That was a major quake. Not just the room, but the entire hotel and even Port City itself was shaking. Cracks spread all over the walls as dust sprinkled down from the ceiling.

Qianye rushed over to the wall and looked out. At the extremes of his vision, he could see the sheds in the slums starting to crumble. These crudely constructed shacks simply couldn’t withstand the might of the rocking earth.

“Earthquake?”

Ding Shiheng wasn’t alarmed at all. He merely shook his head and said, “It’s not an earthquake, just the earth dragon turning over. It’ll be gone soon.”

As expected, the shaking lasted only a few minutes before gradually subsiding. Even so, the number of collapsed buildings in Port City weren’t few in number, and most of them were located in the slums.

In fact, the entire of Port City was fairly simple in decor. If it wasn’t clearly indicated, Qianye would find it difficult to tell the slums apart from the normal city area. Only the noble’s district around the city lord’s mansion looked like a proper major city. The demarcation became more evident after the quake because most of the collapses took place in the impoverished areas...