After nearly a week of trekking, Xiao Chen and his party finally arrived at their destination.

Heading along a riverside road and turning a gentle slope, the city of Suero appeared in front of Xiao Chen. When Ciro talks about Suero, he always has a little pride. Therefore, when Xiao Chen imagined the appearance of this big trading city, he had already combined those ancient cities on the earth and thought about it. However, when he actually stood in front of the city, he was still shocked by the appearance of the city.

The city is actually not very large, the part enclosed by the city wall only occupies the top of a small hill, Xiao Chen's visual inspection, the length of the city wall on Suero's side will not exceed a thousand meters, but the amazing height of the city wall is about thirty meters, which is unimaginable on the earth. The walls were made of stone, with several towers dividing the walls into several pieces, and the walls were covered with battlements for shooting, and towers taller than the walls stood behind the walls. The tower is slender cylindrical with no roof on top, only a concave and convex female wall, and the tower is covered with many shooting holes from top to bottom.

In times like these, this is a fortress with incredible lethality. Xiao Chen thought so.

However, the most striking thing about the entire city wall is that at intervals, there are some patterns drawn from unknown materials. At this time, it was autumn evening, and the light of the setting sun shone on these circular magic arrays, reflecting a dazzling light.

"This is the largest trading city in the northwestern part of the kingdom, Suero, the jewel of Montenegro. Siro saw Xiao Chen and a few of them standing on the hillside, observing the city from a distance, and happily introduced to Xiao Chen: "Suero is most famous for these high walls, the big nobles and big merchants here are very rich, and they are also afraid of death, as soon as the last war with the empire ended, they paid to rebuild the city wall. They had the craftsmen build the walls high above all the houses in the city. A few years ago, they also encouraged the consuls here to add magic circles to the walls to improve the anti-demon effect of the walls. In this way, they hide behind the city walls and count the money, which is much safer. ”

"Why did you build the wall so high, for magicians, the city wall wouldn't be too much of an obstacle, right?" Xiao Chen asked.

"No wall can stop them from entering, but the wall is mainly used against normal warriors, and these people are the main force of war. Bard Gardo interjected, "Such a wall is impossible for ordinary soldiers to climb, and it is very difficult for even low-ranking samurai to climb it. The difficulty of the siege is greatly increased. ”

"Have you ever seen a siege battle like this?" Xiao Chen didn't have much chance to talk to this Galdo, he walked all the way for four or five days, and he didn't really understand what kind of person the other party was, but he found that he and Luo Ling were quite familiar.

"The lords of the continent, for their own bread and gold coins, use trivial things as an excuse, and call back and forth every day. I have never seen more battles, and the walls are just a small weight on the scales of victory.

"yes. "I've been through three wars, and I don't know when the peaceful and happy days will return." ”

"To live a peaceful and happy life, it is useless to rely on the walls alone. Gardo.

"Is that a strong army?" Xiao Chen asked.

"Or untold gold coins?" said Ciro laughed.

"Neither. Gardo shook his head and said solemnly: "Only true faith can bring ultimate happiness." If we all sincerely believe in the same true God, what reason is there to fight each other? Now those lords, who are ostensibly God's people, are doing all the dirty things behind the scenes. ”

Xiao Chen used to be most annoyed by these strange things, but now that he is about to become a real magician, he has to maintain enough awe of some unknowable things, especially the current appearance of Gardo, so that Xiao Chen can see a kind of awe-inspiring piety in his eyes. But what is faith, and what is God?

Gardo closed his eyes and muttered silently, as if praying, Xiao Chen looked at him wordlessly, and finally it was Ciro who broke this strange silence, he pointed to the field below the city and said: "God is too far away, and the city wall is close at hand, you look at these people outside, which one of them doesn't want to squeeze into the city wall?"

The name Suero belongs not only to the fortress on the hill, but also to the part outside the city walls. Large tracts of elaborate or humble houses and stalls start at the foot of the city walls and spread out over the plain in front of the city of Suero. From large walled houses to kennels made of forbidden wood chips or rags, countless heads surged through the slightly cluttered area, and convoys entered the place from all directions.

"Most of the merchants and civilians lived outside the city, and there were actually quite a few decent inns and inns here that were much cheaper than in the city. It's just that a magician like you is not suitable to live here. We'll have to go into the city in a moment. ”

"There's not even a wall here, what will happen to these people if there is a war?" Xiao Chen asked with some puzzlement.

Ciro and Gardo glanced at each other, and both replied a little inexplicably: "Flee for your life, the great nobles in the city, who will care if they live or die?"

Xiao Chen and his party slowly walked from a ramp to the city gate with great interest, and along the way they could see the exotic slums on both sides of the ramp, but when they approached the city gate, the convoy was stopped by the city guards. Ciro stepped forward to explain for a long time, but the other party just said that the commander had an order, and he could not let the convoy go when he encountered a suspicious convoy.

The convoy was a bit odd to say, it was a group of country villagers, and on the flatbed were sitting robed magicians, and next to the magicians sat two flamboyantly dressed bards, and behind them was a woman who was so beautiful that people thought they wouldn't be right. No matter how you look at it, the captain of the guard team thinks that this is not like a magician's caravan, but rather like a country circus.

But because the matter involved a high-ranking magician, and the middle-aged man who came to negotiate looked like he was sworn and fearless, the captain of the guard team decided to hand over this hot potato to his head, Baron Gregory, the captain of the city guard in Suero.

Baron Gregory came quickly, and the man in his forties was quite handsome, tall and thin, with short flaxen hair and two mustaches. The baron began to look at the strange convoy as he came from a long distance, and he agreed with the captain that the convoy was not ordinary, but he did not think it was a circus.

After all, the baron is a nobleman who has seen the market, and as he walked, he drew a lot of doubts:

First of all, half of these people are yellow-skinned and black-haired, such people are very rare in the Eastern Continent, and he seems to have heard his cousin who runs the sea trade talk about it, and there are only such people in the Western Continent.

Secondly, the temperament of these people is very unusual, and such self-confidence is definitely not something that farmers and rural nouveau riche can have, at least by burying their heads in farming.

Third, when he walked in, he found that the robes of the two "magicians" seemed to be real. At least the array with a faint flow of silver light on it can't be faked.

Magic is no small matter. This is the experience of the baron's ten years at the helm of the city guard. Therefore, when he came to Xiao Chen and them with more than a dozen good hands, he chose to dismount and walk in front of Xiao Chen, raised his fist in front of his chest, and gave a military salute, "Hello, this gentleman, I am Baron Gregory Bailey, who is in charge of the city guards. My men report that a magician has come to our Suero, I wonder if it's you?"

Xiao Chen raised his head slightly, slightly brought out some of the shelf that a magician should have and the dissatisfaction of being blocked, and replied in a lukewarm tone: "Yes, it's me." ”

At this time, Luo Ling also stepped forward from behind and said, "Why would anyone in this country dare to stop the magician......? But it's miserable. ”

Baron Gregory was not surprised by his attitude towards magicians, he had dealt with many such figures with eyes in the sky, but from Luo Ling's words, he confirmed his conjecture, so he asked carefully: "Are the two of you from other countries?"

"We came from outside the continent to Suero to exchange some experimental materials. I heard that this is a free trading city. Xiao Chen played the role of a white face, so although he looked impatient, he still spoke relatively calmly.

"Indeed, there are merchants of the royal capital, merchants of the empire, and even merchants of the elves. But most of the deals are made outside the city, and if the inner city can be accessed casually, it will be a mess. Generally, caravans need a guarantor to enter the city......" said the baron with a sad face.

Luo Ling stared at Baron Gregory and raised her voice, "You want us to live outside in the garbage dump? Is this an insult? Do you need us to release some magic here to prove ourselves?" Look at me, Baron, tell me, do you really think so?"

Luo Ling's tone was very hurried, and her eyes seemed to be shining brightly.

"No, no. You are mistaken, ma'am. Baron Gregory felt the coercion in his big eyes, and he felt his heart begin to beat wildly, and his body trembled slightly. What was going on? There was a flash of thought in his mind, magic! She was using magic on me!

She must be a witch, only the most terrible witch can have such terrifying eyes, Baron Gregory remembered some legends, as if he had been staring into the eyes of a witch, and in the end all his mind would be taken away by them, and a good person would become a walking corpse.

When the baron thought of this, his heart palpitated, and a numbness rushed to his mind, he only felt a cold sweat suddenly broke out on his back, and the whole person was about to collapse, as a small nobleman guarding the city, a low-level martial artist, how could he disobey the power of the magician, "I, I have no intention of offending, honorable lord, let it go immediately, let it go immediately." ”

The squad leader was a little surprised by the rapid change in the baron's attitude, and couldn't help asking, "My lord, do you want to check the contents of the car?"

"Bastard. How precious is the time of the magician, how can you delay on these things, get out of the way, get out of the way!" Baron Gregory roared angrily.

The baron's performance stunned Xiao Chen, who was still thinking about how to speak, and he turned to look at Luo Ling. Those big eyes were also looking at him, very cold, but they seemed to have a different emotion, and some tiredness?

Could it be that a woman's temper is so powerful?

Xiao Chen looked at the city guards who were waiting for them to pass with some confusion, sighed puzzledly, and followed the convoy into the city.