Xingyue, another world recasts the glory of human nature

Asai heard the soft call from his ear, and the gentle young man in white robe was looking at him.

This time, she could understand the other person's language.

"No need to be afraid, no one here will hurt you... Come on, drink this."

Hohenheim took out a thumb-sized glass bottle containing a colorless and transparent liquid.

Looking at the handed bottle, Asai felt a little uneasy.

There is no other reason. In Asai's eyes, glass is an extremely precious pure-color transparent crystal.

When this precious treasure was handed into Asai's hands, she was very frightened.

But under Hohenheim's encouraging eyes, Asai still took the vial, looked at the unknown liquid in the bottle, held his breath, and drank the liquid in the bottle.

The liquid brings a light sweetness to the mouth, followed by a strange fruity aroma.

Asai felt a coolness rush into his heart, and his chaotic thoughts became orderly and clear again.

This is not a drink, but a magic potion to calm the mind, but in Asai's heart, this is the best thing she has ever drunk.

Asai carefully handed the glass bottle back to the gentle man in front of him. Hohenheim just smiled slightly, took back the bottle, and walked towards Kazama.

The maid entered the room again and took Asai away.

The door closed again, Kazama looked at Hohenheim and asked him: "How was it?"

Hohenheim organized his words a little, and then spoke:

"The kid's name is Asai...it's a title."

Slaves had no formal names, only nicknames.

"That child is indeed a slave. She escaped from a city-state called 'Xian', which is called the 'City of White Stone'."

"Most of the dozens of people with her were captured by Xi'an's slave-catching team. The rest escaped into the forbidden land."

"The so-called forbidden place is the forest shrouded in white mist. After they entered the forest, they quickly separated. Only the child and a male slave who was very close to the child walked out of the white mist."

Then she was captured by the goblins, and then Kazama organized an army to encircle and suppress the goblin tribe and rescued the girl.

Hohenheim briefly introduced the girl's situation, and then talked about the city Xi'an founded by the aborigines.

"The child is a slave and has never stepped out of a certain area in her life. The information about this world and local human civilization that can be obtained from her memory is very limited."

"And there is very little direct information. Most of the information is deduced from her memories and experiences."

"The city named Xi'an is a small city-state. Its total population exceeds [-]."

"But only 2000 of them were freedmen, and the rest were all slaves."

Hearing Hohenheim's words, Kazama frowned.

Slaves outnumbered freedmen by nearly fifteen to one, a very unusual ratio.

Even in the Greek city-state era when slavery was at its peak, the ratio of slaves to free people was only six to one.

Kazama thought of a possibility.

"Is this city called Xi'an specialized in some kind of trade?"

"That's right..."

Hohenheim nodded: "Xian is a trading city-state, and training slaves is their main business, or it is the city's 'glorious tradition'."

Engaged in the slave trade, selling slaves as commodities.Only in this way can there be such an exaggerated population ratio in the city.

"Xian was built next to a bay. This bay seems to have two slave city-states of equal size. That bay is also called 'Slaver's Bay'."

"As for the level of civilization of this city-state...it can skillfully use and make iron tools, and use horses as pack tools. The system, architectural styles and techniques, and the technology of various industries...the civilization of this city-state is compared to ours. The world should be in the ancient times."

After the fall of the Roman Empire, Western Europe entered the medieval feudal era civilization.

Taking the world of Xingyue as a standard, the level of the slave city-state named Xi'an in the outside world is about the same as that of the United Roman Empire, or even a little behind.

Moreover, uniting the Roman Empire is not the upper limit of human civilization.

"Other than that, there is not much useful information that can be obtained from the child's memory. The world outside Xi'an, on the other side of the bay, and what human civilization is like can only be obtained from people with higher status in the city-state. , or we can step out of the fog and directly contact and communicate with the indigenous civilizations of the outside world."

"The first contact is still in this way. It is enough to get so much information."

"How is the research on the outer mist-locked barrier going?"

In the past two days, Hohenheim has been traveling back and forth between the town and the misty forest.He devoted himself wholeheartedly to the study of this barrier.

"It can only be said that there is a small gain..."

Hohenheim said:

"The barrier is set up very delicately, relying on nature and earth's veins. Even if no one is watching over it, it can easily operate for thousands of years without interference."

"If I want to break this large barrier, I'm afraid it will take several years, and I also need the assistance of people who are good at barrier magic. Otherwise, the time may be extended further."

"Um..."

Kazama tapped his fingers lightly on the table, nodded, and then said:

"But we don't need to dismantle the entire door and door frame, as long as the door can be opened. What if we only open a small hole in the fog barrier and leave a way to the outside world?"

"If that's the case, it would be much simpler. I can arrange a barrier with a relatively hedging nature and embed it into the large mystery lock. In this way, a gap can be opened."

"Deploying such a barrier can only be done in half a year if all the materials are available."

Hohenheim paused and looked up at Kazama.It was obvious that Kazama meant more than that.

"It would be easier if a single person could get out of the barrier. I can do it now."

Chapter 40 Acceptance

Hohenheim can try to protect a single person out of this mysterious barrier and contact the civilization outside.

What Hohenheim stated was exactly what Kazama wanted.Although Kazama hasn't said it yet.

Dad Dou is indeed a wise man, but he was hunted down by the Magic Association for imparting knowledge to mortals.After his death, he even expected that the Magic Association would send people from the Advent Division to recall his soul.He had taken this into consideration before he was alive and prepared backup plans to make the seance ceremony fail.

As for the part of the mystery Hohenheim revealed, the Magic Association could only hold its nose and admit it.Humanity's progress in chemistry and medicine has also taken a big step forward.

Collecting intelligence from the outside world is very important. Although I learned a little bit about the human civilization in the outside world from the girl named Asai, it is still too rare.

We still don’t know what this other world looks like in the eyes of human aborigines, and what the aborigines’ past history was like.

"The people who can pass through the misty forest are basically escaped slaves. The slaves are confined to a narrow area and spend their lives. They know too little about the world."

Kazama said:

"If you want to know more information about the outside world, you can only actively obtain it. Through contact with the outside world."

"Do you need to send someone outside to gather information?"

Arash also reacted.

"It's better to leave it to me..."

Looking at the extremely sunny Arash who volunteered, Kazama shook his head.

"There is still time for gathering intelligence, so there is no need to be in such a hurry. Besides, there are specialties in the art industry, and there are people who are more suitable for spying on intelligence than you, Arash."

Collecting intelligence requires covert operations, which is espionage, and Arash is obviously not suitable.

This work still needs to be carried out by real people.

Speaking of specialization in the arts, looking at Arash, Kazama spoke again:

"As we expand external contact, disputes are inevitable."

As a lord, with information about external civilization at hand, Kazama could not help but evaluate the consequences of contact before contact.

The peak slavery economy and the city-state civilization dominated by the slave trade are undoubtedly the worst kind of 'neighbors'.

Let’s not talk about ideological conflicts, but the competition for limited resources.

The foundation of a slave city-state is slaves. The source of slaves is, on the one hand, the descendants of slaves.On the other hand, it comes from plundering from outside.

There are no free people's villages around the White Stone City. Maybe there once were, but they were later swallowed up.

If the fog clears, a brand new city-state will appear on the side of White Stone City.Before there was an epoch-making gap in the civilized era, facing Rome, which had far fewer people than itself, the City of White Stone would definitely be tempted.

After listening to Kazama's words, Arash stopped smiling and nodded seriously.

"I know."

Stable development requires a stable environment, and a stable environment cannot be supported by strong strength.

The nature of living things is for the weak to prey on the strong, and the formation of order is also due to the backing of strength.

It is not yet known how many armed forces there are in White Rock City.But what is certain is that the number of its armed forces is definitely greater than that of today's towns.

War between humans is different from war with greenskins.

Even though the people of the United Roman Empire were stronger than the natives in terms of individual quality, there was no epoch-making difference in technology and weapons, and numbers were still a very important victory condition.

At present, the town's military force is guaranteed by one elite joint Roman soldier and the other by heroic spirits.

In a normal world, one heroic spirit would be enough to match an army, but there is extraordinary power in this world, as the ruins behind the town can prove.It is very likely that there are individual humans with superior strength in this world.

Before the information was clear, Kazama did not dare to relax at all.

After July, after accepting a group of subjects, Kazama can consider the second expansion of the army.

Before that, now, he was going to verify an idea of ​​his.

……

In the side room next to the study, Asai, who was brought to this room by the maid, sat on a chair and waited.

She also realized that the people in this strange place were somewhat different from the people she met in White Stone City.

Asai couldn't tell what was different, but in the City of White Stone, no one would treat slaves so kindly.

In fact, if a slave owner kills less than three slaves every year, then this slave owner is considered to be excellent...at least, he will not kill slaves at will.

The door was pushed open, and Asai saw the majestic young man with black hair and black eyes walking into the room side by side with the gentle young man in white robe.

Asai subconsciously wanted to kneel down, but he was still lifted up by a gentle wind.

This was a magical power that filled Asai with awe of the two people in front of him.

"No need for that, kid. There is no such etiquette as kneeling here."

The gentle young man in white robes spoke softly. In a place where others were using words she didn't understand, the gentle young man who could speak the common language she was familiar with was undoubtedly more close to her.

"My name is Hohenheim, and the person next to me is the lord here, Lord Kazama." Hohenheim introduced.

Asai understood. The so-called lord is the same person as the city lord of White Stone City.

For the slave, it was a person she had never seen before, who controlled the fate of all slaves like a god.

The mind that had been calmed down by the potion now became restless again.

"Do not be afraid..."

Hohenheim's voice sounded again, and the gentleness and kindness it conveyed soothed her mood.

"Master Kazama asks you if you are willing to stay here and become a member of his territory."

Asai raised his head in confusion and asked weakly:

"Is the lord willing to accept me as a slave? But I am a runaway slave..."

Hohenheim shook his head: "You misunderstood. There is no distinction between slaves and slave owners here. You can understand that this is a town of free people, and you naturally join as a free citizen."

"Freedmen..."

Asai's expression became more confused, and at the same time, his fear deepened.

Living as a slave was a determined fate for her, living as a slave and dying as a slave, there was no other choice.

So when Hohenheim asked, Asé didn't know how to answer.

Seeing the girl's confusion, this change of identity may be difficult to understand and accept for a while, Hohenheim changed his explanation.

"Are you willing to stay here and live here?"

The change in your understanding of your identity can come slowly, but your future direction can be decided now.

This time, the girl quickly gave a reply: