Chapter 24: Liminosi
Vivien walked briskly, picked up the fruit on the ground, wiped it with her skirt, and handed it to Roy.
Roy stretched out his hand to take it, this is the most essential part of the leaf-tailed lion's body, as a plant-based magical beast, the leaf-tailed lion will store the energy essence in his body in a young branch on his forehead, and as the energy gathered more and more, it will grow a red fruit containing a lot of energy of the leaf-tailed lion.
Once encountering a crisis situation, the leaf-tailed lion will selectively take the initiative to break away from the fruit, and the detached fruit will emit attractive energy fluctuations to attract the attention of the attacker, and the vines wrapped in the outer layer of the leaf-tailed lion will actively fall off, making its body smaller and easier to escape.
The fruit is very useful in refining potions because it preserves the energy essence of the leaf-tailed lion, and the fruit of the leaf-tailed lion is often seen in the recipes of some special recovery potions, and most of them use red fruits.
With the different time of energy accumulation in the fruit, the color of the fruit of the leaf-tailed lion fruit also changes over time, the fruit is white in one year, the color will change from light yellow to dark orange in the following years, and the fruit will turn red in more than ten years, and the longer the time, the higher the purity of the red, and the outer peel will become harder.
Roy had once seen a hundred-year-old leaf-tailed lion fruit in the auction house, the skin had turned into a hard shell as transparent as a ruby, and a large amount of liquid essence flowed inside, which was extremely beautiful.
The leaf-tailed lion fruit in his hand, warm as jade to the touch, bright red in color, should be a short time after ten years, sniffed on it carefully, a fragrance drilled into Roy's nose, and the cool feeling poured into his lungs from top to bottom, and even his spirit was uplifted.
Nagia looked at the leaf-tailed lion fruit in Roy's hand with some greed, although this leaf-tailed lion was beaten away by her, but she is now a guard, and theoretically everything she hit belongs to the employer, and she has no right to take it.
Roy glanced at Nagia, saw that she was a little greedy, and did not say anything, pretending not to see it, and let Lelia receive a brocade box, although he wanted to make friends with Naguia, but he did not rush to deliver something.
Let the two coachmen clean up the traces of the battle, it is already summer, and the air is not so dry, but Nagia used the fireball technique just now, and it would not be good if a little spark caused a fire.
The butter-grilled mushrooms in the lunch are indeed very delicious, and the high-class and rich aroma is unforgettable, and the taste in the mouth is not far from the aroma, and I don't know what kind of delicious mushrooms are that Shiratori mushrooms, which are nicknamed the nobility of mushrooms.
After eating, the bonfire was extinguished with earth, and the group continued to walk forward, and in the afternoon, the tall city walls could already be seen in the distance.
Coming out of the forest, to get to the city wall of Liminosi, you need to cross a bridge, this bridge is built above a rift, the rift is not high, but the two ends of the valley wall are as if they were split by an axe, extremely steep, the bottom of the rift is the turbulent Marthas River, a large amount of river water from the upstream squeezed into this rift, the speed of the flow is even faster, until out of this rift, outside the valley divided into three rivers and one lake around the plain behind Liminosi, nourishing the nearby creatures, so this river is known as the mother river of Liminosi.
As the carriage went, more and more people came out of the forest and joined the procession back to the city, mostly women and children, carrying a basket full of mushrooms, which had grown very fast in Liminosi two days after a heavy rain.
Roy also saw two young men on horseback, dressed very richly, with one or two wild animals hanging from their horses, probably the noble young master of Liminosi who had gone out on a safari.
After crossing the bridge and walking a little further, Roy and the others reached the bottom of the walls of Liminosi.
The whole of Liminosi was surrounded by a huge wall, the wall of the soldiers' patrol was fifteen meters high, not counting the taller arrow towers and watchtowers, and there were guards standing on the walls every dozen paces, and the huge Eloseins swallow-tailed flag fluttered in the middle of the wall, and on the right hand side was a small royal flag.
The walls are made of gray-black rock mixed with a special adhesive and are extremely strong. Magic crystals are also buried in certain places, which act as nodes that can raise huge defensive enchantments when attacked by magic.
As far as Roy knows, when Liminosi was founded, the founding king, Philip Levin Ellu, buried a large number of mana crystals under the city walls, and regularly asked the Royal Mage Corps to charge the mana crystals to keep the energy abundant, which is said to have become a tradition of the Royal Mage Corps now.
The gates on the city walls were built so large that they could even pass through some large siege engines or catapults, and only half of the gates were opened for people to walk.
Two rows of armoured soldiers stood on either side of the road with spears taller than a man, and some mischievous children poked at their armor, but they did not move, like wooden men.
The carriage passed through the city wall, and the noisy sound was endless, and there were many stalls on both sides of the road, and most of the near the city wall were the houses of some large merchants who collected mushrooms and some forest goods, followed by small merchants, and then slowly turned into some stalls selling vegetables and households, and thanks to Darlings, it was spontaneously organized into a prosperous street.
Because of the large crowds on the street, Roy's carriage was slow, and according to Mani, he had a caravan under his command and set up a shop in the eastern city of Liminosi to do business, and asked Crane to ride a horse to deliver a letter first, and the group slowly drove there.
The whole of Liminosi is divided into four districts by two main roads, one vertical and one horizontal, the east city is the residence of the nobles, the builder has a large number of multi-storey villas, clean and tidy, the three urban districts of the north, south and west are all civilian areas, but one north city is richer than the two southwest districts because of its proximity to Darlings.
All the towns were divided into small settlements by roads, and this layout was created by the oldest human king, Goodmans, and is still used today.
It wasn't until dark that Roy and his entourage arrived at the store that Mani said, which is a shop specializing in processing gems and jewelry, and the person in charge is a halfling who is only half of Roy's height, and the halfling who is about the same height as the dwarf, is the race most closely related to the human race, except for the difference in height, appearance, habits, etc., and often sees the figure of halfling in some large cities,
This halfling man named Maggs, seeing Roy's arrival, hurriedly bowed and saluted, saying, "Welcome Young Master Roy, dinner and hot water are ready, please enter." ”
Roy nodded, motioned for Maggs to lead the way, and followed him inside.