Chapter 698 (1/2)

After a safe night, when the sky began to turn white, Sean and others woke up.

Vinia and Marton are still not in a very ideal state. On the contrary, Cecilia and Rena, as human beings, have basically recovered, at least not too much impact on the actual combat effectiveness. Of course, there will not be too fierce fighting in the next short time, and small-scale harassment will not have a great impact on Sean and others, which Sean is quite confident.

So for the next short journey, Sean, who knew that he would not encounter any trouble, decided to speed up his action, so he finally arrived at the first town on the return journey, harkons, near the evening.

This is a small town with a population of only 100 people.

In fact, as one of the supply towns for the last trip to King Ryan, harkons can't have so many people no matter what he thinks. However, in fact, this town is not only sparsely populated, but also has relatively poor resources. The flow of people going to King Ryan's capital is reluctant to stay in this town even if it takes a few more days to make a detour.

The most important reason for this result is the exclusivity of harkons town.

This is a very independent town. The residents of the town claim to be the descendants of haakons - the so-called haakons is actually the name of a fierce general who followed the first king Ryan.

Ryan's founding history is no different from the founding history of many kingdoms and empires on the miracle continent. It is established in the tribal situation. Haakons and the first king Ryan were two different clans from the same tribe. When the first king Ryan decided to embark on this road of hegemony, haakons led his clan to join the camp of King Ryan and became the most trusted guard and general of King Ryan.

However, it is a pity that during the chaotic war years, haakons died in a war to cover King Ryan's retreat. It is said that at that time, haakons's clan suffered a blow of near destruction, and only a dozen people of the whole clan finally survived. After they recovered from their injuries, Ryan had already established a country. Even the guards around King Ryan did not know that they had been replaced several times. However, in order to remember harkons, King Ryan specially drew a piece of land as the territory of harkons.

However, in the years after that, the harkons clan territory was invaded to varying degrees. Since the third King Ryan's age, there had been no incense with the harkons tribe for a long time, so the territory that was close to a Duke has become such a small town today. If it hadn't been for the Charter issued by the first king Ryan, the small town called harkons might have been torn down and rebuilt.

It is precisely because in such years, the residents of harkons town have a strong vigilance and exclusiveness to the other people of Ryan. Basically, except for necessary material transactions, the residents of harkons town will not have any contact with the outside world, and any major celebration festivals of Ryan Kingdom have nothing to do with them. They only have festivals belonging to the harkons people.

In fact, if harkons town is a country of China - they have their own festival celebrations, laws, guards, tax rates and all the administrative and military appointment rights of the whole town. They don't even need to pay town tax to Ryan, nor are they under the jurisdiction of any lords and nobles. Even Ryan's noble privileges are invalid in harkons town. In fact, this kind of behavior is an impermissible provocation for the Ryan nobles. It is only because there is a charter issued by the first Ryan king in harkons Town, so there is no way to put any poison on it - of course, no nobles are willing to be the first bird to rectify harkons.

Anyway, there are only a hundred people in harkons. Even if everyone can fight, it is not a threat to Ryan. Therefore, the nobles of Ryan took another means to deal with harkons Town, that is to adopt a policy similar to economic blockade. However, such a policy is feasible for the caravan unique to the Lords, but it has no meaning for the caravan of the pan continental chamber of Commerce and the adventurers and mercenaries who supply and rest here.

At the beginning, when Sean and others took them from the void to the king of Ryan, they also had no way to the town in order to save some unnecessary trouble. But this time, because of Hella's plan, Sean and others will rest in the town and continue on the road the next day.

In fact, Sean didn't want to stay in this town if he had a choice.

When the team entered the town, Sean and others felt the hostile eyes of the residents of harkons.

As a matter of fact, outsiders entering the town of harkons usually don't feel such obvious hostile eyes. At most, these townspeople keep a certain vigilance against all outsiders. However, although the team of Sean and others is not large, they have an existence that these townspeople can't see - two elves and a ground dragon, which have naturally become synonymous with danger in the eyes of harkons townspeople.

So it's understandable that the townspeople are hostile to Sean and others. Similarly, he felt that he also needed to take about half of the responsibility. After all, he had the effect of professional punishment such as ”mercenary”, and hakangs, who was so exclusive, naturally wouldn't like the so-called mercenary. However, although Sean had expected this kind of thing for a long time, he still felt a little helpless when it really happened. He just didn't wait for Sean to make clear about the customs of this town. As the two most sensitive elves in the outside world, they had made the same extreme response one after another.

Vinya's hands have been put on the short sword at the waist.

Marton's left hand is gently placed on the long bow at the front of the saddle, and his right hand seems to be casual, but it is actually placed at the tail feather of the arrow barrel on the right side of the saddle.