Jiang Ping An approached Archaic City and saw large numbers of humans toiling away.
Their eyes were hollow. Wearing anklets and shackles, they carried heavy stones on their backs and mechanically constructed the city walls and buildings.
Desiccated human corpses hung from some of the towering buildings.
"Crack!"
The sound of a whip falling came from nearby.
"Dragging your feet again? Move faster!"
A Wildsea Royal Clan Overseer wielding a barbed whip viciously lashed a young-looking girl.
The girl's tender skin split open, blood staining her tattered clothes red as she collapsed to the ground.
Biting her chapped lips, tears welled in her eyes. She did not dare make a sound and could only weep silently.
She raised her small, scar-covered hands and pressed them against the ground, trying to push herself up.
But the stones on her back were too heavy. She could not carry them at all, and just as she began to rise, the weight pressed her back down.
The overseer flew into a rage at the sight. Raising his barbed whip, he struck again.
"Useless trash, get up! If you're no use, I'll send you to your death!"
A pregnant woman with a swollen belly saw the girl being beaten and hurried over. She knelt before the overseer and pleaded, "My lord, she's still just a child. Please give her a God Source Stone to restore some of her strength, so she can have the energy to work."
"A little beast like her wants a God Source Stone? Since she's useless, then she can die!"
The overseer did not want to take out even a single God Source Stone. His expression was cold as he raised his whip, ready to beat the woman to death.
Seeing this, the pregnant woman hurriedly stood and shielded the girl.