Chapter Twenty-Three: The Magic of Another World Is Too Backward (Part I)

On the evening of the fourth day of crossing through another world, the Lich King Ainz disguised as a "wandering magician", riding in an embarrassing cat cart and with some kind of huge regret of "pretending to be a joke", finally succeeded in arriving at the nearest human city to the main base Nasalik Great Tomb - Li. The border fortress city of the Kingdom of Yestijah, Yay. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info Lantil.

Village. A border fortress city owned by the Kingdom of Yestij, Yay. Located near the borders of the neighboring Bahasian Empire and the Slenist Empire, Lantil is the only transportation hub connecting the world's three major human powers.

As a result, the city is protected by three layers of walls, and as such, it is often referred to as a fortress city, just as it appears to be.

In the previous years of peace, yay. Because of its unique geographical location, Lantil once gathered a large number of people. But with the Bajas Empire and the Li. The kingdom of Yestijah was plagued by wars and defeats, and was devastated by war, even under a brutal siege by the Bahasian Empire a few years ago. Although the Empire was still unable to break through in the end. The walls of Lantil were fortified, but due to the plundering of the siege, almost everything outside the walls was destroyed.

The previous village of Karn was too far away from the city and off the main traffic routes, so it was lucky to escape the catastrophe of that round of war.

A few years have passed, yay. The ruined walls and towers of Lantil have been repaired, and the city itself is still thriving in import, export and commerce. But the destroyed suburban villages could not be restored for a while, and beyond the high city walls were vast expanses of barren wilderness. Occasionally, I saw some scattered peasants, although they were not yet clothed, but they were patched everywhere and had a withered face, and as for their dwellings, they could only be described as shacks, and their living conditions were far from those of Kahn Village in the remote forest.

And within the protection of the city wall. The city of Lantil is divided into three concentric circles by three city walls.

The outermost area is a wartime military base, so there are well-established barracks, warehouses and weapons depots. The innermost area is home to military chiefs and the magnates, a heavily protected core and the last bastion of wartime – a less apt example of the Forbidden City in Beijing, China, or the castle tower of a Japanese castle.

As for the largest concentric circle in the middle, it is the living quarters of the general public, and several markets where transactions are carried out are also located here. For the vast majority of ordinary people, when they think of the city, this area basically comes to mind.

In order to facilitate trade, there are several squares of various sizes scattered throughout the city, and many stalls are gathered, forming a special shopping street, where you can buy a variety of goods from fruits and vegetables, cloth and pottery, to medicine and swords. The commercial street is full of all kinds of foreign merchants' accents, and the pedestrians' robes are also strange, full of exotic styles, bustling, coming and going, very lively.

The boss standing in the store made a vigorous shouting and tried to solicit customers; The elderly woman carried baskets and bargained with the merchants, for a little fruit and vegetables. Farmers, woodcutters, hunters, and craftsmen set up their stalls to sell their wares, and at the same time quietly competed in the volume of their shouting, so that there was no trace of dilapidated and stale air in the seemingly shabby and backward open-air market.

The enticing aroma of the barbecue stalls on the side of the street aroused people's appetites, and also made the Lich King Ainz who was lying upstairs looking out of the window couldn't help but feel a little stupid in his heart, recalling the juicy delicacy of the kebabs...... Unfortunately, he has now lost his human body and has become a skeleton, and although he still retains a keen sense of smell for some reason, he can no longer enjoy any fine wine and food.

- He had been quietly experimenting in Karn Village before, and was dismayed to find that the food he ate in his mouth would fall out of his jaw again, and the wine he poured into his mouth would be spilled all over his body...... As for the sense of taste, it is completely absent.

Alas, there is no way to enjoy food when you become a lich, and there is really no way to do it—Anz sighed silently in his heart, then closed the window of his room, turned back to the table, and continued his research on otherworldly magical objects intently......

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I have to say that the face of the captain of the Gurdjief warrior is in yes. In the city directly under the royal family, Lantil is still somewhat useful.

- After Gurdjieff and his men revealed their identities, they guarded the fortress city. The guards at the city gate of Lantil did not interrogate and verify at all, and let a group of "mavericks" such as Ainz in a cat cart into the city.

Then, because of the introduction of Captain Gurdjief, when he learned that this "powerful and rich" archmagician, Mr. Ainzi, was interested in buying a mansion in the city to live in, he even went even. The mayor of Rantir was so shocked that he not only took time out of his busy schedule to meet with Mr. Aintz, but also instructed the clerk of the town hall to help introduce him, many of whom had been living in Yahweh because of the frequent wars of these years. The nobles and wealthy merchants in the city of Lantil lacked confidence in the kingdom's army and sold their property and moved away. Therefore, there are many idle noble mansions for sale in the city today......

For such trivial negotiations, the Lich King Ainz is obviously not good at this heavy game house, but fortunately he is not alone now, so he pushed all the things about buying a house in the lot to the dragon housekeeper Sebas, and then he took a few female subordinates and a large group of cats to stay in the fortress city. The most upscale inn in the city, the "Golden Pavilion", is retracted into the room and never comes out.

As you can imagine, the cost of lodging at the Pavilion is expensive, and the cost of buying a mansion in the city is even more significant – even though the price has fallen by several percent due to the war. Relying on the few small money bags stolen by the "cat thieves" before is obviously far from enough. And the coins found from the prisoners of the special forces of the "Sunshine Sacred Scripture" of the Slian Sect are also pitiful: their gang of thugs sneaked into the enemy territory to wreak havoc, not to do business, and they need to rob them directly if they need any supplies, so they naturally won't carry too much money.

Fortunately, the Lich King Ainz who sits on a Nazarik Tomb guild base is not a poor man with no money, but a super big man who is really rich and rivals the country. The YGGDRASIL game gold hoarded in Nasalik's tomb alone is in the hundreds of millions......

However, Ainz doesn't plan to use YGGDRASIL's in-game gold in this world, first of all, because it could reveal his identity and lead to unpredictable dangers - through battles with the special forces of the "Sunshine Codex" of the Slen Cult, as well as in the fortress city of Yaya. Observing in the city of Rantir, he has found that the humans of this other world are also commonly using the magic of the YGGDRASIL game, so it is likely that other YGGDRASIL gamers have also come to this world and taught some things to the natives of this world.

Due to the ongoing interrogation of the captives and the lack of information obtained, it is not yet possible to determine whether the other YGGDRASIL players are still in the world, let alone if the other players in the world may be enemies of the Great Grave of Ainz and Nasalik. So to be on the safe side, Ainz doesn't plan to reveal his identity for the time being.

Secondly, the guild base of the Great Tomb of Nasalik is a big money eater in itself, whether it is to maintain the daily operation of the Great Tomb, or to summon troops and produce magic equipment, it needs to consume a lot of game gold. Although there are still a lot of savings hoarded nowadays, no matter how much money you have, you can't afford to spend it in the open space, and there will always be a day when you run out. Therefore, Ainz is not only reluctant to spend game gold, but even has to find a way to obtain game gold from the other world, so as to maintain the long-term existence and operation of the guild base Nasalik Great Tomb.

Of course, despite this, there is still a way to solve the various expenses in the fortress city. Ainz's fundraising strategy was to sell a little bit of the materials that Nazarik's Great Tomb had: as a guild base with a forge and many high-level players, it was only natural that the Nazaric Great Tomb had a lot of various materials stockpiled in it, and after the other players left, they were all left to Ainz.

The Lich King Ainz sold what he considered to be a small amount of Mithril and Steel to a weapons shop for a whopping amount of gold coins issued by the kingdom through the connections of the warrior chief Gurdjieff. That's enough for him to spend in the city for a long time.

At this moment, he was sitting at the small round table in the room, studying a large number of Space-Time Magic Potions that he had just purchased from the City Store with the tabby Elvis Presley and a cat player who had used a cheat to order a full-level alchemist—according to the premise of the YGGDRASIL game, the various magic potions should be mainly red. But to Ainz's surprise, despite the magic of the YGGDRASIL game, the magic potions sold in the store are almost all blue liquid.

Puzzled by this, Ainz bought a few random bottles of magic potions and took them to the inn room for analysis.