Chapter 26: First Arrival in Bayam

Chapter 26: First Arrival in Bayam

After the large ship belonging to the resistance army docked, the people of the City of Silver, all changed into round-collared shirts, brown jackets, wide-legged pants, and dark flat caps, followed Lord Danitz the divine envoy down from the vessel. They prepared to pass through the docks and enter Bayam, the City of Generosity. Those clothes had all been prepared in advance.

“Dressing like this feels really awkward. It isn’t very suitable for fighting…” As they walked, Liaval moved his arms and legs and spoke to Elder Derrick in a low voice.

Derrick nodded gently.

“But this makes it easier to hide ourselves. We won’t be too conspicuous or become the focus of others’ attention.”

There was nothing wrong with Derrick’s analysis. After all, they were now outsiders, and there were only twenty-one of them. If they could avoid drawing attention, it would naturally be best not to attract any. However, he seemed to have forgotten one critical detail.

“B-but they are all looking at us…” Candice quickly looked around and whispered.

The workers on the docks, some simply dressed and others bare-chested, as well as travelers of all sorts moving to and fro in different attire, all turned their gazes in their direction.

“So tall…” a Bayam resident with bronze skin and slightly curly hair could not help exclaiming.

He was only around 160 centimeters tall. This was the common height of male civilians in the colonies of the present era. As for the people of the City of Silver, aside from Derrick, who had only just passed two meters, the rest averaged over 2.3 meters tall, with the tallest surpassing 2.5 meters.

When such “half-giants” walked across the docks and through the crowd, they were equally conspicuous no matter what they wore.

“Feysacians?” A Loenese man wearing a top hat, formal clothes, and carrying a cane turned his head toward his companion. “Has the slave trade begun again?”

He believed the people of the City of Silver were Feysac war captives the Rorsted government had purchased from the Loen Kingdom. After all, in this world, the only people he could think of who possessed such height—and not merely one or two of them—were those barbarians from Feysac who called themselves descendants of giants.

His companion shook his head, faintly frowning.

“They don’t look like it. Most Feysacians have pale blue eyes. Besides, even among Feysacians, very few can exceed two meters unless… unless these are noble or officer prisoners of war…”

In Feysac, although there was no explicit law, all walks of life—especially the military—had the phenomenon of determining status by height. Of course, this was not the only condition. One’s family background, title, rank, and other factors were also considered.

Because of this “custom,” the descendants of Feysac nobles and the upper ranks of the army were generally over two meters tall.

This was actually only the surface phenomenon. In essence, it was the influence brought by Beyonder characteristics.

Those who could become high-ranking officers in the Feysac military were either of noble birth or had already reached at least Sequence 5. The latter, after repeated influence from potions of the Warrior pathway, also known as the Giant pathway, would definitely “meet the standard” in height. Those who chose the Red Priest pathway would also gain some height increase, but it was not as obvious as the Giant pathway in the early stages. The total increase might be only a few centimeters, and a qualitative change would only occur after becoming a demigod.

As for noble descendants, their ancestors had more or less been “giants” or had intermarried with “giants.” Regardless of whether they inherited Beyonder characteristics, the corresponding genes accumulated generation after generation and would certainly make their normal height exceed two meters.

Among them, those families that still grasped portions of the Giant pathway’s potion formulas and possessed a…