Green Monster Epic

Chapter 232: The World Situation (First Update!)

(There might be a combined chapter later, smiley face, asking for support!!)

Allen wouldn't know that the things Reidel told him about Mansha City were actually just the superficial reasons for the city's establishment. The real secrets hidden deep within were not something someone of his rank could access.

The four major civilizations of the Feyman World are distributed across two vast continents, and the only land passage connecting these two continents is the narrow strip of land that stretches over ten thousand miles: the Mansha Wilderness. Anyone with foresight can see the importance of the Mansha Wilderness, as controlling it means controlling the throat leading to both continents.

In the tens of thousands of years since the Mansha Wilderness appeared, the gods behind the four major civilizations have been hoping to seize control of the wilderness, both to curb the encroachment of other divine systems on their local believers and to send more believers and followers to the other continent to spread the light of faith.

However, besides this, there is another divine system in this world: the Temple of Nature, whose mission is to maintain the balance of nature. The Temple of Nature welcomes talents from all races in the Feyman World, absorbing them as believers. This is undoubtedly an advantage, but is it not also their fatal flaw?

The four major civilizations are backed by four powerful divine systems. How easy is it for the Temple of Nature to get a share of the pie from these four races, snatching away a group of believers who originally belonged to their respective civilizations? Although the deeply rooted four divine systems do not completely oppose the spread of the Temple of Nature's faith on the surface and coexist peacefully with the Temple of Nature, it is no secret that they secretly suppress the spread of the Temple of Nature's faith through the ruling class and nobles. On this matter, the masterminds behind the four major civilization systems have rarely reached a consensus.

Therefore, if the Temple of Nature wants to survive in the Feyman Plane and have a place of its own, it can only develop a territory that belongs to their sphere of influence. The emergence of the Mansha Wilderness seems to be born to solve this problem of the Temple of Nature. There is no place more suitable for the dozen or so gods of the Temple of Nature to spread their faith and absorb believers than the Mansha Wilderness.

Most of the natives in the wilderness are weak groups from the two continents, without gods belonging to their own race. Even if one or two gods are born, they cannot compete with the divine systems above the four major civilizations.

The Land of Souls' Return, the Wall of the Faithless – a prison said to eternally torment the souls of the faithless – may not have existed before the appearance of the gods. But since it was created and deeply rooted in the minds of hundreds of millions of creatures in the Feyman Plane, it is a shackle that forces them to choose a faith.

For the wilderness natives, the Temple of Nature is the best choice: the gods of the Nature Divine System never discriminate against any natives. Regardless of whether they are intelligent or not, as long as they are native races of the Feyman World and can accept the tenets of the Temple of Nature, they will be accepted as believers by the gods of the Nature Divine System, spreading the beliefs and purposes of the nature gods.

And because of the numerous native races in the wilderness, the gods of the Temple of Nature are no longer rootless duckweeds, but truly possess the fifth largest divine system with their own sphere of influence and faith groups.

Of course, for the gods of the Temple of Nature, maintaining the balance of nature is the belief they have always advocated, and there is no place more suitable for them than the Mansha Wilderness, a key area connecting the two continents. The population and number of strong individuals in the four major civilization systems account for more than 70% of the total in the Feyman Plane. If any two of these systems go to war, it means that a territory will be completely destroyed or even disappear from the Feyman World. This is something the gods of the Nature Divine System are unwilling to see.

So, what is more in line with the way of natural balance than maintaining the peace of the four major systems?

Based on the Mansha Wilderness, mediating between the four major civilization systems and the four divine systems that are the real masters behind them is the greatest task of the Temple of Nature since the emergence of the wilderness.

Mansha City is a negotiation venue dedicated to resolving the conflicts of the wilderness tribes, established by the nature gods in the wilderness based on this long and arduous task. It is also a hub for them to jointly resist invasions from the two continents.

The wilderness has never been peaceful. Taking the Hillan Continent to the south as an example, human civilization has never given up its covetousness for the wilderness. Even though they have actually occupied two-thirds of the Hillan Continent's territory, they cannot dispel their steps and thoughts of expanding human civilization's power outward.

Compared to the powerful Beastman Kingdom in a remote corner, human civilization obviously feels that the tribal natives in the wilderness, without systems or rules, are easier to bully, and at the same time, they can open up a passage to the Taren Continent to the north.

Over a long period of time, the border between the human kingdom and the wilderness has been expanding outwards. From the Griffon Fortress on the border of the Hill Kingdom more than 10,000 years ago, to the Thorn Rose City on the border between the Rose Duchy and the wilderness, the distance between the two has already exceeded a thousand miles. This is the consequence of the human kingdom's endless encroachment on the wilderness.

After Mansha City was established, under the guidance of the Nature Divine System, three super-large Centaur tribes were established on the grasslands on the border of the Rose Duchy. They united with each other to complete the blockade of human civilization. At least in the nearly ten thousand years since then, the human kingdom's territory facing the wilderness has never expanded even by a single mile.

And on the borders between the other three kingdoms and the wilderness, in addition to the natural barrier of the Tagan Desert on the border of the Elf Kingdom, there is a super-large wilderness native tribe stationed on each of the other two borders, in order to curb the four major civilizations' invasion of the wilderness and maintain the fragile balance of nature.

From the beginning, the gods of the Nature Divine System have built Mansha City into the central brain of the Mansha Wilderness, and the 113 super-large wilderness tribes recognized and absorbed by it are its scattered torso and limbs in the wilderness, maintaining the most basic stability of the wilderness. This is like a city-state united kingdom. Mansha City is the nominal capital of this kingdom, and it also undertakes the responsibility of consultation and handling of major events, while the more than one hundred tribes below are independent city-states, possessing great autonomy and not directly accepting the rule of Mansha City.

Of course, this belongs to the deepest secret of the five major divine systems. Not only is Allen unaware of it, but Reidel, who thought he understood the origin of Mansha City and flaunted it to Allen, also has no idea, even though he is a member of the Nature Divine System.

In any case, Mansha City, the pearl of the wilderness, finally reveals its unique charm in front of Allen. And from the moment he set foot in this city, Allen had a higher pursuit and dream in his heart.

(The stage for the story in my heart is truly opening, and I hope to bring you a wonderful story.)