Chapter 223: The City
The warm waters of the Neverwinter River flow into the bay of Sword, but even though the waters of the bay are extremely cold, the warm wind blowing from the direction of the river can still be felt on the boats entering the estuary, taking away the chill from the sailors and passengers.
The dedicated guards on the docks guard their respective posts, and Neverwinter has thousands of guards, but these are not all the power of the Nasir family, and the current Nasir Lord is actually the leader of the rebuilding of Neverwinter.
He had ruled the city for nearly two hundred years without most people noticing, and it looked like he would continue to rule, not only rebuilding the 'Nine Guards of Winter', but also having an army of nearly 20,000 men, and although most of this army was scattered throughout Neverwinter's territory, no commander dared not respond to the call of the city lord.
The white lighthouse on the cliff is tall and eye-catching, desperately directing the dock personnel who come and go to the port without touching the ground, the sound of beautiful music wafting in the wind, everything is planned in order on the clean dock, just seeing here, hearing the sound of order in the chaos, any first-time visitor can feel the charm of Neverwinter.
"Compared to here, even [Esmirtaran] feels like a rural place." Slowly leaning towards the Black Raven on the dock, Shepard sighed with emotion as he propped up the boat gang.
The others behind him were shocked and speechless, just like the residents who had been in poor mountain villages all their lives in their previous lives arrived in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou for the first time, and ordinary people who had been to the county seat at most in their lives could not imagine that kind of prosperity.
After all, Krell Gard had been here before, so in addition to the calm Shepard, he was counted as the fastest to come back to his senses, and the long sea journey made him much older than when he first set off, but at this time he was full of energy, his eyes were bright, and he looked at Shepard with some excitement and said: "Lord Earl, this place is many times more prosperous than when I came, and I don't know how many times it is prosperous!" ”
"yes...... It's more prosperous than when I came. Shepard shrugged slightly, not knowing what to say, he was in the middle of the expansion when he was in Winterfell, the bustling city was almost blown into ruins by the game officials who forcibly opened it, and then the players protested frantically to stop those guys from 'playing' the players' feelings, and later when the reconstruction mission started, he had already moved to the vicinity of the Tesel Kingdom.
"It's been a long time," Shepard said with deep emotion, not counting the time of the previous life, but in this life, he has been in this world for six or seven years.
The people beside him naturally couldn't hear the true feelings in the earl's words, and Shepard looked back at everyone: "Come with me to visit the City Lord, and then ask the City Lord's Mansion to rent a place for us to live, it must be much more comfortable to live here than Deep Water City." ”
Jaxi Anral on the side also answered: "What the Earl said is right! We have a close relationship with Waterdeep, and most of our imports and exports go through the chambers of commerce and merchants of Waterdeep, and the true rich and noble in Waterdeep are proud to own property in Neverwinter! Although their property is mainly in Waterdeep, Neverwinter is actually where they live and settle down. ”
"You don't have to worry about living there, since the lord's army destroyed two of the three largest orc tribes in the vicinity twelve years ago, the city lord has built a satellite city connected by a city wall in the south of the city, and gathered the nobles and merchants in the city to invest, and planned to build a large number of villas and mansions there, which are specially sold to those wealthy people who want to settle down, most of which are the property of the city lord, and the arrival of such a distinguished customer as Lord Prell will presumably be happy to arrange a place for you to stay."
Shepard glanced at Jaxie and said appreciatively, "Baron Anral, I think I understand why you were able to survive under the pirates. ”
Jaxie smiled awkwardly, his expression a little proud, and at this time, there were several heavy thunderous sounds faintly floating in the distance, and everyone turned their heads to look over, but they could only see the tall and strong city wall in the distance.
Seeing everyone's expressions, Jaxsi Anlar didn't care, "It seems that the guards on the city wall are bombarding those green skins." ”
"Bombardment? Greenskins? Eleanor, who was following Shepard's side, didn't look very good, and Drow asked in her less proficient lingua franca.
Jacques Xi glanced at this woman who was wearing a black robe to block her whole body every day, her tall figure and exquisite figure made him often envy the Count of Prell's glamorous fortune, although he was curious about the true face of this woman under the black robe, but he didn't dare to think about an earl's woman, and if he really saw Eleanor's appearance, I am afraid that he would be paralyzed to the ground in fright, although Drow is not common, but the notoriety of the dark elves is widely spread in all the surrounding city-states and kingdoms because of the [Supreme Forest].
He looked at Shepard, bowed his head and said respectfully: "It is a city defense weapon that the city lord bought from the alchemists, using gunpowder and gem powder to deliver an amazingly powerful blow, it is said that it was invented by the gnomes and improved by human alchemists, but because it is too heavy and expensive, Neverwinter City can only be installed on the side that will be attacked by orcs." ”
"As for the greenskins, they are orcs, these guys have an amazing fertility rate, fortunately, after the destruction of the two large tribes twelve years ago, although the number of greenskins is large, it is scattered, that is, hundreds of people will come to attack Neverwinter City if it is nothing, fortunately, they are too organized, and they will flee in panic when they hit two cannons, some druids say that greenskins are nature's condemnation, which is simply nonsense, [Winterless Forest] has not been cut down by many people for hundreds of years, and we have not destroyed the natural ecology, what is the punishment? Punish us for letting flowers bloom all over the city? ”
"But fortunately, those greenskins are going to fight among themselves when everything is fine, so the number is not high, if it weren't for this, I'm afraid they could eat all the animals and plants near Winterfell, it would be terrible."
Jacques talked eloquently, perhaps because of his arrival in Winterfell, he was obviously much more talkative and relaxed, but he was eloquent, telling the whole of Neverwinter to strange visitors, not only clearly and clearly, but occasionally mixed with a few jokes or humor, which also made the listener smile.
With Jaxie coming forward and showing his personal token to the administrators of the dock, the corresponding procedures were naturally simplified a lot, and the rest of the things were arranged by the captain and others, so it didn't take long for Shepard and the others to get into the carriage that Yakxi had found from nearby, and several carriages were connected in a line before and after, and the wheels rolled on the smooth road, and they went to the city lord's mansion without hurrying.