Chapter 424: The Name of Despair

Chapter 418 The Name of Despair
After paying a silver coin as an entry tax, Katie finally entered the Secret Silver City and came to the lower city.

As soon as she entered, the first thing Katie saw was the most common slums in the lower city, only that there were more of them near the city walls, and they had been linked together.

This is because the more the water flows outward, the more serious the pollution, and the dense population of the lower city makes this situation more and more serious, so all those who have a little bit of ability will desperately close to the wall of the middle city, where the water just discharged through the layers of filtration, it is barely able to drink, of course, all kinds of after-effects and diseases are inevitable, but occasionally also salvage some property from the sewage, naturally more appetizing.

No ability can only live farther and farther away, the farther the poorer, such as the outermost near the root of the city wall, almost all penniless can only rely on picking up garbage and live in the slums.

These areas made up of large and small shacks are like psoriasis growing out of the city, hiding countless sins and malice, and are not as simple as they seem.

It couldn’t be helped that a large number of the lowest class residents lived here, some of them were runaway slaves, some were criminals, and at most, they were incompetent people with no earning power, no ability to kill, and no value in being killed, so what would they eat if they didn’t pick up garbage.

The vast majority of residents here are so poor that they only have one worthless life left, so they either live in pain or choose to fight with their lives, and over time, poverty and death have become the only things left here.

As soon as Katie came in, she was met with countless unsuspecting gazes, many of them didn’t understand what a witch stood for, but of course they didn’t care, even if they knew that a witch’s curse couldn’t even exempt their souls from the curse, it was still the same, because they themselves lived in hell, how much worse could it be than it is right now?
And as long as they succeeded once, the money from the sale of such top quality goods would be enough for them to move out of the lower city, a place of despair, even if they went to the middle city to be squeezed and bullied, it would be better than starting to rot here from the inside out day after day.

Good thing that Katie side with the Minotaur, this monster just from the appearance can be seen from the not to be messed with, blood red bull’s eyes stare, even senior adventurers legs have to be soft, not to mention these essence loss of serious poor people, so even if there is not afraid of death are not willing to act rashly, because they can not see a ray of success, so it is better to choose a success a little bit bigger target.

At the same time when Katie felt countless malicious gazes, the merchant team that entered the city with her had already hacked to death seven or eight thieving poor people in the lower city, and in the constant scolding, they also hung the chopped off heads on the two sides of the wagon to deter those who came after them.

But nothing, the poor people of the lower city do not care about death, as long as there is a chance are willing to take life, a piece of bread, a bowl of water, willing to sell their lives for this, which forced the caravan more nervous than outside, and had to hire local gangs to escort them to the middle of the city.

These local gangs wearing tattered pieces of cloth, carrying a variety of messy tetanus weapons is quite credible, received half the money to form a circle, any dare to come close to, without saying a word all alive.

As for the resistance, oh, they were originally a snake, one by one is to fight out, than they can fight either to join or peers, in order to maintain this line of work can be maintained, easily will not break the rules of killing each other, so the caravan in their escort smoothly into the city guards guarded by city defense forces of the middle city, and they also wish to get a sum of money to live, as for those who are about to starve to death of the poor in the city of the lower city As for the poor people in the lower city who are starving to death, who cares.

Katie thought she had seen a lot of bad places, but this was the first time she had seen such a bad place, and as she continued to go deeper and deeper into the slums, more of the dark side of the slums continued to unfold, allowing her to realize that the bad environment was just the most inconspicuous side of the slums, and that despair was the theme of the slums.

There is no land to farm, no jobs to work, and no chance to get ahead and hope to live, there is despair everywhere, and the skinny poor people are either stealing or waiting for death to come. What’s even more frightening is that there are three long-established trades, slavery, death and souls.

Selling themselves as slaves to the middle city has almost become the only chance for the poor in the lower city to get rid of their destiny, although there is a possibility that they may become targets to kill for fun, live bait to feed pets, laborers to sell their hard labor to the point of death, or experimental materials for a certain law professional, but as long as they can get out of the lower city, there are people who are willing to sell themselves, so the lower city has the largest slave trading market in the entire secret silver city, and even attracts around Many slavers specializing in this line of work, together to make the market bigger and stronger.

Katie had expected this, but the undead casters who were openly picking out bones and living people here still gave her an insight.

The corpses that drifted down the sewers from the Upper and Middle Towns would be salvaged by the poor people here, and the badly decayed ones would be picked into piles of white bones, while the fresher ones would be embalmed and wrapped in cloth to prevent insects and rodents from eating them.

These are so a set of a strip of where to place, at the mercy of the undead casters in the middle of the city lords to pick.

Occasionally there is a living person by the undead spell casters, as long as you give a pathetic amount of money can be taken away, it is estimated that it will not take long to turn into a dull skeleton soldier, if you are lucky, maybe it will become a zombie with good taste, at least able to see the appearance of the pre-birth.

There are also some cultists, they make a big show of buying a bunch of fresh sacrifices, and find a random open space to carry out blood sacrifices, making a mess around them, but as long as you pay, these are not problems, no one cares whether their souls will fall into the hands of the devil or the evil god, the local gangs will even prepare the sacrifices ahead of time according to the other party’s requirements, and even include the cleanup of the site afterward.

This was not hell, but it was more like hell than hell.

As a sensitive witch, witnessing everything, Katie’s mind was undoubtedly subjected to a huge shock, and it was almost as if she was now caught in the swamp called despair, and was permeated by despair all the time.

Fortunately, the holy emblem of the Shadow of Death emitted a ghostly shadow that enveloped Katie at this moment, allowing her to gain a brief moment of peace under the serene shadow.

“Now I understand why Mother’s prophecy was here.” Katie, whose witch’s name was Despair, spoke with a bitter smile.

It was a good thing that the Shadow of Death embraced death and darkness, allowing Katie’s mind to not twist from feeling too much despair and instead find a new path.

(End of chapter)