Chapter 690: Ekatoe City
Chapter 690: Ekatoe City
First Class Yellow Squadron.
In the entire Tenth Grain War, there were only twenty-nine squads at this rank. It also means that they would be eligible to exchange some of the information at their rank level.
Souta exited Vandal's office. Then, he went to Carmel's office. He reported to his Grain Leader that he was dispatched outside of Olympus and received a land. He also said that he was dispatched there as a part of his mission.
After that, he went to the Blue Cross Squad and bid farewell to them since he was stationed outside of Champion's Den. He wouldn't meet them for a long time until he returned here, or there was a special mission like the one against the Red Matter Association.
He stayed here for a day as he joined the victory celebration of the Third Set. The celebration lasted for two days. So everyone from the Third Set was free and the warriors just enjoyed their free time.
On the next day, Souta packed his belongings. Alice and the rest also packed their things as they followed him. They settled everything here so it's the right time to move to their new territory.
"Goodbye, Souta!" Drami said while waving both of her tiny hands.
"Be careful." Sekmet said with a smile.
"If we have some time we'll visit you there," Leilus said.
"I hope we could fight together once again." Grain Leader Darwin said.
A bunch of warriors from Third Set were seeing him off. They got closer to fighting together against the same enemies. Even though the war didn't last long, they felt that they were fighting for a long time side by side. It was a feeling built without thinking about their benefits, the warriors simply wanted to defeat the Red Matter Association and protect the civilians.
"Goodbye..." Souta waved his hand before he turned around and left.
Alice and the others saluted to the warriors before they followed him.
Almost everyone from the Third Set knew that he was dispatched outside of Champion's Den. It should be a secret but Souta knew that was just an excuse. The Astros Squad was placed outside of Olympus in the name of the mission but they didn't actually care about the mission.
The higher-ups would take care of it after he settled in his territory. They would fix it to become a branch of Athen's Champion.
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"Hmm... This is the Ekatoe City."
A tall man said while looking at the small city. He had short black hair and his features were sharp. He was wearing a leather armor and a white lab coat on top of it.
This man was Torkez.
A beautiful woman with long black hair and pointed ears approached him from the side. Her name was Remina.
"Sir, we estimated that Ekatoe City only had a population of thirty thousand people. Its rank is quite low and it doesn't have a lot of powerhouses." Remina said.
"Our job is to handle all the opposition of this city before our leader arrives," Torkez said.
"I understand," Remina said.
Torkez stretched his body and said, "It's been a while since I've fought someone. I wonder if I could still keep up."
Ekatoe City. It was a city outside the territory of large countries or any holy lands. It was just one of the cities that could be destroyed anytime so it wasn't included in the God's Continent land. Well, on the regional map, this city was included and the regional map was updated every six months as some of the territories would collapse or new ones would arise.
A few days ago, the City Lord suddenly resigned and it shook the forces of the city. It was too sudden and no one was informed about it. Then, they quickly received that a new City Lord would be coming soon. A lot of people wanted to find the City Lord but he was already gone. No one was left in the City Hall. It became abandoned in the blink of an eye.
The various forces in the city became restless. The city lord was just a puppet of the strongest family in the city. The sudden disappearance of the City Lord shook the entire city. He only left a note before he disappeared. The note said that he was going to retire and he was going to pass the position of City Lord to a man named Souta.
No one knew who's Souta or where he came from. It was a mystery so a lot of people were perplexed. The Shimpan Family, the one who controlled the former City Lord, wanted to ignore the letter. They wanted to place a new City Lord for their benefit.
No one knew who's Souta. After all, Souta hasn't made a name for himself, and all the things that he did in God's Continent were small. Even if Souta was the one who stopped the chaos in the Dukedom of Halbun, his name would only spread in the neighboring small cities or small kingdoms.
That dukedom was nonexistent in the eyes of the people across the continent. The news wouldn't spread that far unless the dukedom was a ranked as large country. If a dukedom, city, kingdom, or empire had a god powerhouse it would be ranked as a large country. No matter what type of government it had, as long as it had god-realm experts, people would call it large country.
If Ekatoe City had a god-realm expert overseeing it, even if it had only a thousand people, people would still call it large country. A god-realm powerhouse was all that matters.
People would naturally flock around and the population would expand quickly. After all, it was safer in a place that god protected.
Aside from the large country, just below it was the rich country. A rich country was a city, kingdom, etc that houses Shackled Realm experts up to Demigod Realm. If the Ladros City wasn't part of the Hebrei Kingdom, it would still be a rich country since it houses several dozens of Shackled Realm experts.
"What the hell did that Carpo do?! If I see him, I'm going to skin him alive!" An old man with a thick beard and mustache said angrily. He was the head of the Shimpan Family, Edward Shimpan.
"He escapes and appointed an unknown person as the next City Lord! Father, I think that the Shimpan Family should step up and control the city openly!" The man with long black hair and thick eyebrows said. He was the first son of the family head, Adel Shimpan.
"We should be careful, father. The other city will come to us if we carelessly move. Since the appointment of the new Governor, there's been a strange silence between the other cities." The second son of the family head said. He was Alan Shimpan
"Right, the Governor of the Mine Valley wanted to expand its territory. It wanted to swallow Ekatoe City and other cities around it." Edward said as he stroked his thick beard.
"Tsk! Then, what about the new City Lord of our city?" Adel clicked his tongue and asked.
"There's a chance that it's set up by the new Governor. If we move carelessly then we would only give the Governor an excuse to attack us." Alan said.
"Should we ask some bandits to go to the Crime Law City?" Edward carefully asked.
"No, father! Those bastards from that city will only use this to loot the wealth of our family!" Adel rejected it.
"I think that we should first wait for the appearance of the new City Lord." Alan sighed and said. "According to Carpo's letter the next City Lord would arrive in a few days."
"It's better if we ignore the letter and placed a person that we could control," Adel said.
"No matter what, we can't lose control of this city," Edward said in a low voice.
Suddenly, the door opened and a person hurriedly stepped inside. The person was breathing heavily and sweat was forming on his forehead.
"Huff... Huff... Family Head! A group of people arrived at the City Hall! They said that they are the subordinates of the new City Lord!" The person said.
"What?!!"
Edward, Adel, and Alan were shocked when they heard their subordinate's words.
"Are you serious?!"
"Yes, sir. They went inside the City Hall." The person said.
The news about the group of people claiming that they were subordinates of the new City Lord quickly spread across the entire Ekatoe City. Various small forces inside the city quickly moved. The civilians could only hope that the newly appointed City Lord wouldn't increase their taxes.
Torkez was standing in the office of the City Lord. He was looking at the window with a calm look.
"Call the engineers and earth mage. We'll build new buildings around the City Hall and expand it. As for the people that oppose the rule of our leader, kill them all. This is our new territory. It will become a part of Astros in the near future."