In the afternoon of the day after Roland sent the letter, he received two replies from the "Item Teleportation Technique". One of the letters was an official letter from Prince Carroll on behalf of Parniabor, and the long diplomatic rhetoric can be summed up in two sentences: welcome cooperation, detailed interviews. The other letter, a private reply from Prince Carroll, was less formal, and the main content was to invite Roland to Parniabor. In addition, Prince Carol also revealed a good news in the second letter - he finally succeeded in breaking through the bottleneck of cultivation that had plagued him for many years, and raised the advanced and extraordinary profession of "Sword Hero" to the highest "Sword Master" realm.

After reading this letter, Roland immediately remembered that when he was in the Star Boundary two years ago, Carol had promised to help him open up the qi pool once he was promoted to Sword Saint, and couldn't help but muttered to himself: "Those words that Uncle Sword Saint said two years ago, I don't know if they still count now?" ”

After some correspondence, Roland finally decided on his journey south, and set off from Colasburg in the early morning of November 8 to Parnia in a military airship. He had two important missions: one was to negotiate with the authorities of Parnia on the construction of the railway, and the other was of course to visit Veronica, a half-vampire princess who had been separated for nearly two years.

Roland boarded the airship at Krasburg at 6 a.m. and arrived over Parniaborg at 7:30 p.m., a journey spanning 2,000 miles, with very different climates and scenery between the north and the south.

Roland stood in front of the porthole of the airship and looked down on the earth, the blue waves of the Coral Sea rippling, the white sails and the magic steamer spewing white mist shuttling back and forth, the distant horizon and the storm ocean, a round of orange sunset half-immersed in the sea, trying to release the last rays of afterglow, dyeing the Golden Horn a crimson.

With a permanent population of 400,000, the royal capital of the South Seas, "Fort Parnia" is like a jewel box displayed on the shores of the Golden Horn, the castle standing on the high ground of the inner city, the Red Stone Palace, is the most beautiful ruby in the jewel box, and the towers of the Cathedral of Vejes radiate a mysterious and dazzling magical light in the dusk wind, opening the mysteries that envelop the city and even the harbor to defend against storms and robbers from the sea.

At the beginning of November, the northland was already full of frost, but the southern coastal areas were still warm as spring. During the voyage, Roland saw vast fields stretching along the coastline, but only a small part of the arable land was used to grow cereals, and the plantations that occupied large tracts of land were mostly filled with olive, mulberry and grapevine trees.

Parnia has a typical temperate maritime climate, and the coastal farmland is blown by the sea breeze and the soil layer is thin, which is not suitable for growing cereals, so the local people are more willing to grow cash crops suitable for the climate and soil environment. Parnia is known to have five major products: Crystal Crystal, Cod, Silk, Wine and Olive Oil.

These five specialties cover the four pillars of the Parnyas: mining, which is dominated by the mining of magic crystals, fisheries, which is dominated by cod fishing, light industry, which is dominated by the processing of olive oil and wine, and silk weaving, and cultivation, which provides raw materials for the food and textile industries.

Roland carefully read the relevant statistics of the Golden Horn area on the airship, the total area of the Parnia Peninsula is about 500,000 square miles, the local population is about 2 million, and the population density is much higher than that of most of the Far East, of which humans account for 60% of the population, half-vampires account for 20%, and humanoid races such as elves, halflings, gnomes, dwarves, and Solo fish-people account for only 10% in total.

It can be seen from the statistics that this is a country dominated by humans and half-vampires, in which the wealth, land and social status occupied by half-vampires are generally higher than that of humans, and it cannot be said that there are no contradictions between the two races, but there is no sharp racial discrimination or violent conflict, which is mainly due to the enlightened concept of the Parnia royal family, which has been advocating that humans and half-vampires enjoy completely equal national rights and obligations for thousands of years, and it is common for royal family members to intermarry with humans, and there are also human figures among the courtiers of the Redstone Palace.

In addition, religious belief is also an important factor in resolving ethnic contradictions. The vast majority of Parnians are followers of Vijes, the "goddess of magic and death", and all races are equal in Lady Ruby's church.

The Independence airship hovered over Fort Parnia, identified by its lights, and then signaled its request to land.

Roland stood in the cockpit, and it was no longer Yelena who was operating the airship, but her original deputy Aldrich. Captain Elena has now risen to the rank of major and is undergoing training at the Krasbourg Military Academy, where she will take over the new type of military airship produced by the Port White Gull Airship, which is said to have a carrying capacity of 400 tons, which is almost twice the size of the "Dawn class"!

"Your Royal Highness, there is a message from the ground tower - 'Welcome to Parnia, please follow the light to guide the landing'." Captain Aldrich translates the light signals from the ground for Roland.

"We are guests, of course the guests are as they please." Roland smiled.

Aldrich nodded, and joined forces with the assistant pilot to control the "Independence" airship to pursue the lighted corridor, slowly approaching the Parnia Lock, passing the identity verification, smoothly passing through the protective shield, flying into the airport along the lights, and landing smoothly on the tarmac.

The airship slowly descended the gangway, and Roland walked out of the cabin accompanied by his entourage, and he couldn't help but be slightly startled by the sight in front of him.

Two rows of honor guards dressed in gorgeous costumes were already waiting on the tarmac, and as soon as Roland was on the road, the welcome song was played, and the scene of drums and horns sounding in unison was terrifying.

The Parnia put on a grand show for His Royal Highness the Prince who had come from afar, and to the majestic music, a middle-aged man in a purple silk satin robe and a silver crown led the court attendants to unfold a scarlet carpet that stretched all the way to the gangway of the airship.

Maximus, the chief eunuch of the Parniaborg court who was in charge of greeting the distinguished guests, was a fat man with a lively spirit, white face and beard, and his plump figure was an outlier in the generally slender and slender half-vampire family, which made him look majestic in front of those little eunuchs and young palace maids, and the palace ladies holding flower baskets beside him immediately raised their hands lightly, sprinkled the newly picked pomegranate petals on the carpet, and paved a corridor with the fragrance of flowers for the distinguished guests who came from afar.

Roland has traveled far and wide over the years, and has been warmly welcomed by the local lords in Kitland, North Bay, Paradise Island, and Beacon Hill, but he has never received such a solemn welcome ceremony as he does today, walking down the gangway and stepping on a tapestry carpet covered with flower petals, and the soft touch under his feet sounds, as if he were stepping on clouds.