Chapter 124: Hidden Dangers
Valolet sold a large pile of glass bottles, and in exchange for the money he bought a whole wolf carcass brought by a hunter and hired five wagons to go to the imperial capital.
After eating and drinking, Valolet and Angela and the children got into the carriage and went around the rocky road to the city gates.
The city gate has been crowded into a long line.
With a small trick, he quickly exited the city gate through a special passage and left the city that seemed to be extremely chaotic at the moment.
Outside the car window, the scenery on both sides receded to the rear, and the children scrambled to lie on the window, watching all this with novelty.
In the past, the sight of the ground covered in snow was unappealing to them, as the hail had broken and the branches were covered with ice on the branches.
But when you get in the carriage, everything is different.
Although the carriage swayed up and down so much, they felt very uncomfortable before riding in the carriage, but this leisurely feeling, this comfort of not having to walk without having to walk against the cold wind, this feeling of being able to observe the surrounding scenery in a leisurely manner, was so good.
This may be the feeling of happiness!
Of course, this feeling would be better if there was no homework assigned by Angela.
Boring learning is a happy thing for perverted scholars.
But for ordinary people, it is a very torture.
The children studied hard, but Valolet could not stand the atmosphere and got out of the carriage and sat on the wheels.
Angela, on the other hand, took out the crystal ball and observed the revenge actions of the four veterans, and she manipulated the four veterans, so that she could grasp the location of the four veterans at any time and observe them in real time.
Angela especially likes this feeling, because it gives her the illusion that she is behind everything and that she is behind everything, and this feeling is addictive.
The four veterans were very professional, and they quickly mastered the position of Baron Chakse.
Of course, this is also related to the fact that the city is small enough, and all the foreign population is arranged in the south of the city, and the Marquis of Chaxie is rich enough.
As a great nobleman who has lived abroad, the Marquis of Chakxi has a background that cannot be underestimated, so far, he still maintains the style of a great nobleman.
And this kind of style, in a group of refugees, is so conspicuous that as long as you have the heart, you can find it quickly.
Moreover, the four veterans soon discovered that there were so many opportunities to assassinate the Marquis of Chaxie.
The city of Elok was originally a satellite city of the imperial capital, so it played a number of roles, one of which was to protect the imperial capital.
Refugees are a source of unrest wherever they go, especially in the Dark Ages, and the devil knows what is hidden in the refugees, so it is up to Elok to sift through them.
If you want to go to the imperial capital, you can, but whether you can get in when the time comes, it's a problem.
The population of the imperial capital can naturally enter, and if the foreign population is concerned, they need a pass issued by the satellite cities of the imperial capital.
Angela, on the other hand, is special.
First of all, Valolet is a population of the imperial capital, and he himself has a certain number of places to bring people in.
Secondly, Angela's identity on the face is that of a wizard, a wizard who is very sensible at first glance.
In the end, this group of children are all children who have awakened their talents, future wizards.
And the imperial capital has a special building complex, which is composed of white mage towers hundreds of feet or even nearly a thousand feet high - the White Tower Imperial Wizard Tower.
The scale of these complexes even exceeds that of the imperial palace, and the height of the buildings is also far greater than all other buildings in the entire imperial capital.
If you look down from above, you will come to an astonishing conclusion that the White Pagoda is the center of the entire imperial capital, and the Imperial Palace looks more like the back door of the White Pagoda.
Although nominally, the White Tower is the back door of the Imperial Palace, in fact, the wizard in the White Tower is the Optimus Pillar of the Empire, and the Emperor is just a descendant of one of the several leaders of the White Tower.
Therefore, Angel and his party definitely do not need a pass to pass through the city gate.
However, the Marquis of Chaxie is not Angela, and he cannot guarantee that he will be able to enter the imperial capital only with his wife's maiden family, so in order to be able to guarantee that he can enter the imperial capital, he must obtain a pass.
And in order to get the pass to the imperial capital, the Marquis of Chaxie is now running around, therefore, he frequently appears on the street, especially on the main road of the street, not to mention that there has just experienced a hail here, those dark creatures have taken the opportunity to go around, lawbreakers take advantage of the chaos to rob everywhere, the city guards are frequently dispatched, the city is in a food shortage crisis, a large number of people continue to enter and exit the city gate, and the city is only open in the north of the city, everywhere presents a chaos, suitable for the location and timing of assassination, Not too much.
In the evening, the four veterans who had stepped on the good ground returned to the residence that Angela had forcibly taken, carefully repaired their equipment, and began to plan for tomorrow.
Today, the city is extremely chaotic, and for this reason, both the city guards and the security forces around the Marquis of Chaxie pay special attention to security.
The same is true, there were good opportunities again and again today, but they all held back, and the reason was naturally too variable.
Despite being a murderous profession, they were not professional assassins and could not minimize the impact of this variable, so they changed their strategy.
In charge of the strategy was a veteran named Kashiva, who was 49 years old and not the strongest of the four soldiers.
The reason why he was able to take charge of the strategic planning was entirely because he used to be a knight's deputy.
By the way, the knight was the captain of a hundred-man team.
Therefore, he still has a lot of experience in planning.
After much deliberation, he chose the site of the ambush, which was in the north of the city near the city gate.
"Clever."
Angela applauded as she ate her dinner.
On this day, she watched the whole process, and she also informed the news that the four soldiers had discovered, and naturally knew very well that the place where the Marquis of Chaxie haunted the city this day was also in the center of the city and the south of the city, and as for the north of the city, he had never been there at all.
However, the north of the city was the only way for the Marquis of Maxi.
Because, going out from the north of the city, it is the road to the imperial capital.
And the identity of the Marquis of Chaxie, it is only a matter of time before he gets a pass.
The reason why he hasn't gotten it now is just because he is still in the negotiation stage and wants to pay less price.
And because the refugees were blocked out of the south of the city, the city gate in the south of the city was blocked, and the east and west of the city were also in a semi-blockade state, so most of the people in the city wanted to go out to find food, and most of them passed through the city gate in the west of the city, which caused the roads in the west of the city to be very congested.
And in such an environment, whether it is an assassination or escaping the pursuit after being discovered, it is a very good choice.
The next day, along with the smoother and smoother roads, Angela arrives at the long-awaited Sith Imperial Capital, known as North Murot, the White Wizard Concentration Camp, known as the largest city in Antois, and has spent three dark ages.
If it hadn't been for that, the city would probably have been here to stay.
The first sight of the city is a shock.
Whether it is the city wall more than 150 feet high, the arrow towers, or the 200-foot-wide moat, the stone bridge that crosses the moat with bluestone at the entrance of the city, or the large ball of light that can be seen from afar and emits white light like a second moon in the dark night, or the towering building complex connected with the ball of light with a pillar of light under this large ball of light-White Tower.
These aspects can make people feel a kind of shock from the bottom of their hearts.
This is the pinnacle of white magic, a veritable city of magic.
A hailstorm was completely blocked by a huge barrier, and the city was not affected at all.
The large ball of light above the head emitted a soft white light whenever the weather was a little dim, making it impossible for those ghouls to survive.
Every now and then, a gargoylee flies through the sky, one of the city's guards, patrolling the city and triggering an alarm to trigger the city's defenses as soon as they spot light and dark creatures.
Therefore, the security of this city can be said to be the best on the mainland, but the people in this city also have the most depressing life, but compared to the desolate people in other cities, they seem to be unable to ask for more.
The advent of the Dark Ages caused sorcerers and monks to no longer concentrate on cultivation, but to show their skills, either to deter enemies or to seek benefits.
And this, too, has led to some problems.
For example, the wizards in the White Tower still took back their rights, and the most affected were those nobles, and the biggest nobles, the emperor, were directly reduced to puppets.
Then, there are the citizens of the city.
No matter who they used to be, no matter how they used to live, now, all of them have begun to accept the control of life, and everyone must complete the tasks according to the requirements.
A large number of citizens have directly become workers, working all day long, and there is little spare time.
There are also some who have become farmers under the supervision of ghouls and have begun to work in the fields, growing potatoes outside the city and vegetables inside the city.
In short, the whole city runs like a machine, and everyone becomes a part, without a trace of waste.
Tiredness, numbness, and lack of freedom are the common feelings of the city, from the nobles and emperors to the citizens.
What they can't stand the most is that even some shameful hobbies have been controlled.
First, the constitution is tested, and then the breeding begins.
Yes, that's right, it's breeding.
In the eyes of wizards, they are just picking out high-quality bloodlines to fuse and match, and then selecting some of the best ones to pass on their excellent bloodlines.
And all this is for the future of mankind, for the improvement of the human race, and for the future that will become more and more dangerous in the future.
But in people's eyes, they really took their partners away in a frenzy, and then brought them a lot of cuckolds.
For a time, the whole city was flying with green hats.
And the happiest people in this green hat belt are those nobles.
Whoever made their wives and lovers was chosen by thousands of people, but because of their absurd lives, their wives and lovers were sent to the wizard's tower, leaving the blood of wizards in their bodies......
It's unbearable!
Even if the aristocracy is used to cuckolding each other, they can't bear it.
And Angela was in such a situation when they arrived in the imperial capital.
"It's like, it's like a powder keg!"
After Vaolet's negotiation, Angela revealed herself as a wizard, and they passed through the gates and entered the city, however, at the cost of a few more gargoyles overhead.
Led by a gargoyle, the carriage slowly moved along the wide road.
Hearing Angela's exclamation, Anne, who was sitting on Angela's lap, asked suspiciously: "Teacher, what is a powder keg!" ”
Angela laughs and explains, "It's something that's very easy to explode." ”
"That must be a good thing." Anne likes things that explode or get hot, so she understands Angela's words: "Is the teacher praising the city?" ”
Angela sneered and rubbed Anne's little head.
The corners of Vaolet's mouth twitched, and then she turned her head away, looking at the scene outside, and couldn't help but worry.
The street vendors vanished without a trace, replaced by hurried pedestrians and bands of heavily armed soldiers.
Imperial capital, what's wrong?
After many years of being out of the place, when I came back, I found that I didn't know the city at all.
It's not because the city has changed, but because the people of the city have changed, the frowning brows, the numb expressions, the lowered heads, and the hurried steps have completely replaced the proud smiles, the leisurely demeanor, the high chins, and the relaxed steps.
The people of the imperial capital have become less like the people of the imperial capital, but like alchemy machines.
However, all this looks normal to Angela.
Because, in the past, this is how the city has survived dark times.
The wizards treated people as assembly line workers, let them produce a large number of products, and then through the wizard's apprenticeship, and then a large number of rune equipment appeared, and then the rune equipment equipped the whole army, and an army with luxurious equipment was born.
A ten-man squad, ten sets of armor reinforced with runes, ten rune spears, ten rune swords, ten rune short swords, rune shields, rune arrows, rune bows, incendiary potions, explosive potions......
In short, such a ten-man squad can completely defeat a hundred-man regular army by virtue of its equipment superiority.
And the extravagance of the imperial capital's army is not only that, every hundred people are equipped with one wizard apprentice, one gargoyle, and two alchemical cannons.
For every 1,000 people, there is a battle wizard and a number of apprentices.
And such an army, there are more than 10,000 in the city.
With this power, the city has survived one dark age after another.
However, people are people after all, not machines, so the hidden dangers brought by this are also huge, big enough to subvert the city, but in the past, wizards discovered and forcibly suppressed the hidden dangers in time, but I don't know if they can be so lucky this time.