Chapter 40: The City of Futarazi
If time could be redone, Charlotte would never say it again. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
But unfortunately, he doesn't have the ability to actively reset time and space like Aven. Therefore, he could only regret his excessive pride and get through the rest of the journey in embarrassment.
Along the way, Charlotte always speculated about Sylvia's thoughts, but unfortunately, from this sister who has always had little expression, Charlotte couldn't see anything abnormal. Even after that, Charlotte tentatively asked Sylvia an academic question that he had known for a long time, and his sister answered it as if nothing was out of the ordinary.
Except for Sylvia, who seemed a little uneasy as she passed through the Bellbo Abyss, it was as if nothing had happened that night!
And it was this normality that made Charlotte even more uneasy, he wanted to mention the events of that night, but he lacked the courage to uncover the scars. So he can only be like a patient who is in a hurry to seek medical treatment, passively waiting for an opportunity to come.
But the seeds had been planted, and it was after that night that Charlotte made a lifelong vow with great seriousness!
He wants to raise a new throne with his own hands and in his own way!
Even if there was a shadow of Lu Sien on his body no matter what, he swore that he would never follow Lu Sien's old path! This time it was not a passive choice made out of panic, but a true thought from his heart.
The awkward atmosphere did not change until they arrived at the rumored city of Futarazi, and Vivien and Lolita were aware of it, and along the way, even the lively Lolita spoke a lot quieter.
The city of Fortarazi is a city built on a dark underground plain, and unlike the rugged Molten Iron Fortress, this city built on a small hill in the plains has a more or less artistic sense of forest elves.
Although both the Forest Elves and the Drow Elves dismiss each other as outliers, the common rumors still have some truth in this regard.
The Drow Elves are a race of ancient elves who have been driven out of the wars of the ancient elves, and they have gradually adapted to the environment of the underworld after a long life in the darkness of the earth. Their hair gradually turned silvery white, their skin turned black, and there was hardly a trace of elves to be found, except for their slender bodies and pointed ears.
The once elegant, noble, and kind elves have transformed into utilitarian, cruel, and evil drows, and the drows, who are mainly matriarchal societies, are skilled in intrigue and trickery, and their unique talents have quickly made them the most powerful force in the underworld.
For 10,000 years, the Drow have ruled the Underworld with oppression, allied themselves with powerful races and enslaved their allies when they were weak. They are fickle, they are cunning, they are cunning, they are subservient to the strong, they enslave the weak.
But with the exception of Alvira, the goddess of shadows, no strong man can control them forever, and these treacherous drows will always betray each other mercilessly when they show their weakness, and then tear them to shreds completely.
Obviously, the Molten Iron Castle, which had been deceived by rhetoric, suffered a great loss.
However, none of this had anything to do with Icewind Castle and his party, Charlotte and the others wore cloaks and hoods, trying to keep a low profile close to the city.
Along the way, they saw halflings in ragged clothes and heavy anklets ploughing in the bareless fields, and the slightest failure would cause the overseers to whip the slaves.
But don't think that the strong Minotaurs have a special place in the city, in fact, the lucky few who can become overseers are only a few, Charlotte sees more Minotaurs doing hard labor in anklets, driven by the male drow to do heavy work, some to build houses, others to carry heavy materials on their backs to build war machines for the drow.
These wise minotaurs are truly enslaved like cattle by the Drows!
In addition, there are lizardmen, snake people, and other races, but all of them are slaves of the Drow without exception. The drows scientifically divided the slaves according to the talents of this race, and were as brutal and ruthless as the capitalists who wanted to squeeze all the surplus value.
Charlotte even saw humans in it, probably hapless adventurers who had come to the Shadows with dreams of making a fortune, but reality had made them slaves of Drow.
"It seems that the self-confidence of these drows is clearly bursting!" said Lolita, cloaked in a cloak.
Everyone agrees with her.
In the past two years, Icewind Castle and his party have traveled to several cities of drow elves. Generally speaking, unless the city has the self-confidence to rule the region absolutely, they will be so unscrupulous as slaves to all intelligent races.
Clearly, the self-confidence of the city of Fortarazi contrasts sharply with the tension of the Molten Iron Castle, which means that the Molten Iron Castle, which has ruled the region for thousands of years, is rapidly losing its rightful authority.
The group continued on their way, up a rare hill in this plain. The city of Ventalazi is located on this hill, and the city's architectural style is not as beautiful as the forest elves, nor is it as monotonous and defense-oriented as the humans, but if it is really to say, it is similar to the mix and match style of defense and art in the water capital.
However, this art style is Gothic and dark.
The battlements of the walls are carved with a statue of Arachnoid Drow, the pet of the Shadow Queen Alvira and the most brutal punishment for the betrayal Drow.
Through rituals, the Mistress will brutally transform the betrayer into a terrifying monster with the upper body of Drow and the lower half of the body of the spider, which will live forever in agony and will be full of aggression towards all that is good.
On either side of the gate are reliefs celebrating the glory of Alvira, full of blood and violence, representing Alvira's twisted and cruel teachings.
The city is divided into two areas, the inner and the outer city, which is inhabited by low-status drow commoners, which is generally set up for male drows. In the matriarchal society, the male drow is regarded as a tool for reproduction, they are not qualified to learn any spells and magic skills, and no matter how good they are, they can only serve as the face of the master mother or the master of martial arts.
The inner city belongs to the seven ruling families that rule the city of Fortarazi, all of whom are women, and in Drow society, good women can be well educated and become priests or spellcasters of the Temple of Shadows. They are the true masters of this city.
And Felix Futarazi, the first master of Futarazi City, is a priest of the Nine Rings level and the bishop of the Shadow Temple.
As they entered the city, the group was unsurprisingly stopped by Drow, a male guarding the area.
"You're right, that's you!" the male drow probably only dared to find some presence from strangers, and he yelled at Icewind Castle like a big man, "I order you to lift your hoods!"
The male drow archers on the walls drew their bows, and the minotaurs who served as slaves also aimed their poorly maintained swords and axes at the orders of their masters.
The group pulled back their hoods, revealing the faces of the drows under the hoods. One of them, a young woman, Drow, crossed her waist and shouted loudly.
"Pig, do you even dare to check on Miss Ben?!"
The combination of a man and three women made the male Drow who spoke look puzzled, but soon, the majesty of the female Drow made him bow his head in panic. Although he was very puzzled, he felt as if he had never seen a ruling family with such an extraordinary temperament.
Confusion worked.
Lolita snorted and kicked the male Drow in the knee, who immediately rolled on the ground without restraint.
His performance was affirmed by Lolita, and the female mage shook her short silver-gray hair, snorted arrogantly from her nose, and pointed at the surrounding Zhuo Erdao.
"Count you as acquaintances, you, you, you, and you! Get out of Miss Ben!"
Generally speaking, female drows would not do this kind of menial work of guarding the city gates. This also made Icewind's plan to enter the city extremely smooth, and they used simple illusions and the male Drow's natural fear of women to infiltrate the city gates.
This is the drow of the matriarchal society, this is the city of Futarazi!