Free City is a semi-military and semi-commercial city. It is divided into twelve major areas by radioactive streets, three shopping areas, four military areas, one guild area, one religious area, and one comprehensive entertainment area. The remaining two are comprehensive areas headed by residential functions. In addition to the twelve major areas, there are five port areas in the remote suburbs of the city. The five port areas are about the same area as the urban area. In addition to the necessary docks, there are also a large number of warehouse facilities and living service facilities to provide necessary services to sailors and passengers who come to Free City by boat.

Among the twelve major regions, the guild district is the administrative center of the entire city. The mercenary union also serves as the responsibility of the city hall. The two government systems operate in the guild district at the same time. Most of the mercenary-related affairs are decided by the mercenary union. In addition, all urban affairs are presented by the city hall. Religious districts are religious hubs of the free city. All accepted sects in the world can apply for a region to build a temple and preach peacefully within the city. The city hall provides fixed places and protection for the temples and religions.

The temples came here to do their part in medical care and peace of mind. This kind of cooperation between the two sides made the relationship between the city hall and the temples closer. In the four military zones, ten large mercenary groups occupied two major zones, and the remaining land was divided by the remaining small and medium-sized mercenary groups. As long as it is a mercenary group registered in the mercenary union, after paying the deposit, a piece of land to establish a mercenary group headquarters can be obtained based on the team size and amount of deposit. As long as sufficient rent is paid every year, it can be used for a long time.

The comprehensive entertainment area is the most prosperous place in Free City, ranging from casinos, hotels, theaters, cafes, taverns, and massage parlors. Various entertainment-related facilities are covered with the entire entertainment area. Visitors who walk in this area for ten minutes will definitely find the entertainment activities they are interested in and participate in. Of course, the premise is that there are enough gold coins in their pockets. Many people believe that the setting of this comprehensive entertainment area was learned by the president and city lord decades ago from the City of Innocence, but no one is stupid enough to verify the authenticity of this guess from both sides.

Some of the other infrastructure, such as banks, hotels, and hotels, are built in various areas for the convenience of visitors. However, the areas with the most facilities such as hotels and hotels are still considered comprehensive entertainment areas. After all, most visitors to this city are willing to live in such bustling and lively entertainment venues. The Kateblu Hotel selected by Catherine is one of the service institutions that are among the comprehensive entertainment areas.

This is a city of mercenaries. Nearly half of the residents of the city are mercenaries or once mercenaries. Walking on the street, you can see groups of mercenaries wearing the same armored equipment everywhere, indifferent to life and death, rude and indulge in life and death, drunkenness, lust, and unruly, because they are more likely to approach death than adventurers. These habits have long been engraved into their souls, except for a few mercenaries who need to support their families. Most of them have the belief of enjoying the day after they live, and squandering the income they earned with their lives.

However, the mercenary union is actually very humane. They deeply understand the bad habits of this group of peers. In order to prevent these mercenaries who are accustomed to fighting and killing from being poor after retirement, the guild mandated that each mercenary group only pays 90% of the salary of the mercenary every month, and the remaining 10% is handed over to the guild as reserve. Many years later, when the mercenary withdrew from the mercenary group for legitimate reasons or simply retires due to age issues, the guild will return the reserve to him in one lump sum. If the mercenary dies midway, the reserve will be returned to the mercenary family along with the normal pension. Only those who do not have any family members are indeed, and the reserve will be returned to the mercenary group where he is located after paying the mercenary funeral. Since this rule, these indulgent mercenaries have become even more uncontrollable in squandering, and they do not know whether it is a good or a bad thing.

As soon as you step into the urban area of ​​Free City, you feel a unique atmosphere of free city. In this free city, the most important thing is to be brave enough to show your personality. Ordinary and ordinary people will only be discerning. Therefore, there are strange people in strange clothes everywhere, not only the residents of the city, but also some mercenaries who should have worn standard equipment. Most of these people are young people, roaring in groups in various entertainment venues. Although the sky is already a little dark, there are still many street artists standing on the street, whether singing, dancing, painting, or reciting poetry. Most of them are not to maintain their lives, but to show their talents and personality to others.

"We need to build a new open-air stage in the city." As the city swam, the five members of the adventure group just approached a small square filled with people, they heard a loud voice coming from the square: "This is something that all the citizens nearby are looking forward to."

The five people were stunned for a moment and smiled bitterly at the same time. This is an activity with the most free urban characteristics of the Citizens' Council. In this metropolis with a population of 600,000, every citizen can initiate a proposal. As long as he can collect more than 5,000 signatures, he can submit the proposal to the City Hall. After receiving the proposal, if the City Hall refuses to accept it, he must organize such a Citizens' Council in a public place within ten days. At the meeting, the proposer and the opposition debate publicly. After the debate is over, the person who signed the proposal before will vote again.

After the debate, less than two-thirds of the people who voted for the proposal among the signatories, the proposal would be invalidated. If more than two-thirds of the supporters, then the theoretically the town hall should accept the proposal. However, if the town hall still refuses after the vote is passed, then both parties need to apply for arbitration from the Arbitration Tribunal, which is in charge of the city law. Although most of the time, unprofessional proposals proposed by citizens will be rejected in the citizen council, over the past 100 years, many very creative citizen proposals have been passed and achieved good results.

Several people shook their heads and quickly left the small square. The citizens of Free City are particularly keen on this kind of activity, but tourists from other cities may not understand their hearts. Whenever they encounter such a thing, they can only sigh that this is Free City.

Leaving the small square and passing through several streets, the five people walked through a residential area and slowly approached the comprehensive entertainment area. They met many pedestrians along the way, which also made the five people deeply appreciate another characteristic of the free city, which is the strong style of the people. In just over half an hour of the itinerary, a few people encountered eight disputes, four of which developed into small-scale fights, and one by one, and one by a medium-scale melee. The other three were not able to develop into fighting, and the few people had already gone far away and didn't see the results. The people around seemed to have been used to this kind of behavior. When they saw that people were fighting, they did not dissuade or leave, but were smiling around to appreciate it. There were even people betting around the banker around to bet on the winning or losing of both sides. The most excessive, there were even urban guards who came to check, which made it difficult to understand what they were doing.

Among these fights, there are battles between mercenaries and ordinary residents, and there are actually mercenaries and residents fighting. Although this is a city of mercenaries, ordinary citizens are not afraid of these mercenaries at all, and they have no scruples when fighting. Even if the opponent is a profession of the Black Iron Level, what if it is, a dozen strong ordinary people may not lose under the siege.

"This phenomenon is entirely caused by the laws of the Free City." Although the girls knew the atmosphere here, they were still a little confused about the reasons. Panis explained in a low voice: "You see, these citizens are not afraid of mercenaries at all, because the identities of both sides are completely equal. In Free City, mercenaries are firstly ordinary citizens, and then mercenaries. Unless it can be proved that mercenaries are performing tasks related to the city during the fight, the Arbitration and Trial Hall of the City Hall will be handled when a dispute occurs. Moreover, as long as this kind of street fight does not cause serious harm, no one will generally apply to the Trial Hall for handling, otherwise it will be despised by people around. Because of this, everyone has long been used to these fights, and even the guards are watching the fun."

"I know this, but I always find it difficult to understand." Freya shook her head and said, "In the Holy Capital, many laws prefer adventurers and mages, after all, that is the headquarters of the two guilds."

"You have a big misunderstanding here." Panis said: "The laws of the Capital of Knowledge do not tend to adventurers and mages, but to the laws of various countries, but to higher-level professions. Because there are more high-level professions among adventurers and mages, there are people who misunderstand it. The same is true here, just because there are more low-level professions and ordinary people in the mercenaries, so it is not obvious."

"Well, maybe that's what you said." Freyyas nodded and said, "After all, I have fewer opportunities to come into contact with low-level professionals. Sister, you should have come into contact with more people in the past. Do you feel this way?"

"No, my father had a good relationship with the City Guard and some municipal agencies when he was alive, so he was always very cared for and definitely didn't feel it." Catherine said: "But I think what Penis said makes sense, because I feel that people who are unfamiliar suddenly become particularly respectful to me, after I was promoted to the Silver Level."

"Ba." Lina suddenly closed the book in her hand and rolled her eyes: "Is this common sense good? You two guys who don't have common sense have discussed it so seriously for a long time, which makes people angry. Let's go quickly, I'm going to starve to death."

Catherine and Freya smiled bitterly, unable to argue at all, so they could only catch up with Lina quickly.
Chapter completed!