Nanqing's layout was similar to that of most large Sanctuaries.
There was a Core Area and a commercial district, surrounded by Mercenary Street, which gradually developed into an industrial chain revolving around the Mercenary Union.
The Core belonged to the Inner City area, inhabited mostly by high-ranking leaders and their relatives. Ordinary Awakeners could not set up businesses in the Core; they either lived in the commercial district or on Mercenary Street.
But like other large Sanctuaries, Nanqing also had an often overlooked area of comparable size.
The poverty area.
Officially called the relief area.
The poverty area occupied about one-fifth of the Sanctuary's space but housed over eighty percent of the survivors.
