Tribal Axis

Zhang Tie truly had not been boasting. The funding for the Tribal Axis Plan he had envisioned would not require the Icefield Giant Bear Tribe or Eskil City to spend a single coin.

If there was one greatest skill Zhang Tie had learned while working at Tang De's grocery store over the past few years, it was this: grasping what customers wanted, then selling the goods behind the counter in a way they liked.

Zhang Tie considered himself a little person. He had grown up among little people, so he understood their thoughts very well.

The heart of the Tribal Axis Plan—the thing that would truly move little people—was not the railway, not the tribe, and still less its future prospects. It was the Ice and Snow Wilderness.

In the eyes of many important people and wealthy people, what could possibly be attractive about a barren wasteland like the Ice and Snow Wilderness? They generally looked down on such places. Even if they did find something there that interested them, it would probably only be opportunities to make money or gain fame, not the Ice and Snow Wilderness itself. Other than that, the place was poor, filled with savage Slavic natives, had only one city, and became cold enough to kill in winter. What else could attract anyone? Nothing. Absolutely nothing!

Yet Zhang Tie had seen the Ice and Snow Wilderness's future value through the eyes of a little person. When the Third Human Holy War arrived, if the Devil Race army truly proved unstoppable, then there would be only one place in the entire Blakerson Human Corridor that would fall to the Devil Race last: the Ice and Snow Wilderness.

Without first conquering the nations of the continent, the Devil Race would not have the ability to organize an