Chapter 500: Hyde Park

Castles by the sea are susceptible to wind and waves, desert forts may be buried in sand, and treehouses in the mountains and forests often do not see the sun and the moon...... The emergence of cities is the result of human transformation of the earth's surface, but the surface is also influencing human cities in its own way.

Built on top of the Devil's Delta, it's hard not to be affected by the Devil's Lake - there is always a time every year when a catastrophic 'acid rain' falls over the city of Purgatory, and this highly corrosive rain is privately called 'devil's tears' by the residents of Hell's City!

The intensity of 'acid rain' is not consistent, when it is weak, it is equivalent to lemonade at most, except for the taste of sour and bitter, it will not have any effect on the residents or buildings in the city, but if you are unfortunate enough to encounter high-intensity acid rain, the rain may even directly corrode people, for example, after a strong acid rain, some people who can't avoid it end up leaving only a pale skeleton, which can be called a horror - in the chronological records of Purgatory City, there are many such records!

If Leitch was here, as an Earth Traveler, combined with the formation principle of rain, it is not difficult for him to guess that the appearance of the 'acid rain' climate in Purgatory City is mostly related to the acidic water of Devil's Lake. Of course, whether this is the case or not remains to be investigated, after all, in this high-level magic plane, there are many things that cannot be explained by the scientific principles of the earth.

However, the appearance of acid rain has made it difficult for the residents of Purgatory City - although high-intensity acid rain is not common, the rain from acid rain, whether it is wood or stone and other building materials, is corrosive, and over time, it will cause considerable damage to the houses of residents! Even the Winter Palace, which was originally built of white stone, is also the same, looking at the yellow and green patches in the past, the appearance is definitely quite unsightly.

It wasn't until the year 2334 of the Thunder Calendar (the calendar of the Roland Empire) that a chant named Hyde happened to be temporarily residing in Purgatory City to compose. The singer had a habit of writing in the open air, facing the moonlight, and he thought that the moonlight could bring him inspiration.

Of course, compared to some of the open-minded people who like to 'field' in the moonlight, the habit of this chant-man is far from a problem. However, the Hymnist, who had only been in Purgatory City for a short time, was obviously unaware of the existence of such special weather as 'acid rain' in Purgatory City - one night, Hyde finished his work that night as usual, and returned to his room to rest in the early hours of the morning, but he forgot to take back his composing book!

For Hyde, this was not a big deal, because both his writing book and the ink he used were made of special materials, and even if they were wet with water, it would not affect the handwriting on them in the slightest—I have to say that the chants were proud!

It wasn't until he inquired with the surrounding residents that Hyde figured out that during the day while he was sleeping, there was an acid rain in Purgatory City, and the culprit who destroyed his creation book was this acid rain!

Hyde was annoyed, but not so angry as to go to the rain. However, because of this incident, Hyde became quite interested in the acid rain climate of Purgatory City! In order to study acid rain, in addition to his daily creations, Hyde also devoted a considerable part of his time to the study of acid rain, and for this reason, he stayed in Purgatory City for three years!

Although the Troubadour has never been known for his high combat power in many Awoken systems, as a Hyde Singer with the strength of the Holy Order, Hyde is naturally able to travel through space at will like other Singers. Hyde, on the other hand, is often stranded in the sky, because a poet needs a different vision!

When Hyde was stranded in the sky above the Devil's Delta, he noticed a rather interesting phenomenon - the vegetation around Devil's Lake was sparse, especially in the northwest, southwest and west, and it was completely bare! Hyde secretly thought that this might be the result of the 'acid rain', that is, he thought that the 'acid rain' not only covered the Devil's Delta, but also affected the rest of the surrounding area! But Hyde was surprised to find that the Hawker Mountains to the east of the Weeping Wall were lush and green, and the greenery with a strong breath of life seemed so abrupt in the yellowed area around Devil's Lake!

This intrigued Hyde and prompted him to eventually enter the mountains east of the Weeping Wall to investigate. After a week's investigation, Hyde discovered that the mountains in this area are dominated by a broad-leaved plant called the Iron Palm, and that the few other plant species mostly live in the shadow of the broad leaves of the Iron Palm - that is, this mountain range is actually the kingdom of the Iron Palm!

And as Hyde expanded the scope of his investigation, he could be sure that the Iron Palm was not the only plant growing in the Hawker Mountains, on the contrary, the Iron Palm was not very reproductive, and it was not actually common in other parts of the Hawker Mountains, except to the east of the Weeping Wall! In other words, it is possible that the iron palm can not only withstand the corrosion of acid rain, but even absorb acid rain!

Later, upon his return to Infernal City, Hyde recounted his findings in the city's most popular tavern. Although the citizens of Purgatory were mostly Inquisitionists, and they were more willing to recite the obscure Thunderous Revelation (Old Testament) than the sad or sweet songs, a hymn was quite persuasive, not to mention the 'acid rain' climate that had plagued them all along!

According to Hyde's reasoning, many of the inhabitants of Purgatory City began to make a series of experiments at that time, such as whether houses made of iron palm could withstand the corrosion of acid rain, and whether ships made of iron palm wood could sail on Devil's Lake...... And it turns out that Hyde's series of inferences are indeed quite correct!

So, as Hyde's inference was confirmed, the inhabitants of Purgatory City began to build their houses out of iron palm wood, which is why most of the buildings in Purgatory City are all wooden structures!

Not only that, in order to commemorate the contribution of Hyde the Hyde the Hyde to Infernal City, with the permission of the Death Knights, the residents of Hyde City also specially built a park in the name of Hyde, and planted the largest palm grove in Infernal City there! This is the origin of Hyde Park and Hyde Park District! Of course, as for the later evolution of Hyde Park into a completely different meaning, that is what no one expected at first......

Ahem, having said that, what I really want to talk about is actually the Winter Palace - as the palace of the Death Knights, the appearance of the Winter Palace also represents the face of the Death Knights, and in the past, the Death Knights had to spend a lot of money to renovate the heavily corroded palaces from time to time, which was cumbersome and costly. While Hyde's conclusion has greatly improved the living conditions of the civilians of Purgatory, the Death Knights are unable to follow the example of the commoners and build a Winter Palace out of palm wood—a palace that should be closer to what some Turtle Lords call 'longhouses'!

However, Hyde's conclusion also inspired the Death Knights, the difference is that the civilians of Purgatory City are targeting cheap palm wood, while the Death Knights have turned their attention to the **** Peak! To be precise, the white stones on the Hawkel Peak that have not been affected by acid rain in the slightest, a stone called 'Winter Heart', also known as 'Winter Stone'!

In the end, the Death Knights spent a huge amount of manpower and material resources to collect a sufficient number of winter stones from the ****er peak, and used these winter stones to completely transform the palace complex in the central area of Purgatory City, and since then renamed it 'Winter Palace'!

It is now the year 10,018 of the Thunder Calendar, and even after more than 7,000 years, the Winter Palace is still beautiful and luxurious! The snow-white palace complex is like a noble white swan standing proudly on the Devil's Lake, elegant and full of spirituality. The only difference is that the current Hermitage no longer belongs to the Death Knights!

The Hermitage, to be precise, is not a single palace, but a circular palace complex surrounded by a large number of palaces! The reason why it is called a circle, not a circle, is because the central area of the Hermitage is actually hollow!

The palaces that enclose the Hermitage are each six floors high and nearly forty meters high. And at the top of these nine palaces, there are many hanging beams extending diagonally upwards at 45 degrees, and these beams are gathered in the sky, and there is an iron palm five or six meters high at the intersection! Of course, this iron palm was transplanted, and as for why this iron palm that was obviously hanging in the air did not die, but was green all the year round, it must have been the Death Knights who used a lot of means for it.

The long broad-leaved leaves of this iron palm are curled upwards to form the shape of a flower, and even more ingeniously, the 'bud' of this flower is actually an open-air rooftop!

At this time, on the rooftop of this Iron Palm, there were three people standing - one was wearing a knight's heavy armor with the holy sword logo, which should be a Northern Luo knight, but judging from the heavy armor worn by this knight was different from the standard heavy armor of the Northern Luo knight, he was obviously not an ordinary Northern Luo knight!

Like most Rolanders, this Roland man was not very tall, about 1.7 meters, and he was an ordinary-looking soy sauce crowd that could not be found at all when thrown into the crowd. He was wearing a leather armor with the 'Troll Shadow' logo on it, and he was obviously a member of the Red Guard!

In fact, this Roland man was the former leader of the Devil Ray Mercenary Regiment and the current captain of the Red Union Guard, Hebrew, who conspired together with the president of the Delta Chamber of Commerce to defect to the Red Demon Empire, and finally opened the west gate of Purgatory City for the Holy Sepulchre Guardian Order!

As for the last of the three, he wore a crimson hooded cloak and looked like a priest or mage. However, because of the existence of the hood, people can't see the face of this person at all. However, Hebrew, the captain of the Red Association Guard, and another knight of Beiluo, who was obviously not low, were just standing on the left and right sides of this person, which was enough to prove his status!

At this time, the three of them were all looking at the direction of the purification field from afar and were silent.

"My lord, I don't understand!" said Hebrew suddenly.

PS: Ahem, I think it's necessary to explain - according to the original plan, this chapter should be a continuation of the previous chapter, mainly the dialogue between the three Hebrews at the end of this chapter. Originally, I was only going to mention the Hermitage slightly, but I didn't expect this to write a lot about Hyde Park alone, and the background has become the main content of this chapter - I can only say that the plan can't keep up with the changes......

And as a 3Klux Klan, it's not my style to write too many chapters, cough, so if you feel that the chapters seem a little disjointed, please forgive me......

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