Chapter 39 Major Reforms

On the streets of Fein City's main urban area, Byrne, clad in black finery, adjusted his glasses, instructed guards and servants to go for a meal, and sought out the similarities between this city and the one where he spent his childhood.

He soon deeply furrowed his brow, for he could see garbage strewn everywhere, completely unmanaged, and the sewage-strewn ground was even dirtier than Nasir.

People bustled by in a hurry, houses on either side of the street were chaotically built and crowded, all contributing to a claustrophobic oppression that surrounded Byrne.

With the emergence of steam engines and factories in recent years, the people from the towns and countryside of the East Coast had gradually begun flocking towards Fein City; the massive influx of outsiders, primarily settling in the suburbs, was part of an inevitable, broader trend of explosive urban population growth across many cities on the Ouden Continent.