CHAPTER 32 WHITERIVER HISTORY

Garen held his head down, as he thought of the history of whiteriver, that that old merchant told him. The reason why whiteriver was called the unconquerable city.

With how big the empire is and divided into 5province, there were only two city considered unconquerable. That is Brandil the capital, and whiteriver. The history of whiteriver was quite intriguing Garen thought.

According to the old man, 400 years ago, the territory of the empire, was bigger than it was now. Then, the territory stretched to the cerion sea, also called the northern sea. That was when the empire got in contact with the seven state alliance.

The seven alliance is situated in a cluster of island, and they have quite some precious goods that were rare in the empire. The empire made an alliance with the states, and the trade between then made the empire more rich.

The wealth they got through the trade, and since the states were small individually, the empire let down their guard against them, and sat on their laurels.

The seven state alliance, took this chance and launched a sudden attack, catching the empire unaware. Most of the land in the empire was landlocked, and the empire only has two established fleet, but the seven alliance nation was different. They have powerful navy and their navy was matchless. there was only a ragtag navy made to protect the merchant in cerion sea, and with the addition of it being a suprise attack.

The empire's navy couldn't offer any resistance and they were beaten back repeatedly. The seven alliance nation army's iron boot thunderd through the empire's land. The northern shield army hadn't been set up during then, and there was only a small army in the north then.

The empire war god then, Allen Terrell, with only his personal guards of 500 rushed down to the northern province, and gathered the scattered army stop the seven alliance army.

The war god built a fortress, and gathered the scattered army to fight back. Of the seven alliance state, there is a small but powerful state among them. It is the crecian state. The state has a small population, bit their people were born with great strength. As soon as their men reached adult hood, they automatically achieve a strength equivalent to the empire's accomplished stage martial warrior.

A full crecian division. 20000 men with the strength of an accomplished stage martial warrior is almost unstoppable. they suffered a terrible defeat. They and the other troops of the other states of the alliance, though not as strong as the crecian's, they made it up in number and amass an army of 200000, and launched an attack unprecedented in the northern province.

The war god only had a small impoverished army of 50 thousand, everyone believed the legend of war god will end in the north. But they were all wrong. The legend went on.

At river meridan, the Marshall created a fortress and defeated the seven alliance army. The seven alliance city army were beaten back, and threw away their weapons and armour. That fortress was later named whiteriver. And from then on, the seven state alliance never went pass whiteriver and were always beaten back every time. The seven alliance army had even once lay siege on the city for two weeks, yet the city stood strong. Words were the spirit of the Allen returned to whiteriver after he died and kept on protecting it. The whiteriver was known has the unconquerable city, and the wall of the north.

Garen's head was bowed as he was thinking about the history of this large city. He looked up, was astonished as he walked through the street of the city. He had never in his life seen a place as grand as this.

The roads in the city are wide. Wide enough for two four hours carriage to pass by each other without so much as brushing each others surface. Buildings were erected in both sides of the street, and though the ones close to the city gate were constructed to be small and sturdy. As for the ones deeper into the city, they were large and spacious, and he could even see the top of some small manors and quite some big manor from a distance.

The pedestrian wore brightly coloured cotton, and some small number were in silk. Carriage ran through the road and horses galloped through. The pedestrian seem used to this reckless actions as they quickly give way to the beast.

After moving deeper into the city, garen saw stalls, set by the roadside, and shops built beside or at the back. The while place was. A cacophony of action, as people moved to and fro. The buyers kept on haggling and they try as much as possible to reduce the price of the goods while the merchants try to increase it.

"Come....come.. Here little master. This is a treasure from the God and devil era. Heheheeeee... It is a symbol of authority for the Purian pantheon. With this seal, you will have control over all mountains and sea. The would do your BIDDING, YOU WILL BE UNSTOPPABLE!" one of the merchants, ran towards garen with a seal in his hand.

It was a seal the size of a Baby's fist. It glittered in gold, and some mysterious runes were carved in it. The merchant must have known that Garen was a bumpkin after all, his clothing gave him away, and wanted to scam him off his money. Garen couldn't help but chuckle. If the seal has so much power, why would the idiot sell it. He would have used it instead and become an overlord.

"It is just 10000rollins. Not expensive at all. Why don't you buy it. You will definitely luck out." Garen looked at the merchant. He must have some screw lose on his head. After all, did the idiot think he look like someone with 10000rollins. It's like flirting with a pig. The idiot didn't have something good to do. "may morgus take you" Garen cursed the idiot under his breath.

Garen just walked by the merchant and didn't bother haggling with the fool, and aimlessly through the street. He hadn't seen a place like this in his life, neither had he seen so much people in a single place. Delivering the letter, can gild on for a while, a feast for the eye is laid down in front of him, and he had to take it all.

Different from what he expected, whiteriver was a major city spreading through the plain, and a giant of the north. He was expecting a small impoverished city. After all, whiteriver should be a border city, far from the sphere of power. But it was more than that. It was a flourishing city and Garen felt it shouldn't be worse than the cities in the south and east province. Though the price of salt, silk, spices and other such goods are expensive, it also have it's good point, like steel, grains and other miscellaneous things are cheap.