Chapter 37: Heading North to the Papal Hill
"Rush Rush!!"
"Pikapi, keep up!"
"Hahaha!!"
"Sheep riding is fun!"
Romney stood on the small platform in front of the magic experiment RV, watching Grace Emma ride on the body of the six-legged golden-backed sheep, happily sprinting on the grassland, followed by Pikapi, and couldn't help but smile on his face.
The surrounding guards were happy when they saw their prince, and they were also in a good mood.
Grace Emma's personality is really pure and straightforward, and in addition to being grinning, she is also as happy as a child.
The group had just come out of a small country called Motogo and entered the territory of the northern steppes.
At this time, it was less than 12,000 miles away from the sacred mountain where the Holy See on the mainland was located, that is, about 6,000 kilometers.
If you go faster, you may be able to reach the Holy Mountain in a month and a half.
If you walk slowly, for example, if you have to let Grace Emma sprint with a pickup everywhere, then the time may drag on to three months, or more than half a year.
The schedule was tight, but Romney didn't want to bother Grace Emma.
He has been in this world for sixteen years, and now it has been almost seventeen.
No one had ever revealed his temperament so bluntly to him, and he liked Grace Emma's personality very much.
Although he is occasionally a little stronger, Grace Emma, who is very aggressive, still has times of tenderness.
For example, being coquettish, such as feeding Pikapi, such as finding a soft mattress, such as liking to sleep with a warm Romney.
None of this is something that Romney has rarely felt.
In other words, what kind of warmth did the two lives feel this time.
So Romney cherishes and loves Grace Emma, the private princess.
In addition to being a fellow earthling, he also knows the commonality of the protagonist's mystery and the secret of the system, and Grace Emma's own personality and nature really moved Romney.
This is something that women of this era do not have.
Noble ladies, that kind of twitter, little pavilion girl, Romney doesn't hate, but it is Grace Emma's character that impresses him more.
He hopes that the people around him are honest and don't have so many thoughts.
Grace Emma, who fell from the sky, just met this standard.
Sure enough, the one sent by the crossing is good!
Romney smiled even more happily.
Grace Emma is having fun, and Picapi is having fun.
The group walked and stopped, occasionally barbecued, beat the poor steppe wolves passing by, and chased the steppe eagles flying in the sky, and the days passed quickly.
During their month on the steppe, Romney's party passed through six tribes.
These tribes were fixed points of nomadic settlement, under the unified jurisdiction of the Holy See, and were responsible for herding sheep, horses, and cattle.
In addition to a small part of the income from the animal husbandry industry of these tribes, most of them need to be paid tribute to the Holy See, which will distribute it uniformly.
Therefore, part of the economic resources of the Holy See come from these livestock industries.
In addition to animal husbandry, donations of faith received by the Holy See, taxes and agricultural income from some territories, as well as weddings, funerals, healing and saving people, constitute all the economic resources of the Holy See.
Although the words are vulgar, in fact, it is in these areas that Romney has studied the income of the Holy See.
Plantation, animal husbandry, wedding witnessing, baptism, faith donations, death prayers, and divine healing are all the external commercial activities of the Holy See.
In this magical world, the level of technology and economy is not high.
Therefore, even the Holy See, which has faith ruling the entire continent, has a source of income that is very basic.
In Romney's view, the Holy See can do more.
However, due to the background of the times, people's cognitive level, and the communication and transportation restrictions of this world, many things can be thought about, but they cannot be done.
For example, magic communication costs one inferior magic crystal.
According to the calculation that an inferior magic crystal can be exchanged for one hundred gold coins, one gold coin can be exchanged for one hundred silver coins, and the living needs of an ordinary imperial commoner for a month are thirty silver coins.
A single magical communication is worth 10,000 silver coins, which is enough for more than 300 people to live for a month.
The price is actually very high.
And not to mention the traffic.
Romney travels to and from the Holy Mountain once, and if you don't use the teleportation once, it will cost a high-grade magic crystal teleportation array, and it will take half a year to a year just to travel back and forth by relying on chariots and horses.
One Superior Crystal is exchanged for one hundred Medium Crystals, and one Medium Crystal is exchanged for one hundred Inferior Crystals.
The cost of one transmission is higher than the cost of one communication!
And it's a single person who is teleporting.
The inconvenience of transportation can be imagined.
Therefore, generally speaking, the civilians in the Holy Continent, or in the Alec Empire, will basically never leave their birthplace for the rest of their lives.
One is that it is difficult to travel, and the other is naturally to go to other places, and it is difficult to make a living.
Jobs in each territory are prioritized for their own people.
Outsiders are basically classified as homeless.
If there is no recommendation from the nobles, if you want to obtain a new status of a lord, you can only become a contract worker of a noble landlord and work for ten years to obtain a new status of a lord.
For various reasons, there are few tourists on the main road.
Except for those bards and adventurers, those who can travel are basically nobles.
Like many tourists in the town of Shining Gold before, they were basically from all over the territory of the Alec Empire, and came to take a look at the nobles of one of the small vaults of the empire.
These people are here for tourism, and the other is to see if they can cooperate with Shanjin Town to open a mine and get a share of the mining pie.
Like Romney and the others, they passed through dozens of small countries at once, almost penetrating the Holy Continent from south to north.
is rare.
It can even be said that if Romney was not a son of the Holy See, not a prince of the Alecian Empire, and without the reputation of that miracle god, his journey would not have been so smooth.
Not to mention the customs clearance documents of dozens of small countries, let's just say that the bandits and robbers lurking on the road are a huge threat.
But fortunately, Romney is a prince and a son.
All the ghosts along the way, seeing the blue golden lion flag, and a red dragon head flag belonging to Romney next to the flag, knew that it was Romney's chariot.
Knowing this, they will avoid it.
After all, no one wants to compete with an iron plate, let alone a diamond plate.
Smooth and happy.
Romney and the others finally came to the grassland town at the foot of the holy mountain.
In this only small town on the grassland, Romney and the others could see the majestic sacred mountain in the distance as soon as they looked up.
The tip of the mountain reaches straight into the sky, and people can only see the majesty of the mountainside.
If you look at it from afar, you will know that the highest mountain in the world is the vast and surging mountain here.
The desire to look at it and see it from the highest place.
Let everyone who comes to Prairie Town have a special feeling for the holy mountain.
It is the insignificance of man himself, the great reverence in the face of nature.
It is also the reverence of the Holy See for the faiths of the whole continent.
Therefore, many people who sincerely believe, starting from the grassland town, will kneel down and bow three times, and move forward with five bodies on the ground.
But most people will not do this, they will just get off the car and dismount, walk in person, step by step, foot by foot to the holy mountain.