Birth Of The Crafts-God

Chapter 218 Ronny

Different from Baylands city-state and the rest, the unofficial Belfargos city-state was surrounded by a couple of desolate beasts domains. Considering it was the capital region of the planet, one would expect it to be devoid of such threats. Being so close to a desolate beast domain placed the region at a risk. It was even worse since Belfargos city-state was surrounded by them with a lot of them being classified as major domains.In the case of Baylands city-state, only the main city —Baylands City— was neighbouring a major domain, the Wastelands and some minor ones like the Bayena Plain. This was because the original Baylands City was built to be a fortress city to prevent the desolate beasts from flooding out of the Wastelands. As for domains like Bayena Plain, they were left to exist as a means for employment and to train the younger generation.

However, Belfargos city-state occupied a continent alone, and it was next to impossible to swallow such a large space by itself. To put this into perspective, the Bernin continent was the size of Europe while the region of Belfargos city-state was the size of France and Germany combined. While it was very big, there were still a ton of unexplored regions and land in the area. These unowned plots were then occupied by desolate beasts, who could proliferate without concern.

Although with the power in their control, the Oklo Dynasty —a power more than three thousand years old— could have wiped out all the beasts, they didn't. The reason for this was just the same as the minor domains close to Baylands City.

The Oklo Dynasty didn't expand its control in the territory simply to let the desolate beasts population flourish and act as a resource spot for the city-state. In other words, the vast expanse of land was their 'farm' and the desolate beasts were their 'farm animals'.

Only the Oklo Dynasty could be this confident and bold to pull something like this off. If it were any other power in their position, they would have been assaulted by the desolate beasts and wiped out.

The existence of so much unexplored regions and land controlled by desolate beasts, gave birth to a rise in occupations related to desolate beasts. As a result, Belfargos city-state became the city-state with the largest number of freelancers and pioneers.

For other city-states, only the capital city or cities close to a desolate beast domain, had such occupations. But in Belfargos city-state, every major city was home to freelancers, vestige-smiths and pioneers. This was because there were enough resources to go around, and with every city surrounding Belfargos City, they were also exposed to the desolate beast domains.

Ronny, a fourth level stellar practitioner in Trundel City, was a freelancer who doubled as a pioneer as well. He also had quite a good reputation in the industry.

Unlike the job of a freelancer that simply dealt with hunting desolate beasts,

Jeremy was a freelancer, but he wasn't famous or strong, at least not until recently. It all started over a month ago, when Jeremy patronised a new store.

Back then, the store had only been open for three days and so no one paid attention to it. After all, every week or so, a new store opened up and would close down within three months. However, Jeremy decided to try his luck and walked into the store.

After a bit of window-shopping, Jeremy eventually bought a random vestige at a suspiciously low price. What's more, he wasn't even informed of its grade. It wasn't until he had tried it out after getting home did he realise that it was a Grade 4 vestige.

A Grade 4 vestige was a valuable piece of equipment. In other city-states, only the strongest freelancers and personnel or those from top factions would have one. This was because Tier 1 Masters were rare.

Although Belfargos city-state had more Tier 1 Master vestige-smiths than an average city-state, Grade 4 vestiges still didn't sell for cheap.

With a Grade 4 vestige in hand, a stellar practitioner's strength would be boosted by at least one level, and maybe up to two. From this, one could see how valuable they were. To have bought one at a ridiculously low price was a miracle that occurred once in a blue moon. Experience more on empire

When Jeremy returned to the store to try his luck again, it was closed and the owner had disappeared.

After that incident, Jeremy went on to use the vestige and become famous. He had even narrated his experience to others in hopes that someone would help him find the store owner to thank the man, and maybe try his luck once again.

"Who knows, you might be as lucky."