Pilgard city clans

It was still mid-afternoon when Nicola arrived in Pilgard City. The city's design was quite traditional and provincial. There were the external areas where the population lived and the center, where the big stores and the residences of the important clans were built. In that city, there were three main bestial clans that ruled the city.

The Raiju clan held the greatest power and controlled most of the city, their descendants possessed canine features of purple and white fur and possessed elemental affinity with lightning.

The second clan, Nicola had previously known inside the forest, was the Bat Ape clan, Bat-headed Apes. Probably some of those wild monkeys reached the level of gold and left offspring, some of them also possessed elemental affinity with thunder.

And finally the Nimbus Owl clan, formed by people with owl features, most did not have wings, but many feathers came out of their bodies, and they had the ability to turn their heads almost 360 degrees, in addition to their eyes being scary for those who were not used to it. Owls were quite apt night hunters, this subspecies of the owl clan also possessed the common thread among the clans that ruled the city, the affinity with the elements of darkness and thunder.

After some time listening to conversations and buying information, he had discovered that once every ten years, these clans would get together and host a tournament to find out which one was the strongest in the city. The three elders of these clans were gold level cultivators and this time they were in the trenches of war along with their best clan fighters.

Anyway, the tournament was open to the public and anyone could register, as long as they didn't go above the gold level. Thunder Heavenly Essence was considered a treasure even by these mills, but they wouldn't pit themselves against three other gold-level mills just for that.

It was quite clear in Nicola's eyes that the prize had been styled for any of the three clans to win. And that person would become a great power within the city, able to shift the balance of power between the three clans.

The favorite this time was a warrior of the Raiju clan, the strongest person in town, after those who went to war. She was a robust and tall woman, full of defined muscles like an Amazon, her angular face gave the feeling of indifference in the people who spoke to her, many avoided even glances from her.

Her hair was purple and held in dreads that ended in metal rings, similar to Nicola's space artifact. Two pointed dog ears protruded from her head and around her neck, almost like a coat, came a necklace of mixed gray and white fur. Back on Earth, Nicola had seen movies where there were six-foot-tall Viking warriors who were less terrifying than she was.

On her back she carried a pair of warhammers. half its height. They appeared to be made of a metal suitable for transferring electrical discharge. Nicola could feel the static electricity inside those weapons, his intuition as a blacksmith wouldn't let him down, this was a worthy enemy.

Nicola signed up for the tournament and walked around the city, the draw, along with the start of the fights would only happen the other day. The town didn't have many shops and Nicola was sure that he wouldn't find anything to catch his eye but he decided to try the luck anyway. Most stores only sold simple items, mostly at the bronze level and some at the silver level. Nicola would get a lot more important items from the Guild. He sure as hell wouldn't find items of his level in a city other than the capital or in upscale auction houses.

He decided to get in touch with stores that sold raw materials for construction and ended up finding some stalls in the local market. Atop several stalls were samples of rocks and earth that could be bought by the kilo. Nicola looked closely at some of them and even placed some in his hands.

At one of the stalls he stopped to look at a bag of sand, he took the yellow sand in his hands before asking the seller. "What is this sand?" He had caught a handful of it again, from inside the sand he had noticed a trace of thunder mana, it seemed to be a good conductor of magic.