Chapter 2: No Good People in Ye Huo Town (Part 1)

  If there's a place on the entire continent where you can find the most chaos, it would have to be Wildfire Town.

  Ye Huo Town is not actually called Ye Huo Town. In fact, it has several unofficial names - mainly due to the confusion caused by the real ownership issues of Ye Huo.

  The town is located in the south of Ye Huo Yuan, but it is a place where three parties do not care about jurisdiction. If we talk about ownership, then it can be said that "the flag on the city wall changes greatly".

  The Northern Odin Empire, the Southern Byzantine Empire, and even some large bandit groups have all been masters of this place at one time or another.

  The geographical location of Ye Huo Town is not very good, but it happens to be the most subtle point in the gap. There are no other products on the Ye Huo Plain, mostly forests, mountain valleys and basins, where the land is barren and the climate is also the strangest.

  Every year, the cold air from the north brings a three-month-long chilly winter to the Wildfire Prairie. After winter, the warm southerly winds blow up from the south, making people feel lazy and unwilling to move. The cold and hot weather from the north and south intersect here, forming sufficient rainfall, and the land is muddy in summer.

  As a result, on the prairie, in winter it is cold and dry, while in summer it is hot and humid.

  The people of the North, Odin's folk, were accustomed to the cold climate of ice and snow, but they did not adapt to the humid heat of summer here. The Byzantine Empire people from the south could not stand the dry cold of winter.

  In addition, there are no products here that have much to do with people's livelihoods or national economy, and it can be said to be a useless place.

  On the Wildfire Prairie, there were no other products, but many ferocious beasts and large and small indigenous tribes scattered all over. These large and small tribes were also both good and evil. When they had business, they would raise a flag and become mercenaries. When they didn't have business, they would cover their faces with a piece of cloth and go rob.

  There are also dwarf tribes around, dirty and timid but numerous as ants of the earth spirit tribe, forests full of swamps...

  This place is only used as a buffer zone for battle when the two great empires are about to go to war, otherwise, in peacetime, no one would bother to take a second look.

  The two great empires seemed to have reached a tacit understanding: if the Byzantines took this place, the Ottomans would certainly attack; and if the Ottomans occupied it, the Byzantines would definitely send troops to drive them out. But neither side had actually experienced stationing troops in such a godforsaken place for an extended period, so as long as the other side did not occupy this region, they simply let it be, turning it into a no-man's land.

  As for the only town here, Wildfire Town, it has become a haven for all sorts of complex groups on the continent. Criminals, fugitives, thieves, robbers, swindlers, adventure teams and many other complex groups have made this place their paradise.

  Anarchic paradise, this evaluation is most suitable for Wildfire Town.

  A few days ago, several large merchant groups from the Byzantine Empire in the south suffered heavy losses due to robbery by bandits. They collectively hired a mercenary tribe to drive away the bandit group and declared this place as an important material distribution center, announcing "protection" for the small town.

  Ye Olde Town has everything, inns, taverns, casinos, brothels, and some secret hideouts of thieves' guilds. In the black market of illegal transactions, you can buy many officially banned goods, and there are mercenary tribe trading posts...

  This is a paradise for adventurers.

  Honest and kind-hearted people should not live in such a place.

  Even a tailor in a tailor's shop in town might be a fugitive who had been wanted by both empires for many years.

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  When Xia Yali walked into the town, he didn't attract anyone's attention. The tattered wolf skin cloak on his body made him look more like a beggar, and the fire fork inserted at his waist would make people think that he was a "mentally ill" beggar at most.

  Just as Xi Ya was rushing through the streets of Wildfire Town like a hungry wolf, a greedy gaze shot towards him from the entrance of a shop by the road.

  …………

  If I had to use one word to describe Duo Duo Luo's appearance, that word would be: sleazy!

  If you must add an adverb, it should be "extremely"!

  He was very thin, extremely thin, with a skeletal face, but his cheeks had two horizontal pieces of flesh, plus a pair of downturned eyebrows and triangular eyes that emitted a sinister and lustful glow. Even when he smiled, it seemed like the kind of creepy uncle who would seduce little girls.

  To put it this way, with his appearance, walking on the main street at night, even if he didn't do anything, he would definitely attract the suspicious gaze of patrolling soldiers.

  He once had a very "glorious" deed, when he was studying in the capital, one evening, on a small road, he accidentally met a lady, as a result, the two just looked at each other for a moment, and that lady only saw Dororo's appearance, she was so scared that her face turned pale, then she shouted "Indecent".

  The result attracted the patrolling guards, who tied him up without distinction and took him back. Duoduo tried to defend himself, but they only said one sentence: "You have a face that looks like you would molest little girls."

  Fortunately, today's Totoro no longer has to suffer such humiliating treatment.

  Nowadays, Duoduo has the most noble profession on the continent, the most noble, without exception!

  His current formal identity is: The Honorable Doro Magic Master.

  Of course, this title is his own claim. In fact, Dororo is now just a low-ranking first-class magician, and unfortunately, he is no longer young, and in the magic assessment, he has also been identified as having no potential for further promotion.

  The profession of a magician is noble, but that refers to those high-ranking magicians who can summon the winds and rains. For low-ranking magicians like him with no magical potential, the only way out is to find a mercenary band or tribe to be a thug, earning some living expenses. If he's lucky, he might even encounter some unsophisticated rural noble who has never seen much of the world and be treated as an honored guest.

  So in Wangdu or other big cities, Duoduo had no chance of development, he could only run to a place like Wildfire Town to try his luck.

  Moreover, his arrival in Wildfire Town was absolutely unexpected - he had gone bankrupt.

  It's a ridiculous thing: a magician famous for being noble and wealthy actually goes bankrupt?

  However, this thing really happened to Dororo - he accidentally found a method in an ancient book that could greatly increase his magical power. This discovery stimulated Dororo's ambition, and he borrowed money from a merchant association to buy many magical materials for this magical research. Then... unfortunately, his magical research failed, and the materials were consumed by more than half.

  Unfortunately, he later discovered that the ancient book he had obtained was actually a fake antique fabricated by an artifact merchant!

  As a magician, I was actually deceived by those inferior fake antique merchants! This is simply a great shame for Dororo.

  Unfortunately, the merchant guild he owed money to was a legitimate organization protected by imperial law. In order to collect the debt, they even went so far as to sue Dororo at the Royal Capital's Magical Association.

  Sue a magician for owing money and not paying back, and even make a big deal out of it at the Magician's Guild?!

  This is a scandal of the century! Doro's reputation was ruined in the royal capital, and he became a huge laughing stock in the magical community. Even in the royal capital, this little low-level magician's popularity once surpassed that of those well-known great magicians.

  Finally, Duoduo Luo had no choice but to change his name and move far away. He hoped that the wildfire in this lawless land would bring him good luck by chance.

  Taro saw Shaya Raym now.

  To be precise, he had his eyes on something hanging from Xia Yaren's neck!

  As a magician, Mordo couldn't help but feel a surge of greed the moment he saw that thing on Shaya's neck.

  It was a dull gray stone with no luster at all.

  But... The omnipotent Lord above, I, Madoro, dare to swear that it is a top-grade magical crystal!!!

  …………

  Xia Yali was soon blocked from going further.

  Although he was dizzy with hunger, as soon as he saw the appearance of this guy who blocked his way, he immediately came to his senses!

  "Hello, young man, want to make a deal?"

  Duoduo Luo tried his best to make himself look more friendly and harmless, but apparently, his efforts were in vain. Because Xia Yare saw his first reaction was a face full of vigilance, while one hand grasped the fire fork at his waist, and the other hand quickly covered his pocket tightly.

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