COSG - Chapter 83.1: Scary Lady

Sleepless town, Weisshem, the most dazzling pearl of the Rhine Kingdom's southern border… Well, this description only applied at night.

Once the Age of Discovery began, rubber, copper, and large amounts of metal ores from the Outer Continent entered Navalon. Electricity applications, which weren't popularized previously due to the lack of raw materials, gradually spread out starting from the Kenyan Empire. Steam power plants emerged like fresh shoots after the rain in various large cities across the continent.

However, several centuries had since passed, but electricity remained a luxury for most people on the continent of Navalon.

The reasons for this were simple. First, expensive electricity bills were beyond the means of ordinary households. Power plants often passed on the losses incurred during electricity transmission to end-users. Due to technological limitations in this world, electrical power transmission losses were generally over 50%, which was even more exaggerated than in modern-day India.

Secondly, because the cables used for the transmission of electricity had to be made of copper, nearly every nation, including the Kenyan Empire, suffered from severe cable theft problems.

Power plants, usually run by private entities, often refused to transmit electricity or lay cables in areas with poor security, which meant that only heavily guarded, exclusive places—in other words, the so-called wealthy and noble areas—could enjoy illumination when night fell.

Weisshem was neither a wealthy nor a noble district, but it had the financial means to pay for electricity bills and the capability to protect the town's electrical cables. Every night, this brilliantly lit town became the most resplendent gem within a ten-mile radius—the electric lights and colorful neon signboards illuminating the street of adult-oriented businesses were even more concentrated than Indahl's wealthiest district.

Every night, patrons seeking various forms of entertainment flocked from all directions to this town, generously emptying

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