Dominaria World

Garidello City

This was a small to medium-sized city located in a remote desert region.

Its total population was around two hundred thousand.

Its defining feature was its overwhelming desolation.

First, it had no distinctive culture. Second, it had no local specialties worth mentioning. Third, it had no figures renowned far and wide.

However, despite being terribly poor now,

with land that was exceptionally barren,

and basically nothing besides golden sand stretching across the sky,

it had once been prosperous, more than a thousand years ago.

Back then, this had been a gathering place for a people known as the Sollans.

Having mastered vast amounts of advanced artifact-making technology and advanced energy technology, they were said to have ruled not only this land, which had yet to become barren at the time, but to have possessed an immense reputation throughout the entire Dominaria World!

At this moment,

even though the civilization they had created had long since been destroyed for certain reasons,

and even this ancient land had been tainted by some unknown force,

their once-glorious civilization had still left behind many useful treasures.

Although those treasures might have been nothing more than ordinary goods during their heyday...

to ordinary people, they were incomparably precious things.

This directly resulted in a never-ending stream of people arriving from all directions to hunt for treasure.

And it was precisely because of this

that, with countless junk scavengers flocking here one after another in hopes of picking up treasures, this godforsaken place full of sand, where you could not even find a toilet if you needed to shit, still had a city with a population of two hundred thousand instead of not even a single dog...

After returning to the city with the treasure he had painstakingly dug up,

the youth named Kaisa