Iowa Town's New Look

On the night of July 10, 997—five days ago—in Night-Kirin City's Meditation Room, faced with Ben Kaul's question, Landen suddenly thought of a famous saying from his hometown: "I go to fight the orcs not because it is easy, but because it is hard."

Looking at Landen's inexplicable confidence, the Legend mage wore the expression of someone looking at a foolish son. "With the few people you have, you want to fight the orcs?"

Landen naturally understood that inexplicable confidence could not fool a Legend, so he could only answer seriously, "It won't be me fighting them. It will be all the barbarians of Gallop Plains.

"The orcs' greatest confidence all these years has been that they think they're the barbarians' fathers. They think that when they left Night-Kirin City back then and left Gallop Plains to the barbarians, it was an act of charity.

"In truth, they simply couldn't adapt to the harsh local environment and chose to leave on their own. The barbarians are not their sons, but the victors who adapted to the plains' environment. Now this plain has already found a new Barbarian God, a new industrial model, and a new form of organization."

After listening to Landen's words, Ben fell silent, because according to Landen's logic, the same reasoning could also be applied to the relationship between Gallop Plains and the Human Empire. But thinking about it carefully, the relationship between the two had been drawn much closer because the barbarians believed in the God Emperor. It could be said that they were mutually independent yet naturally close.

For a Tower of Purity faction Legend like Ben Kaul, the Night-Kirin City he hoped for most was the one from three hundred years ago. At that time, Gallop Kingdom had been the Tower of Purity's staunchest