Chapter 156: Wezeland Floating City
Two days later.
Wren stood on the deck and looked ahead, the river was getting wider and wider, the rushing water was becoming a little muddy, and along both sides of the river was a large plain with no end in sight, houses were gradually dense, and large areas of fertile farmland were planted with all kinds of crops.
On the distant horizon, a sprawling city looms in the midday sun.
"Modu has arrived. ”
Wren's mood was a little complicated, with a little apprehension.
Once you enter the world's most prosperous trading capital, you will usher in an unknowable fate.
The two ladies beside him, hearing his words, Pensil nodded, and Osiria glanced at him without speaking.
After two days on the steamer, Wren probably figured out the temperament of this dragon mage, on the surface a little indifferent, rejecting people and thousands of miles away, and a little arrogant, in fact, she was interested in many things, full of curiosity about the unknown.
Most of the time, she will be in the perspective of an observer, like a silent spectator.
Beneath the seemingly silent exterior, I enjoy the drama in front of me with great interest, and my inner activities are actually very active.
Now, for example, Wren could sense that Osilia should be muttering something to herself with this simple exclamation.
"It's a pity that I can't read minds, otherwise I can listen to what she thinks. ”
Wren thought with regret.
After a few moments, the ship got closer and closer to the city, and the tall buildings became more and more visible in the view, forming a unique skyline.
Although their height is far less than that of the high-rise buildings in the previous life, and their appearance is relatively simple and not bright and bright, it still makes Wren feel that they are really too similar.
From afar, it feels like you've returned to a modern metropolis.
However, the city also has a scenery that was unattainable in previous lives, and above the center of the city, a behemoth is suspended above the clouds, and it can be seen from hundreds of miles away.
"Wezeland Floating City!"
Wren was in good spirits, and since he crossed over, he had heard about the story of the Floating City in people's mouths or in books. In the eyes of the Imperial People, the status of the Floating City is too important, it means too much, and countless people yearn for it.
It wasn't until today that he finally saw a floating city.
Open the Eye of the Soul, maximize your vision, and take in the entire Floating City. At first glance, the entire floating city is an irregular cone, as if the top of a mountain has been cut off, and then the top is turned upside down, and the city is built on the truncated plane.
In fact, this is how the earliest floating cities were built.
The world's first floating city, Master Ogulwe's Nesser Floating City, was to cut off the entire mountain peak with a spell and then let it fly into the sky.
But that's not the case with the Wezeland Floating City.
Wren has read the relevant information, when the Wezeland Floating City was first established, people first built the city on the ground, and then arranged a huge rune circle underground, installed the core of Ysera, and provided power, uprooting the entire city and slowly levitating into the sky.
This method of building a floating city will eventually leave a huge hole in the ground.
The two methods have their own advantages and disadvantages, and they just represent the two factions of spell-casting concepts, so they are called the Nether City Building Method and the Mordu City Building Law respectively.
The floating city that Duke Silver Star intends to build chooses is the method of the Mordu faction.
Wren thought as he observed the floating city.
As the ship gets closer to the city, the floating city becomes more visible in the eyes. The Soul Eye has the function of ranging, and it is very accurate to observe that its maximum diameter is close to four kilometers, and roughly calculated, the urban area is about ten square kilometers.
In this city in the sky, there are tall towers.
In the center, a purple spire reaches into the sky, the tower is slender, more than 500 meters high, the spire is like a small sun, radiating dazzling light outward at all times.
This light was the purest form of magical energy, forming a faint layer of huge force field, like a huge bubble, protecting the entire floating city, like a dream.
Wren was amazed.
It is said that this protective force field is a protective spell up to ten rings, and once it is fully operational, there is no power in the world that can break it unless the true body of the god comes.
He counted them, and beyond the minaret in the middle, there were as many as thirteen tall towers.
That's at least thirteen legendary wizards!
On the periphery of the Floating City, there is a smaller, smaller Floating City, less than a tenth of the size of Wezeland, and a wizard tower on it, which acts like a satellite and slowly circles around Wezeland.
"It's spectacular!"
Wren sighed in his heart.
This kind of supernatural power is unimaginable on Earth in the previous life.
When the ship sailed to the mouth of the Nakhumer River, the cityscape of Modu was fully displayed before his eyes, but Wren did not have the heart to admire it.
He looked up and saw that Wezeland was nearly five kilometers above the ground, like a huge shadow hanging overhead, obscuring the sky and the sun, giving people great pressure.
The steamer was near the mouth of the river and turned into the El Hierro River.
The river is busy with boats, and after a few kilometers of sailing, it finally arrives at a passenger terminal after sailing up the river upstream, with the city of Modu on both sides.
The ship was moored to the ship's berth, and Wren withdrew his gaze from looking up at the floating city, scanning around.
Located on the west bank of the El Hierro River, the pier is the old town of Mordo and the most densely populated area, with more than seventy percent of the citizens living on this tens of square kilometers of land, and the flat and wide streets are full of traffic as far as the eye can see.
On the other side of the river was the domain of the Earl of Glamorgan.
"Get off the boat. ”
At Wren's order, the rear hatch of the ship opened, and the twenty silver-clad knights, under the tie of Bardmont, mounted the silver-scaled horses, ready to go.
The five wizards of the Secret Fire Guard also summoned their own Demon Leopard Mounts.
Wren himself sat in the back seat of a car.
Next to him, Osiria, who had been blessed with the three-ring invisibility technique, sat in a dignified posture, keeping a certain distance from him.
The car got off the steamer and drove onto the road at the pier.
The knights in silver were divided into two teams, one to clear the road in front and one to protect the car, moving at the same speed as the car.
The two knights at the front, holding the flag representing the Earl of Glamorgan.
The bright red stripe of flags embroidered with the golden symbol of the warhammer and the crescent moon fluttering in the wind is eye-catching.
The horses' hooves stomped on the ground, making a neat and heavy rumble.
Such a formation immediately attracted the attention of the people on the dock, the workers stopped working, and the guests on other ships also stopped to watch, with a look of surprise in their eyes.
"Which nobleman is this?"
"I don't know," someone shook their heads and replied, "The family crest looks strange, I haven't seen it before." ”
"Silver Knight!"
A well-informed transcendent exclaimed, "They are the Silver Knights, from the Dukedom of Longshande, the legion of the Duke of Silverstar. ”
"What are the Silver Knight doing in Modu?" someone asked curiously.
"Of course, it's to protect Earl Glamorgan, tsk, this earl is so bold that he really dares to come to Modu, is it too long?" said the well-informed onlookers gloating.
"When will there be another Earl of Glamorgan?"
"You don't know this, just a while ago, ......"
Wren, who was sitting in the car, heard the conversation of people through the voice of all things, and was immediately a little surprised, even civilians knew the inside story.
The knight in silver arched around the car and made his way down the road.
The carriages and cars encountered along the way all avoided one after another, and the passengers in the carriage cast complicated glances at Ren's car, some were surprised, some were curious, and some showed disgust on their faces.
Pedestrians on the side of the road whispered a few curses after the cars and silver knights passed, and some even spat in the direction of the cars.
"The citizens of Modu don't seem to welcome me. ”
Wren said with a smile.
The invisible Osilia was silent for a few seconds, and replied lightly: "The Mordu people are the most xenophobic in the empire, this is just the beginning, you will see it later." ”
Wren nodded, not responding.
He spread out a map of Modu in his field of vision, and according to the plan, the first thing he did after arriving in Modu was to enter the floating city of Wezeland.
Floating City is one of the safest places to be.
There are two ways to get to the Floating City, one is the teleportation arrays scattered all over the ground city, which arrive instantaneously and require a large teleportation fee.
The other is to take an airship, which is slower but cheaper, and is generally used to transport large quantities of goods and bulky items, such as mounts, cars, and so on.
There are two airship landing fields in the city of Morto, the one closest to the pier is in the busiest location in the west of the city, and the other is in the county of Glamorgan, near the sea, more than twenty miles away.
Wren's destination is the airship landing field west of the city.
However, not far from the docks, the car was still moving down the street, and the will for truth in his mind lit up slightly, as if sensing danger.
Wren's face changed, and he said quickly: "Protective arrows!"
He didn't know this spell, but knowing that Osiria next to him would, she reacted extremely quickly, without any hesitation, and instantly sent a "protective arrow".
A bright light fell on Wren and became invisible.
Immediately, the windshield of the car burst, and it seemed to be shot through by something at high speed, and then hit Rennes in the back seat, and the protective arrow took effect, blocking it slightly.
It was a soul gun bullet, the size of a thumb, and the metal bullet was covered in runes.
Protective Arrows are just two-ring spells that block all arrows or bullets that come close at high speed, but they have a defensive ceiling that can be broken in the blink of an eye.
The bullets burst like a bamboo, and a layer of lightning armor appeared on Wren's body.
With a bang, the thorn electric armor was also pierced, and finally hit Wren's eyebrows with precision.
Syllable!
Wren's head tilted back, splashing a spark.
He reached out and pulled out the bullet embedded in his forehead, the wound from the bullet was not deep, only a few millimeters, and the wound began to heal itself before the blood could come out.
Still, Wren was taken aback, and this was the second time he had been shot in the head.
"High Gunslinger!"
He immediately locked on to the enemy's position, pushed the door open, and ran at a rapid pace, like a shadow through the wizard of the Secret Fire Guard, and rushed into a shop on the side of the street, avoiding the gunman's sight.
In the process, the gunman fired another shot, but missed.
The bullet made a crater in the ground.
"Enemy attack!"
It was only at this moment that the knight in silver reacted, and Mombad shouted loudly and grabbed the silver-scaled horse, raised his large shield, and turned around to see that Wren was no longer in the car, and immediately asked the knights to find cover.
The five wizards of the Secret Fire Guard stretched out their shields one after another and looked around, trying to find the location of the gunman.
Pansil flashed and also entered the store where Wren was hiding.
However, she didn't find Wren in the store, only a few panicked customers, looking at her inexplicably.
"Where has he gone?"