The Empire of the West, the capital.

It was another gloomy weather, and the mist made people unable to see the road ahead. People who lived in the imperial capital for a long time had long been used to it and hurriedly walked on the familiar streets.

A steam car with four kerosene lamps stopped at the edge of the Legion Square, and the well-dressed passengers got out.

The passenger was a middle-aged man in his forties, holding a delicate cane with a decoration greater than practicality, walking along the streets of the square edges like a leisurely stroll. He stopped from time to time to look at the memorial statues standing on the edge of the square and read the memorial inscriptions on the statue's pedestal.

Surrounded by the Legion Square are seventy-six statues of people more than three meters high, which were established to commemorate the 76 founding fathers. More than 900 years ago, they followed Emperor Xizhe to unify the continent and establish the empire. The engraver portrayed these founding fathers vividly, either holding swords and slashing, standing with spears, holding an axe, or leaping up with books and meditating. The commemorative articles on the pedestal were written by Emperor Xizhe himself.

The middle-aged man holding a cane looked up at the octane octane in the middle of the square. Due to the smog weather, the upper half of the octane octane was hidden in the mist and towered into the clouds.

In the wilderness era, before the first extraordinary person appeared among humans, the minaret had already appeared on the earth. The minaret in the imperial capital was not the only one, with a total of 160 minarets of different sizes distributed throughout the continent.

How the octane came is as untestable as how the first extraordinary person was born. In short, humans have discovered the secret of the octane: the octane can help ordinary people awaken to become extraordinary people on specific days every year. The awakened extraordinary people can use the ubiquitous source energy in the world, and can continue to become stronger, and even grow to have a power that is comparable to ten thousand people.

Later, people divided them into three stages according to the strength of the extraordinary: the awakened, the shaping power and the source energy master. The seventy-six statues on the Legion Square are the seventy-six top extraordinary people - the source energy master.

Since there have been written records, the octaves that can create extraordinary people have been an important resource for humans to compete for.

The extraordinary people gradually formed groups through families, gangs or religions to control the resource allocation of the minaret. These extraordinary groups passed on their understanding of source energy, key points of cultivation and skills of use. Civilization gradually formed, and human beings began to escape from the wilderness.

With humans' further understanding of source energy, people have discovered that octaves are not the only way to become extraordinary, and some medicines and exercise methods can also enable ordinary people to enter extraordinary. Even so, awakening with the help of octaves is still the most convenient way to become extraordinary, so octaves are always the core of the supernatural group maintaining the social system.

Until more than nine hundred years ago, a young man named Xisa conquered a group of extraordinary people with his extremely strong strength and formed an organization called the Legion. In the following years, he led the Legion to fight in the east and west, and other extraordinary groups either joined the Legion or were destroyed by the Legion.

In the end, the Legion occupied all the octaves and almost unified the entire continent. As the leader of the Legion, Xisa established an empire named after his own name. The empire's system represented a new social system.

Emperor Xizha built a city under the largest octave on the continent and named it the imperial capital. The Gyeonggi region was established with the imperial capital as the center. The Gyeonggi region was divided into four directions: east, west, south and north. The royal family directly managed the Gyeonggi region and the northern region.

The emperor divided the land and part of the octaves of the east and south zodiacs into extraordinary places and enfeoffed them to the legion's heroes based on their merits. The meritorious officials obtained hereditary titles, land and octaves, forming a noble class with titles such as Duke, Marquis, Bozinan and others as the sequence.

In order to check and balance the nobles, Emperor Xizar established cities around each octave, gathered civilians, and left most of the awakening and extraordinary places for the octave to the civilians.

During the nine hundred years after the founding of the country, after several civil strife between the royal family and wars between the nobles, although the royal family still ruled the capital and the northern region, the actual control of the cities in the east and west regions fell into the hands of the great nobles.

In order to fight against the royal family, the great nobles formed an alliance with the three major dukes as the core, and formed the three major duches of Stuttgart in the Western Regions, Castia in the Southern Regions, and Salson in the Eastern Regions.

Emperor Xizzar left two major political legacies: the loyalty of the legion and the support of the civilians, and still maintained a fragile balance between the royal family and the three major priests.

However, eighty years ago, after inventing ocean technology, humans crossed the ocean and discovered a new continent. Every day, the new continent brought new changes to the empire. No one knew the future direction, and even the octave that watched the changes in human society for thousands of years did not know.

In clear weather, if you can stand at the spire of the highest octane octane on the continent, you can see the full view of the imperial capital.

At the foot is a circular Legion Square, with seventy-six statues of the masters facing each other in a circle to protect the mysterious building. The street facing the statues is the most advanced Ring Plaza commercial street in the empire. Some shops have goods that are so expensive that they cannot be settled in silver coins.

Eight avenues radiate out from the edge of the square in eight directions, including seven gates leading to the imperial capital wall, and the avenue on the north side leads directly to the palace gate not far away.

The entire imperial capital is like a spider web with the Legion Square as the core, extending to the surrounding circles. The avenue is the warp line and the city wall is the edge of the spider web.

The northern area of ​​the imperial capital is the imperial palace, as well as the government agencies surrounding the imperial palace, and the garrison of the imperial guards. The three areas in the east and west of the imperial capital are mostly private residences of nobles at all levels and residences of officials.

Looking at the whole city on the top of the octave, you will find that most of the houses in the city walls are not tall, and many houses have the architectural style of hundreds of years ago.

Outside the city wall, there are endless plains on the east and north sides. The only thing that allows buildings outside the city wall to appear is the South Gate, which is another scene outside the south gate.

Outside the South Gate is the secular imperial capital.

The avenue between the South Gate and the Canal Wharf is the most prosperous commercial location in the country. Along the street are the latest square brick buildings. These brick buildings have at least eight floors and even reach more than ten floors. The interior is divided into countless small shops and rented to merchants across the country, operating various commodities.

The main business scope of each brick building is also divided. Some sell bulk commodities such as grain, coal, fuel and oil, some supply daily necessities, some sell clothing, shoes and hats, some sell materials for strange beasts and plantings, and some sell novel things imported from the New World.

Except for this avenue leading to the pier, the buildings and streets outside the city are still neat, and there are no rules in other places, and the buildings are uneven in height. There are gorgeous retro mansions of big merchants, dilapidated wooden houses that have not been repaired for many years; there are exquisite new apartments, brick buildings that have lived in hundreds of families; there are huge warehouses, and new factories with black smoke. Disorder and chaos extend south along the canal.

The middle-aged man walked around the Legion Square for half a circle and stopped in front of a statue. The inscription introduced that this was Werner Weidenfeller, the source energy master of the main fire system and the secondary Qi system, and died in the battle to attack the Kingdom of Light. The Kingdom of Light was the only force that Emperor Xizar could not conquer. There was no octave there, but he relied on his belief in the God of Light to gain powerful combat power.

"What a pity, it's only one step away. If you survive until both sides stop the peace talks, you can become a noble." The well-dressed man streaked his beard and said to himself, "We civilians will never have such a good opportunity."

He wore a bow tie and wore the most popular black waisted tuxedo among the upstart class, straight straight pants and shiny low-heeled leather shoes, showing his identity as a businessman. If he carefully checked the exquisite cane on his hands and the leather cap on his head, he would find that they were made of branches of higher spirit plants and the skin of powerful beasts. He used secret methods to hide the fluctuations of source energy and looked ordinary, which meant that he was still an extraordinary person.

The middle-aged man turned his head in front of the statue of Warner Weidenfeller and observed the shop along the street opposite the statue.

The store is called "Huohuang Bancheng", which operates Misinian products. The owner uses the conventional rules of the Misinian forging industry as the store name, which looks quite straightforward.

The middle-aged man slowly walked into the store and asked the owner that he wanted to customize a mitsilver dagger to give to his niece who passed the Source Energy Awakening Ceremony. The owner took the design drawings of the dagger handed over by the middle-aged man to read. After seeing a pattern, his eyes flashed and he looked at the customer carefully. After asking a few questions, the middle-aged man answered correctly, the owner led him into the Misilver processing room in the backstage of the store.

The shop owner held a kerosene lamp and quietly opened a secret door in the processing room. The middle-aged man followed the shop owner into the secret door, then passed through the dim passage, climbed up and down a few stairs, and didn't know where he went. Finally, he stopped in front of a door at the end of the dim passage and signaled the man to go in.

When I pushed open the door, the middle-aged man saw a sea of ​​books, and each wall was a tall bookshelves. In order to facilitate the access of books from high places, a wooden corridor was specially built. In the middle of the house was a large desk filled with books of large and small. Behind the pile of books, a head with gray hair and beard poked out, and said, "Hello, Mr. Rupert! We finally met, come and sit in front of me." The old man signaled the man to sit on the small sofa next to the desk.

The middle-aged man Rupert moved the book on the sofa, sat tightly and restrainedly on the edge of the sofa, and placed his cane horizontally on both legs.

"Tea? Or coffee?"

Seeing that Rupert did not answer, the old man continued, "Don't be nervous, I am the rotating person in charge of the 'organization'. You can call me the 'Great Elder'. We will talk about your mission later. Please relax now, tea? or coffee?"

"Tea, sir...ah, no, elder, please give me a cup of tea." Rupert replied.

A porcelain tray flew from the corner of the desk. On it was a porcelain teacup. The tray and teacup floated to Rupert. He reached out to catch it and saw the tray with blue waves printed on it and the teacup was printed with brown sailboats riding the wind and waves. The pattern of the porcelain was shown in the style of the pattern, and they were mass-produced from the factory in the Principal of Stuart.

At the same time, the copper pot on the small stove placed in the corner also slowly flew over, stopped in front of Rupert, aimed at the teacup, lowered the spout, and poured in the hot black tea. "Do you want to add milk?" asked the Great Elder, and Rupert shook his head, and the teapot turned around and flew back to the small stove. The Great Elder's thought control made Rupert even more nervous.

The Great Elder, who always stayed behind the desk, continued:

"Okay, let's start with the Backstreet Brotherhood that you have joined for twenty years. Backstreet Brotherhood is just an external force of the "organization" and was established more than a hundred years ago by the "organization". As an upper class, you should be clear about this.

But what you don't know is that the "organization"'s peripheral forces are spread across the empire and the three vassal states. In your city of Rendynume alone, there are four other peripheral forces, such as the Dockworkers Guild. If you can complete this task smoothly, you will break away from the peripheral forces and become the "law enforcer" of the "organization". The secrets of the "organization" will be further opened to you, and you will get more, whether it is powerful source energy skills, money or power.

The strength of the 'organization' is beyond your imagination. What you saw before was the part of the iceberg floating on the sea. Here, our location is only three miles away from the center of the empire. We are just under the emperor's nose, but he knows nothing. His investigation bureau doesn't even know the real name of the 'organization', hahaha!" Hearing this, Rupert hurriedly took a sip of tea, and his eyes became brighter.

The Great Elder continued: "Your performance over the past twenty years is being observed, so when we need a stylist from the city of Rendy Neum, the Principality of Stuart, to complete this task, we think of you first.

I hope you can seize this opportunity. If you become a 'law enforcer', you will rule the underground world of a city, with more power than the mayor, and richer than the commander of the legion! Then let's talk about the details..."
Chapter completed!