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Following that, he exited the dream world and used the teleportation gate to return to Silt City.
The cheap inn was filled with a stench, and after staying there long enough, one's own body would acquire the same smell.
But this was the smell of the laboring underclass, and Ma Lin felt he should not reject it. He still wanted to understand the city more thoroughly and then look for ways to solve its problems.
He aimed to avoid battle with the god of the swamp while at the same time attempting to take control of Heishui Province.
In Silt City lived ten thousand high-ranking demons, one hundred thousand low-ranking demons, and two hundred thousand enslaved races.
Crawling demons and mollusk demons were all counted among the slave races.
Here, humans were considered part of the low-ranking demons and were also a minority.
Though humans thought demons were completely different from themselves, demons held the opposite view, finding human racial concepts quite laughable.
