The relationship between Newm City and River Valley Town was extremely special.
The latter lay close to Thin Mist Forest. It was an important adventuring town with an Adventurers Association stationed there, contributing a large amount of tax revenue to the province and the kingdom every year and producing countless Monster materials.
And because large numbers of adventurers who wielded Transcendent Power gathered in the town all year round, related industries were extraordinarily developed, far beyond what a town of its size should have possessed.
The former, as the largest city in the nearby region, enjoyed a decent geographical location and an official development strategy suited to its urban characteristics. This made its commerce prosper, and it absorbed large numbers of ordinary residents and upper-class nobles.
River Valley Town supplied Newm with a series of specialties from Thin Mist Forest, including Monster pelts and timber; Newm, relying on its huge scale, continuously provided River Valley Town with manpower, steel, food supplies, and other resources.
To a certain extent, a large portion of the adventurers who died in the forest during Hunting Day and became nourishment for the soil came from the slums of Newm City.
"Adventurer," this high-risk profession where danger and reward rose in equal measure, was often the final choice in life for those unfortunate souls whose reality had already become so miserable that they could no longer survive.
Under these circumstances, the large population in town that came from neighboring Newm also influenced River Valley Town's popular trends.
On this point, the small vendors on the roadside who made a living by reselling goods were especially sensitive.
It had even reached the point where a certain goose-down cloak that had only made a name for itself at a noble banquet last month had already been placed on