Chapter 2 No decent people in Primal Wildfire Town (Part 1) (1/2)
Chapter 2 No decent people in Primal Wildfire Town (Part 1)
Translator: Tchu
Editor: Scar
If someone wanted to find the most chaotic place on the whole continent, then the title surely belonged to Primal Wildfire Town.
The real name of this Town was not actually Primal Wildfire Town. In fact, it had several unofficial names – this current confusing state was caused by the ownership issue of Primal Wildfire Town.
This small town was located in the southern part of Primal Wildfire and was under nobody’s jurisdiction. If it came to the question of ownership, it could be said “whoever’s flag was flying over the town, owned it”.
The northern Odin Empire, the southern Byzantine Empire and even some large bandits and thieves groups were the masters here before.
The geographical location of Primal Wildfire Town was not very good. It was actually founded at the most delicate spot on the continent. The Town did not have any resources that were worth mentioning. It was mostly surrounded by forests, mountains and valleys. The land here was barren and the climate was mostly bizarre.
Every year, the cold air coming from the north brought a cold winter to Primal Wildfire Town. It lasted for three months each year . When the winter passed, a warm southern sea breeze started to mix with the northern wind. This wind resulted in making people lazy. When the hot and cold air met each other, it caused ample rainfall and made the land muddy in the summer.
As the result, winter was cold and dry and summer hot and wet in Primal Wildfire Town.
People from the northern Odin Empire were accustomed to a climate of ice and snow and had problems to adapt to the hot and damp summer here. The inhabitants of the southern Byzantine Empire hated on contrary the winter with its biting cold.
Coupled with the low economical output and tough livelihood, it could be said that this was a region with little value.
Even though the Primal Wildfire Town did not have many resources, it was surrounded by many ferocious beasts and many big and medium native tribes. These big and medium tribes had both a bright and a dark side. In war times, they would fly a banner and work as a mercenary band and in peaceful times they would mask their faces and start robbing people.
In the vicinity, dwarf tribes and also a lot of dirty, cowardly goblins had spread in the forest and swamps like ants…
In this place, only when both big Empires prepared to go to war, would they treat it as the buffer zone. In peaceful times, they would never even bother to look at it.
The two big Empires had formed a somewhat tacit understanding. If some Byzantine troops are stationed here, Odin would certainly invade this place and if an Odin army occupied this location, Byzantium would also follow up and dispatch its troops. Neither of these sides had occupied this shabby place for a long period. As long as the enemy had not seized this area, they would turn a blind eye on it and thus it simply turned into a location which was under nobody’s jurisdiction.
Since it was the only town in Primal Wildfire, it had an influx of different and complex personality from the continent. Criminals, most wanted terrorists, petty thieves, burglars, profiteers, adventurers and so on. It could be said a “colorful” community resided here.
An anarchic paradise would be the most fitting description of Primal Wildfire Town.
Recently, several large southern merchant groups from Byzantine were suffering massive losses from robbery of local thieves and bandits. It forced them to raised funds and recruited several mercenary groups from the capital to deal with the robbers and bandit groups. Right now, they were treating this location as an important goods distribution center and announced to the locals that this small town was under their “protection”.
In Primal Wildfire Town you could find anything, cart sellers, inns, taverns, gambling den, brothels and even some secret strongholds of some bandits and thieves gangs. In the black market, all kind of prohibited goods could be bought and also the service of mercenary tribes could be acquired here……
Here was the paradise for adventurers.
This place was not suited for a cautious and prudent person.
Even the tailor in the town was probably a fleeing criminal, sought by both big Empires and was evading arrest warrants for many years.
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When Shaar Thunder entered the town, nobody paid any attention to him. The tattered clothed and the ragged wolf fur coat he was wearing gave him the vibe of a beggar. Furthermore, because he fixed a charred black pitchfork on his waist as a weapon, most people thought that he must be one of those “mentally retarded” beggar.
While Shaar Thunder was walking down the street of Primal Wildfire Town like a hungry wolf that just escaped the mountain, a pair of greedy eyes were staring at him from a store entrance on the roadside.
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If only one word was used to describe the looks of Tatara and it had to be in the most accurate way, then this word would certainly be: Wretched!
If one had to add an adverb to it, it would be “extremely” Wretched!!