Miller Theo was a retainer of the Silver Eagle Duke, Horan Faust.
To be more accurate, he was the son of one of Horan's retainers. His father was the treasurer of the Silver Eagle Duchy, but Miller himself didn't have a position yet. In fact, he had just had his coming of age ceremony two days ago, and hadn't been given the title of a knight yet.
Miller liked to travel around the continent and learn about the customs and traditions of different places. Unfortunately, due to his identity, most of his travels were within the borders of the Valla Empire. Furthermore, he was also a rare believer of the God of Travel and Arts, Grimund.
This god would bless his believers with fewer dangers and more creative inspiration in the process of travel. Also, believers above the level of true believer could more easily ask for food or temporary accommodation from others through the arts they mastered (usually singing or storytelling) during their travels.
All in all, Grimund's believers were weak in combat, but their blessings were surprisingly useful. Furthermore, because he didn't have many believers, he was able to receive blessings as long as he became a true believer, just like Xi Wei …
Unfortunately, there were only a few who could travel their entire lives. Most of Grimund's believers would choose to settle down in one place and settle down when they reached middle age. Other than working in the performing arts, most of them would choose to convert to other gods.
After his coming of age ceremony, Miller was asked by Duke Horan to deliver a letter from his family to his youngest son, Angora Faust, who had been assigned to the Anurad region of the Valley of the Tragic Dead.
Miller naturally wouldn't reject a request from the Duke, so after resting for a day, he immediately set off for Angora Faust's fief. It was a small town that wasn't even recorded on the map of the Empire.
Miller had originally thought that this kind of small place, even though it was called a 'town', was actually just a normal village. He wasn't just imagining things, as he had seen many similar situations in his travels. Many of the 'towns' at the borders of the Empire were actually just villages, and the reason why they were called 'towns' was because they could receive more support and assistance from the larger cities nearby.
But Angora Faust's small town surprised Miller.
It was true that this town was a little small, with a population of around a hundred, but it was built quite well, and could even be said to be very … exquisite?
Miller racked his brain for a long time before he could think of this adjective.
First of all, the town wasn't very big. It was shaped like a square, and if Mirari walked along one side of the square, it would only take him half an hour to reach it.
From the outside, the border of the town did not even have basic walls, only simple wooden fences.
At first, Miller was extremely disappointed with the town, and the funniest thing was that when he asked a farmer who was praying to the God of Harvest why the town didn't have a wall, the farmer's reply was, "Even if the town has a wall, we'll still have to tear it down. How troublesome is that?"
Miller couldn't help but snort in disdain. Recently, the continent had been plagued by natural disasters, and nine out of ten of the towns near the border were empty. It was already good enough that the town hadn't been reduced in size, and now they wanted to expand? Dream on! No wonder he was an ignorant peasant. He didn't even know how to carve a statue of the God of Harvest. He could only use a strange spherical statue …
But when he walked into the town, he realized that he had been a little presumptuous. His experience in other towns near the border didn't seem to apply to this one.
The buildings in the town looked very clean and new, and the ground was paved with neat red bricks. The entire street was clean and tidy, and there wasn't even a single piece of trash in this town, much less the filth of other towns. The streets in this town were so clean that it didn't seem like anyone lived here.
It was only later that Miller found out that the cylindrical objects on the side of the road were called 'rubbish bins'. It seemed like the townspeople just threw their trash into these things, and then sorted it out in a centralized manner. According to the townspeople, this was specially created by the Lord, saying that it could increase the happiness of the townspeople and give them performance points or something …
What surprised him even more was that these rubbish bins were alchemy objects that were made with the help of golems. Every time someone went to throw their trash, they would first ask, "What kind of trash are you?" before telling the person which bin they should throw their trash into. Some of the rubbish bins that were located further away from the town, which meant that no one would throw their trash at them, would even let out joyful cries of "Here comes the trash! Here comes the trash!"
Even though Miller felt a fire burning in his chest every time he encountered this situation, he knew that this method could indeed make the streets clean and tidy … Perhaps when he returned to the Silver Eagle Duchy, he could suggest to the Grand Duke that this technology be used in the Duchy as well?
Other than the clean streets, the clear signage, and the decent looking taverns, this town even had an outdoor hot spring! Miller had only soaked in the hot springs of the Grand Duchy of Rominos once when he was young, when he was with his father on a diplomatic mission to the Grand Duchy of Rominos. That experience was something he would never forget.
After that, when he was traveling around the Valla Empire, he had been searching for similar hot springs. Unfortunately, he hadn't been able to find one that he could soak in. Who would have thought that he would be able to do so in a small town near the border?
What's more, there were many different types of hot springs in this town. There were simple hot springs, carbonated hot springs, mineral hot springs, elemental hot springs, and so on. In short, there were all sorts of different types of hot springs.
Due to the lack of time, Miller had only tried the simple hot spring. It was said that this was the most basic hot spring, but even so, he was able to recall the memories of his childhood. After soaking in the hot spring, he felt extremely happy, and even his skin, which had not been taking care of for so many years, felt much more comfortable. Of course, he didn't know that this hot spring could give his skin all sorts of buffs. The only thing that made him unhappy was that there were a lot of monkeys that popped out of nowhere and kept pointing at him while he was soaking in the hot spring …
All in all, if he were to rank the places that he had visited so far based on the environment, Miller felt that this town would definitely be in the top three, and he could even fight for the number one spot.
That's right, based on the environment alone.
In contrast to the environment, Miller felt that the residents of this small town were more or less a little … strange?
First of all, ever since Miller entered the town, he felt that most of the residents seemed to be staring at him. Most of them weren't looking at him, but at the top of his head.
This made Miller think that there was something on his head, but no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't see anything.
Then, the residents of this town seemed to be praying to the statues of gods all the time. The farmers were praying, the construction workers were praying, even the garbage collectors were praying … and the object of their prayers was the mysterious spherical statues of gods. Miller had a feeling that the statues of gods had already been developed to the point that everyone had one of them. Who knew, there might even be such things in the town that he didn't know about …
Aside from praying to the statues of gods, the people of this town were also quite brave.
Miller had originally been worried about this beautiful town when he thought about how there were no walls in this town, and that there was only a fence around it. After all, this town was located right outside the Valley of the Tragic Dead, and it wouldn't be strange for a group of undead to suddenly appear in that godforsaken place.
When the undead walked out of the Valley of the Tragic Dead, this town that was filled with so many lives would undoubtedly become their first target!
In fact, what he was worried about was happening right in front of him. Not long after he finished his bath, a group of undead appeared not far from the town. The watchtower of the town had already detected the undead, and had even lit up a fire beacon.
Miller had wanted to persuade the townspeople to join forces to fight against the undead, but when he walked out of his room, he saw the townspeople running out of the town. They weren't running away, but were instead charging in the direction of the undead.
Ah, what brave and honest townspeople. Miller was so touched that he even wanted to join them in the fight against the undead.
But just as he reached the entrance of the town, the townspeople came back cursing and swearing, and along with them were the broken limbs of the undead. From the tone of the townspeople, it seemed like they were complaining that there were too few undead that had appeared this time.
In addition, Miller still didn't know where most of the bodies of the undead had gone.
Seeing the murderous looks on the townspeople's faces, he didn't dare to say, and he didn't dare to ask …
After that, he saw two townspeople with swords on their backs arguing over whether the food from the Iron Cauldron Tavern or the food from the System's Restaurant was better.
Obviously, neither of them could convince the other, and the argument escalated. Just as Miller thought that they were about to start fighting like the rude mercenaries, the two townspeople suddenly faced each other and began to dance a strange dance with excited expressions on their faces.
There was even a young girl who was trying to persuade them, "Stop fighting, stop fighting!"
… The townspeople in this town were probably all idiots.
"The Lord wants to see you."
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