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Just like how small demons are not welcome in that city of giant beasts.
"Anyway, let's find a place to stay first," Lycorina said with a smile.
Walking down the street, the adventurers made other discoveries.
First of all, the streets here are very clean.
It was surprisingly clean.
Just like in a human city, you can occasionally see demons cleaning the streets.
Another very obvious difference from lower-level demon cities;
That means the public security has obviously improved.
In a location like this city gate, there are bound to be suicidal demons who come to bully the "newcomers".
Even if they don't kill for money, they're at least selling goods.
Normally, when the second hero enters various cities, the zero-level hero is simply killed instantly, so the automatic 3-level hero is ignored. ←四♀
But when they arrived in the Earl's city, they didn't see those annoying fellows at all.
I didn't see any demons cursing or swearing nearby, I didn't see any demons being hacked to death in the street, and I didn't see any demons gnawing on corpses in the street.
Although it's a city inhabited by demons, but...
It's so peaceful.
The chaotic feeling that the demons had created had completely vanished.
They actually sensed the presence of "order" in a demon city.
Moreover, this world, which is almost entirely black and white, makes this order visually tangible.
It seems that black and white are the only rules here.
There are no mixed colors between black and white.
The colors on the demons' faces are merely embellishments and do not affect the overall black and white.
An Yi looked at the calm scene without any emotional fluctuation.
To create the current peace among the demons, there will inevitably be even more terrifying chaos behind the scenes.
It's useless to simply give the demons a peaceful environment to subdue them.
The ruler of this city is the [White Demon].
The appearance of a level 15 [White Demon] at the city gate only means one thing—
This city is under the direct and intense control of its nobles.
The city's nobles only allow the city to be the way they want it to be.
They are overseeing everything.
Chapter 53 Do not defile Her Highness the Holy Maiden! (4k)
Observations from within the Viscount's city revealed that, although the guards outside the gates were somewhat connected to the local nobles...
However, very few demons, who are the same race as the local nobles, serve as the city's defense force.
Generally, only demons of the same race as the local nobles, whose rank difference is not significant and who are only one or two ranks lower than the local nobles, appear in the noble mansions.
At that level, it's basically all confidants and family members—people who are at least somewhat related to the lord.
Passing by a bookstore, I saw books about the city displayed in the most prominent position, which confirmed An Yi's idea.
"It seems that the nobles in this city have also formed something akin to a religion."
As Annie spoke, she continued to flip through the book in her hand, titled "White Sanctuary: Earl Erwin's City".
The book wasn't very thick; it was more like a brochure with a lot of pages than a book.
The entire book is white with black text, almost blending into the background color.
"Religion? Is it the same as Aldrich?" Lana flipped through the book randomly, but she only recognized about 30 or 40% of the words and could barely make out complete sentences.
While everyone else was actively learning the demon script, she was someone who could only understand about half of human writing.
The system uses relatively simple characters, and if requested, the system will read them aloud, making it easy to use.
She found these demon books so tedious that even a glance gave her a headache, so she never bothered to use the system to record and analyze them.
When everyone was collecting information together, she would pretend to be reading a book. As long as she wasn't the first to speak, she would just continue what others were saying and that would be the end of it.
“Yes, but no,” Annie said.
“Hmm…two…” Lycorina also looked at the book thoughtfully, “Our Celestial Church doesn’t concern itself with such matters.”
As one of the highest leaders of the Aldrich Church, Lycorina also keenly saw the essential difference between this city and the Aldrich Church.
"Isn't this a pretty good way to manage the whole city?" said the Medicine Hero, Sini, from the side.
“I think so too,” said Michael, the Thunder Hero.
The brochure essentially states that the White Demon: The Erwin Family saved the city from chaos, transforming it into a city of "purity" and "order."
【Pure】
This city doesn't need any other colors besides black and white, it doesn't need demons that are too large, and it doesn't need demons that are physically strong but have low magical power.
The color of the head is irrelevant, but if a demon appears on the street who is not wearing a black robe or is dressed in black, he will be given a black cloak that is enough to cover his body.
Their enormous size is linked to the later demon race, which doesn't require strong physical bodies but has low magical power.
To put it simply, only demons with high magic power are allowed to move around in the city.
【order】
It's much easier to understand, just like what the heroes see on the streets.
Private fights are not allowed in this city.
This single rule is enough to deter the demons, who are usually quick to turn against each other, from acting recklessly.
In addition, restrictions on "low-intelligence" demons entering the city have made it impossible to see many bad behaviors in the city.
For example, a demon with an intelligence of only 2 will provoke someone just because he doesn't like them, and then the two mindless people will start fighting in the street.
If it were a Demon 4 with an intelligence of 190, they would definitely be busy with their own things most of the time. &☆』〇≌★「
They are intelligent and clear-headed, and they would never waste time on meaningless activities.
Once private duels are restricted, even personal feuds between highly intelligent demons can only be resolved in designated areas.
Tourists who are strangers to the locals, get drunk, or do silly things in the street are generally not things that highly intelligent demons would do.
Therefore, order comes so simply.
At least that's how it appears on the surface.
The highly intelligent demon race is full of schemes and plots, and the superficial "order" is probably far from enough to restrain them.
“Dominate…” An Yi only managed to utter two words.
“Yes! Domination! Our religion will not dominate you!” Lycorina exclaimed excitedly.
Then he quickly flipped to the brochure, which was almost at the very end, unfolded it, pointed to it, and said;
"You can't go out at night in this city!"
Our church doesn't forbid people from going out at night; in fact, we leave the lights on so it's convenient for everyone.
Lycorina is currently holding a grudge because someone said, "Is it the same as the Aldrich cult?"
looks like?
Not like ah!
This city clearly has some very unreasonable rules!
Everyone quickly flipped through the pages, but they couldn't read as fast as Lycorina.
【Curfew SousuO: Nine【－¨○珥√￠san∞“wu】
No one is allowed to go out at night, and no demons other than the White Demon are allowed on the streets.
The existence of the White Demon is also for the purpose of capturing these demons who roam outside at night.
Anyone caught traveling at night during curfew will be removed from the city.
【eliminate】
Those who violate the rules will be completely eliminated from the city and will never reappear there.
"So, you mean if you run out at night, you'll be killed, right?" the hero of thought, Paric, asked solemnly.
“I’m afraid so.” An Yi nodded.
"Then it's not impossible that they'll just be kicked out of the city?" asked Michael, the Thunder Hero.
"In either case, let's follow their rules for now."
Lana gleaned key information from just a few words;
"If their patrols are all at least level 15, we can't ignore their rules right now."
That's too dangerous.
An Yi nodded: "Indeed."
After the events at the Water Demon Castle and her escape from the dream, Lana spent a long time reflecting on her actions.
She has become more cautious now.
She certainly needs to be cautious, as she cannot easily transform into a dragon.
Because of the curfew, the time available for investigation has been reduced by nearly half.
Furthermore, the lowest-level demons in this city are at least level thirteen, making it extremely dangerous.
So after the heroes collectively purchased a certain number of books to familiarize themselves with the city, they left together to investigate other places.
After spending a long time "sightseeing" in the city, I found it quite difficult to conduct an investigation into the elite demon race.
First, the ban on private fights directly nipped many small organizations in the bud.