98. The town of Hacons
After a night of unharmed, when the sky began to turn white, Sean and the others woke up.
The state of Vinia and Marton is still not very ideal, but Cecilia and Rena, who are humans, have basically recovered, at least it will not affect their actual combat power too much. Of course, there will definitely not be too fierce battles in the next short time, and small-scale harassment will not have much impact on Sean and others, which Sean is still more confident.
So after the next short journey, Sean, who knew that he would not encounter any trouble, decided to speed up his actions, and finally arrived at the first town on the way back in the evening, Hakons.
It's a town with a population of no more than 100 people.
In fact, as one of the supply towns on the final journey to King Lane's capital, Hakons could not have only such a few people no matter what he thinks. However, in fact, this town is not only sparsely populated, but also relatively poor in terms of natural resources, and the flow of people to the royal capital of Lane is not very willing to stay in this town even if it takes a few more days to make a long detour.
And the main reason for this result is the exclusivity of the town of Hakons.
It was a very independent town, and the townspeople claimed to be the remnants of Hakons - the so-called Hakons was actually the name of a fierce general who followed the first King of Lane back then.
The founding history of Ryan is no different from the founding history of many kingdoms and empires on the Miracle Continent, which is established in the form of a tribe. Hakons and the first King of Lane were two different clans from the same clan, when the first King of Lane decided to embark on this path of supremacy. Hakons led his clan to join King Lane's camp and became King Lane's most trusted guard and general.
But it's a pity that in those chaotic years of war. Hakons died in a battle to cover the retreat of King Ryan, and it is said that Hakons's clan was devastated by the near annihilation, with only a dozen of them surviving. And by the time they recovered from their injuries, Ryan had already established a country, and even the guards around King Ryan had not been changed several times, but in order to thank Hakons, King Ryan deliberately circled a piece of land as the territory of the Hakons clan.
But in the years that followed. The territory of the Hakons clan has been invaded to varying degrees, and by the time of the third King of Lane, there has long been no incense with the Hakons clan. So what was originally almost a dukedom has become such a small town today. Had it not been for the charter issued by the first King of Lane, the town called Hakonse might have been torn down and rebuilt.
It is precisely because of these years that the townspeople of Hakons Town have a strong wariness and exclusivity towards the other people of the whole Lane. Basically, the inhabitants of Hakonse have no contact with the outside world unless necessary material transactions are made. And any major celebration of the kingdom of Lane has nothing to do with them. They will only have festivals that belong to the people of Hakonsi.
In fact, if the town of Hakons and the others were a country of China, they had their own festivals, laws, guards, tax rates, and all the right to appoint the government and military affairs of the entire town, and they did not even need to pay the town tax to Lane, nor would they be under the jurisdiction of any lord or noble, and even the privileges of the nobility of Lane would be invalid in the town of Harkons. In fact, this kind of behavior was an impermissible provocation for the nobles of Lane, and it was only because the town of Harkons had a charter issued by the first King of Lane that there was no way to do anything to them - of course, no nobleman wanted to be the first to rectify Harcons.
Anyway. There are only a hundred townspeople in Hakons Town, even if everyone can fight. Nor is it a threat to Ryan. Therefore, the nobles of Ryan took another approach to the town of Hakons, that is, to adopt a policy similar to the economic blockade, but such a policy was feasible for the caravans exclusive to the lords, but it was of no use to the caravans of the Pan-Continental Chamber of Commerce Alliance, as well as the adventurers and mercenaries who passed through here to supply and recuperate.
And at the beginning, when Sean and the others went to the royal capital of Ryan from the Void Realm, they also did not pass through this town in order to save some unnecessary trouble. But this time, because Hela's plan stipulates, Sean and the others will rest in this town and wait until the next day to continue on the road.
In fact, Sean didn't want to stay in this town if he had a choice.
As the party entered the town, Sean and the others felt the hostile gaze from the townsfolk of Hacons.
In fact, outsiders who enter the town of Hakons do not usually feel such obvious hostile stares, and these townspeople are at best wary of all outsiders. It's just that although the size of the team of Sean and the others is not huge, they have an existence that these townspeople can't usually see - two elves and an earth-walking dragon, which have naturally become synonymous with danger in the eyes of the townspeople of Hakons.
So the townsfolk are hostile to Sean and the others, and Sean is naturally understandable. In the same way, he felt that he actually had to bear about half of the responsibility, after all, he had a professional punishment effect like "mercenary", and Hacons, who was so exclusive, naturally did not like the so-called mercenary. However, although Sean had expected this kind of thing for a long time, he still felt a little helpless when it really happened, but before Sean could explain the customs of this town, the two elves, who were the most sensitive to the outside world, had already made the same overreaction behavior at the same time.
Vigna's hands were already on the short sword at his waist.
Marton's left hand rests lightly on the longbow at the front of the saddle, while his right hand appears to be casual but is actually placed on the tail feather of the quiver on the right side of the saddle.
Even Rena clenched the flame spear in her hand.
Naturally, this move also made the townspeople of Hakons look even more unhappy, and many of them also touched their weapons.
As a completely independent town, the customs and habits of Hakons are very different from the outside world. Almost all Hacons children begin formal militarization training at the age of six. This series includes cavalry, foot combat, and a series of militarized programs related to this, which were developed by the first King Lane and Hakons, and were once part of the training program of the elite Royal Guard.
Therefore, although there are only about 100 inhabitants of the town of Hakonsi, all men and women, young and old, are elite soldiers who are cavalry on their horses and infantry when they dismount. Only the evaluation of the players in the game. If the remnants of Hakons are gathered, their legion combat effectiveness is probably between level four and five, the only pity is that the number of people is too small, and local combat conflicts may be very strong, but once they rise to the legion level of large-scale combat, these Hakons remnants do not have any advantage.
But after all these years, the town of Hakons is still alive and well. No matter what the Ryan nobles think, it has not been torn down and rebuilt, so players speculate that this town may have at least one Sanctuary powerhouse or several high-ranking gold powerhouses in charge. Judging from Sean's experience of living in Lane's world for several years, he feels that the probability of the latter is obviously higher. Because if it was a powerhouse in the Sanctuary, then it would be impossible for Ryan to let those nobles encroach on the land of the remnants of Hakons.
And Sean doesn't want to stay in the small town of Hakons, mainly because he doesn't want to cause any conflicts and contradictions here.
"Your Excellency." Hampson, as a senior aristocratic butler, could naturally feel those hostile gazes.
"Don't be nervous." Sean said softly. At the same time, he waved his hand to signal Vigna and the others not to get excited. "That's the case in Hakons, this hostile gaze is on everyone, not just us, so as long as we don't get into trouble, they won't chase us away."
Sean's words made Rena and the others relax a little nervously, but as a strong man, they are still extremely sensitive to this hostile gaze. It made them all a little uncomfortable. It's just that the residents of Hakons Town didn't react aggressively when they saw Sean and the others, so naturally they wouldn't really have nothing to do. After all, for them, the aura exuded by the team of Sean and the others was also different from that of ordinary adventurers.
The two sides passed by in this delicate atmosphere: the remnants of Hakons continued to be busy with their own business, while Sean and the others continued to move in the direction of the south of the town.
There, there is the only inn in the entire town of Hacons.
The inn, called "The Wind of Remembrance", was not run by the townspeople of Hacons, but by an outsider couple.
In fact, the couple plays a vital role here in Hakons, and they are the only link between Hakons and the outside world. Almost all of the trade in foreign goods in Hakons Town was purchased through this couple, and the same things they sold were sold by this couple, so naturally, all the adventurers and mercenaries came to this town to replenish and recuperate.
According to the original setting of the game, after leaving Hakons Town, there are a total of three leveling points, covering three different farming areas from level 20 to 50. There are also a large number of quests here, but they are prestige-limited quests - that is, you must activate Hakons' reputation system before you can receive a variety of quests from Hakons Town.
In the spirit of the trouble that more is better than less, and the quest rewards are basically only applicable to players in the lower silver and the next stage, Sean did not want to activate the reputation of Hakons, so he directly asked Hampson to negotiate with the owner of the "Wind of Reminiscence" inn.
The value of housekeeping comes in handy at times like these.
The interior of Sean's carriage has been converted into a bed, and Shephaño is lying in it at this time. Cecilia is usually the one who takes care of Shephaneo, but occasionally Rena takes over, while Vinia and Marton are only in charge of guarding. At this time, even if they stayed in the hotel, Sean and the others only opened two rooms, one each for Cecilia and Hampson, but they asked that no one was allowed to approach near the stables, and he could pay for seven rooms.
For Sean's request, the owner of this inn is actually quite incomprehensible, but it didn't hinder anyone, or just a few things that were done with a lot of effort, so the owner of this inn didn't embarrass Sean and the others too much. Of course, in Sean's opinion, the black stone should occupy a large dominant factor, after all, in the hinterland of the royal capital of Ryan, the earth dragon is not a common creature, and most people may not know that this is an earth dragon.
However, just as Sean and the others began to be busy tidying up the situation around the stable, there was a sudden messy noise in the inn, as if there was still some quarrel, and then Sean heard Hampson's painful snort. (To be continued......)