Chapter 399
A new country appeared in the northwest of the mainland on the main plane .
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It was named the Republic of Northwest . The name was very strange, as well as the location .
It was located in the famous Ashes Woods, formerly known as the Void Mask Land, and the lesser-known the Four Towns in the Northwest, with a group of villages of pioneers .
The Ashes Woods was a well-known forbidden area of life . It was filled with thin negative energy everywhere, which would erode everything silently . No matter tools, livestock or people were all “broken” really fast there . The strong iron would become fragile in a week or two, and the furniture made with hard work would be damaged in four or five days . As for people, even an ordinary person over 30 years old couldn’t be found there . If they had no special means to resist the negative energy, the ordinary people would die of weakness in the wild in only two or three days .
Of course, there were inhabitants living in the Ashes Woods . They were the desperados who had nothing to lose except for their lives . They opened up a small and poor living space relying on the power of the Gods, planting vines that were difficult to swallow . They barely survived like the weeds on the roadside . Even so, the Ashes Woods often showed ferocious face to them . When night fell, monsters and the Undead creatures, all sorts of horrible things would come and attack people .
What was the most terrifying was that, on the extreme new moon night every year, the tide of skeletons would rise in the Ashes Woods . Countless skeleton armies would attack all living beings crazily . Even if they had strong walls, most of the time they would not be able to withstand the onslaught all night of countless skeletons . Usually, after a extreme new moon night, the lucky survivors would get the sad news before catching their breath . The nearby villages had been broken through . No one was spared, regardless of ages and genders .
“What kind of country can be built in this place? The country of the Undead?” Many people thought so .
However, some knowledgeable people knew more things .
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The negative energy intensity of the Ashes Woods was decreasing from the center to the periphery . Pioneers lived at the edge of the Ashes Woods, close to the Mountains of Barrenness . In such a place, negative energy was blocked by the power of the mountains’ earth vein, which was relatively suitable for survival . As long as they were careful on the extreme new moon night, they didn’t need to worry too much at ordinary times .
Certainly, cold and barrenness were always the enemy of all life beings . However, in general, that place was not a forbidden area of life . It was just not conducive to large-scale exploitation and development .
Even so, with enough capacity, it was still possible to open up a living space in this barrenness . For example, if you were a powerful God and could squander your power without care, you could completely create a prosperous paradise in the north-central part of the Ashes Woods, where a cup of boiling water would turn into ice cubes when pouring into the air in winter .
That was the Void Mask Land, the most peaceful and prosperous city in the world .
The city, which had been renamed “Void City”, was the capital of the Republic of Northwest . It had a permanent population of more than 50,000 . Every day, many people from all over the world came here to have a visit . It provided the tourists with the best enjoyment, the most interesting entertainment and the most fresh adventure experience in the world . Moreover, it was also a well-known place of peace . As long as you followed the laws of the Republic of Northwest and behaved yourself, no one could get you into trouble here .
More than ten legendary strongmen lived in this huge city all year long, and two real Gods kept paying attention to it . Didn’t mention about humans . Even Gods couldn’t make trouble here!
From the Void City to the east and the south, there were four towns in turn, namely Dragon-roar Town, Gold-panning Town, Pyroxene Town and Rye Town . These four towns, together with some villages of pioneers near the towns, and the Void City, constituted the main body of the Republic of Northwest .
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The Four Towns in the Northwest had their own characteristics, and most of them couldn’t be underestimated .
Dragon-roar Town was the world famous original place of material of demon beasts . The people here were very sturdy . Even the children on the street knew how to use swords and guns . A lot of adventurers lived here, who made a living by hunting for demon beasts . They entered the mountains with space cracks and killed the demon beasts that rushed into the main plane from the other side of the crack . Then they split them into various materials and sold them to the merchants who purchased these materials . They lived a life with licking the blood on the tips of their swords, so fierce .
In Dragon-roar Town, the social status of a person was decided by how powerful demon beasts he could hunt . The famous men in the town, only in groups of several, could bring down the terrifying demon beasts that were close to the legend level in a special way, dragging them back to slaughter and split them in public .
“Go to Dragon-roar Town to See the Slaughter of Demon Beasts” was also one of the famous tourism projects in the northwest .
Gold-panning Town was one of the relatively backward ones in the Four Towns in the Northwest . It had gold mines, but the quality was very poor . Some other minerals, such as copper mines and iron mines, were not good enough either . The production was barely able to feed the people .
However, to the further south, the situations of Pyroxene Town were completely different!
Pyroxene Town was a pearl of the north . It was quiet, peaceful and prosperous . The town was surrounded by a huge Purification Array, so the negative energy couldn’t invade it at all . Cold – resistant pines and cypresses could be seen everywhere in the town, green and luxuriant, offering people a feeling of vitality . The large acres of fields outside the town were beyond people’s imagination that they were in the Ashes Woods which was called “the forbidden area of life” . If the plants grown in the fields were not mainly the cold-resistant crops and herbs, they would even remind people of the famous grain – producing areas .
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In fact, it really produced grain here, and it was of very high-quality . Due to the cold weather, the growing period of grain here was long, and it matured only once a year . The long growing period made it much fuller than the grain in other places, and the taste was completely different from ordinary ones, which made it the best .
This kind of grain used to produce only a small amount in the Orc Empire . It had always been the speciality for the nobles and high – end hotels . Since its successful cultivation in Pyroxene Town, it had become a bright spot industry here .
However, for Pyroxene Town, the most important industries were herbs and negative energy crystals instead of the grain .
Needless to say, herbs, as precious consumables, had always been in short supply no matter how much they were produced . Negative energy crystals were very good low – end magic materials . The negative energy crystals produced in Pyroxene Town were small in size, but they were very pure and well received by the middle – level and low – level mages, which were in short supply as well .
With these three terms of incomes, the people in Pyroxene Town were quite wealthy .
The highlight of the town was not just about the industries . It had a magic school named Isuka School of Magic, which was dedicated to training battle mages . The headmaster of the magic school was the mayor who led Pyroxene Town into prosperity . She, Felix, was also the celebrity who united the Four Towns in the Northwest and laid the foundation for the establishment of the Republic, .
At present, Felix was already the second-seat commander of the Republic of Northwest . She was in charge of the work of the four towns and the various villages of pioneers . It was calculated that if the area she managed was counted as territories, then she would be the most powerful countess of the whole main plane .
If people went farther to the south from Pyroxene Town, the border of the Republic of Northwest could be seen .
Rye Town, an important town of commerce and agriculture, was located here .
Rye Town was an old town in the northwest region with strong strength and developed commerce and agriculture .
What was most well-known here was the strong guard group owned by the town, comparable to an imperial army of an ordinary country’s palace, with outstanding strength and equipment .
Rye Town was also the most populous town in the Republic of Northwest, with a total population of nearly 10,000 .
A legendary strongman stationed here all the year round . Before making trouble here, it was recommended to have a look at the corpses of the thieves hanging in a row on the gallows outside the city .
In general, the foundation of the Republic of Northeast was not weak at all, though the geographical location was somewhat weird . Many countries in the world were not as good when they first got built .