Yarra’s Adventure Notes

Chapter 74 - 74 1 No

?74: Chapter 1 No.

6 Fox Street_1 74: Chapter 1 No.

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Neutral Land, Rhea, City of Knowledge.

Rhea is situated to the south of a sea, adjoins the federal state of Nivell to the west, borders the Falar Empire to the east, and touches the Country of Sand, Batuom, to the north, thus truly being a strategic passage.

Observing from a broader perspective, if you depart from the Mage Country of Butt and the knight’s Falar, both located in the eastern part of the continent, and head to the west, toward the Country of Commerce-Nivell, Sea Country-Kassa, Mountain Country-Kulan, the Beastmen Prairie, and the Elven territory of Lost Forest, you will have only three options by land: either cross the scarcely-human Sighing Desert, which spans an area of no less than 100,000 square kilometers, or traverse the Pandora Mountains on the eastern part of the Country of Sand, Batuom, which even birds find hard to cross, or, alternatively, walk through the elongated east-west corridor of the Neutral Land.

Before the year 3148 in the Continental Calendar, Rhea did not exist, neither did the City of Knowledge.

The Neutral Land five hundred years ago was still an area of war and chaos where three countries met.

During that period, the three surrounding countries all wanted to occupy this corridor connecting the eastern and western parts of the continent.

However, whichever country occupied it would be jointly attacked by the other two.

From 2925 to 3148, spanning over two hundred years, the three countries attempted to control this land repeatedly, but all ended in failure.

After over two hundred years of effort, all three countries gave up on controlling the Neutral Land, ultimately abandoning this barren land of over one hundred thousand square kilometers in a state of disorder year-round.

A state of anarchy continued for over two hundred years, resulting in this region being infested with outlaws.

Innumerable bandits established themselves in this large tract of land, causing considerable distress to passing merchant caravans and travelers.

The chaotic situation continued until the year 3148, precisely five hundred years ago, when the strongest half-god human at the time, Zeus White, led his Whit mercenaries and suppressed the bandits, whose numbers were comparable to a regular army.

He also engaged in a hidden five-year struggle with the three surrounding countries.

Eventually, he succeeded in making this land completely independent, named it Rhea, the Neutral Land, and established the City of Freedom in the southern coastal area of Rhea.

In the declaration made during its establishment, it was proclaimed that Rhea would always remain neutral without involving itself in any wars of any countries on the continent.

It would not align with any nation, nor would it be controlled by any nation, and it would not establish any army, only retaining a large number of city guards to maintain law and order.

This notification, which was later called the Zeus Declaration by future generations, was recognized by more than ninety percent of the half-gods from the Yarran World, and they all pledged to safeguard this declaration with their inherent mental barrier.

This implies that any individual or power intending to violate this declaration would face the consequence of being at odds with almost all half-gods of the whole Yarran World – a cost that nobody can afford, not even Zeus himself.

Afterwards, Zeus voluntarily disbanded the White mercenary group and established the Mercenary Guild with it as the core.

Instantly, a wave of change swept across the mercenary sector in the Yarran World.

Over sixty percent of the mercenary groups moved their bases to the City of Freedom, causing a boom in the city’s development.

In the year 3201 of the Continental Calendar, the Alchemy Guild, Mage Guild, originally headquartered in the Mage Country of Butte, and the Adventurer’s Guild, invited from Nivell to Neutral Land, jointly established the City of Knowledge.

In 3319, the three leaders of the Thieves Guild – Shadow Hand, cunningly won a bet set with the leaders of the two major cities of the Neutral Land, thereby establishing the City of Innocence.

Since then, the Neutral Land has continued to grow under the impetus of the three major cities, and various small cities, towns, and villages affiliated with the three major cities have continued to emerge, becoming a force that cannot be ignored across the Yarran World.

In the Neutral Land, if the City of Innocence is considered a heaven for all criminals, and the City of Freedom is a heaven for all mercenaries who live by waging wars, then the City of Knowledge, established in the southwest part of the Neutral Land, is a holy land in the eyes of all scholars and mages.

This city gathers together the top mages and scholars from all over the Yarran World along with a large number of adventurers who make a living by being commissioned to explore various relics and seek ancient knowledge.

As a scholar who is also a part-time wandering poet once said: “In this city, every breath of air you take carries the fragrance of knowledge.

It’s not an exaggeration to say that the knowledge possessed by even the most ordinary roadside peddler living in this city is sufficient to make scholars from the outside world feel ashamed.”

In the City of Knowledge, crisscrossed streets are named after scholars who have made significant contributions to history, and Fox Street is one of them.

Fox Street is not a bustling commercial street.

It comprises small businesses like bookstores, stationery stores, grocery stores, tailors, leather goods stores, and household goods stores.

At the center of Fox Street, there is an incongruous building – No.

6 Fox Street – a mansion whose gate and fence occupy half of the street.

Although the mansion occupies the most central part of Fox Street and somewhat overshadows the other small shops, all the shopkeepers on the street do not resent it.

This is not only because they own their shop buildings thanks to the mansion’s owner, but also because the owner of the mansion is a beautiful, upright, kind, and polite knight girl.

The other two inhabitants of the mansion may not be knights, but they are equally beautiful, kind, and cute, making it impossible for anyone to dislike them.

However, recently, after the three girls returned from a long journey, they brought back an unfamiliar man to reside at No.

6 Fox Street.

This strange man has piqued the curiosity of all the shopkeepers around, but he has also brought them some minor troubles.

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“Thud, thud, thud, thud.” The sound of running footsteps broke the silence of Fox Street in the early morning.

Through the thin morning fog, a sixteen or seventeen-year-old boy, wearing a green postman’s vest and carrying a large green backpack, slowly ran from the far end of Fox Street.

For every shop he passed, he took out a newspaper from his backpack and tossed it into the open mailbox at each shop, regardless of the distance.

The boy’s throws were so accurate that the newspapers always landed in the mailbox without a single mistake.

The running mailboy maintained a steady pace as he slowly approached the mansion’s gate.

Strangely, the closer he got to the gate, the slower his speed became, and his gaze began to cautiously survey his surroundings, as if something dangerous could pounce out from the morning’s gloom at any moment.

Only after reaching the mansion’s gate did the boy seem to let out a sigh of relief.

Keeping a posture ready to run at any time, he quickly took out a newspaper from his backpack to put into the mailbox.

“Who~ are~ you~” a low, husky, half-dead voice sounded from above the boy’s head.

“Ahh~~~~~~~, a ghost appeared.” The boy screamed in fright, fell straight to the ground, and using his hands and feet, he sat and skittered back several meters on the ground.

Pointing at the black shadow emerging from the gloom above his head, he said: “The ghost that Lily talked about has appeared~~~~~ Help, don’t eat me.”

“Who are you.” The half-dead voice sounded like someone who had just woke up, repeating the previous question: “Where did the cute girl who was here before go?”

“Ah, you demon, you even want to eat Lily, I won’t let you.” The boy, pretending to be frightened, shut his eyes and stiffened his neck: “If you have to eat someone, eat me, but you can’t hurt Lily.”

“Have you lost your marbles?” a half-asleep voice said.

“Have you been reading too many knight novels?

Talking about demons, why don’t you say it’s a magical creature.”

“So, you’re a magical creature.” The boy jumped up from the ground, fists clenched in front of his chest, waving them frantically as he bolstered his courage, “Come on, magical creature, I’m not afraid of you.”

“Thud.” A Persi fruit core hit the boy square on his head.

“Idiot, have you ever seen a talking magical creature?”

“Ah, yes.” The boy scratched his head, finally calming down and in the early dawn, he looked up to study the other party.

It wasn’t a magical creature as he had imagined, but a man in his mid-twenties, haphazardly dressed in sleepwear, a messy mop of blond hair on his head, squatting on the sharp top of the high metal railing outside the western-style house.

His toes were perched on top, yet he miraculously maintained his balance.

One hand was rubbing his sleepy eyes while the other was crunching on a Persi fruit.

“It’s not a magical creature after all.

I knew it.

There’s no such thing as a talking magical creature.”

“Boy, have you ever seen a talking magical creature?” The man perched on the wall asked.

“No, I haven’t.” The young mailman answered honestly.

“But I have, in the mirror.” The man on the wall’s voice became terrifying, and he opened his mouth to roar, “Roar, I’m going to eat you.”

“Ah!

Ah!

Ah!

Ah!” The timid mailman collapsed on the ground again, waving his hands in the air with his eyes closed, “Ah!

Ah!

Ah!

Stay away, go away.”

“Hahaha.” The man on the wall laughed uproariously, pointing at the boy.

“Ahem.” A female’s cough rang out from the other side of the grand entrance gate built from metal bars, interrupting the man’s laughter, “Pannis, seems like you’re having a good time.”

“Ah, Catherine, you’re awake.” An embarrassed Pannis tossed the leftover core of his Persi fruit into the garbage that’s collected every dawn.

With a helpless gaze, Catherine looked at Pannis, then opened the grand doors of the house and helped up the terrified young mailman.

“It’s young Lyle, why are you delivering on this street today, where’s Lily?”

On hearing Catherine’s voice, the mailman Lyle breathed a sigh of relief, “Sister Catherine, where’s the magical creature?

Did you chase it away?

Wow, you really are the greatest knight, I want to be as brave as you.”

Catherine forced a smile, “That wasn’t a magical creature, that’s our new resident, Pannis.

He’s quite…

um, unique.

Don’t mind him.”

“Whew, so it really wasn’t a magical creature, that scared me.” Lyle cautiously peeked at Pannis behind Catherine and quickly drew back, “Sister Catherine, what were you asking just now?

Lily?”

“Yes, doesn’t Lily usually deliver the newspapers?” Catherine asked curiously, “Why did it change to you today?

Is Lily sick?

Do you need any help?”

“No, it’s just that Lily got scared.

She said there was a ghost nearby yesterday.

As she was passing by in the morning, she suddenly heard a voice in mid-air talking to her, asking her name, in a voice – jus~t~ li~ke~ thi~s~.

So, she got so scared that she dared not come today.” Lyle regained his buoyancy under Catherine’s gentle voice, “Now that I know it was just a misunderstanding, it’s fine.

Catherine, I still have papers to deliver, I should get going.

Goodbye.”

“Goodbye.” Catherine waved and saw off Lyle, then turned around with a half-smile to look at Pannis, who was tiptoeing away, “Pannis, where do you think you’re going?”

“Ah, haha,” said Pannis with a forced laugh, “I remembered I still have to go to the adventurers’ guild to register our adventure team today, I’ll go queue up now.”

“Do you think I’m an idiot?

We did that together yesterday.” Catherine grabbed Pannis’s wrist and led him into the house, “I think we need to have a serious talk.”

“Hey, hey, don’t pull, I really have things to do.

Let go, don’t pull anymore.”

The figures gradually disappeared into the light morning mist via the cobblestone path in the middle of the manicured lawn of the house, their voices faintly audible from the distance.

The day at No.

6 Fox Street began with the arrival of dawn.