Chapter 161: Xi Weis Plans for Development (2/2)

It was a pity that such villages were rare at the border… perhaps they would have more luck at Tunaya in the Silver Eagle Duchy.

Moreover, the situation on the eastern continent was worth some concern.

The Players had already explored half the outskirts of Valley of the Tragic Dead, and they would soon reach the core area at this rate. It would be worth celebrating if the Players could discover any unowned divinity there—even if it was just a fragment, but truth be told, those things were to be discovered but not sought, and Xi Wei don’t believe that he could run into any so easily with his luck.

But it was for sure that they could obtain many divine relics.

While other gods would not touch such things out of various concerns, Xi Wei felt no such apprehensions at all, even hoping that the Players could get more…

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Aside from all that, should the Players work hard and clear the Valley of the Tragic Dead, they could use the torches they put down as beacons and pave a land path that connects the eastern and western continents!

Given how the Secret Eye Society could make a killing by only smuggling on the sea routes, the Players would not lose out by much with a trade route under their control.

Moreover, the Great Lion had once told Xi Wei that many nonhuman races reside in the Western Continent—or humanoids with beast aspects in a nutshell.

While certain novels in the world Xi Wei transmigrated from also referred to beastmen as orcs, the orcs of this world commonly refered to those green-skinned brutes that had long tusks and charged at their enemies while yelling ‘Wagggggh’. On the other hand, Cait Siths[1] and Centaurs were considered humans, while other humanoids with other animal attributes were known as nonhumans.

Amongst the memories recorded in the Aquatic Lord’s divinity which Xi Wei had absorbed, the nonhumans seemed to be descendants of creatures who had survived the Second Divine War. Then, because they had allied themselves with different gods from the humans in the Third Divine War, the humans chased them off to the Western Continent after their defeat.

Later, the gods of both sides personally fought in the God of War and Demons told in human legends, destroying the previous civilization and shattering the frame of the continent. That was what led to the present geographical layout, and following that War, the battlefield then that was now the Valley of the Tragic Dead was both ‘the edge’ and ‘the heart’ of the world.

Unlike humans who eventually gathered into different nations and waged more civil wars with lower casualties in turn, the nonhumans only ever grouped together according to their racial appearance. Though there were brief periods of peace, they were discriminating against each other most of the time, separating themselves into for more troublesome and complex tribes that numbered up to the hundreds…

Even so, there was one particular nonhuman tribe which Xi Wei clearly had in mind—a group that would be worth his courting! After all, no one was more trustworthy to the nonhumans than a fellow tribesman.

“That said, it’s still too early since the Players had yet to clear the Valley of the Tragic Dead … Hmm? Hold on….”

At that very thought and realizing something, Xi Wei activated his Divine Eye and looked down upon the mortal realm.

[1] faerie cats of Celtic mythology or the recurring creature from Final Fantasy