Chapter 16: Citizens of the City-State

87_87057 Arriving at the door of the temple, Gunder explained his intention to the guards wearing bronze cuirasses, wearing a bright red cloak, holding a bronze spear and a bronze shield, and wearing a bronze short sword at his waist, and showed his possessions, the guards examined Gunde's burly figure for a moment, finally nodded, and led him into the temple.

The temple was made entirely of megaliths, tall, majestic, and rough, and would be the last bastion of resistance for the Leonis if the city were breached.

Gander followed the guard through the long corridor to the door of a stone chamber, where he said to him, "This is the office of His Excellency Priest Holinger, who manages the property donations. ”

With that, the guards knocked on the thick wooden door.

"Come in." In a low and pleasant voice, the guard pushed open the door, walked in with Gunde, and said to the priest in a wide white robe behind the wooden table: "Lord Holinger, this warrior named Gunder wants to donate to the temple in the hope of becoming a citizen of our Leony. ”

The priest put down the parchment and looked up at Gunt, who was smooth-skinned and ruddy-complexion, but had vicissitudes and wise eyes.

Gunder bowed his head to avoid the other party's gentle but penetrating gaze, bent down and saluted: "Hello Priest Hollinger, this is the property I brought, please take a look." As he spoke, he placed the money bag on the table with both hands.

The priest glanced at the money bag and said, "Since the wartime decree was issued, there are so many people who want to become citizens of this city, and after deliberation, the Council of Elders has added a decree that except for civilians who have lived in this city for more than ten years, outsiders must be God's chosen warriors or official priests, or you can prove that you have a strong bloodline in order to become citizens of this city-state." ”

Adrian had already told SΓΉ about the news of Gund, so he was not surprised, took out a document from his bosom, handed it to the priest, and said: "My father is the city-state of Stya, the former Admiral of the Third Fleet, Deleke Horsen, my family has the blood of the ancient god of water, and has produced three consuls and one high priest of the city of Stya. This is my instrument for being relegated to slavery, please take a look at it. ”

After listening to Gunde's words, not only the guards were in awe, but even the priest involuntarily sat up straight, and after reading the paperwork, he said with some indignation: "It is truly unforgivable that these stupid and greedy merchants of Stia have reduced the blood of the gods to slaves. ”

After speaking, he looked up at Gunde, his eyes and tone became gentle, and said: "Gunde, although there seems to be nothing wrong with this slave document of yours, and I have heard about your father, but in order to prove that you impersonate from time to time, I must test your bloodline. ”

"That's as it should be," Gunder said. ”

The priest took a small silver bowl from the drawer under the desk, placed it on the table, and said to Gunt, "Three drops of blood go in." ”

Gunder took out a short knife and cut his finger, dripping seven or eight drops of blood into it, until the priest even said that was enough, and then he held down the wound.

The priest took the bowl and clasped it together and said something in his mouth, and after a moment he let go of his hands and placed his right hand on top of the bowl, and a red light fell from his palm and sprinkled it into the bowl.

The blood bathed in the red light gradually began to change color, and gradually glowed, seven or eight drops of blood turned into seven or eight dark blue dots, and the falling red light could not hide these blue dots that were not intense.

The priest nodded with satisfaction and said, "You are not lying, you do still have the blood of the ancient water god in your body. ”

At this point, the priest took the bag of money that Gunder had offered, and without looking at it, threw it into the drawer under the table, and took out a huge booklet from another drawer, and added the name of Gunder Howson with a quill, and then he took out a small bronze token, and gave Gunder a drop of blood to it, and then cast a spell on it.

After the priest cast the spell, Gund suddenly felt that he had some kind of inexplicable connection with the small token.

The priest handed the token to Gander, and said, "Keep your identification card, from now on you will have the status of a citizen of Leony, and if you give birth to a descendant, you must come to the temple for baptism, otherwise he will not be recognized by the temple." ”

Gunder suppressed the surprise, took the token with both hands, and thanked the priest for his part, and walked out of the temple with the guards.

Standing in front of the temple, Gunde's eyes couldn't help but be filled with tears, he couldn't believe for a long time that his dream for many years had become a reality so lightly, what he didn't notice was that the three tall women who had been following him, one man and two women, whispered to him for a moment under the signal of the low woman's eyes, and pointed at him, and a faint spell mark landed on his ankle.

After making this small gesture, the three of them came to the guard and explained their intentions.

Feeling the aura of power of the Chosen Warrior and the Priest deliberately leaked by the three of them, the guards did not dare to slack off, and respectfully led the three into the temple and came to the door of the Horlinger priest.

The process of Bai Qi's donation was much simpler and smoother than that of Gunde, and after checking their strength with a spell, Hollinger politely accepted the money bags in the hands of the three people, registered them for the three of them, and issued citizenship cards.

After obtaining citizenship, Bai Qi immediately heard the system prompt and obtained the basic quest "Nobility".

The three of them walked out of the temple under the guidance of the guards, and Barian felt the location of the spell marker and found that Gunder was not far away, but in a tavern near the temple.

The three of them did not go to him, but wandered around the city of Leoni.

The city of Leoni is several times larger than the city of Yasuo, the buildings are taller and stronger, the city is cleaner, there is already a simple underground drainage system, and especially the commerce here is much more developed than the city of Yasuo.

The three of them walked around the downtown business district, and Bai Qi took out the jet-black ore and gemstone ore obtained from the Rogbidu tribe and asked about the origin of these two things.

The jet-black ore turned out to be the famous Mithril Mine, according to the boss, this ore has a very low Mithril content, and only priests can use spells to refine the Mithril inside, but this does not prevent the high value of these ores.

Raw gemstones are rough gems of elemental gems that are no less valuable than mythril ore.

After inquiring about the value of these two things, the three of them left the business district and walked towards the east gate of the city.

The city of Leoni is located in a very advantageous position, on the north bank of the Sara River, on a vast and fertile impact plain, with large areas of fertile land in the west, north and east, on which the Leonis cultivated large fields and fed the 100,000 citizens of the city.

About thirty kilometers east of the city of Leoni, there is a great river that the Leonins named Rogham.

The river originates in the Arare Mountains to the north, crosses the Great Plains of Leoni and empties into the River Soro, forming a natural barrier to the east of Leoni.

In order to make use of the land here, and to guard against the orc tribes on the opposite side of the valley of the Arare River in the east, the Leoni built many forts on both sides of the Rogham River, which were not only bridgeheads for defense against the Orcs, but also colonies for the fertile land on both sides of the Rogum River.

Grain from both sides of the Rogham River flows down the Rogum River, partly through the Sara River back to Leoni, and partly via GuΓ², the town of Monroe, which is closest to Leoni, and back to Leoni.

The three of them bought three high-headed horses from the world at the horse market inside the east gate of Leony City, and galloped out of the east gate towards Monroe Town.

Monroe Town is located on the bank of the Rogham River directly east of Leoni City, this small city area is not large, square city, the width is only 500 meters, but the city wall is not at all Leoni bad, the whole city wall is made of more than one foot long, more than five inches thick blue bricks, the brick joints are filled with a special mortar, extremely strong, the city wall is as high as fifteen meters, the bottom is thick and the top is thin, the top thickness is more than three meters.

There were only two gates open in the town of Munroe, one leading to the port on the river Rogham to the east, and the other leading to the west gate of the main road to Leony.

Bai Qi and the three of them found two houses next to each other in a remote alley near the east gate and bought them at a high price.

After that, the three of them dug a short tunnel to connect the adjacent houses.

After this qiΔ“, it was already sunset, and Barrian left a few simple spell traps in the house, and the three of them left Monroe Town and returned to the docks at the south gate of Leoni City.

Slipping back to the hotel room from behind, Barrian told him that Gunde was sleeping in his room.

The three of them quickly washed off their disguises, and called the waiter to bring food, and after eating, they woke up the still somewhat drunk Gunde, went to the dock yard to buy a dinghy, left the harbor, and rowed down the Sulo River.

By the time the four of them returned to the ship, it was already dark.

Next, the cargo ship will have to swim against the current, and in this era of the city-state, sailing against the current is all dependent on manpower. Although the current of the Suluo River is extremely slow, the reverse current is the reverse current, and it is very difficult for such a large cargo ship to rely on sixteen oars.

Even the most cruel slave owner would not let the oarsman row overnight, that would exhaust the oarsman to death.

Therefore, after Bai Qi and the others returned to the ship, they provided a sumptuous dinner for the oarsmen under the construction of Gunde, and stopped the cargo ship in its place that night