Chapter 206: The Port
Baron Kreel, who is like a merchant more than a nobleman, gestured slightly to his feudal lord, and said with a smile: "My lord, your expectations will not be disappointed, the Gate of Baldur has been standing next to the Bay of Swords for hundreds of years, although it has long been impossible to find its original appearance, but the landscapes you mentioned are still there, I once followed the fleet once, because of the destruction of a tsunami twenty years ago, the dock area was rebuilt, but after the reconstruction, it is more prosperous and magnificent, and Askatra and Esmirtalan cannot compare with it, It was a magnificent city with more than half a million inhabitants! ”
Shepard was amazed, he didn't know what to say, because the Baldur's Gate in the game is made of data, it can accommodate millions of players to live in it at the same time, and the real world naturally does not have the anti-heavenly capacity of the game, but the real Baldur's Gate will inevitably have a charm that the game does not have.
"What you said makes me a little impatient." Shepard laughed.
Krell saluted, laughed and told the sailors to spread their sails and go full speed.
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Baldur's Gate, located in the middle of the shores of the Bay of Sword.
This is where legends begin, where epics are born, where legends often tell, where adventurers brag, and where bards never miss important scenes in their nonsense stories.
Under the clear sky, huge shadows slowly flew through the air, and the steampunk-style shape and the curious shape showed that this was probably the work of a gnome, and that only this unreliable but extremely intelligent technological race could create such a thing.
"Oh my God, what is that?!"
The sailors of the merchant ships slowly approaching the harbor let out a burst of exclamations of surprise from the huge airships that flew in the air, and the cries of surprise even reached the nearby ships, causing many people who had been waiting at the docks to let out a mocking laugh at the countrymen.
"Go, work for Lao Tzu, don't be ashamed here." The captain scolded a few times, sent the sailors over, approached Shepard and the others and asked, "My lords, what is this?" ”
The nobles on the ship were all gathered together at this moment, and Krell smiled when he heard this: "This is an airship...... The flying machine built by the gnomes not only carries a lot of capacity, but can also move at a speed similar to that of a galloping horse, and those gnomes have an unknown number of explosive devices installed on it, even the dragon does not dare to attack it easily, but the cost is also very expensive, such an airship is enough to bankrupt a king! ”
"Wow......" A group of rural nobles exclaimed in unison, although many of them had been adventurers, but the kind of adventurers who ran around the continent were very few after all, and the vast majority of adventurers' activities were only near familiar kingdoms or city-states, and unless they received extremely well-paid tasks, they would rarely cross those dangerous wilderness to other places.
Shepard smiled silently, and Krell secretly glanced at him, seeing that the Earl's smile was faintly disapproving, and he was a little unsure whether this Lord had been here or not.
The merchant ship shook slightly, and it was already leaning on the dock, and the dock tax officer of Baldur's Gate immediately came over, and naturally someone would deal with these things, Shepard stood on the edge of the ship and looked at the city in the distance.
Judging from the area of the dock area alone, whether it is the Golden Port of the New World as the first landing point of the expeditionary force, or the Ascalla that has been developed in the south for many years, it is not as good as the port of Baldur's Gate in front of you, large and small ships waiting to enter the port or unload are piled up in the field of vision, the unloading machines made by the gnomes are expensive and cumbersome, and only very few people use them, and most of the ships still have to rely on manpower to handle them, which is also the livelihood of those dock porters.
The shouts of different accents were incessant, and the voices of others could not be heard a few paces away, and the smell of fish and sea was mixed together, and except for the laborers, slaves, and lowly servants, the nobles and their well-dressed servants all frowned and hurried away.
Shepard inhaled the fishy smell in the air, remembering the treated smell in the game, he couldn't help laughing, the gap between reality and fantasy is nothing more than this, although Baldur's Gate is also a famous and prosperous port on the mainland, but it can't escape the constraints of the times.
In the distance, two walls plunge into the sea on the left and right of the pier, not only enclosing the dock area, but also extending backwards, and the brick and boulder walls divide the entire area of the city, only making a bend at the end of the sight, separating the inside and outside of this magnificent city.
The tall portal is in sight, this is the origin of the name of the city, and it is also one of the most striking landmarks, Shepard's gaze panned away, and the tops of several familiar buildings came into view, and a smile naturally appeared on his mouth, and the divine power light that lingered on the top of the temple was extremely eye-catching in his eyes, and he didn't need to look at the eye-catching emblem or exaggerated relief, he could see at a glance which god the temple belonged to.
The green dragon walked up to him, looked at the outer city in the distance, and said loudly, "Boss, there are so many temples of good gods?" Do you think I'm going to be besieged by those disgusting paladins when I go in......"
This guy is a five-colored dragon, born to be in the evil camp, and the green dragon is not a good thing in the first place, although now Tobi is much more honest under Shepard, but if he encounters those jealous and hateful holy warriors, in case anyone loses his hand to detect evil, then he can only draw his sword and meet each other.
Shepard looked at him indifferently: "As long as you don't shout that there is a green dragon here, don't dangle in front of those holy warriors, there are more than 400,000 different intelligent races in the Baldur Gate, and they don't have the time and energy to come to you one by one." ”
The green dragon smiled and said, "Boss, then I'll ......"
"Go ahead, remember when we left, if anything happens and we leave early, I guess nothing will happen to you." Shepard waved his hand generously, and naturally saw that the green dragon was too embarrassed to stay on the boat and wanted to go out for a walk.
Takulalk made a clear gesture and stepped off the boat, Shepard looked back, except for Krell and a few others who were busy and couldn't get out, everyone else was also looking at him expectantly, he shrugged his shoulders: "You watch me do something, you know the time, move freely!" ”
Several knights and barons looked at each other and smiled, and took their own followers and walked off the ship, seeing that the people were almost gone, Shepard threw a money bag to Edward, who was still guarding him, this young swordsman who was unearthed in the collapse of the tower of the onlookers watching the green dragon was very loyal, although he was envious of those people who could get off the ship, he still stayed on the boat silently, but his eyes showed a look of envy.
Shepard patted him on the shoulder: "You can also go down and take a walk, take this bag of money and spend it, pay attention to safety, don't go to those dark alleys, beware of the children and women who bump into it......" casually pointed out the common sense of some adventurers in his own guard, and sent him to go shopping.
"But...... My lord, what about your safety? Edward hesitated.
Shepard didn't care: "I still need your protection?" I'm going to see some old friends myself, are you an eyesore next to you? Roll it, get it. ”
Edward was scolded by the split, but he didn't care, and was happily thrown off the ship.
Seeing that his subordinates were almost dispatched, Shepard didn't say goodbye to the captain and Krell and others who were still busy, and just walked off the merchant ship directly.