Chapter 18: The Castle above the Clouds
A shadow loomed over the water, and the little toad was frightened and sank to the bottom, although the water was clear, but it was difficult to find the shadow of the little toad again due to the bubbles and fog.
Looking up, he saw a bladed tiger staring at him through the waterhole.
A single Bladed Tiger wasn't enough to scare Tnight, but there were several of them not far away, especially a much larger beast perched on a rock.
The beast surprised him and ran a few steps forward, but his steps came to an abrupt halt.
The one that hunted a monster but wasn't a beetle, because it was a little smaller and didn't have exactly the same coat color.
It's a wild monster hunter!
Feeling that he was in prison again, he could barely cope with a few Alien Blade Tigers, but the Demon Hunter Beast was a fourth-level demon beast, with unbreakable fur and teeth that could bite the bones of any animal.
The white wolf walked towards the monster beast with his head down, and tried to stop it in the night, because the monster beast could bite its head in one bite.
This white wolf motioned to him with his eyes not to act rashly!
The monster hunter let out a roar, as if asking the white wolf in a loud voice.
The white wolf made a low voice and communicated with the beastmaster in the language of the beast, and then it lay down in the snow to reveal its softest belly, a sign of submission.
The Demon Hunter glanced at the night and led a few Bladed Tigers to leave slowly.
Feeling his heart beating violently, he was both scared and excited at the same time, because such a demon beast could kill him in an instant, and such a demon beast was very rare in the Ice and Snow Continent.
They continued their journey, where they met several white wolves and maned wolves, all of whom greeted the white wolf and seemed very affectionate, and after smelling each other, they went their separate ways.
On the seventh day of his departure from the pass, he saw a city appear on the top of the majestic white mountain at night—Cloud City was the highest city he had ever seen.
The wolf motioned for him to go in that direction alone. Trolling Night hugged its white mane, as if it wasn't a wolf but the monster hunter he was familiar with.
The white clouds are like fluttering flags under the city in the clouds, and the mist fills the room, making it more and more like this castle - the fog cover of the clouds and mountains, full of psychedelic colors.
An ice bridge flies between two mountains, piercing through the clouds and fog.
A castle on top of the snow-capped White Mountain!
I couldn't help but sigh at night, there is the shadow of Lying Snow City, the difference is that one is lying in the snow valley, and the other is standing on the top of a high mountain.
At the middle end of the silver bridge is a towering rock with a gatehouse.
Inside the gatehouse stood a tall and majestic warrior, dressed in a rhinoceros leather armor, with two pieces of bronze iron on his chest and back, and the thick white tassels on the iron helmet almost hanging down to his eyebrows, holding a steel spear.
Looking at this heavy steel spear, you know that this warrior is brave.
The samurai said to Thaya, "If you are an Aurora, you can walk over with confidence, but if you are a foreigner, please retreat, because the ice bridge will automatically break." ”
It turned out to be an ice bridge that had been spelled, and it was done to prevent spies from infiltrating Cloudsdale.
"So, Cloudsdale doesn't allow outsiders to enter?"
I don't know where Ektrova and Isischel are, but they are certainly not in the city.
"I will beat the drums and tell the guards of the city, who will accompany the aliens into the city to the castle. ”
Hearing this, I felt a little relieved to step into the night.
I don't know my birth, a child of unknown origin.
Believing that he is an Aurora, because this thought has been ingrained in his mind since he was a child, he was also proud to be an Aurora.
He continued to walk forward, but he was still a little uneasy in his heart, walking on thin ice, but the crystal clear ice bridge was not broken, which strongly proved that he was an Aurora.
Cloud City is an important town in the Honghuang Continent, divided into two cities, the outer city has a total of 30,000 residents, in addition to the craftsmen of the eight works, there are also various shops, they are unified under the management of the prison gate, and there is also the supervision gate, and the military department and the spirit hall are located in the high castle in the city.
One thousand guards, one thousand foot soldiers, one thousand Tieji, and five hundred Tiefutu constituted the main body of the army in Cloudsdale.
Aside from the Spirit Law Hall, the most powerful in the city are the Guild Caravansera, as they do not belong to the City Gate but to the Spirit Law Hall, the highest authority in Cloudsdale.
The caravan is the transportation artery of Cloud City, so the masters in it are like clouds, and it is not something that a military department can afford, and generally such a caravan must be equipped with one or two masters of the Spirit Law Hall.
The people of the Spirit Law Hall not only practice martial arts, but the most eye-catching thing is that they can all have two or three ancient spells, because of the consumption of a large amount of ghost Qi iron, so there are no more than ten people in the Spirit Law Hall, half of them serve in the caravan of friends, and people call them - Guardians.
I walked through the few dozen shops at night, and due to the narrow area of the castle, it was far more lively than the sparsely populated Sleeping Snow City.
The attire of the Aurora people has great characteristics: most of the men wear coats and loose trousers, and some wear animal skin coats and cotton robes, and most of the women wear skirts, and some have small shoulders made of animal skins.
Most women comb their moon buns and flowing cloud buns, and their eyebrow lines are moth-shaped, and such eyebrow tattoos are called "Seven Rainbows of Love".
Bypassing the caravan of friends guarded by the lion beasts, he walked straight to the inner city, which is the main body of the castle.
The lower floors of the castle are inhabited by a thousand foot battles, a thousand iron ji, and five hundred iron floating slaughter, and on the left is their military drill ground, and the defense of the outer city is taken care of by a thousand guards, and the defense here is taken care of by an infantry battle, strictly speaking, a thousand guards cannot be regarded as regular troops, so they are not stationed in the inner city.
The inner and outer cities are distinguished by boundary posts.
Treading the night and stepping over the boundary post, sure enough, a foot soldier ran over.
"This is the military zone, please go back!" the soldier shouted.
Looking at the top floor of the castle at night, I heard that it was where the Spirit Hall was located.
When the soldier heard that this person was from Sleeping Snow City, he immediately changed his attitude, because although the two places were 100,000 miles apart, Sleeping Snow City had a long history, was famous, and was a city of Aurora, and this soldier had already heard of it.
Walking through the spiral stairs of the castle, they stopped in front of the main hall door on the eighth floor.
The soldier opened a door, and he saw four people in gray robes sitting at a long oval table, except for the four protectors of the caravan of friends, most of the remaining people of the Spirit Law Hall were here, including the chief officer of the military department and the Spirit Law Hall.
Listening to Ta Ye's account of what happened in Sleeping Snow City, time has passed, and it is obvious that they already knew about it.