiful, kind and cute, which makes people completely unpleasant.

Recently, however, the three young girls returned from a trip and brought back a man they had never seen before to stay at No. 6 Fox Street, and this strange man aroused the curiosity of all the shopkeepers around them, but also caused them some small troubles.

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"Knock knock. The sound of running footsteps broke the silence of the early morning on Fox Street.

Through the thin morning fog, a sixteen or seventeen-year-old boy with a large green schoolbag and a green postman's vest slowly ran from the end of Fox Street, and every time he ran past the door of a store, he took out a roll of newspaper from his backpack and threw it far into the open mailbox at the door of each house.

The running postman boy kept a fixed speed and slowly approached the gate of the Western-style building. But strangely, the closer he got to the gate, the slower the boy slower, and his eyes cautiously roamed around, as if something dangerous might come out of the morning darkness at any moment.

It wasn't until he arrived at the gate of the Western-style Pavilion that the boy seemed to be relieved, maintained a posture of running away at any time, and took out the newspaper from his backpack as quickly as possible to put it in the mailbox.

"You~are~who~" A low, dark, half-dead voice sounded from above the boy's head.

"Wow~~~~~~~ the ghost has appeared. The young man exclaimed, sat down directly on the ground, stepped back a few meters with his hands and feet sitting on the ground, and pointed to the black shadow that appeared in the dim overhead: "The ghost Lily said has appeared~~~~~ help, don't eat me." ”

"Who are you. The half-dead voice sounded like he hadn't woken up, repeating the previous question: "Where is that cute girl before?" ”

"Wow, demon, you still want to eat Lily, don't think about it. The postman boy closed his eyes in fear and stiffened his neck: "If you want to eat, eat me, you are not allowed to hurt Lily." ”

"Is your brain abnormal?" said in a half-dead voice, "Or have you read too many knight novels?" and demons, why don't you talk about monsters." ”

"So you're a monster. The boy jumped up from the ground, raised his hands in fists in front of his chest, and said loudly as he waved his fists to embolden himself, "Come on, monster, I'm not afraid of you." ”

"Boom. The core of a bosa fruit smashed accurately on the top of the boy's head: "Stupid, have you ever seen a talking monster?"

"Ah, yes. The boy scratched his head, and finally quieted down, looking up at each other in the morning light. The other party is not the monster he imagined, but a twenty-five or sixteen-year-old man, obviously just got up, wearing a pair of pajamas, with unkempt blonde hair on his head, at this time he was squatting at the sharp top of the high metal railing wall outside the foreign pavilion, stepping on the toes of each foot, but magically maintaining his balance, rubbing his sleepy eyes with one hand, and holding a bosi fruit in the other hand and gnawing and creaking: "Sure enough, it's not a monster, I'll just say, how can there be a monster who can talk." ”

"Boy, I've never seen a talking monster. The man crouching on the wall asked.

"Yes, I haven't. The postman boy replied honestly.

"But I've seen it, in the mirror. The voice of the man squatting on the wall suddenly became hideous and terrifying, and he opened his mouth wide and shouted, "Wow, I'm going to eat you." ”

"Ahh The timid postman boy sat down on the ground again, closed his eyes and waved his hands: "Ahhhhhh ”

"Hahaha. The man on the wall laughed wickedly at the boy.

"Ahem. The girl's dry cough sounded from the inside of the metal fence of the mansion, interrupting the man's laughter: "Pannis, you have a good time." ”

"Hey, Catherine, you're awake. Pennis, on the wall, embarrassedly threw the leftover Perth pits into the garbage heap that was waiting to be collected in the distance.

Catherine glared at Pannis helplessly, opened the door of the mansion, and helped up the frightened young postman sitting on the ground: "It's little Lyle, why did you send this street today, Lily?"

Lyle, the postman, breathed a sigh of relief when he heard Catherine's voice: "Sister Catherine, what about the monster, have you beaten away?" Wow, you are indeed the greatest knight, and I must be as brave as you in the future." ”

Catherine smiled wryly, "That's not a monster, that's our new occupant here, Pannis." He's more ...... Well, it's more peculiar, don't care. ”

"Huhu, it turns out that it's really not a monster, it scared me to death. Lyle glanced at Penis behind Catherine, and quickly retracted his head: "Sister Catherine, what did you just ask? Lily?"

"Yes, isn't Lily here to deliver the newspaper every day?" Catherine asked strangely, "Why did you change you today, is Lily sick?"

"No, Lily was just scared. Yesterday I went back and Lily went back and said that this neighborhood was haunted, and when she passed by yesterday morning, she suddenly heard someone talking to her in mid-air asking her name, and the voice was ~ like ~ this ~ ~ so she was so scared that she didn't dare to come today. Lyle finally came out of the shadow of terror in Catherine's gentle voice, and regained his full vitality: "Now I know that it was just a misunderstanding, and it's all right, Sister Catherine, I'm going to continue delivering the newspaper, I'll go first, goodbye." ”

"Goodbye. Catherine waved goodbye to little Lyle, and turned her head to look at Pannis, who was tiptoeing to leave: "Pannis, where do you want to go?"

"Ha, ha. Pannis smiled dryly and said, "I remember, I have to go to the Adventurers' Guild today to go through the procedures for joining the adventure group, so I'll go to the queue now." ”

"Are you stupid to me? We went together yesterday. Catherine grabbed Pannis's wrist and pulled him towards the mansion, "I think we need to have a good talk." ”

"Hey, don't pull, I'm really in trouble, let go, don't pull. ”

The figures of the two people, stepping on the bluestone corridor in the middle of the lawn of the Western-style Pavilion, slowly disappeared into the thin morning mist, and only the sound came faintly from a distance.

The day at 6 Fox Avenue began in the morning light.