Chapter 21 (1/2)

Translator: La0o9  Editor: La0o9

“Noah, a troublemaker!” with a childish voice, a little girl in braids shouted from below.

Noah, who was reading by the window of the second floor, closed his book and looked up.

The 10 year-old Noah appeared to be very strong, his neat demeanour as well as his meticulous and careful personality made him the natural leader of the Cauchy youth organization.

Putting the book down on one side, Noah jumped down from the window, his black hair was neatly combed, not at all like a 10 year-old boy.

“What’s the matter, who would dare cause trouble here?” Noah squinted his eyes, this place was no longer the small village of 10 years ago.

8 years ago, after the great Negary performed a miracle that completely pushed the Kent tribe out, this originally small village was hailed as Reystromia, meaning ‘the place observed by greatness’. ‘Greatness’ here meant devils, ghosts, or gods, existences that far exceeded humans.

Gradually, the name Reystromia was adopted by the Cauchy people, after all, this village originally didn’t even have a name.

After that, the Kent people launched another invasion in revenge, but under the glory of Negary, the Kent tribe was once again pushed out, Reystromia also entered a period of rapid growth. Many Cauchy people from various places gathered here to seek asylum. After all, Negary was a part of the Cauchy people’s legends, so regardless of him being a righteous or evil God, the Cauchy’s loyalty towards him was a lot greater than others.

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In just 10 years, Reystromia had become the largest trading place in the surrounding area, turning it into a place of mixed and complicated make-up.

With the Cauchy people at the center, they worshipped Negary and formed the Crowmen organization to keep the order of Reystromia. The other people here consisted of merchants from the two countries. Not official merchants, of course, as official trading between them was banned due to the current tense relations between the Royas and the Interkam kingdoms.

However, in front of profits, the ban on trading was only a little bit more than a joke. Quite a few people still conducted trades, and there was no better place than the growing Reystromia.

The large number of smugglers brought immense wealth to Reystromia, and wealth brought more people. Among them were mercenaries looking for jobs, which ranged from protection of cargo to underground jobs, and all kinds of things.

Besides mercenaries, pickpockets, hitmen and prostitutes also gradually gathered in Reystromia, simply because there was wealth here. Of course, there were also those who didn’t come here for the wealth, like fugitives, deserters, and intelligence personnel.

From a geographical standpoint, Reystromia was still part of the Interkam Kingdom, but since this was a barren land without many valuable resources where various Cauchy villages lived while keeping to themselves, the Interkam Kingdom didn’t really pay attention to them and didn’t send anyone here to manage it.

Furthermore, even if they wanted to, the current Interkam Kingdom was powerless to do so. This country had been greatly weakened by the internal strife of several years ago, it was also the reason why the relations between Royas and the Interkam kingdoms were so tense.

There were many rumours of the Royas Kingdom’s aristocrats conscripting men for the war, and that an inevitable war would soon break out between the two countries.

Because of that, Reystromia as a whole was also becoming restless. Not only did the Interkam Kingdom want to become its leader in name, but they also wanted to take it over to create a fortress against the Royas Kingdom’s invasion.

At the same time, the Royas Kingdom also wanted Reystromia under its wings, since that would mean that the Interkam Kingdom would lose a valuable natural barrier against the Royas army.