In the central region of Brocade River Province, next to a lush mangrove forest, there nestled a settlement known as Mafu Town, approximately one hundred and fifty kilometers away from Singular Point City.
Although it was just an unremarkable small town, the population living here was actually not that insubstantial.
At least compared to the uninhabited areas around it, it could already be considered a "smoke-curling" settlement.
A century ago, local survivors made their living by breeding horses, and the not-too-large settlement supported only two or three hundred people.
But around a hundred years into the Wasteland Era, Brocade River Province saw an increase in farms and manors, and the slave-owner-led manor economy flourished. Local survivors switched to herding cattle and sheep, providing food and shelter to the merchants traveling from the south to the north, and the town gradually grew to house two or three thousand households, seven or eight thousand people.
