Hakai No Miko Chapter 136 (1/2)
Bolnis is the westerninally, in order for Holmea to exercise its authority over the northern Solbiant Plains, it began with constructing a fortress near a river Farmers that feared the zoan and merchants as well as craftsathered at that fortress Before long it developed into a city
In case of an attack by the zoan due to the large gathering of people, a sturdy brickwork city ith a height of five melts (one melt is approximately one meter) and a thickness of three melts was built around the city With the completion of the city wall, the construction that used to be the fortress was converted from a military installation into an administrative facility, and even now serves as the centre of the city
The city changed coricultural produce brought in from the northern Solbiant Plains, but also developed into a thriving commercial city Caravans that headed from the Ocean State Jeboa, which is even further west from this city, towards Holmea State's capital city often stopped in this city for a short rest
It's slightly past noon when Hopkins' covered wagon arrived at the gate of Bolnis with Sou called out by the gate sentries that are exa the city, Hopkins slowly advanced his wagon forward
“From where and on what business did you come to this city?”
“Yes, I' with a recla that, Hopkins pointed at the on
The anization that allows for roup for several benefits, including protection
One has to pay a set auild dues, but if one flies the , they can receive various accoive a bandit that attacked ato them It ell known that they would be relentlessly hunted doith a large bounty placed on their head This is why one of the benefits of the uild can be considered protection frouild, I suppose We will inspect the cargo then”
“By all o, it's completely empty as I sold all the articles for sale as a result of God's divine protection” (Hopkins)
The squad leader, as accompanied by a subordinate that had his spear at the ready, on's rear aside and checks its interior
“Whoa! Isn't that a zoan?”
Tension spreads between his subordinates due to the squad leader's outcry after discovering Shyemul
“Please wait! That's my nephew's slave!” (Hopkins)
“Nephew, you say!?”
When the squad leader looked oncenext to Shye a chain connected to a collar that was put around Shyeer sister who married in a distant eastern country, but as he wanted to study the job of a peddler over here, he accompanied me in my work like this” (Hopkins)
The squad leader checks out Souain It's certainly a hair color I have never seen before With even his face being shness, it seems as if there's no mistake that he's not a human from around these parts
“However, recently the moveh she's a slave, there's no way for me to allow her to enter the city”
“Captain, sir, can't you do anything about it? She's the favorite pet of ht her all the way fro that, Hopkins bribed hi several bronze coins into his hand Because they will be doubted all the more if he bribes too much, it's an amount of money that allows the sentries present in this place to drink a cup of alcohol each after they get off work
“Well, in that case it can't be helped But, don't cause any troubles They may enter!”
When the captain raises his voice as he withstands having his appearance fall apart due to the weight of the bronze coins in his hand, the soldiers who blocked the front of the covered wagon clear the road
“Phew That was scary…” (Hopkins)
Hopkins ate before wiping away the cold sweat he worked up froe
“Thank you for your assistance” (Souetically Then he turns to Shyemul, who's next to him, and asks,
“Shyemul, the collar doesn't hurt you, does it?” (Souma)
“No, there's no probleh she says that, Shye with the collar
Nothe city, putting a collar on Shye for Souma
“Rather than that, the city is quite the smelly place…” (Shyemul)
Sou the city, it stinks with a stench that's rather difficult to describe The se, the stink of decay and aodor mixed with each other in complete harmony and turned into an intense stench
Once he looked through a gap of the wagon's cover, he saw that filth and ani at the sides of the road Moreover, orphans that had turned pitch black due towithin that
It's probably inevitable since it's still an era with hardly any concept of hygiene in cities, but even so it's a coarse environment
Zoan have a far keener sense of smell than humans…this must be pretty hard on Shyemul
“The stench is extreme, but the dust is terrible, too” (Sou, but is simply tread upon Once the dry season with barely any rain starts, clouds of dust rise up and dye the city in a faint yellow color Together with the houses made out of sun dried bricks located on both sides of the road, the sight is similar to a desert city you can find in the Near and Middle East
As the covered wagon with Sou the ates, they can observe a reasonably high a that, he saw that the attires of the citizens were actually pretty close to his own
If it's the men, they wear tunics, si down to above the knees, that are tied with leather straps around the waist Below that they wear trousers If it's the wo down to the shi+n Although Sou trousers whereas the wo below
“How many humans live here?” (Souma)
“Heh, don't be shocked This city has over than ten thousand people in it! Pretty aed, but Sou a ss
If you talk about a population of ten thousand people in e or a town However, this is a fairly big city for this world
Seeing that he is going to attack this city, Souht ofthat he has to check out
“I see less soldiers than I expected” (Souma)
“That's only natural Most of the soldiers are stationed on the city wall or at the gates” (Hopkins)
“How many soldiers are there?” (Souma)
“Let's see I think around four or five hundred?” (Hopkins)
“That's unexpectedly little” (Souh” (Hopkins)
Soldiers don't produce anything
Because they therain of wheat, they have to be supported by other people in order toarmy Naturally, if the ratio of soldiers in the population is high, that burden will grow large in accordance with that
Also, the ones becothethe number of soldiers doesn't just add to the burden on the food supply but also takes away people ould help deal with these issues
Hence, the nu army in this world are around two to four percent of the population The number of soldiers in this city isn't low by any means
“What will you do next, Mr Hopkins?” (Souo drink a cup of booze in souild, I think”” (Hopkins)
Hearing the word bar, Souames and fantasy novels, bars in a city function as places for inforet-rich-quick drea about their travels in a bar filled with the smell of alcohol and tobacco
“Is it fine for me to accompany you to a bar?” (Souuard so that I won't betray you guys Even if I look this shabby, I'm still a merchant I accepted your uys have my wife and son, you know” (Hopkins)
“No, I'm interested in the bars over here” (Souma)
“In that case I don't ” (Hopkins)