A strange world

Chapter 229 Section 82. Racial Declaration

It was raining lightly in the gloomy morning. Ingrid held an umbrella and walked out of the door with Annan.

The solemn Lord's Mansion stood behind him, and a cool dampness hit his face.

Nearly three thousand people gathered quietly in the square, looking at their young lord in the rain. Merchants and adventurers stood on the edge out of curiosity, as did the druids.

Francois held the activated magic stone and looked for the right angle.

Annan walked out from under the umbrella and stood in the rain, looking at the quiet crowd: "Today is a special day..."

"Our port is officially built, the first sailing ship is ready, and the Lord's Mansion is completed. Xingyue Bay has become what I want... I regard Xingyue Bay as a beloved thing, like a child's favorite toy. Every day Dress up, dress up, take it everywhere to play..."

The words of Annan, who was much younger than them, did not cause any commotion, including the merchants and adventurers. They knew that the subjects were the private property of the lord. Each territorial citizen has only three purposes in life: life, death, and belonging to the lord.

"Then I suddenly realized that this might not be right..."

The rain was like dewdrops hanging on Annan's black hair.

"Before I continue, I want to tell you something that happened in the past."

"I just came here then and didn't know anything. Aunt Susan and Uncle Hollin took care of me..."

Aunt Susan and Uncle Hollin in the front row of the square waved to him happily.

Annan responded with a smile: "I made many friends. They taught me a lot. Fast and Soruman Bronzebeard taught me to be kind to others."

Fast was wearing a raincoat and carrying more than twenty pounds of fish on his back. The pride on Soruman Bronzebeard's face was covered by his beard.

"The Wine Lady taught me how to get along with the nobles of Breeze City. Tasia, Wood, and the Blue Dragon Lady taught me that other races are not as stereotyped as rumored."

Annan didn't see the stubborn old man, so he probably went back to the library out of fear of getting caught in the rain. Wood was hiding alone in the tavern because he was afraid of the light.

"The bards told me that the racial stereotypes were like 'I against my brother, me and my brothers against my cousins, me and my brothers and my cousins ​​united against everyone else. .'"

"The Mage Tower and the Scavenger taught me how to face danger."

"Olmedo taught me how to tame nobles."

"I grew up under their guidance." Annan looked around the crowd. The rain was heavier than before: "When I was in Breeze City, I had a nickname, 'The King of the North with Quirks.' They called me that. .”

"Because I have an orc guard and an ogre guard by my side. Many people told me that the orcs are cunning and cruel, and the ogres are cruel and cunning. I want to say that there is no such thing at all. You have seen the orcs, they are all day long Addicted to cards. And the ogre, whose intellectual attainments even surpass mine."

"Let's get back to the original question: Why do I feel like this might not be right?"

"...What exactly is life? We are born, we live for a while, and we die. A human is only busy surviving and reproducing throughout his life; an elf lives for a thousand years without taking a step out of the forest; a dwarf , because "dwarves are good at mining and forging" and stay with the underground and lava all day long. An orc either lives for fighting or dies for fighting."

"I hope that everyone can get rid of the shackles of stereotypes. Goblins can become bards, dwarves can adventure all over the world, elves can become famous blacksmith masters, and orcs can become scholars."

The rain was getting heavier, but no one left. Even the merchants and druids were soaked in the rain, listening to the speech of the young lord with wet black hair sticking to his forehead.

"Race just gives us different starting points. What changes us is our beliefs, our origins, and our experiences from birth to growth."

"So you see, Xingyue Bay did not implement the Alien Order... Its original intention was right, but those politicians used it as a tool to exclude dissidents. They cruelly imprisoned and enslaved beings who were able to think and have intelligence like us, Just to make profit."

The old orcs, centaurs, elves...the aliens rescued from Betar City were silent.

"Our Xingyue Bay is a big ship. We live on it together. I am a member of the big ship, and so are you."

Gradually, the noise spread quickly like oil on the water, like thunder in the rain.

Annan stretched out his hands: "So, come and give our port a name."

…

"A big ship named Xingyue Bay is setting sail!" 》

"The only port in the North, Moon Harbor is officially completed... King of the North Annan Reeves gave a speech in front of the Lord's Mansion..."

In a corner of the park, people gathered in front of the magic newspaper and listened quietly to the inspiring speech. Today’s joke was also closely related to the big news: two horses wanted to occupy the grassland, but there were already several groups here. One of the horses said It doesn’t matter, those black horses with white stripes and white horses with black stripes are feuding, and they are jointly hostile to brown horses and brown horses. We can easily divide them..."

They found that almost everyone had a copy of the magic newspapers that they usually needed to buy. A basin of water poured from the second floor could hit five or six pedestrians holding magic newspapers. There was also a magic newspaper seller.

Those guys hiding in Breeze City, wearing cloaks and robes to hide their figures, also held a newspaper and listened quietly...

…

Annan, who was about to go to the port, received the news that "the aliens hiding in Breeze City are coming to Xingyue Bay." Annan, who had anticipated this scene in advance, was not disturbed. He passed by the overcrowded hospital and rushed to the port - dozens of citizens because of I got caught in the rain and fell ill and was admitted to the hospital.

The brand-new deck smelled of paint, and workers were loading cargo into the cabin.

Ingrid counted the shipment: a heavy horse used to open the portal, thirty Susan spinning machines, fifty record magic stones, and twenty special crew members: large water elementals .

This surprise is reserved for enemies and pirates with evil intentions.

Xingyue Bay lacks manpower, so Francois and Fast serve as captain and first mate. The former is responsible for managing the crew and negotiating with the port, while the latter is a guard and thug - just on the sea, he can fish to his heart's content.

The second mate was a lucky fellow who spent several months as a sailor in the South when he was young.

"Do you want to come with us?" Francois asked Annan.

"...I won't take risks until the route is established."

And the countdown to the apocalypse forecast is tomorrow... we don’t know what will happen yet.

With the last of the crew aboard, it was time for them to set sail.

"I will bring back a bouquet of flowers that bloom in the South," Francois said. Fast leaned lazily against the mast and said nothing.

Annan stepped off the sailboat, and together with Ingrid and people from all over Xingyue Bay, they watched the "Initial" raise its sails, carrying the hope of Xingyue Bay, and sailed out of the bay under the gradually dispersing dark clouds.