Chapter 296

Then it's the process.

The affairs officer took them to the storage of gifts, which were filled with gifts.

After the affairs officer conducted the accounting, he took them to the Paladin, the head of the commercial district.

This Paladin is not ugly, or because of his equally luxurious armor, he looks very heroic and handsome.

The Paladin just glanced at these "merchantists" and "caravan guards" and no longer had much interest in paying attention.

After that, he was taken away from this "business district office".

After leaving the office and coming to the street.

The Mother Gods sect who plays the "Businessman" said, "It's really rich."

The Paladin of the Torch Church, who plays the role of "caravan guard", frowned: "They betrayed the Torch Goddess."

In essence, the Paladins of the Torch Church in the New Holy City did not violate the original doctrine of the Torch Church.

Use flames to cleanse evil.

However, these Paladins who now only have interests will never be recognized by the newborn Paladins.

The roads in New Holy City are very flat.

The ground is made of very good stone materials.

If we talk about the luxury of architecture, the cleanliness of roads, the rows of houses, and the towering city walls.

Then this new holy city completely crushes the resort.

But if you look at the level of prosperity...

The “Businessmen” and “Cargoyle Guards” look around the clean and tidy business district.

Only the utilitarian paladins, believers, caravans, and nobles who come to cooperate with the Torch Church are qualified to trade in the commercial area.

As for civilians...

There are no civilians here, only "dedication" for faith, and are whipping the workers working hard to build the new holy city.

At least in the eyes of the members of the "Jiuyang Project", the prosperity here is definitely not as good as a resort villa.

Even if this new holy city is much larger than a resort villa.

These members of the "Jiuyang Project" who visited the regional business manager quickly returned to the hotel.

Next is the next step.

"Walker, where do some other residents of this city live?" asked the church members of the Mother Goddess.

Walker is the utilitarian paladin who was chosen by Fenris, good at agriculture, and decided to change his position.

In fact, he was also raped here at the beginning, and he did not really support the utilitarian concept.

But in the general trend, there are too many people who can’t help themselves.

"I've been away from here for a long time," said Walker. "I can probably guess the place, but I'm not sure, come with me anyway."

"And it's..." Walker was a little reluctant to speak.

"Say." The believers of the Mother God's Sect signaled him not to his mother-in-law's mother.

"There are many people here like me," Walker said. "Not everyone believes that the Torch Church should use the convenience of its power to plunder wealth and oppress civilians in the name of faith."

"This city should actually have a lot of potential help from us," Walker said.

Hearing Walker's explanation, the Mother Goddess sect said, "Take it slow, don't be too anxious."

Now it's better to be more stable.

It is definitely risky to contact what Walker calls "potential help", and it may even be reported and chased.

I will definitely get in touch in the future, but it is not necessary yet.

Walker nodded, and he didn't think about taking risks now.

...

At the same time, a team of knights with a scent of sulfur also came outside the Holy City.

Their goal is to remove the curse of purgatory.

Walk from the north to the south.

Come outside this new holy city.

"Now it seems that there is only a way to get rid of the purgatory curse." The team of knights whispered inside.

The new holy city of the Torch Church, maybe there is a way to curb the power of purgatory.

And that is, their other target, the rat man Quirou, seems to be here too.

At the Knights' Conference in Frost Moon King City, they were awarded the Knights' title, and then passed the Crescent Moon Collar, where they were invited to be guests to taste delicious food.

Then Rand, the lord of the crescent moon, came to them and entrusted them to find a rat man named Quirou, who was willing to pay in advance.

After this period of investigation, they finally confirmed that the mission goal is likely to be here as well.

But now, how should we enter this city?

...

The slums in New Holy City are different from most places in this world.

Because the slums in New Holy City are underground.

The new holy city designed a complex drainage system from the beginning, which gave it a "spacious" underground environment.

And the slum is just like this.

As for why there is still a lot of space on the ground, the slums are still needed to be set up underground, which is naturally because these lowly creatures are not worthy of feeling the glory of the torch goddess.

In the gloomy sewer.

Since the city was not long, the sewers were not dilapidated.

But there is almost no warmth.

Only in a very small number of places will a few rays of sunlight be projected in.

The rest are rotten excrement, moss parasitizing between the cracks in the walls.

And the "slum" built with dilapidated wooden boards.

In the slum of New Holy City, a rat man with temperament and mental state was obviously different from other similar types and circled around the slum full of stench.

Bypassing those human civilians who look unsightly, as well as civilians of other human races.

Come to the door of a short and cramped house.

He pushed open the creaking old door.

It is not very appropriate to describe this place as a slum.

This place should be called a slave shelter.

It’s just that nominally, they are all civilians, not slaves.

The reason why no one came to supervise these slaves.

It was just because the Paladins and believers of the New Holy City were not willing to come to the sewer to watch over these slaves.

There is no need to take care of it.

The dark sewer can't plant food.

If these "slaves" want to survive, they must come to the upper holy city to work under the whip.

Rat man is a type of beast-eared man, but compared with other beast-eared man, their beast-forming characteristics are more prominent.

But accordingly, they also gain more abilities that belong to animals.

For example, a better sense of smell and a stronger digestive ability, and the probability of getting sick by eating garbage will also become lower.

But it is definitely not that you won’t get sick.

At least in such an environment, the probability of getting sick is not much lower.

Rat people have stronger breeding ability, but individuals will be thinner than ordinary humanoid creatures.

Because the rat man learned human language very early, he was not classified as a monster by the Adventurer Association and the Human Noble.

Rat people often have their own Rat people tribes, living in the wild, but some will enter human towns and undertake some work.

For example, join the Adventurer Squad as a thief, or do some manual work.

Because this race is adaptable and has learned the common language in the mainland, you can encounter rat people almost everywhere in the southern continent.

As for why there is no in the north, it is naturally because of the existence of the northern border.

Overall, humans are not very welcome to rat people. Although they cannot be called hatred, rat people have always lived a lot of suffering in survival on a continent dominated by humans.

This is especially true in the New Holy City.

The civilians in the sphere of influence of the New Holy City and humanoid creatures who understand human language were all captured in the New Holy City and sweated for the construction of the Holy City.

The Rat Man is no exception.

Rat people work less efficiently than humans, but they can eat worse food than humans to keep them alive.

At least in the New Holy City, the life of the Ratman is like a nightmare.

In the room are Quirou's children and his wife.

The rat man Kuirou took out a piece of bread.

A moldy bread.

This piece of bread was rewarded by the Rat Man Kuirou after he pleased the supervisor and helped the supervisor recover his lost whip.

This bread is ground from rye, inferior and mixed with wood chips.

Moldy and a bit odor.

But it's bread after all.

It is much better than giving them food like slurry.

So Quirou waited carefully until the work was over and brought the bread back here.

Quirou broke the moldy bread apart, carefully peeled off the moldy marks on it, and then shared it with his children and his wife.

The Ratman children and Quirou's wife were all a little excited about the black bread.

This is very precious to them.

Quirou was a little silent.

He is an elite rat man.

If it weren't for malnutrition and had to keep running around for a livelihood, he might be a superior professional now.

However, the elite-level rat people are also qualified to join a good adventurer team for activities.

I heard that a sacred place for adventurers is emerging in the north for a more friendly, non-human race.

If there is no wife and children, Kuirou, the Rat Man, will definitely give it a try.

The profit is definitely much better than being caught as a slave now.

Kuirou himself can actually escape.

But his wife and children couldn't escape.

And that is, here, this foul-smelling sewer has a large number of his fellow tribes.

Quirou's fellow tribes are suffering the same suffering as Quirou.

It's even more painful.

When Kuiruo was born, he was expected by his clan members. At such a young age, he entered the elite level, which can be regarded as a response to expectations.

And even if he is malnourished and has insufficient rest, Kuiruo feels that he is about to become a superior professional.

But what can you do if you become a superior professional?