While Yan Luo and the Lord of Mayin City were chatting, the employees at the Lord's Mansion finished tallying up the total assets of Mayin City.

Since they needed to keep some magical tools and magic arrows as military supplies against demons, they could only take in one-quarter of the goods Yan Luo and his group brought.

"Julia, are you planning to take them to Pirie City next?" The Lord of Mayin City looked at Julia.

Julia nodded, as Pirie City was the nearest city to Mayin City.

Then, the Lord of Mayin City smiled at Yan Luo, "Pirie City is a wealthy city; they should be able to purchase all the goods you bring."

Yan Luo nodded, "Thank you for the reminder."

The Lord of Mayin City was hinting that the next city they were heading to had the capability to take in all the remaining goods in the cart. Once there, they could set a higher price.

After negotiating how much goods Mayin City would purchase, Yan Luo led the team out of the Lord's Mansion and asked Julia on the way, "Is there any conflict between the Lord of Mayin City and Pirie City?"

Julia thought for a moment and recalled something.

"Mayin City once wanted to purchase the technology Pirie City used to build city walls, but Pirie City didn't sell it. The Lord of Pirie City also recalled the artisan who was repairing Mayin City's city walls. It might have been then that the conflict began between Mayin City and Pirie City."

Hearing Julia's words, Yan Luo became interested in Pirie City and asked, "Are the artisans in Pirie City very skilled? The two cities are so far apart, yet Mayin City still hired artisans from Pirie City to repair their city walls."

Julia nodded and said, "The artisans of Pirie City are the best among all the elves. Not only can they repair city walls, but they can also create machinery. Before your humans arrived, most of the mechanical creations in our world came from Pirie City."

No wonder the Lord of Mayin City said that Pirie City could take in all their goods. Even if they couldn't, they would find ways to purchase human products.

Hearing Julia's words, one of Yan Luo's drivers couldn't help but ask in Chinese, "Yan Luo, Pirie City sounds very powerful. What if we transport our goods there and they dismantle and copy them?"

Yan Luo gave him a peculiar look and said, "Never mind the technological gap; even if they could replicate them, would it affect us? We're selling industrial products. They might produce one while we can produce a hundred or a thousand. If they wish to analyze our technology, it'll take them decades. Until then, the profits are ours to earn."

The driver, enlightened, laughed awkwardly and scratched the back of his head.

By the time they left the Lord's Mansion, it was already late. The Lord of Mayin City had dispatched employees to wait at the door. Seeing Yan Luo and the others come out, they led them to the accommodations Mayin City prepared for them.

Yan Luo and two male drivers stayed in one house, while Julia and the remaining female driver moved into another house.

After a good night's sleep, Yan Luo and his team went to the open space where the trucks were parked to open the cargo doors for the elves who came to unload.

After unloading, it was about afternoon. Yan Luo and his team had lunch and immediately set off for Pirie City.

On the road, Julia used the car radio to chat with Yan Luo and the others about why the artisans of Pirie City were so skilled.

Pirie City is located in a mountain range rich in mineral veins. It started as a mining city, and later, in pursuit of better mining methods, they created many machines.

Gradually, they changed. They stopped selling ores externally and retained them in the city, processing them into finished products before exporting them.

No other city had any complaints because the machines made by Pirie City were indeed useful.

Later, to help elves who lost limbs during mining, the artisans of Pirie City began devising ways to create new limbs using machinery.

Amazingly, they succeeded, and it was a massive success.

[If you see an elf with mechanical limbs, there's a high chance they're from Pirie City, because the elves of Pirie City now use mechanical limbs as a sign of identity. An elf earns their first mechanical limb upon reaching adulthood, and the more skillful the artisan, the more mechanical limbs they have.]

Yan Luo was quite surprised upon hearing this.

—"Wow, punk elves!"

[Do they worship something like the 'Spirit of Machinery'?] One of the drivers from the third truck joked.

The other two drivers laughed upon hearing this.

[Wang Gai, give it a rest. Elves don't know about such things.]

[Not even in Lingquan City does anyone play board games with you, let alone the elves.]

However, Julia's response shocked them.

[How did you know the elves of Pirie City believe 'machines have spirits'?] Julia sounded a bit surprised. [The elves of Pirie City believe that every machine houses a soul, and with so many machines in the same city, it's like the gears of a large machine, where all the machine souls combine into something they call the 'Spirit of Machinery.']

[Having a mechanical limb installed is a way to draw closer to the Spirit of Machinery and gain more inspiration.]

The driver who just asked fell silent, not expecting that the elves of Pirie City truly worship the Spirit of Machinery. He was just joking.

At this moment, he couldn't help but mumble internally: "My goodness, the elves worship the Spirit of Machinery, and there's even a Mechanical Priest. Could it be that the demon Julia mentioned earlier is from some subspace as well?"

Under Julia's guidance, the three trucks arrived at the edge of the plains.

The gradually rising and uneven ground turned into hills and valleys on either side of the road. Ahead were continuous mountain ranges.

Two days had passed since they set out from Mayin City, yet they still hadn't seen a glimpse of Pirie City.

According to Julia, they might have to continue driving through the mountains for another day or two to reach Pirie City.

After all, when Julia came here with her father before, they could traverse the mountain paths, but the trucks were too heavy. Driving on the mountain paths could cause them to collapse, so she could only point out a route that 'maybe' led to Pirie City.

Elves live in this world as units of cities. There aren't any towns between cities, and elves usually don't live alone in the wilderness.

Aside from fugitive murderers, all elves would reside in cities.

It takes three to four days to travel from Mayin City to Pirie City, showing how vast the Elf World is and how sparse the elven population is.

Pirie City is already the closest city to Mayin City, yet it requires such a long drive. It's unimaginable on Blue Star.

No wonder elves have developed such drastically different styles between cities; this is how it came to be.

Once they entered the mountains, the number of demons suddenly increased, and elemental demons began to emerge.

However, these demons only seemed to add to Yan Luo and the team's meals.

While driving through the mountains, Yan Luo and the team encountered a City-breaking Level demon. Fortunately, it wasn't an elemental type, otherwise, Yan Luo wouldn't know how to handle it.

In the mountains, the most common elemental demons are Stone Beasts, Water Beasts, and Wind Beasts, each challenging to deal with and not well-suited for Yan Luo.

Because they took a few detours on the way, Yan Luo and his team only reached Pirie City on the second day in the mountains.

Pirie City is nestled within a valley, with two entrances, both shrouded by barriers that, from the outside, look like a mountain wall blocking the way.

Before Julia could shout at the barrier, a few elves passed through the mountain wall and approached the three trucks.

These elves, each with at least one mechanical limb, gazed admiringly at the three trucks before speaking in inquiry.

Yan Luo noticed they held weapons resembling firearms, though they looked quite crude.

Julia jumped out of the cabin and handed over the introduction letters from the Lord of Gass City and the Lord of Mayin City to the elves.

Just like when they first arrived outside Mayin City, they only needed to wait for the outcome.

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