Chapter 143 - SIDE CHAPTER MILOS (1/2)
'Milos!'
A gruff voice shouted in anger while throwing a metal pan towards a young boy.
The young boy was running around the street while mocking as he runs from a grumpy old man who is now throwing fishes at him.
'HAHAHA' the boy laughed
This is Eden.
The only civilized city in the world and the largest city in the world. Many forces and people nearby the Plains pay visit and then inevitably stay here.
Milos was one of them.
He is a fifteen year old kid with his sweet hearts manages to survive the Fall and hiding out in the Forest Region before he met a Syndicate that helps him run from the Forest Region and send him here to Eden, the land of opportunities.
He is now running through Accord Road, as he turns back and sees that Old Grumpy Hank has stopped chasing him and he laughed.
On his hand is a few fish as he quickly store sit in his storage rings he got as his payments from working with Burt one of the builders building the gigantic palace where the City Lord will live.
Accord Roads reminds Milos the roads in Italy when he was vacationing with his family before the Fall.
Green spruce and apple trees lining both sides of the roads.
Not far away there is a patrolman on top of his mount a Fire Horse looking as dashing as knights of old.
He looks stern as Milos think to himself.
'But now not's the time' Milos thought to himself as he quickly jumps a fence and hides himself.
Milos is one of the lost boys. Not lost boys but one of the Lost Boys, a gang member.
Of course when he said gang it's not like the gang before the Fall. It's not like they killed or robbed people.
Do that and you would be killed by people stronger than you. Milos is just a Pillar Forming low realm.
They just do occasional pranks. The gang part is just to make themselves look formidable. This city is well regulated. And people know where to draw the line.
They didn't let gangs flourished.
There is a saying that said in clear water there is no fish. Well, not this city. You want to live and survive?
Then hunt!
Or do something with your skills. Even builders could get rich.
As Milos walking down the street and biting a bite of apple he got from Hank he has arrived at Briarfront.
After a few weeks, certain town is formed. There's Huntersburg which is full of hunters trading stories and hunt spots.
There is Keyvine where many thieves trade tips and tricks. There is Labortoen. Merchanton.
The name is pretty self-explanatory.
Milos look at the distance and he smiles.
'Dawn is breaking' he said as he saw the sun began showing its face. A new day is beginning.
There is lot of business being opened as dawn just break.
Eden is strong economically with many new industries flourishing like the sale of potions, magical items, armours, poisons, skills, arrays papers, formation stones, and many others.
The wide street is full with vendors coming to opens their stalls.
As Milos is bored he began walking towards the gatehouse in the north. He knows some people in the Guard.
The city gatehouse after it has finished construction has become quite grand.
With money pouring from the hunting and the guilds raid, the city is slowly becoming grander and prosperous.
The stonework's of the gatehouse was quite beautiful evoking an ancient feeling. It has gigantic archway with twenty foot wall, the archway must also be gigantic.
Even if somehow the stone walls crumbled, there is another layer. Iron towers lined the walls.
This is all in the preparation of battling the monster horde that will come. Milos is also preparing himself for that ordeal.
He might be drafted after all.
Since from what the Imperial Residence reported, the monster horde will attack all regions without exception.
What the people and the rulers don't know is from where this attack will come from and how these monster hordes will emerge.
But many great personages in the world have confirmed the news with Lee Sangmin.
Lee Sangmin himself as the undisputed ruler of the Forest Region has convene the Meetings of the Lords of the Forest and have already started building fortification around their illusory barriers.
The World Government offers their help but Lee Sangmin refuses citing that the Forest people does not need help and is capable of repelling their monster horde problem.
Considering that all things that entered Forest Region would only be at most Energy Disperse Stage, Lee Sangmin might have already had a winning strategy.
That barrier sure did made living in Forest Region like an easy mode game.
But why then people don't move inside the Forest Region in bulk? Because as Milos already knows, once you're in the Forest, the Forest won't let go.
Suppressed by the nobles of the Forest, always being prevented to increase your level what kind of life is that?
A life for cowards!
Milos did not realize he is clenching his fist but then he take a deep calm breath and look at the ramparts.
Banners hangs from the ramparts, most of it is from noble houses.
In the North gate, the banners of the House of Salvatore hang proudly. In times of emergency the House of Salvatore is entrusted with guarding that position.
The city lord gave Ezio Salvatore the title Count Ezio as he brings a lot of Italian survivors to the city, rendering merits to the City Lord.
Count Ezio himself owns a castle on the northern part of the city.
The stone guardhouse on the other hand resembles dragon statues which is why some of the city people started calling it Dragon House.
Runic symbols were carve don the stones of the walls by Sigil master and Arrayist to increase its durability.
As Milos is slowly nearing the guardhouse he could see a cleric of a holy order is welcoming and inviting everyone to the house of worship.
The symbol of a cross could be seen from afar. Milos just look at the church with apparent disinterest.
Most of devout Christian enter the Holy Order of St Paul to fight monster and believes in the teaching of someone claiming to be a Bishop in Vatican City who proclaimed that the Fall is God test and punishment.
And their enemy?
The monsters of course, which the Bishop claims to be Devilspawn.
Whatever the case, they seem to be doing some good as they hunts monsters and rescue people.
What Milos doesn't like is how they obsessively listen to the Bishop order without questions.
In the end, power is the only thing that matters. Milos thought to himself.
If he was as strong as the City Lord, Milos could walk anywhere he wants and do what he wants.
Sometimes when Milos opens his eyes and starts his morning, he could see the City Lord flying over the city, like a watchful God.
There was one time when Milos was standing on top of the city walls and he managed to see the City Lord, standing on the air, high above the clouds, looking down…..probably hearing everything.
There was even a time where the City Lord helps a man who got his building in fire by simply blowing his breath and swept away the fire.
Milos even heard….people praying to him in dark corners of their house.
Being the Lost Boys, Milos hides very well, and infiltrates many houses searching for information that is required of him.
The City Lord was like Superman.
A God.
A boy like Milos could not help but admire that kind of men. Even women wanted to gain the City Lord favour and maybe become his concubine.
After the Fall, many men took many women and vice versa.
Strong women even have a few boy toys.
And strong men have a lot of women.
At least that how it was before in the community Milos lives after the Fall.
But the City Lord rarely enjoys in entertainment always looking serious and solemn….rarely a smile.
He did not indulge in carnal activities like those strong people Milos use to meet before, making the City Lord not only a paragon of strength but also of morals.
Whatever morals are in this kind of chaotic times.
As Milos entertain his thought he is slowly reaching the guardhouse.
And he began seeing the sight of guards checking wagons and goods and searching all who enters.
Milos could even see some of the noble family greeting their family from another region that came here after hearing the news.