Chapter 123 – Negotiations (1) (1/2)

Chapter 123 - Negotiations (1)

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Between the Soaring Sky Empire and the Vermillion Bird Empire, there existed a zone where the influences of both empires could not reach. Within this area there were many kingdoms that consisted of just one city.

A kingdom consisting of just one city meant that each small kingdom had only one city, but they had control over the surrounding countryside. It didn’t mean that the kingdoms consisted of just the city alone.

These circumstances were fairly common across the continent, so the princes and princesses in the continent were a dime a dozen and weren’t worth much at all, *Cough cough* relatively speaking of course.

These kingdoms living in this crevice had both their advantages and disadvantages.

The advantage was that because of the complicated power politics in the area nobody would attack them. They were always safe and could derive some benefits from being caught in the middle.

The disadvantage was they were hemmed in within the crevice and would never experience progress, at least in terms of territory. Regardless of whether it was a hundred years or a thousand years, nothing would change.

And in the middle of all this was an unknown small country, just one of the many small kingdoms.

Calling it unknown was not an exaggeration, even the majority of the citizens of the country didn’t know the name of their country.

They only knew that this country was a member of the Thirteen Kingdoms Alliance, and everybody simply referred to themselves as citizens of the Thirteen Kingdoms Alliance.

The Thirteen Kingdoms Alliance was an alliance that united several kingdoms. This way they were able to find strength in numbers and maintain their existence on the continent.

This alliance had a thousand year history. As time passed, everybody became used to referring to them as the Thirteen Kingdoms Alliance and forgot the names of the original kingdoms, until even they themselves forgot their own names.

Although everyone had forgotten the name of the small kingdom, they remembered the name of the city because the name was a bit special, it was called Tianjiu city!

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Tianjiu, doesn’t that refer to tianjiu dominoes? Was it named after that?

You would have to ask the person who constructed this city and founded the kingdom to know. Legends say that he was born a ruffian and his favorite pastime was tianjiu dominoes, so he chose this name. If it wasn’t for others opposing him, he might have even named the kingdom Tianjiu Kingdom.

Of course, this was just a legend. After such a long time, nobody knew what had really happened anymore, perhaps this was just a legend!

Regardless of whether it was a legend or the truth, this kind of small country was still a place people wouldn’t pay attention too. Many of the people who came here were just passing through and would hurry through the country.

This time, it seemed yet another group of travelers was passing through, hurrying along as they went…

This group of travelers was a bit special; it looked like none of them were ordinary. Although they looked a bit weather worn, but the mannerisms they exuded made everyone feel they weren’t normal people.

Usually it was unusual for even one person like this to appear, yet right now so many of them had come. This made people feel as if something abnormal was going on.