Kalanfu'er.
A small town near River Valley Town.
It was no different from the countless obscure little human settlements within the Servia Kingdom.
The river was short and shallow, nowhere near fit for shipping. It was only enough for the women in town to scrub clothes and dump dirty water.
It produced no rare specialties, and no large mineral vein had been found nearby that could support the economy of an entire town.
Because it was close to the Thin Mist Forest, the wilderness around the town even had a denser population of Monsters than other areas, making travel for merchant caravans especially dangerous.
To a certain extent, if the area around River Valley Town had not possessed that perfect terrain of mountains on three sides, easy to defend and hard to attack, and if it had been a little farther from the Thin Mist Forest...
Then Kalanfu'er would be what it was now.
Fortunately, it was precisely because of an "adventuring hub" like River Valley Town, which had the Adventurers Association and provided a large amount of tax revenue to the kingdom's province every year...
That Kalanfu'er, encircling it like a satellite town, could cling on like a leech sucking blood and be given the suffix "town" rather than "village."
It had not declined completely.
The journey to and from River Valley Town was only four or five days, and the surrounding terrain was fairly flat, making it a temporary resting and resupply stop for many adventurers and merchant caravans.
It could be said without any hesitation that seventy percent of Kalanfu'er's annual tax revenue came from the free-spending adventurers who passed through the town.
But on the other hand, it was like sweet water, delicious and pleasant, yet imperceptibly damaging to one's health.
Those adventurers walked on the