Verse 512: Dignitaries
For this strange and magical place, Lisa's mind was originally full of doubts, but the moment she saw the person at the door, she felt that all her doubts were solved.
Yes, his appearance says it all.
The person who appeared at the door was the former light of the kingdom, the current human traitor, the former saint of the Father's Cult, Norman!
This is indeed the territory of the dragon clan, and probably only the mysterious and powerful dragon clan can create such a magical city. And as the high-ranking of the Dragon Clan, the dignified Grand Situ of the Dragon Clan, it is natural for him to appear in this place, and even ...... This city may have been built under his own planning!
It's not that it's impossible, on the contrary, it's very likely.
For others, this guy who once carried infinite brilliance and then became extremely depraved may be just a vague and powerful concept, but for Lisa, there is a clear and specific impression of this person.
She saw with her own eyes how this guy single-handedly founded Nikaheim, turning books from a scarce resource from a high altitude to a commodity that many ordinary people can have, and how he skillfully tied everyone to the 10,000-ton ship of Nikhaheim, and gathered the strength of everyone to easily change the entire Nikalo, Francis, and even the United Kingdom of Augustus, so that this two-hundred-year-old old man in his twilight regained his youthful vitality and ran in stride.
As a participant, Lisa understands the power and meaning of it more than any outsider, which made her once so obsessed with the great personality of the Shining Son that she didn't want to believe it when the news broke that Norman had betrayed the kingdom and joined the dragons.
There are not a few people like Lisa in Nicaro.
Because of the Nikahim Chamber of Commerce, because of the great influence caused by the printing press, Nicaro's trade volume exploded exponentially in this year, and the capital of the Franciscan Territory has become the common capital of several nearby territories, and countless foreigners have rushed here and left from here.
In this situation, the income of the local residents of Nicaro continued to increase, and the standard of living also increased by leaps and bounds, not to mention the merchants, nobles and knights, who made more money in it.
Nikaheim has become one of Nikalo's most famous business cards, and everyone in Nikalo is proud of it, and by extension, they are naturally even more grateful to Norman for creating all this - if you catch a random person in Nikaro and ask, he may not know who the lord is, but he will definitely know who Norman is.
It can be said that everyone in Nicaro is a faithful believer in this Sage One, especially in the Skull and Bones Society, and everyone worships Norman deeply, and it is a great honor to have worked with this Shining Son.
No one wants to believe that a man who is so wise and has done his best to contribute to the development of mankind would betray the race to which he belongs, and the Church and the Kingdom wanted Norman even fell into a quagmire in Nicaro for a time, almost causing a civil strife, but after that, a series of facts finally calmed people down, especially after the Akari massacre, which made many people in Nicaro shake.
But regardless of Norman's character, there is one thing that is unwavering in the minds of all Nicaros, and that is Norman's supreme wisdom.
It was based on this that Lisa immediately thought that this magical city was probably founded by this fallen child of radiance.
She even somewhat understood why so many humans had shamelessly committed treason and thrown themselves into the arms of dragons - not only because they were afraid of death, but also because of the great temptation in them.
If the territory ruled by the dragons was like the city she was in now, then Lisa felt that the treason of those traitors was really understandable, because even she herself was tempted for a moment.
Norman didn't know that so many thoughts could go through Lisa's mind in a split second.
He just looked at Lisa.
This should be an outsider, because he has never seen her in the Sea of Stars.
It has been almost three months since he founded the people's government. In the past three months, the forest patrol force has also brought back several people who fled to the Valley of Thorns without dying, so there is no fuss about the appearance of an outsider here, but what makes Norman puzzled is that the other party's expression is very strange.
This woman seemed to know herself, and when she looked at this woman, she even had a faint feeling of familiarity, as if she had seen it somewhere.
Norman frowned, and began to think about it, about to dig deep into his memory about this woman, but Lancelot had already reminded him with a barrage of bullets: "Lisa King, Nicaro, your alumnus from the Mannheim era, you also appeared at her birthday ball. ”
As soon as Lancelot reminded him of this, Norman-related memories suddenly rushed to his mind, and all of them came to mind. It's just that he didn't have much contact with this woman, and so much time had passed—counting two reincarnation times and a magical experience of forbidden spells, Norman's short year was worth decades or even hundreds of years for others—so he didn't even recognize the other party at the first time.
The world is really small, and I can meet an old acquaintance here.
Norman sighed in his heart, thinking about the identity of the other party, and suddenly had a lot of ideas.
However, he didn't immediately put these ideas into practice, but only smiled softly at Lisa, "Long time no see, Miss Lisa, Barton greets you." ”
He even remembered himself!
Hearing Norman call out her name, Lisa instantly became inexplicably excited, as if she had been appreciated by the king.
Although Nicaro is now in step with the kingdom and acquiesces that Norman is a traitor, this is the place where Norman traces have been deeply left, so Nicardo's feelings towards Norman are very complicated.
Lisa is a typical example of this.
On the one hand, they hated and spit on this traitor like people in other regions, but on the other hand, they admired this man in their hearts, and they loved and hated him, so to speak. That's why Lisa was so excited to see that she was an enemy of Norman, but she knew him.
However, the excitement and excitement had not yet fallen, and Lisa was stunned again when she heard Norman's words.
He called himself Patton? He said this deliberately, apparently to imply to himself, that he hoped that he would help him keep the secret and not break it.
But why did he call himself Barton instead of his real name? If this was really the territory of the Dragon Clan, there was no need for him to be so sneaky as the Grand Situ of the Dragon Clan...... Could it be that this is not the territory of the dragons?!......
Lisa's imagination began to fly wildly, and it became a mess of twine, and if anyone opened her mind and looked into it at this moment, I am afraid that I would immediately get dizzy. Norman, however, had already walked up to him and said to the man behind the counter, "Show me the list of all the inhabitants." ”
Norman greeted Lisa in lingua franca, but when he spoke to the man behind the counter, he used all the old language.
The man behind the counter seemed to have expected it, and he had already pricked up his ears in the morning, listening intently. But even so, it was clear from his expression that he was struggling to listen.
But fortunately, this guy was able to sit in this position leisurely, which already showed that this could not be a stupid guy, so he finally guessed Norman's words with a few ancient words that he barely understood.
"Yes!"
The man replied respectfully, squatted down and worked hard for a while, opening a few cabinet doors, and finally came up with something like a ledger.
Norman looked over and saw that the account book was written in ancient language "The Population of the Statistical Yearbook of the Sea of Stars", which was exactly what he wanted.
He took the ledger and looked through it on the spot.
When the man behind the counter saw this scene, he knew that he had guessed correctly, and the big stone in his heart fell, and then he wanted to breathe a sigh of relief, but Norman was present and he didn't dare to make a noise, so he had to hold back and stand motionless inside.
Norman rummaged through it very quickly, and it only took twenty or thirty breaths to find out everything he wanted to check - he couldn't slow down if he wanted to, and there were only so many people in the Sea of Stars, how long would it take to look through their statistics?
After reading it, Norman closed the ledger and pushed it over, and the man behind the counter was about to take it, but Norman said, "Remember the name I said next." ”
Norman still spoke the old language, but the sentence was easier for the man behind the counter to understand than before, and from the current situation, the context of their conversation, and the key words he understood, the general meaning of the sentence was deduced at once.
Then the man didn't bother to get the statistical yearbook, so he hurriedly prepared the pen and paper, and it was only a moment's work and it was ready.
Judging from this lightning-fast skill, this seemingly civilian guy is no worse than those professional knights.
"Zhou Jianguo, Li Yuejin, Autumn and Spring Equinox ......"
Norman reported several names in a row, and the man behind the counter concentrated and wrote hard, also in ancient languages, but there were some lingua franca letters in between, but those lingua franca were partial and meaningless, not any word, and mixed in the ancient language, which made people look inexplicable.
Even if a knowledgeable white-robed mage is allowed to take a look, I'm afraid that the second monk will be confused.
Norman reported a total of eight names, and after reporting them, he waited two more breaths before the man finally finished writing at the counter, already sweating profusely.
This being, who looks like a knight, only wrote a few words, and it was as if he was engaged in a fierce battle.
Finally, Norman said to the man behind the counter, "Inform them to go to the House of Lords at four o'clock." ”
The person behind the counter was a little more relaxed, and he didn't have to guess, he basically understood the meaning of this sentence, and responded, "Yes!"
After that, Norman turned around and prepared to leave, but before leaving, he finally said to Lisa, who had been standing aside for a long time: "I think Miss Lisa, you must have a lot of doubts at the moment, if you don't mind, you can go to my place to rest and have a cup of afternoon tea, I think I will be very happy to answer all your doubts." ”
In this small half a day, the brain-opening Lisa has already thought about a lot of things, the more she thinks about it, the lighter her hostility towards Norman is, plus she loves and hates this great traitor to mankind in her heart, so she didn't refuse, just hesitated a little, and nodded in agreement.
"Please. ”
Norman gestured for Lisa to follow him, and then walked outside, while the man behind the counter shouted again to see Norman off.
"The old immortal of the stars, the mana is boundless, the attack is invincible, and the battle is invincible!"
......
Norman walked ahead, Lisa at his side, half a position behind, and Atrimithia at the end.
The three of them were led by Norman, and they walked all the way forward, and the people on the street would stop and salute when they saw Norman passing by, and some would shout slogans like the one in the statistics bureau just now, such as "The old immortal of the stars has boundless power", and if Lisa paid attention, she would find that the clothes on those who would shout like this were different from normal pedestrians, and some people's clothes were still exactly the same.
The sea of stars was not big, and Norman led Lisa and it didn't take long to reach their destination.
It was also a stone house, but unlike the others, the stone house in front of them was undoubtedly much larger, built on the pond behind it, and was six stories high, covering a large area.
The density of buildings in the city, the closer you get here, the more sparse it becomes, and the neighborhood has become even more sparse to a level, except for the building in front of you, there is only a row of stone houses on the far right hand side that are also built by the pond, but those stone houses are shorter than the house in front of them, and the momentum is not as majestic as this house.
And in the middle of these two properties, there is also a tall tower.
The tower didn't occupy much of an area, just the size of an ordinary human land, but it was very tall, even twice as tall as the house in front of them.
Lisa looked up, her gaze drawn to the tower.
Although the tower was a little taller, it was not unusual for Lisa, she had not seen a building taller than this tower, but she really had never seen a strange building than this tower.
At the very top of the tower, a huge circular pattern was painted on each of the four walls, and two thick black poles hung on them—from the two sides that Lisa could see, the shape of the black poles was the same.
What's that?