Chapter 123: The Navi Royal Capital

Before Lin Xian entered the secret realm, one of the training courses focused on Nasri, the capital of the Navi Kingdom!

There are more than a dozen countries in the entire Scandinavian continent, but there are only four of the strongest! These four great powers are the Kingdom of Navi, the Duchy of Morun, the Kingdom of Tania, and the Duchy of Kulen!

The Kingdom of Navi is the most powerful country in Scandandan militarily, and is an ally of the Principality of Morun, which is also one of the four great powers! And the Kingdom of Tania is an island country, located on the three large islands in the east of the Scann continent, and the military strength at sea is the most powerful! Ally yourself with the Principality of Kulen, one of the Four Great Powers, against the Kingdom of Navi and the Principality of Morun!

The remaining dozen or so small countries have also attached themselves to these two camps, forming two major military blocs! There was both confrontation and cooperation between the two camps, and a peculiar balance was formed in times of war.

And Nasri is the capital of the Kingdom of Navi and the only metropolis with a population of one million on the continent! There is another metropolis with a population of more than one million, the capital of the Kingdom of Tania, Karen City, but it is located on the four islands of Tania and is not part of the Scanned continent.

As the cultural and economic center of the mainland, Nasri is a thousand-year-old city with many places of interest and historical sites, as well as a thriving business and culture! Even the headquarters of the Adventurer's Guild and the main shrine of the place where the High Priest of the Temple is stationed are located here.

The passenger boat slowly approached the boardwalk, located on the outskirts of Nasri, a long way from the city center, but the city was so narrow that ships from outside the city were not allowed to move forward.

The outskirts of Nasri are unwalled, and from the passenger ship dock, there is a cargo ship wharf with spacious warehouses built everywhere. Workers push carts in and out, pushing the goods that have just been unloaded into the warehouse, loading them into ox carts and pulling them away a little distance.

Ore and timber from the Kundes Mountains, beef and mutton from the hills, cloth and grain from the plains were all piled on top of the crowded docks.

In front of the road is the residential area, and near the periphery of the warehouse is the poorest place. The simple bungalows, where the dock workers lived, were only slightly better off than the slums, with narrow streets with no planned drainage, and often cross-flowing sewage and muddy, dirty puddles.

Looking from this pier, it does not have the style of the capital of a country or a metropolis with a population of one million, but is full of market life!

As if sensing Lin Xian's doubts, Paris hurriedly said to him: "This is the suburb of Nasri, and it is inhabited by manual laborers, poor landless peasants, or people from other places who come to look for opportunities. The real Nasri needs to be inside the inner city to see it! ”

Paris was right, as the crowd passed through the huge inner city gatehouse in a hired carriage, a completely different Nasri appeared in front of everyone!

When you enter the inner city of Nasri, the first thing everyone notices is the tall buildings! The buildings on both sides of the street are very tall, and it is rare to see buildings below two stories from horse-drawn carriages. The tall, pointed roofs are a common feature of these buildings, like magical towers reaching into the sky.

Then there is the neat and spacious street, this street facing the city gate can drive ten horse-drawn carriages side by side, paved with huge stone slabs and cleaned very clean, here and the suburbs are completely different worlds, the drainage facilities are buried deep under the street, not to mention the muddy sewage, not even a trace of fruit peel debris can be seen!

The streets are lined with shops of all kinds, and all kinds of luxurious signs, most of which are carved in copper. There is also a wooden signboard of lacquerware, and the light of the paint brush on it is recognizable! There was even a shop with a huge porcelain vase one size tall in front of the shop, exactly like the one in the collection of Baron Sobeth's mansion!

At the end of this street is a huge square, the ground is paved with granite polished stone slabs, which has a solemn pale yellow! There are twelve marble statues of gods about five or six meters high around the surroundings, which are the twelve main gods of the Aesir god clan!

The bustling flow of people in and out of the magnificent religious building facing the square is the main shrine!

The main shrine is composed of three tall buildings in the shape of a zigzag, and the high spires are all more than sixty or seventy meters, as if three huge spears are pointing straight to the sky! These three buildings are all built with the same huge granite as the ground of the square, and under the dazzling sunlight, they exude a faint golden yellow light, which is extremely solemn and sacred, as if the heavenly kingdom of God has descended on earth!

The procession soon turned into a narrow road, and the magnificent and sacred square and the main shrine could no longer be seen, except for the three spires still pointing to the sky!

It is said that it is a narrow road, but in fact, it can also pass four carriages side by side, which is wider than most of the roads that Lin Xian saw after entering the secret realm, but it is a little cramped against the backdrop of the tall buildings on both sides of the street!

"The main temple was built before Ragnarok, when the temple was at its peak! Granite is not produced near Nasri at all, and in order to present this sacred yellow color, materials can only be transported from the depths of the distant Kundes Mountains, and countless people throughout the continent and Tania have died in transit for these huge stones! I always thought that the main shrine was not yellow but red, because every piece of building material was stained with the blood of humans and other living beings......"

Paris's sudden emotion made Lin Xian feel a little caught off guard! The miser who wants money and the philosopher with a sad face are a little too big for this special style of painting......

After leaving Shenhui Avenue (the avenue that was heading towards the main shrine), the carriage turned several more forks in the road and finally stopped in front of a hotel.

The hotel looks unremarkable on the outside, with a grey façade that looks a little old, but according to Paris, it's been in business for more than a thousand years! One of the most famous hotels in Nasri, there are simply no rooms available unless booked in advance!

The hotel was built just after the end of the Warring States period and when the Kingdom of Navi had just established itself as the first power on the continent. The interior still retains the style of the decoration of the time! From the brocade embroidered curtains, to the gorgeous and intricate gilded chandeliers, to the gold-inlaid mural wall decorations, it perfectly shows the strong national strength and thriving vitality of the Navi Kingdom at that time! Now, of course, it seems a little bit more nouveau riche......

In fact, the adventurers sent Lady Sandra and little Sobers here, and the mission was completed. But the remaining half of the remuneration has not yet been settled, so I can only follow. By the way, Lin Xian still has a temporary teacher's remuneration of 1,000 gold coins, which also needs to be settled at the same time.

Soon Lady Sandra sent a maid to invite a few adventurers over, and seeing Paris's eyes glowing with gold and her saliva seemed to be about to flow out, Lin Xian couldn't help but laugh secretly.

……

"Thank you very much for your efforts along the way, this is the remaining half of the remuneration......" As soon as the adventurer entered the reception room of the hotel suite, Mrs. Sandra said straight to the point. And handed over a bill of exchange of 1,500 gold coins, Lin Xian found that there was actually the mark of the Adventurer's Guild on it.

Lady Sandra then handed Lin Xian another one and said again, "This is for you." Thank you very much for teaching Edward, he has grown a lot ...... than before."

Of course there is growth! A "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" contains war, diplomacy, and conspiracy in a magnificent and interesting story...... I think that when I was in the Qing Dynasty, I built an empire just by relying on this book!

Paris looked at it curiously, and suddenly said loudly in surprise: "You earned a thousand gold coins in ten days just by telling stories?" I think you have a better future as a troubadour than as an adventurer......"

Lin Xian glanced at Paris angrily, and suddenly stretched out his hand in front of her......

"What?" Paris asked with a blank look on her face.

"You can't forget, do you? The reward for this escort mission, and my 400 gold coins! "Half of the remuneration paid by Lady Sandra in advance was withheld by Paris on the pretext that she was the captain of the adventurers and that the money order was not easy to change. Lin Xian hasn't even seen a copper yet!

"You just got a thousand gold coins, and you asked me for four hundred gold coins! You're too greedy...... "Paris said dissatisfied.

Okay! Just begging for wages has become insatiable in her mouth! This is really not a developer......

Monday was so busy that I almost forgot to update......

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