[21st, clear.
Beyond the Glory Mountains lay the Old Heranqi Road. Heranqi Rongjin, our founding emperor, had opened a route around the mountains here and routed the Giants who enslaved the local natives with a flanking attack.
This event was once called the first shot in the resistance against the Giants.
There were also the New Heranqi Road, the Heranqi Trade Road, and the Heranqi Branch Road-the names of roads in the Tyron Empire always had something to do with its rulers.
Even though, in fact, no ruler had completely freed the empire from the influence of slavery during their reign, the farmers in its various territories today, who nominally possessed "human rights," actually enjoyed very little dignity.
One plain reality was that the closer an area was to Lingering City, to the territory under the emperor's jurisdiction, the better behaved its nobles were, and the more prosperous the lives of its commoners.
Once you reached a corner beyond His Majesty's reach, this wilderness near the border, you would see one noble after another who considered themselves petty emperors.
But this could not obscure the fact that the founding of the Tyron Empire had begun at this moment. This trade route was later named after him.]
[22nd, clear.
After passing through the Old Heranqi Road, we would enter the Moso Family's territory.
As one of these "petty emperors," he was difficult to like when you met him.
Although these sorcerer nobles, covered in scales and calling themselves descendants of Giant Dragons, still professed loyalty to the empire, every glance they cast your way, every gesture they made, was that of a noble Giant Dragon looking down on an inferior creature-which often allowed them to overlook the fact that they were mongrels.
In Tang Qi's words, that was a double entendre.