After seeing the burly men fighting Old School Striking King, Hill instantly understood why Shar placed so much importance on this area.
Although her main purpose might have been to let Old School Striking King experience her frustration, Shar must have discovered something worth making a capable female priest like her suffer for.
These people were not exactly evil, but they were clearly well organized and had an ample supply of food.
People who grew up eating black taro could not develop muscles.
That stuff could only meet their daily needs and keep them from starving to death.
No matter how much they ate, it was only a little better than grass... Even cattle and horses could not gain much strength or carrying capacity if all they had to eat was ordinary grass.
Building muscle required meat and protein.
Of course, there were still some robust people.
Not everyone in this Refugee Camp survived solely on Joss's handouts... But people like that could not possibly turn up in this alley.
Even if they formed small organizations resembling gangs, they still could not manage it.
After all, most of the people living in this alley were destitute.
And under Joss's rule, there was one fundamental requirement: there could be no murders or deaths from starvation.
No matter how hands-off he was with this camp, he had still established its basic rules.
Naturally, he only dared to be so indifferent because he had incorporated those basic requirements into the camp's foundational magic array.
Even if the Archmage from the Defense Tower who had helped him build the camp had selfish motives and tampered with something, certain fundamental stipulations could never be changed.
So someone must have been supporting these people.
The great families of the Defense Tower were actually unlikely to be