Three hundred years ago, Emperor Huanghuo fought the Demon King You, and the two nearly perished together before vanishing without a trace.
Since then, the world has been divided between the Southern Frontier and the Northern Commandery, whose people have had nothing to do with each other.
Dragons fly through the skies, fishfolk swim in the seas, and each keeps to its own gods.
And then there's Feiwood, a lousy hunter who can't even catch a rabbit. People started calling him "Useless" as a pun on his name, and eventually they even dropped the last character and simply called him Trash. He never objected.
Later...
He sold dragon crystals to mages from the Southern Frontier, then turned around and sold them to priests from the Northern Commandery.
He sold fishfolk pearls to noblewomen of the Empire, and dragon crystals to dark elf assassins.
Spirit embers and demon embers can't come into contact? Fine, just pass them through dragon crystals and pearls. Feiwood takes a ten percent cut.
Three years later, Twin Ember City, the first city of the Northern Territory, rose from the ground. Everyone in the world wanted to know the same thing:
"That run-down waystation, or rather, the now brilliantly lit Twin Ember City, what can you trade for there?"
Then one day, the Empress arrived.
"I hear you can trade for anything here?"
Trash gripped the hilt of his sword. "That depends on what you're offering."
She undid the button at her collar. "What would it take to trade for an empire?"
Good-looking long recommendation
It's really good. I'll read this book during the summer vacation.