Chapter 112 (1/2)
Chapter 112: City of Rain
AD1897, the summer of the Year of the Griffin, a year fated to be etched in the hearts of ardless of whether it is the year of the onset of the eternal Sacred War, the year which the Seafolk first stepped on the stage of history or the year the City of Rain Feloci is born, this would be a year that would be enerations After all, too le year
Fro me, has underestimated the ambitions of the Seafolk, as well as the Queen of Stor them
The very first prerequisite to make an accurate assessence of the entire situation However, the surface dwellers know too little about the Seafolk When the Seafolk first invaded, even the brightest strategists could only make conservative assessments based on previous incidents in the past
“It should only be a small-scale war Or perhaps, it can’t even be called a war It is only an attack on the cities along the shore After all, they are unable to climb onto shore to occupy our territory This kind of war is ent creatures, the Seafolk understands it They can’t possibly be thinking of killing all of those living on the surface and consider it as a victory As long as our living spaces cannot be overlapped, they are unable to come onto shore and we are unable to live in the water, then a full-bloar between both of us is pointless and impossible to happen”
Profits are always involved when it coardless of whether it is a fight for living space, resources, settling grudges between top brasses, stabilising the hearts of their people or the common will of theout However, if there isn’t sufficient profits for one to reap or when the losses far surpasses the gains, then the probability of the occurrence of this kind of less war is almost null
“The Seafolk are unable to stay on the surface for extended periods of time They are just cannon fodders forced onto the shore by the Malevent Goddess Queen of Stor it out, they will retreat sooner or later”
In this world, even the will of the Gods aren’t absolute The Gods above accepts the faith of different tribes and races In exchange, they would protect their worshi+pers based on their Concept and the territory they rule over However, if they were to force everyone to devote the about deaths with no profits in exchange, it would already be a positive situation for the the faith and looking for a new one is a possibility
After all, this isn’t a world ruled by just a single faith Many of the Gods were once humans and the distance between humans and Gods aren’t that far apart Gods require the faith of the mortals while the weak mortals require the protection of the Gods
This is also the basis for the Auland E on the war The think tanks of the royal fa their lives on the line to guarantee that the attacks of the Seafolks are strong externally but weak internally They claim that this is only the prelude to the Sacred War and their offensive line will crumble in athat the Seafolk aren’t sufficiently aainst is the Chaos Malevolent Gods who forced theht in front of theainst their own race (vassals)
In reality, while a portion of Seafolk is able to climb to shore, nearly no surface life for for extended periods of tience between both sides to be unproportionate For one, Tracy who has left for the ocean for more than a few months is totally unaware of the revival of the Water Elee that occurred in the world of Seafolk
To explain this, I would first have to touch on the living conditions of the Seafolk
Even though the ocean is incredibly vast and it see space, even when the strength of an average Seafolk isn’t low, the life of Seafolk is actually ic compared to the life of the surface dwellers
The deep sea is an extre the low temperature and water pressure which could prove to be fatal, the giant oceanic th cannot be assessed are the true dictators of the ocean Most Seafolk can only live by the shallower coastal sea areas by the continent tospace of Seafolk
In their li space, they face a very practical problem —— Food is never sufficient
There are countless shoals of fishes in the ocean? However, the truth is that living off hunted fishes isn’t a reliable plan There may be many school of fishes around but most of them are owned by someone else The amount of fish in the shalloaters is extrericulture in the ocean beca is insufficient to ensure their survival, in order to ensure that there is sufficient food in their surroundings, rearing fishes beca history behind the-established tradition
The resources in the fish rearing industry determines the amount of members in a Sea Tribe The nuth deter of the fish Just like herding on the surface, the fishes they are herding would consu in the balance of the environrowth in the herd, it is iration
The livelihood of the herd and the Seafolk would deplete the resources in the area The bigger the tribe is, the shorter the interval between their ration From a certain sense, they are just like Centaur nomads, just that the livestock that Centaurs herd are cows and larass whereas the ones the Sea Tribes herd are shoals of fish and they seek the tidal currents
The ability of the Siren and Merh their voicebut in reality, it is just a tool for herding It is no different from the flutes and whistles of the shepherds Further are only their own herd and their ocean coical and beautiful but it is actually a tough job Chasing the current tides and searching for aquatic plants requires a great as around a whole lot of danger Who would know if they would ratory spot? If their luck is bad, they rations, resulting in the dissolution of the tribe
Those of the herding tribes possess an aggressive nature, causing most of the tribes to work as part-time mercenaries or even bandits On the other hand, their way of survival through herding in tribes has determined that a centralised power of a country will not be born When a tribe reaches a certain nu space and resources, they would definitely fall apart
Without a capital or demarcation of territories, how can the a feudal state be born? There are few areas in the shalloaters where resources are concentrated at However, there are limitations on the numbers who could stay there for extended periods of tie Only the strongest Tribe is compete over these places and achieve victory to live stable lives
No one can guarantee that they would not meet with a calaration and die tragically A stable life in a fixed location is the desire of the Seafolk, as well as thethem with resentment even
“Why should those weak surface dwellers possess a blissful and stable daily life e don’t even knohere ould be to a war requires profits and reasons, what the Water Elemental Goddess Aylos and the Queen of Storly stake their lives, serving as cannon fodders, is obvious
A capital, a city to serve as a stepping stone towards a neorld, to the sacred lands in the hearts of the Seafolk After their capital is built, a kingdos to the Seafolk
Indubitably, most Seafolk are unable to leave the surface of the water and survive for the shore for extended periods of time However, what if rain falls continuously on that plot of land and there is always a few meters depth of water on the surface of that land? This way, the Seafolk would be able to live freely in their water kingdom They could retain a portion of dry land to serve a farmland and enslave the surface races to serve as farives rise to the possibility for the birth of a kingdo to the Seafolk on the surface
Sounds inconceivable? But in this world ofis possible Furthermore, storm and rain is the Concept of the Guardian Goddess of the Seafolk, the Queen of Storm Not to mention, the Water Elemental Goddess Aylos is an expert in water arts If there someone could build a city of rain with an internal cycle of rain, it could only be theinal history, the revival of the Ancient Elemental Gods becale one of them are close to the existence of a true God, so they were far beyond the abilities of the ‘players’ Thus, the o to their death, causing those unlucky felloho had barely awaken to die tragically under the hands of the natives and the ‘chosen heroes of fate’ and turning their servants, the Ele fodders for the ‘heroes’
There is still a difference between that virtual game world and the real world In this world, there isn’t the existence of the powerful God named ‘Game Developer’ Otherwise, if those level ten to twenty rookies were to really meet with the barely awakened and weak Ancient Elemental Gods, they would not have proven their worth by slaying the Gods through their overwhel their physical body and souls as nutrients for them
Due to this, other than the unlucky Fire Elean to recover froloriously, how could they be content with being forgotten by the world? Thewill change They are a few plots written in the walk-through that are wrong, ‘History’ and ‘Fate’ had been on different paths froreat te their own life as well as their descendants’, the invasion of the Seafolk is no longer a skirmish as it was in ‘history’ It has turned into an all-out war, a destructive invasion The Auland Eth of the other party is still drea at all the calarand cere conducted on the surface Concurrently, another cereer scale