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Chapter 8 Entering the City

The history of the Neville Federation is quite long, and it can even be traced back to the era of the Zelas Empire 2,500 years ago. The Zelas Empire dominated the current Neville Federation, the neutral land, and some of the land of the Faral Empire. After the collapse of the Zelas Empire, part of the land was occupied by the predecessor of the Faral Empire, and the neutral land became a buffer, while the original theme of the Zelas Empire was split into nineteen small empires of varying sizes.

After thousands of years, nineteen small countries have been destroyed and reborn after countless conspiracies and wars, but have been in a state of division. Finally, five hundred years ago, due to the excessive encroachment of orc grasslands by several small countries on the border, a war of humans and beasts that changed the historical course broke out.

Before this war, humans were the most numerous races on land and discriminated against other races, believing that a full-scale war really broke out, and humans could completely drag other races down by hundreds of times the population. Therefore, they have always treated other races with a condescending and arrogant attitude, often bullying and oppressing alien races in their own territory. This mentality and practice have not improved even after the 214-day war with the elves a thousand and twenty-hundred years ago, which has not improved since the tragic failure. Therefore, other races are very hostile to countries composed of pure humans and hardly interact with such countries. Although they are isolated by the world, these pure human countries are still the same, and they are constantly in conflict with neighboring countries, even orc countries are no exception.

Orcs are the second largest race on land, with a population of nearly one-third of humans. This race created by the god of war is still in a rather primitive nomadic and tribal era due to the limitations of racial talent. However, the individual combat power of this race is quite powerful, as if it was born purely for battle. Due to their barbaric habits and geographical location, this combat race is often deceived and encroached on territory by small bordering human countries. After another large-scale deception of the territory grassland, the Orc Tribal Alliance finally couldn't bear it and broke out with the most fierce war in two thousand years with humans. The rapidly expanding war affected all small empires in the current Neville Federation. The long war lasted for five years. Five years later, the United Human Army, which lost half of the population, declared defeat, withdrew from all occupied orc territory, and apologized for the previous violations, and the human-beast war ended.

After the war, the nineteen-nation Alliance, which suffered heavy losses, did not get a chance to recuperate. The command of the coalition was stolen by the old noble Neville family, and through coercion and temptation, they quickly annexed other countries and established the Neville Empire. The Neville Empire, which learned the lesson, changed its previous attitude and took the initiative to take the initiative to fight against other races in the deep friendship. It also vigorously developed commercialization and cooperation, allowing the empire to quickly get up from the post-war quagmire and return to its past.

However, the rapid commercialization process also brought bad consequences. The control of the empire's central government became weaker and weaker. In the end, the central government's centralization lasted for only seventy years and then completely fell apart. The power was seized by dozens of commercial families, and eventually the empire was trapped in division again. However, this division lasted only ten years. It was reunited in the form of a federal and continued to use the name of Neville, so the Neville Federation, which lasted for more than four hundred years, was established.

Due to the particularity of the Federation, the atmosphere of commercialization within the country is extremely obvious. Materialism and the idea of ​​money supremacy occupy the mainstream. Large consortiums are incredibly powerful. Some poets once satirized that everything here, including human nature, conscience and axioms, is measured by money. This characteristic is not obvious in small villages or small border towns. However, it can be seen everywhere in large cities with a large population. Obviously, Deer Saren is one of the largest cities in the eastern part of the Federation of Neville. It is also the headquarters of the Church of the Goddess of the Earth in Neville.

"Buzz, buzz, buzz", the roar of machinery came from far to near, from the end of the road. Accompanied by a violent roar, a golden magic motorcycle brought up smoke and dust in the sky, approaching quickly like lightning from a distance.

In the driving seat of the motorcycle, Pannis was wearing a black windbreaker and a pair of windscreen on his head. He pressed his hands tightly on the rudder of the motorcycle. The magic circle on the opposite rudder was constantly transporting magic power to maintain the running energy of the motorcycle. On the tail seat of the motorcycle, Lina's long silver hair fluttered high in the wind, and the sunset at dusk was on Lina's white priest's robe, adding a golden glow to the robe and emitting a holy aura. Lina's hands were wrapped around Pannis' waist, and the two of them pressed tightly together, leaning forward together to reduce the pressure brought by the airflow.

Two days ago, the two set out from the Sanctuary. If they were riding a horse, it would take at least four days to travel from the Capital of Knowledge to Dier Saren. Lina and Pannis, who were afraid that they would change later, weighed the pros and cons, decided to drive the magic motorcycle on the road first, while Mento and the monk returned on the same road. The magic motorcycle was much faster than the horse. As long as the energy supplied was sufficient, they did not have to rest like a horse, and they could move forward for a long time. Therefore, it was originally expected that the four-day journey of riding was arriving in less than two days.

The closer they got to the city, the more pedestrians there were on the road. The two of them could only fill the motorcycle speed, followed the traffic and horses on the road, and headed towards the city gate. Along the way, many pedestrians cast strange eyes at the two, with envy and contempt in their eyes.

In fact, it is difficult for laymen to distinguish the difference between magic motorcycles and crystal energy motorcycle workshops. Only those who have a certain understanding of machinery can find the difference between the two. Magic motorcycles and crystal energy motorcycles, as the name suggests, the former uses riders to input magic power as power to drive the motorcycle forward, while the latter uses crystal stones as energy to drive the motorcycle. Magic motorcycles must be able to be controlled by professionals who control magic power, while crystal energy motorcycles are different, and everyone can drive them. The biggest disadvantage of crystal energy motorcycles is that each time they charge, they must consume a 5,000 terres of crystal stone, otherwise the charging array cannot be activated. These 5,000 terres of

Energy can only last for 500 kilometers, and it will have to be consumed again afterwards. Even the cheapest dark attribute of 500 terres of crystal stone means the price of 1,000 gold coins. This price is no different from astronomical figures compared to 500 kilometers of distance. Therefore, in people's hearts, people who play crystal energy motorcycles are no different from those rich people who show off their identities. In addition, the two of them look so young, they must be two children who grew up under the sacrificial shade of their parents, who only know how to squander the wealth left to them by their parents. Such people will inevitably be despised and envied by the people around them.

"Stop." As the car was driving slowly through the city gate, the guards guarded both sides of the gate stopped Panis's front car: "Who are you? Where are you from and what are you going to do?"

"Huh?" Lina said in surprise: "In the past, there were never guards asking every passerby. Is there any new regulations in recent times?"

"Are you a local nearby?" The guard looked at Lina with confusion: "Your characteristics are so obvious, why have you never seen you? Due to some special circumstances that have happened nearby recently, you need to carefully check the strangers entering and leaving."

"I've been away for almost ten years." Lina smiled, took off her backpack and began to search for the church badge, and asked while searching: "Is it because of the four cases recently? It's not easy for you, so you're very upset about those four cases."

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

"What do you think?" Lina pointed to the pastoral robe representing the church of the Goddess of Earth: "I was called back to join the inspection team for this matter, ah, I found it."

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

"Of course, and you don't need to understand. Sticking to your duties is the meaning of your work." Lina stretched out her hand holy and drew it above the guards' heads: "May the God of Love give you good luck and dedicated guards."

"It is hard to imagine that a federal country that operates purely commercially will be so honest." Not long after the two passed, they turned back and saw that a person who should be a smuggling wanted to evade inspection by bribery, but was refused mercilessly by the guards and then handed over to the city for inspection. Pannis said astonished: "I have contacted many people before. They all felt that the more they value money, the more they breed, especially in the eyes of the people of the Faral Empire, the Neville Federation is almost like a hell of money. But often the more commercial and developed the places, the fewer the fewer it is, and this cannot be called magic."

"It's true." Lina nodded and said, "The main temple of the church is in the Federation of Neville, so I have seen it often since I was a child. Although the humanity here is a bit weak, it is indeed as you said."

"Why is this happening?"

"Maybe because the countries that operate commercially need higher transparency, who knows?" Panis shrugged and turned to look at the stranger talking behind him: "Who are you?"
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