Half-step Purgatory

Durin stroked the black cat on the armrest of his chair, sitting on the black leather sofa. Through the glasses perched on his nose, his gaze passed over the long table in front of him and settled on the man kneeling on the carpet:
"I understand, you've made money in Naples, your business has been very successful, and you've led a happy life. You've had those secret police, friends in both the law and the underground, and even the Royal Family speaking on your behalf."
"You don't need a friend like me, I know that. You're afraid of owing me a favor, and you don't want to get involved in troubles."
"But now you come to me and say, 'I beg you, Mr. Durin of the Corleon family, please help me seek justice, so that my life and my family will not suffer and sink into despair.'
Yet, in your eyes, I was nothing more than a second-rate artist involved in movies and music. Even at the brink of death, you still show me such disrespect, not even willing to call me by my title... Keeper of Secrets."

Durin's Diary

The hierarchical system of Foresty Land was what Durin hated the most.


It had a large number of Clan Leaders, as well as Forest Masters elected by the Clan Leaders, and among those, the most respected and authoritative Forest Lord.


It possessed both a slavery system belonging to the Clan Leaders and Clan Masters, and a classical elite recommendation system that Durin could never find in books of his time, as well as an old medieval American-style winner-takes-all system represented by the Forest Lord.


The last point was made by Shiyi; in Durin and Big Orange's world, America was nothing more than a historical term that had been submerged by the Chaos Demon Army eight or nine thousand years ago.


Over the next week, Durin mulled over finding a more apt description for Foresty Land, such as the Sixth French Republic in history.


In reality, it was established by a group of French students studying in Southern Tai, after the Western Lands region was ravaged by the Chaos Demon Army.


Chapter 224: The Weapon in the Hands of the Powerful