Chapter 3 The Town of Saint-Osor
The town of Saint-Osor, a small town on the border of the Suril Federation in the Seven Kingdoms of the South of Pavatiga, is a closed place on the top of the mountains.
It is not so much a small town as it is a larger village, the small town is small, with only sixty-seven inhabitants and a population of less than three hundred, closed off from information, and little contact with the outside world, but it is very famous in the whole of the seven southern countries.
Because, this is known as a small town floating in the air.
The real town covers an area of less than two square kilometers, but covers an area of more than fifty square kilometers, because the town is divided into eleven pieces by dense mountains, each part is located on the top of the mountain, connected to each other by a ropeway, and the residents travel and work daily through the ropeway, making the town really like it was built in the air.
Outside the town, a mountain road winds and turns, up and down, and finally leads to the world beyond the mountain, where Shul and the two ladies are standing on the path, looking out at the town of Saint-Osor, which has emerged not far away.
A month ago, several students followed Saf and the team of the Darkmoon Temple to the Temple of the Gods under the escort of Dark, but this was not the end of the mission, the people of the Darkmoon Temple teleported back through the main hall, Saf, Moria, and Shure separated from the team in the Temple of the Gods to prepare for a meeting with the archbishop of the Sky Temple, and Darker was the most pitiful, and needed to lead the team to escort Saf's students all the way to the Rose Capital, which was a long journey of thousands of kilometers.
However, Xiuer and they are not worried at all, anyway, it is not themselves who are trekking, so there is nothing to worry about. According to Shur, with Dark's guard, he didn't worry about the safety of those students at all, and he had time to negotiate with the Sky Temple slowly.
However, after only more than twenty days, he had already appeared in the town of St. Osor, which was more than three thousand kilometers away from the Temple of the Gods, along with the two ladies.
"Hey ~~~~~"
"Hey ~~~~~~"
"I'm back again~~~~~"
"Let's go~~~~"
Shuer was childlike for a moment, shouted a few words to the valley, and then turned his head expressionlessly to look at the deer next to him, and knocked on her head.
"Eh, why knock me on the head, it's an echo. Moria covered her head and pretended to be teary-eyed, but within a few seconds, she had lost interest in disguise, and said with a smirk, "Well, I'll admit, it's not like an echo, but I also said what Serena was thinking." ”
"Tsk, Serena really doesn't want to see us. At the mention of this name, Xiuer showed a very subtle smile, "I don't know if her eating has gotten better, heh, I miss her a little bit suddenly, I hope she hasn't been discovered by the townspeople in the past few years,"
"Eh, you're really only interested in animals, don't you want to be like Duck, and keep her in a different form with you...... Hmm ”
Covering Moria's mouth to block her malicious slander, and glaring at Saf, who was snickering and nodding vigorously, this guy has been more and more active in front of himself and Moria day by day since he left Lion City, as if he had broken free from the shackles. No, not only in front of himself, when passing through a small city a few days ago, Shur actually saw Saf taking the initiative to talk to the vendors on the side of the road, although it was only the simplest way to ask for the price, but it was difficult to imagine before, it seems that his efforts have slowly produced results, which is gratifying.
"Hey~~~" Shuer's way of expressing his joy was always so strange, shouting at the mountains again, and then ...... A huge fireball trailed a long tail flame and slammed down on Shur from the edge of the town nearly a kilometer away. Fortunately, the distance was far enough, and the fireball only flew for more than half of the time before it lost its structural stability and dissipated into a ball of pure fire element.
"Well, it looks like Mia has arrived. Coughing awkwardly a few times, in order to avoid the arrival of more powerful magic, Shuer still restrained his bad taste, and said with a serious face, "It's not the behavior of a qualified captain to make your teammates wait too long, so don't waste time and go over to meet as soon as possible." ”
It's not far in a straight line, but it's not that easy to get into the town, you need to go all the way down, through the jungled valley and up the edge to reach the entrance of the town, and by the time Shure and the others appear at the entrance of the town, it will be an hour and a half later. Walking for so long in a straight line of less than a thousand meters, you can imagine how difficult the road is, this is because they have high-level strength, otherwise I am afraid it will take several times more, no wonder the town rarely contacts the outside world, ordinary people want to go out of the town once, it is simply a life of nine deaths.
In the middle of the town, the temple of the god of the valley, Osor, occupies the highest mountain, Osor is only one of the gods of the lord of the mountains, and the temple is also mostly built in the mountains and valleys, and it is not very famous, but due to the terrain, the temple looks particularly magnificent.
Well, at least it's much better than some ruined temple.
Except for the temple, which is a complex of buildings, all that remains is a collection of independent dwellings, there are almost no purely commercial buildings in the town, except for a tavern and a trading house that is mostly unguarded for most of the time, for thousands of years, the townspeople have lived mainly in hunting and gathering in the mountains, basically self-sufficient, and trade with each other in barter, until more than two hundred years ago, the lord of the town under the city finally remembered that he still had such a piece of land under his jurisdiction, so he sent someone to set up a trading house here, which is regarded as the introduction of such things as currency into the closed town, but even soThe townspeople only used money when they went to taverns or ordered goods from trading houses, and their daily lives continued to follow the ancient custom of bartering.
Stepping on the pontoon bridge, the foot is suspended in the air, the mountain wind blows, the ropeway is shaky, so that the three of Shuer are like flying in the air, below is the 10,000-meter cliff, the front and back can not reach the ground, in the middle of the air helpless, the timid people don't say step, just standing on it, it is estimated that they will be scared and paralyzed.
Of course, the courage of the three Shuer is not small, but they are still cautious when walking on the ropeway, the muscles of their bodies are subconsciously tensed, and their hands are tightly gripping the rope on the edge of the pontoon, lest they be blown off by the mountain wind.
In the distance, on the other pontoon bridges in the town, townsfolk could occasionally be seen walking to and fro, and the locals walked as steadily as if they were walking on flat ground, and some of the younger ones even ran and jumped as if they were unaware of the danger. In contrast, it is already difficult to distinguish who is the warlord.
In fact, Shuer and the others also know that the pontoon bridge is actually very safe, and the material is made of dragon-perched vines grown in the valley, which is originally very tough, and it is stronger after being concocted in a special way, and it can not only not rot for a hundred years, but also not afraid of flames.
Coupled with the fact that the townspeople systematically overhaul all the pontoon bridges in the autumn when there are plenty of materials, it can be said that the pontoon bridges woven from them are even more reliable than those made of steel, and the town has never had a pontoon accident for at least thousands of years.
The problem is that it's one thing to know the theory, but it's another thing to really walk up, staggering and fluttering, and walking is hundreds of meters, I'm afraid that a normal person will be scared to cry, and it is already a rare brave person to be able to stand up straight and walk like three people.
"Yo, stranger, that's amazing. Frightened across a pontoon bridge, until an unfamiliar voice sounded in his ears, Shul was surprised by the presence of outsiders beside him, following the sound to look over, several middle-aged hunters walked up the transit mountain from another pontoon bridge together, and one of the men who seemed to be the leader was giving them a thumbs up, and said in a thick accented lingua franca, "I remember you, you came once three years ago, haha, no wonder you are so bold, I haven't seen a few outsiders who dare to walk in by themselves." ”
"Tsk, if I'm not mistaken, Mr. Douglas, right, the best hunter in town. Xiu'er eased his spirits, then smiled reluctantly, and teased, "Even if you praise me like this, I won't be happy at all, because you haven't seen a few foreigners who dare to walk in by yourself, you haven't seen a few strangers at all." ”
"Hahaha, you have wronged me, I have seen several strangers in the past few days, they are not as brave as you, there was a dwarf yesterday, he didn't dare to leave halfway, and finally climbed in, but the little man who came with him was really powerful, and it was easier to cross the bridge than our locals. ”
"Oh, Mobuck and Macageren have also arrived, of course that little man is amazing, not to mention a pontoon bridge, even if there is only a rattan rope between the two peaks, he can also perform a pause dance for you on the rattan rope. Shul and the two ladies looked at each other, and seemed to ask casually, "Serena's tavern is still open, and we are expected to stay here for two days." ”
"Of course it's open, even if she doesn't want to open it, we won't agree, without her wine, we don't even know how to live, hahahaha. The male hunter burst out laughing, "But you have to hurry, it's just dinner time, tonight's recipe is the most popular stewed wild boar meat and green vine fruit stewed flower-tailed chicken, if you go late, there is no soup left, you can only be hungry, hahaha, anyway, we are full, we can have a good mood tonight." ”
"Then we can't miss it. Shul made a look of impatience, which caused a few hunters to laugh again, life in the mountains is so simple, a good dinner, a few good-natured jokes, can make these people happy for a long time.
Following the pontoon bridge where the hunters walked, once again experienced a test of life and death, the only manned commercial building in the town of Saint-Osor appeared in front of him, pushed the door in, and a smell of food came to his face, accompanied by a mouth-watering aroma, a wild female voice resounded through the tavern: "All for the old lady to line up in order, whoever dares to cut the line to make trouble, the old lady will not give him a single chicken feather." ”