Let's look back to that morning.

Wei and his party finally came to the "Soul Gate", one of the five major gates of Thales, the pure white city.

"It's finally here!" Lijie couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

Wei, who had already removed his mask, gave his girlfriend a look. Lijie immediately stopped talking. In Wei's view, her lingua franca has a distinctly Okadian accent, which might cause trouble in today's French powers.

"Melia. What does it feel like to revisit the old place? Sorry, please. Of the three, only Melia was barely an Elrios. To fool the guards of the Elios, of course, it is better to let the Elrios come forward.

"I've only been here twice, too." Melia shook her head. She wore a white headscarf to hide her blue hair. Strictly speaking, the trio is a "covert operation", and the Elrios must not be allowed to reveal their true identities.

It turns out that compared to the imperial capital "Phoenix" and the federal capital "Fusha City", the management of the pure white city is still very loose.

"Let's go inside."

The guards at the city gate only let the three of them into the city after a brief inquiry, and they didn't even use the identification documents that Wei had forged in advance. In fact...... Had it not been for an attack in the city a year ago orchestrated by a rebellious mage, the Pure White City would not have even had such a minimal inspection.

This is a free city for mages! Through the height of the white city wall, the spire of the "Blue Sea Twenty-Eight Towers" is faintly visible. In the Cloud Continent, there was no city that could attract so many Blue Sea-level mages to build mage towers.

The hexagonal city of the "Pure White City" is bordered by an endless sea of clouds on one side and a city gate on each of the other five sides. Wei and his entourage deliberately chose the northernmost and most deserted "Soul Gate" to enter the city.

"Look, that huge black dragon." Li Jie looked back at the dragon lying on the city wall, exuding endless dragon might, and couldn't help but marvel. The inspection at the city gate was useless, and her hanging heart was relaxed. According to the French state, this old dragon is alive...... He was imprisoned here forever by the "Time Seal" method by the Elrios back then, in order to show the supreme authority of the legal state.

Just looking at the abyssal eyes of the black dragon, Li Jie felt trembling from the bottom of her heart. Fortunately, the experience of the three people is quite extraordinary, and for the first time, ordinary people saw the dragon "guarding" the city gate for the French state, and many of them were so frightened that they sat directly on the ground.

"The five city gates, the red dragon of the Honor Gate, the blue dragon of the Virtue Gate, the green dragon of the Wisdom Gate, and the white dragon of the Time Gate...... Coupled with the black dragon of this soul gate," Wei also sighed, "The five dragon kings of the year were all caught here by Erios. ”

"I don't think you know this well." Lijie said happily.

Melia on the side pouted. Last night, when Li Jie slept the most soundly, Wei's room next to the hotel was still bright...... I'm afraid that in order to be a good "tour guide" for Lijie today, Wei temporarily crammed to read at night.

But Melia didn't debunk that.

"Do you see the line of aphorisms inscribed by Elrios on the city gates? This is also the proud work of the old mage. "Wei's interest was excellent.

"'Believe nothing, save your soul'?" Lijie recalled.

"Yes." Wei nodded.

Even if I'm a complete soulless, Wei Xiang, I have to admit that it makes a lot of sense.

"It's very mage-like. I, as for me, choose to trust in my armor and sword. "Lijie showed her true military qualities.

"There are five gates, and on each gate there is a motto written by Erios himself. Do you know what is written on the 'Wisdom Gate'? ”

"How would I know?" Lijie said dissatisfied.

"'The only way for civilization to triumph over barbarism is to become more barbaric than barbarism'. That's how it was written, Lijie. ”

"Uh......" Lijie didn't expect that the famous Mr. Erios would say such "unreasonable" things.

"And the 'Gate of Virtue,'" Wei said, "which reads, 'The good fall in peace, and the evil live forever in struggle.'" The white-robed mages of Elrios claim to be the embodiment of order and righteousness, but Elrios himself may not have thought so. ”

In the propaganda of the French state, Erios's phrase was interpreted as "born in sorrow, died in peace". As for whether Elrios himself meant that in the first place...... Who knows.

"'The glory of the bloodline will perish, but only the power of wisdom will endure,' is the most famous of Elrios' five aphorisms," Wei lamented, "but alas, Elrios himself said it very well and did it badly." He left the kingdom in the hope that his descendants would be passed on for generations to come, but the bloodline was quickly severed, and instead the mages who inherited his wisdom took over the country in the name of the kingdom of law. ”

Wei, who felt that it was not good to blindly praise Elrios, began to talk about his black material.

"But there are five maxims, and one last sentence." Melia whispered.

"What?" Lijie rarely became interested in this kind of thing.

"'As soon as you forget humility, history begins to smile maliciously,'" Melia remembered the words of her father, Mr. Palamedes, "Elrios, is not it always a reminder to keep yourself humble, but in the face of the feats of the five dragons kneeling and the white city standing...... History really played a big joke on him. ”

Wei and Lijie were silent.

"That's what my father taught me when I was a child," Melia shook her head, "and he wasn't the same in the end, I ......"

The Black Lord Palamedes was so notorious back then that until the Black Floating City made peace with the French State, Melia did not admit that she was his daughter.

"Don't talk about that." Noticing that Melia's expression was different, Lijie said, "You've long since cut ties with him, haven't you?" ”

"Hmm."

"You're here, that's enough." Lijie said.

When she learns that Melia's father is the legendary Lord of the Black, Lijie is shocked at first, and then she becomes angry.

You are a legendary mage, a generation of heroes, you are beaten by the whole world and dare not take your head, just let your own daughter go, let her be born and die on the battlefield, what's the matter?

But it's also fortunate that the Lord of the Black doesn't care...... only to earn an excellent lieutenant general.

Lijie understands that Melia's talent makes it difficult for her to be a great fighter.

But in Lijie's heart, no one is a "born" warrior, whether it is good luck or resourcefulness, Melia can survive in all kinds of dangers and complete all tasks faithfully, which is enough to prove her excellence.

No matter how much suffering she carried, this beautiful and gentle girl always walked her path with perseverance. Didn't she earn the trust of most deployments at a young age? Didn't she rely on her own hard work to finally win the recognition of her colleagues?

In addition to her extraordinary charisma and incredible luck, Melia has the ability to earn the respect of others through her own efforts. Martial arts and military strategy can be improved through diligent study and hard work and accumulation of experience, but the advantages in character are almost impossible to cultivate.

In Lijie's opinion, this alone is enough for Melia to become a good general.

But Wei had a different idea in his heart.

"Melia is better suited to a civilian position than to stay in the army," he thought, "and even if she can't become a saint, she should be under the watchful eye of the spellcasters." Well, when that's over, I'll talk to the Speaker. ”

……

Along the towering pure white city walls, the three of them browsed around the pure white city and found an inn to rest.

The most magnificent natural scenery of the pure white city, "Sword River Fog", is a magnificent scene where you can stand on the city wall or a tower with a view, and enjoy the water gradually turning into a mist similar to the sea of clouds when the Sword River is about to merge into the sea of clouds. At the time of the change of seasons, the position of the "Sword River Mist" will also change, and the clouds and mist will rise, which is spectacular. But now it is mid-spring, and the situation of "Sword River Turning Fog" is relatively ordinary.

Lizzie couldn't see the difference between the Sword River flowing into the sea and Okad's river flowing into the sea.

In addition, the most well-known of the pure white city are the "Twenty-Eight Towers" and the "Solidar College Main School District". It's just that these two places are heavily guarded, and the identity of Wei San's Okad visitors is quite sensitive, just in case Wei doesn't plan to visit.

There were only a variety of shops that the two girls wanted to visit.

They're soldiers—but before that, they're girls, too, right?

As for and John? Goth's work in contact ......

I heard that he opened a small shop in the second school district of Solidar College in the suburbs. Maybe he should investigate on his own first, and then look at the situation, and then decide whether Lijie and Melia want to appear.

……

A little later.

in the hotel.

The hostess of the inn was very welcoming. Wei gave her a tip of a silver coin and sent her away. Like yesterday, the two girls shared a room, while Wei lived next door.

"We're ...... now," Wei began. It's time to arrange them separately......

He stopped suddenly.

In the distance, a thunderous sound was heard. There was an exclamation in the hallway: the maid who was in charge of serving tea and water was accidentally startled by this majestic voice, and smashed the plate in her hand.

People looked up in bewilderment. What is that?

Wei and the other three looked at each other. The owner of that voice, they are all too familiar......

"Your Excellency." The three of them invariably remembered the falcon-like face of Speaker Nicholas.

"It's a war." Lijie muttered to herself.