Chapter 87: Marianne's Travel Diary (1)
Chapter 87
Marianne Travel Diary.
The fifty-sixth day of the harvest season.
Today I came to the Kingdom of Winter Mountain, which is a place that many travelers do not recommend to visit, because it is a perennial war.
Marianne carried her battered-looking bag to the city of Endor, the king of the Winter Mountain Kingdom.
She hadn't had any contact with human society for almost three months, and now she desperately needed to replenish some supplies of clothing or consumables.
When she looked at her large map and saw that the nearest city was Endor, she was hesitant to come here.
Because as she wrote in her diary, the city of Endor is one of the least recommended cities in the world for outsiders.
Because the perennial war has made the city very unstable, even the children of the nobility are likely to be forced to conscript to participate in the war, and a traveler like her who loves to travel is like a rootless duckweed, if she is at war, she has a high chance of being forcibly conscripted as a soldier when she appears in Endor City.
But now Marianne had no choice.
Because she can't even find anything to eat now.
To the north of the Kingdom of Winter Hill was a never-ending stretch of mountains, in which Marianne lived for three months.
Originally, Marianne thought that eating in the mountains must be okay.
However, the mountains in the north of the Winter Mountain Kingdom are covered with snow all year round, and it is difficult for even plants to survive there, not to mention animals.
It would be impossible for an average person to venture into such mountains, let alone for three months.
In the past three months, Marianne has eaten almost everything she can eat, and she has not even let go of her own leather belt, which is still a magic treasure she once found from a ruin, and if you talk about the price, it can be worth at least a hundred gold coins, but at that time, Marianne had no choice, so that a valuable magic treasure became food in her stomach.
Now Marianne dragged her somewhat weak body to the city of Endor.
She no longer has the stamina to go to the next city that may be safer to replenish supplies.
"Outsiders?" The soldiers at the gates of Endor were looking up and down the Marianne.
"Traveler." Marianne replied with a little weakness.
"Well, let's go inside." The soldiers casually sent Marianne into the city as soon as possible, not to interfere with his time.
"You ...... Don't you check it out? Marianne was surprised.
Logically speaking, the more war-torn a country is, the more vigilant their kings should be.
She had heard from some old-timers in the past that when they went to Endor City, they even had to take off their clothes and take all their luggage and belongings with them before they were released.
"Check? We don't have that much time, we have to hurry up to the game hall when our shift is over, you can go quickly, you don't look like a threat like this, and there is a security detector in the back. The guards were a little impatient and sent Marianne away quickly.
Hurry up to the arcade? What is that place? Could it be a new church built by some order?
She knows that there are places where people worship the church very much, and it may even be more important than their lives, and going to church to pray at the end of each day is the happiest thing for those people.
Looking at the soldier's eagerness, it was clear that he should be almost at the end of his shift, so the inspection of the people entering the city was relatively loose.
Drip.
"Alright, no problem, let's go in."
Marianne slowly walked past what looked like a doorframe, and then a blue light flashed on the doorframe, and the guard who was sitting in a seat next to the doorframe opened her mouth for Marianne to leave.
"What is this?" Marianne had a keen sense that this jamb must be extraordinary.
The guard said casually: "This is the security detector, I have to explain it to you outsiders at least a hundred times a day, hurry up and go, don't delay other people's time." ”
Security scanner? By the way, the guard at the entrance just now also said the name of this thing.
Mary was relieved to have more doubts.
Something appeared in this city of Endor that she didn't understand.
"Wait, sir, you have a magic staff in your bag, please accept our inspection and put the staff in the designated box, you are not allowed to use it in the city without permission and in danger of your own life."
A man with a suitcase behind Marianne was stunned for a moment, and there seemed to be a little disbelief in his expression.
"Please cooperate with the work, and quickly take out the short cane to be examined by us." Again, the soldier emphasized.
The man with the suitcase opened his bag with some reluctance.
"Wait, it's not in your bag, you don't have a cane in your bag, it's in your boots." The soldier watched the man's performance with a mocking expression while pointing to the man's boots.
The man's movements stiffened, and there was something in his bag that looked like a short staff, but it didn't actually have any magic fluctuations, it was just a disguise, and he carried it with him to fool the guards here.
But what he didn't expect was that before he could perform, the other party would directly dismantle all his disguises.
The man took off his boots with some dejection, and slowly pulled his short staff from the fur of the boots.
Suddenly, the man opened his mouth to utter a spell, and it seemed that he was not an ordinary civilian, but a threatening enemy.
But the man wanted to shout the spell, but found that he could no longer speak anyway, and not only him, but everyone in the area suddenly found themselves unable to speak.
"Catch him."
The guards quickly rushed up and tied the man with a magic prop with a magic rope on top of it, and then snatched the short staff from the man's hand, leaving the man without any ability to resist.
The man fought hard, but a mage was no match for these strong soldiers without the help of staff and spells.
"Okay, okay, let's all disperse, all the people who go in had better be honest, this is our Endor City, the greatest royal capital of the Winter Mountain Kingdom!"
Marianne watched the scene with her mouth wide open.
The scene wasn't particularly impactful, but it was very memorable for Marianne.
The man with the scepter must have been a magician.
But the magician didn't even make a decent resistance and was restrained by a group of ordinary guards, which was almost impossible.
Marianne Travel Diary.
Today I came to the city of Endor, and I saw something that I would never have imagined......
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