Chapter 41: Gibro and the Floating City (2-in-1)
After a near-death experience, Bryant and Madeleine suddenly became friends.
And that night, Kobe Bryant also organized his own subordinates and passengers, and Madeleine organized her own people to have a grand party together on the Titan.
The troubadours played moving music in the evening, some hot and enthusiastic girls showed off their talents and young bodies in the evening, and those who did not like noisy environments stayed on the sidelines, quietly watching the small snowflakes falling from the dark sky.
Snowflakes fall on the boat and then melt into water droplets.
The party was lively, but the people who were watching them didn't say much from beginning to end.
Although there were many people who looked at the three beautiful women of Macaria, Christana, and Lux, none of them dared to step forward.
Seeing the beautiful woman wants to spring, but the snow in the sky and the scene they witnessed during the day make them quickly calm down.
……
After the day of the attack, the Titan entered the Frozen Isles a few days later.
The Frozen Isles are located to the west of the Central Continent, and these islands covered in snow and ice all year round have no inhabitants except for a few hardy monsters and races.
Thankfully, the Titan was sailing an old route, bypassing the permafrost in the Frozen Isles.
In the permafrost area, only sleds can travel through it, not a large passenger ship like the Titan.
At this time, it can be regarded as entering the territorial scope of the Central Continent.
However, it will take a long time to get to the port you want to call.
After arriving at the port of Gibro, it would take at least half a year to go around the capital of the Bal Tulasi Empire if he did not take the route of mankind.
And if you turn back into a blue dragon and take an almost straight route, you can compress this time to more than a month.
It's just that on this straight route, there are dangerous areas.
The first of these is through a section of the Permafrost, which is filled with monsters and behemoths that love to roam the ice fields.
However, if you advance as a blue dragon, ordinary monsters and beasts will not dare to approach you.
It's just that in such an environment, it is easier to encounter frost giants or white dragons and silver dragons.
And only these will pose a certain threat to themselves.
As the Titan continued to advance towards the port of Gibro, the environment began to slowly change.
The increasingly cold weather has caused thin layers of ice to begin to appear on the sea level, making the endless blue sea level change slightly and less monotonous.
"Once you enter the port of Gibro, the rest of the route is more dangerous. Many people who travel far for the first time don't know that if they like to look at the snow and ice during their journey, but don't know that the ice and snow reflect the sunlight, it is easy to develop snow blindness. ”
Bryant, dressed in thick clothes, accosted Blue, who was standing against the railing of the ship.
At this time, Blue's clothes were exactly the same as when they first set off, without adding or subtracting, as if the cold weather did not exist.
"It was miserable, I had to write it down." Blue didn't have any feelings for the captain, he didn't like or hated it, he just thought he was a passer-by.
Seeing Blue's answer, Kobe Bryant was a little excited, and he wanted to continue chatting, adding a little goodwill to the other party's impression, so as to hug the thigh of the creditor's brother.
But before he could speak, Blue looked at him with dangerous eyes and said, "Even if you come to me, I will never go to my sister and ask for forgiveness of your debts." ”
"Your Excellency, you misunderstood...... Kobe Bryant couldn't help but smile bitterly, he took off his captain's hat, and said, "I can't afford not to pay back the money I owe to Mistress Krisanna...... So this boat is the last one I've ever taken. ”
"One last trip?" Blue looked at him a little strangely.
"Yes, yes."
Looking at Blue's puzzled eyes, Kobe probably guessed his thoughts, and quickly shook his head and said, "No, my lord, you misunderstood." This ship is not my ship, I am just the captain appointed by the Chamber of Commerce. If I'm going to work with Madeleine, then of course I can't go on this passenger ship. ”
Only then did Blue come to his senses, and he smiled and said half-truthfully, "Oh, I thought you were going back to land to move bricks and pay back." ”
"Haha, my lord, you are joking, you can't make hundreds of tons of pearls by moving bricks."
Blue smiled, the other party didn't know how to move bricks, and it was really a chicken-and-duck conversation when they talked.
Kobe Bryant threw the hat in his hand, and his face was a little sentimental: "Speaking of which, I have been working on this route for thirty-two years, from the first day I was excited to go on board as a sailor to the point where I couldn't sleep all night, and now I am so familiar that I can basically determine my position when I look at the stars in the sky." Suddenly leaving, still a little nostalgic. ”
"That's not a reason for you not to pay back on time."
“…… Your Excellency, you and Mistress Krishanna are really brother and sister, please put 10,000 hearts. Some of my subordinates heard that I was quitting and were ready to quit with me. When we get the formalities done, we will form a chamber of commerce. ”
As Kobe Bryant spoke, the sentimentality in his eyes gradually disappeared, and he began to turn into anticipation for the future: "First rent her a few beautiful 'girls', well, small drays and small merchant ships, and then cooperate with Madeleine...... With the help of the blue-scaled mermaid, I will soon be able to earn enough money for the little girl's redemption......"
"This is a big opportunity, I have never heard of merfolk willing to cooperate with humans before, we are the only one. If we do a good job, the money we hand over every year is really small, and we may be able to become a new big chamber of commerce! ”
"Oh, that's great, but you have to be careful...... My sister's contract with you doesn't have an expiration date...... You don't know when you're going to hand it in. ”
“…… My lord, this ...... That doesn't make sense, does it? ”
"I don't know why you're willing to sign it, but like you said, isn't this a good way to maintain your long-term relationship with the merfolk?"
"That's just as well." Kobe Bryant shook his head with a wry smile.
In the subsequent conversations, Blue mostly replied with the standard triple "yes, ah, oh".
Soon let Kobe Bryant understand that if he is here again, maybe the other party's feelings about him will quickly become a "nasty person".
Interesting, he casually made an excuse and left.
Orianna looked at her Shadow Book in the cabin, her thirst for magical powers and knowledge growing as she grew older.
Krisanna, on the other hand, was more direct, sleeping directly in her own bed.
Makaria held the map in hand all day long, thinking about what supplies she needed to replenish on the way and what she might encounter.
Only Blue was on deck every day to dry his scales.
Eight days flew by, and the Titan's arrival at the port of Gibro was a little worse than expected, but it was still within the normal range.
Due to its connection to the western continent and its geographical location, the Port of Gibro is one of the most famous commercial ports in the entire Central Continent.
What can be compared to it are all commercial ports that connect the eastern continent, the southern continent, and the northern continent respectively.
In fact, these continents are all called by the people inside their own continent, and in the mouths of the people of the central continent, as long as they do not belong to the central continent, all of them are "from the countryside" and "from other continents", and they do not care at all.
Regional discrimination is extremely real, but as the largest continent, with a glorious history, and at the same time the core continent of economic, cultural, and extraordinary power, the central continent does have its own proud capital.
When disembarking, most of the people on board look at everything new in front of them with curiosity and restraint.
Merchants, dock workers, innkeepers who come to woo business, people who come to pick up friends and family, and even representatives of mercenary groups and adventure groups sell themselves here.
I can't believe it's just the wee hours of the morning!
It was still three o'clock in the morning when the Titan arrived, but when it passed through the "encirclement", completed the travel procedures, and walked out of the port after registration, it was already more than three hours later.
Not wanting to attract attention, Blue and the others pulled up the hood of the cloak they were wearing.
After walking out of the port, some of the people who came out of the boat together, and those who came out before Blue's group, looked at them eagerly.
For these life-saving benefactors, the legendary powerhouses, they are very grateful in their hearts, and even worship them like gods.
"My lord, what a ...... Thank you so much. ”
"See you soon, my lord!"
"My relatives are in Sahas City, Mistress Krishanna, there are many great weapon forging masters there, if you want an axe, you can come to me, they will be more than happy to craft weapons for a strong man like you!"
More than a hundred people shouted together, attracting the people around them to look at them with curious eyes.
If it weren't for the fact that more than half of the people were still stuck at the checkpoint out of the port, the scene might have been even more shocking.
Blue thought of the old saying "a hundred years of repairing the same boat", seeing each other is fate, there are not many troublesome things along the way, and there is no one to harass them, which is relatively pleasant.
As a tradition of the Chinese people, Blue still turned around and waved his hand to them in a friendly manner, saying goodbye.
Between the immortals and humans, there will hardly be another chance to meet.
Macaria, Christana, and Oriana, who had no such tradition, looked at Bru curiously.
With a permanent population of nearly 700,000 and twice as many migrants, the port of Gibro is not crowded enough to describe the bustle of this port city.
And the amount of goods handled every day is enough to support the hundreds of thousands of people who work here, and the grandeur of it is unimaginable if you don't see it in person.
In a short passage through the port, Blue met various races such as elves, halflings, dwarves, and half-elves.
If you compare it to the old city of Charles, it is not even a small street in Gibro.
After leaving the port, although Blue was the highest ranking person in the team, as the only man, he still took the initiative to deal with outsiders.
A coachman and a medium-sized carriage were hired on the side of the road, and after letting the four women into the carriage, Blue went to the front of the carriage and sat with the groom.
Of course, he wasn't worried that this guy would drag him to some black shop, in fact, he didn't plan to stay here at all, and he was just going to leave the city.
It's just that before going out of the city, I don't want to stay in the carriage so boring, and I can still see the scenery on both sides outside.
The carriage was driven by an old man who looked to be in his fifties, and at first he wanted to talk to the guests, but when Blue did not reply, he quickly shut up with amusement.
Horse-drawn carriages turn from the street entrance of the port and dock to the inner city, and the roads are wet and smelly of salty because of the many large wagons carrying seafood passing by on the side of the road.
Most of the shops on both sides are mainly seafood purchases, and there are occasionally a few restaurants.
After about half an hour of running, the situation improved slightly.
At this time, the shops on both sides of the area gradually turned into various exchanges, with raw materials such as logs, ores, and furs, as well as gems, art, furniture, weapons, and armor.
After a while, according to the driver, almost once we reached the center of the city, the flow of people became denser.
Blue really felt the pain of "traffic jam" again in this world.
The wide road could accommodate ten carriages at the same time, but this was not possible, and only three carriages could pass through the carriage lanes on the left and right sides, except for the pedestrian passages.
The carriage passed slowly in three columns, and Blue believed that Oriana and Macaria had never seen so many people in their lives.
As for Krishanna, she probably only thinks that humans are really pathetic and pitiful for such flightless insects.
Blue estimates that it will take at least more than an hour to get through this section.
In the center, the surrounding buildings are even more majestic, and those who have the ability to open a representative office or garrison location here are all well-known chambers of commerce, adventure guilds, and professional centers in the entire Central Continent.
One of the most striking is a huge upside-down mountain floating in mid-air.
Because of the angle, only the base of the stone can be seen below, which is about a conical shape with a diameter of more than 3,000 meters.
The surface of the entire upside-down mountain looks unremarkable, and in fact, from any angle, it is impossible to see what the building on it is.
From the side, most of the buildings on the top of the mountain are mainly minarets, and there are no big buildings.
This is the most valuable "building" in the whole city, and at first glance, you can tell that it is the mysterious mage territory - Floating City.
Seeing that Blue was staring at the floating city in the sky, the carriage driver couldn't help but say proudly: "It's amazing, this is a legendary mage, the floating city built by Serdikov for Gibro City is also the pride of the city!" ”
"Oh? That's amazing. ”
"Of course, only those magical spells can create this god-like miracle."
Blue didn't speak, for a mortal, being able to lift such a large mountain into the air was indeed like a miracle.
Known as the ultimate romance of the mage, a private garden in the sky, a dynasty floating in the sky.