2. Illinas City
Just before sunset, the Emerald finally arrived in the city of Illinas, located at the southernmost tip of the Emerald Bay in the province of Palestina.
The airship sailed along the coastline of the province of Palestina for almost a whole day to reach this scenic seaside city.
It is a peninsula-like land, surrounded by the sea on three sides, and when viewed from the air, it is like a crooked horn jutting into the blue sea.
The whole city is surrounded by mountains and rivers, and those exquisite buildings are arranged in a stepped manner according to the mountain, which is completely the pattern of a mountain city.
A giant statue more than two hundred meters tall stood on the top of the highest hill in Illinus City, a statue of a magic stone in a magic robe, with one hand hanging freely, and the other hand holding a staff aloft, at the very top of which was an attic-like building.
The airship happened to pass by the statue, and I could clearly see that the top of the hollowed-out staff was a lighthouse.
I think that at night, the oil in the copper basin of this lighthouse will be boiling and burning, and the light of the lighthouse will guide the ships that sail on the sea from all directions to the harbor of the city of Illinas.
In the twilight, the city of Illinas is gilded with a golden coat by the slanting sun, and the people on the beach begin to leave one after another, and the streets and alleys of the city are crowded with bustling people.
Not only is it a fine and soft white sand beach, but there is also a deep-water pier next to the rocky cliff on the north side of the mountain town, which is a very nice shelter, and hundreds of large ships are moored in the harbor.
Noah took Shirley Newman's hand, pointed to a magnificent palace-like building like a royal palace under the statue of the giant ** master, and said: "Oh, that's my home, I usually like to live in a tall tower, that's it!"
He pointed to a chimney-like building in the corner of the palace and gleefully introduced his residence to Shirley Newman.
Shirley Newman looked at Noah in surprise, with a crying and laughing expression on her face, frowning slightly, staring at Noah in surprise, "Why do you like to live in a tower?"
"It's really nice to live there!" Noah said, putting his arm around Shirley Newman's shoulder, pointing to the top of the tower, "On a summer evening, the top of the tower is very cool, and you can enjoy the sea breeze." ”
"It is the only mage tower in the city of Illinus, which contains thousands of magic tomes, and it is the most desirable magical shrine in the hearts of young magicians in the province of Palestina. The captain of the Emerald stood not far away, his hands propped on the side of the ship, looking at the splendid palace, and said with a look of envy.
Shirley Newman hid her slightly open lips in surprise and turned her head to stare at Noah.
"To me, it's just a tower in our house with a beautiful view, and it's cool to live in in the summer, that's all!" Noah scratched his head and said to Shirley Newman with a hippie smile.
After circling around the city of Illinas, the airship continued to fall, and finally landed smoothly on the airport dock outside the city.
The airport terminal outside Illinas City is also very special, strictly speaking, this is not an airport terminal at all, but a cliff with a steep slope of 90 degrees on one side and a gentle slope of 30 degrees on the other, like flower petals.
The imaginative Palastina leveled the uneven terrain next to the cliff, filled the crevices and low-lying areas with stone slurry, the raised rocks were chiseled away by the stonemasons, the edges of the cliffs were covered with metal railings, and several airships of various styles were docked next to the cliffs.
The Emerald slowly sailed into the airport, and when the crew threw the rope onto the airport dock, opened the wooden door on the side of the ship, and put the heavy wooden planks between the airport dock and the deck, the passengers waiting on the deck carried their luggage and walked off the airship with happy faces.
Perhaps in order to understand the timid feelings of those passengers, there were as many as ten such passages on the 'Emerald', no one was stranded or blocked at one exit, and the guests on the ship were all aristocrats who had purchased luxury tickets, and we followed the captain of the 'Emerald' out of the special passage ahead of time.
The airport terminal in Illinas is very different from the imperial capital airport terminal.
In the airport town of the imperial capital, if you want to take the airship, you must climb the high tower pier so that you can board the airship.
As a result, it was impossible for the magic caravans to dock on the Tower Pier under any circumstances, and we had to walk a little way from the airship before we could board the magic caravans.
However, the airport dock in Illinas City is built on a stone cliff, and those magic caravans can enter directly from the gentle slope on the other side to pick up people.
As soon as I walked to the stone cliff, I saw three temporary silver magic caravans quietly parked on the airport dock, and a team of waiters in gorgeous costumes stood quietly next to the magic caravan, but it seemed that the magic caravan could enter the airport dock, which was still the right of the privileged class, and those who walked down from the gangplank were still walking slowly along the smooth mountain road to the bottom of the stone cliff.
There were many passengers who pointed at the three gorgeous silver magic caravans, their eyes full of envy.
I walked side by side with Noah, and when I saw the three magic caravans parked next to the dock, I also secretly pulled La Noah's sleeve, and said to the three magic caravan Nunu: "Noah, look at the magic caravan over there, it's really magnanimous, the whole car is plated with a layer of mythril, it's just the style of a local tyrant!"
Noah grinned, rubbed his hands, nodded again and again, and said, "Well, that's it, that's it." ”
Shirley Newman was a very generous and well-behaved girl at the Royal Academy of Magic and Wizardry, and because of this, she had a lot of friends in her class.
But after stepping off the airship, Shirley Newman became a little nervous, and did not want to hold Noah and walk side by side anyway, but mixed in with the group of girls in Yingli, and the burly female swordsman followed silently.
Caterina has always been by my side, inseparable.
Karantso pulled Deborah and walked at the back of the line with Ruka the Minotaur.
However, when the tall minotaur stepped down from the gangplank, he still attracted the attention of many people, and his strong physique like a black tower made many people look surprised.
After all, this is not the imperial capital, and there is a little natural rejection of foreign races.
Rand and his team of costumed knights also followed slowly behind the team, they were wearing demonic costumes, and they walked down the ship in unison, and these costumed warriors also attracted everyone's attention.
The captain of the Emerald only sent us off the airship and left on his own with a group of crews, without the slightest intention of getting close to Noahtau.
I always felt that Noah's eyes were a little sneaky, and we were just about to walk down the hill along the slope when we saw the three silver magic caravans slowly coming towards us, and the waiters who were waiting outside the caravan also trotted all the way over, and I was stunned and curtsied at Noah.
Then, three silver magic caravans stopped beside us one after another, the doors were opened from the inside, and several maids stood holding on to the carriage door, looking at Noah in surprise, and one of the handmaidens with a delicate face said to Noah with a puzzled face, "Noah, where are you going?
"Forehead......" Noah's face was slightly red, he patted his forehead helplessly, 'hehe' smiled, and said with an embarrassed expression while hugging my shoulders: "Oh, why did you come to pick me up, didn't you say you didn't have to pick it up?"
Apparently, the maid looked dazed, and her face was clearly written: 'When did you say that?'
"Okay, okay, let's get in the car, it's so late, if we don't go back, I'm afraid we'll miss dinner time." With that, Noah pulled me into the silver magic caravan.
It dawned on me that I had forgotten that the Mensa family was the number one family in the province of Palestina.
Sitting in the carriage, I really felt the luxury of these two magic caravans, the floor was covered with a thick velvet carpet, and as soon as I entered the carriage, the maid at the door of the carriage half-squatted down and helped Noah and me take off our boots and put them on the shoe rack beside them.
The furniture inside the carriage is made of expensive Taylor wood, which exudes a faint soothing scent. Noah and I sat down on the soft sofa, the leather sofa was not as warm as I thought, but a cool breath from the leather, which made people feel very comfortable.
Ying Li and Shirley Newman then walked in, Shirley Newman looked at the decoration in the car, and couldn't help but smack her tongue slightly, seeing that Shirley Newman was more knowledgeable than me, and knew that the decorations inside were some valuable things.
Noah beckoned Ying Li and Shirley to sit in the right seats, and Caterina and Helena, Becky, and Shirley's personal maids were on the side seats of the carriage, but despite this, the carriage was still very spacious.
The maid took out fine fruit and pastries, as well as some mulled wine and juice, from the cupboard and placed them on the square table in the center of the carriage.
At this time, the magic caravan began to move slowly, the carriage was unusually stable, and the juice in the cup was only slightly shaking.
I put my head next to the window and looked behind me.
Noah patted me on the arm and said to me, "Don't worry, the Rand Knight will take care of your orc followers." ”
Then Noah asked the maid, "Is the Duke in the manor?"
The maid said respectfully, "The Duke went out with the knights a month ago, and he has not yet returned. ”
"Oh!" Noah seemed to breathe a sigh of relief.
"Madame, she is still waiting for you in the manor for a sumptuous dinner. Then the maid said again.
Shirley Newman's body visibly shook slightly, and it looked like she was a little too nervous.
Ying Li behaved calmly, probably in her eyes, seeing a duchess was nothing.
She leaned forward, picked up a glass of orange juice, and held the cup in front of me, and I reached out to take it with joy, but was glared at by Ying Li, dodged my outstretched hand, and said something that made me desperate: "Add ice!"
The ice clink to the bottom of the glass, and then the mixed bubbles float up and float on the juice, and Ying Li handed the juice to Shirley Newman, who looked a little nervous, and told her that a cold drink would relieve the tension.
After all, this is Shirley Newman's first visit to the Mansa Duke's Palace, and it is inevitable to be nervous about facing Noah's mother, the Duchess of Mensa.
The carriage drove slowly along the mountain road, leaving behind the pedestrians along the mountain road, and the sound of horses' hooves was crisp and pleasant, accompanied by some warm sea breeze, and I suddenly felt that it was really good to be a powerful person.
I said to Noah, "In the future, I must have a magnificent silver magic caravan like this." ”
Noah leaned back on the sofa and smiled, saying, "What kind of ideal is this, as long as you want, I can give it to you at any time." ”
I looked at Noah seriously and said, "That's yours too, I mean I'm going to have one that belongs to me in the future, and I'll have it." ”
"Uh-huh! I believe you, you can even beat William, what else is impossible. As he spoke, Noah glanced at Ying Li.
As the carriage passed through the market, the sky slowly darkened, and Ilinas was a mountain town built on the hills, and every street had a gentle slope, and when I walked up the stone street to the halfway up the mountain, I saw a red sun sinking into the sea, and only a tiny red line remained, and the sky was dyed red by the setting sun, and on the sparkling sea, several sea ships were sailing into the dock little by little.
The city of Illinas was much bigger than what I had seen on the airship, which only seemed to be a mountain town built around a mountain, and it seemed to be no different from the city of Eyre, but when I was in it, I realized that the city was really big, and every long street seemed to have no end.
Although the carriage with the coat of arms of the Mensa family was already moving fast on the street, and the scenery on the left and right sides of the street passed by quickly, it was still a long way from the Duke's Palace on the top of the hill.
The magic caravan passed through a street market, the street was full of fishy smell, the stalls of small vendors were full of all kinds of salted fish and scallops, and of course there were some fish shops selling fresh fish, but towards the end of the day, there was not much fresh fish left in these stalls, and I was a little disappointed not to see the colorful fresh sea fish that I was looking forward to.
Still, I made a sneaky note of a few restaurants along the way, thinking that tomorrow if I had time, I would make time to try the seafood of this seaside city, and I don't think the restaurateur here would buy a shrimp for 37 copper plates.
Noah's Duke's Mansion is just below the giant statue at the top of the mountain city, and the Duke's Palace occupies the entire mountaintop...... 2k reading web