"Where are you going later?" asked Sephiroth. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Go to the school and try the Mecha Type II that Kress said. Although I said it so nicely before, I still have to look at this kind of life-saving thing at a critical moment. I smiled and pushed open the door to the conference room and walked out.

A spring rain has turned into a dense drizzle, which is particularly moist and comfortable on the face.

"It's a bit bad to have more partners. I muttered, in a voice that I could only hear, "There are a lot of deaths." Soon, it will be the death day of Fatima, and then, the brothers of the pro-guards......"

I have to say that Kressie's mecha II has changed greatly compared to the trial type, this mecha is closer to the image of a person, only two meters tall, but it has removed a lot of cumbersome loads, and it is more like a single soldier's equipment. The transmission system is the same as the trial type, but the materials are all made of high-toughness steel, so it can load two hundred times the output, as for the armor, it looks like it is much thinner, but there are also multi-layer composite armor nearly two or three centimeters thick, not only that, but between the armor and the mecha body, there is also a layer of space about one or two millimeters, which is filled with water. In this way, the oil tank that once hit me hard will not work again.

Moreover, according to Kress, leaving a layer of water in the middle, the defense capability of the mecha can also be significantly improved, at least one or two percent on the existing basis, and it is because of this increase that the previous methods that the Seventh Legion came up with to deal with me will not work, because this mecha can already defend against the small stone projectiles thrown by the trebuchet to a certain extent. "But I still can't do what you ask for to look like a normal suit of armor. Kress shook his head and said, "Not to mention anything else, this one-and-a-half-millimeter water injection layer alone is the result of half a year of beating by dozens of our craftsmen, and if you want to achieve the results you request, unless there is another revolutionary improvement in material technology and production technology, but that should not be something that can be done in the past two years." ”

Kress said as he walked up to the mecha and lifted a small round box on the mech's chest, which was inlaid with a black stone, and the edge of the inlay groove was drawn from the shiny Mithril with many hair-thin wires. "I didn't do it, it's Tello's masterpiece. Kress said, "This black stone is the black soul stone that the Trothschild family bought from the Skyrim Continent, there are not many of them, about a hundred or so pieces, and they are all filled with souls...... How to say it, it's a very outrageous energy bomb, but after using it once, the soul stone will shatter, you can do it yourself. ”

"Tello likes to mess with this kind of nonsense. I pouted, "He said a few days ago that he would make me a right hand out, but now he is silent." Anyway, let's try it first. ”

After saying that, I walked up to the mecha and turned the knob on the side of the mecha to the specified number position according to the number Kress told me, and the knob immediately made a crisp sound of the machine spring popping open, and the mech opened like a peanut.

I walked in and packed it inside the mech like a peanut, and the metal coil on my chest was attached to my chest. Then Kress closed it for me from the outside and said, "Let's get started, try your new toy." ”

So, first of all, a hundred times the output......

I swung my left arm and slammed my fist into a stone pier in the school yard ahead of me, only to feel the tip of the fist freeze heavily for a moment, and then in front of my eyes, the stone pier turned into thousands of debris and flew away.

Let's try 200 times the effort...... I turned on the switch hidden in my left thumb, and the moment the switch was turned on, I felt the countless dense metal coils on my chest begin to become hot, and the black soul stone faintly showed signs of collapse.

I gently palmed it on the ground, only to hear a twisted roar, and the entire school field that had been tamped by tens of thousands of people had already left a five-finger print like cheese.

I straightened up and aimed at some wooden poles that were randomly inserted into the ground not far ahead, with gourds on top of them, which were used to connect and shoot. So, let's try the new feature, Energy Bomb?

As soon as I turned my consciousness, the metal coil in my chest suddenly heated up, and then, a dark shadow erupted from my chest for a short time, like a fly flying away from my body, and then the black soul stone shattered.

Immediately afterwards, a piece of wooden pole that was randomly inserted in front of him was plowed out by this dark shadow with a blank line of at least five hundred meters, and all the wooden poles or gourds blocking this line evaporated without exception.

I froze in place, so brutal!

Kress wiped his sweat, and he was standing next to me, and if I had turned around then, it might have been him who had disappeared.

"What the hell did Tello do!" I reacted, and immediately cursed, with a slight tilt of my forehead, opened the mecha from the inside, and jumped out, "What is this black soul, let's hide it first, and I don't usually put it on." Otherwise, if you accidentally injure any allies, it will be the result of direct evaporation. ”

Kress also wiped his sweat and agreed.

"However, wearing this mech to ......the meeting," I patted the iron guy standing on the school grounds, "and it must be very cool." ”

Uxhall.

If all the settlements in Calradia are divided into three ranks: villages, castles, and Ayutthaya, Uxhall occupies a fairly high position even in the top of one of the few pyramidal structures in Ayutthaya. As a large city, it has high enough walls and strong walls - a guarantee that a city can continue to survive, three hundred and seventy years ago, Calradia was far less robbers than there are now, and likewise, Calradia was far less inhabited than it is now, at that time it didn't matter whether the big city was big or not, the whole Calradia was only a dozen settlements, but after three hundred years ago, the first Vikings landed in the "Cape Hope" strait north of Wocheze, thus setting off the bloody "night of the catastrophe" of Calradia”。 Since then, the natives of Calradia have learned that a tall, strong city wall, with enough garrisons and weapons, is the foundation of their existence.

Thus, the first city in the whole of Calradia, Sagos, was born. Along with the birth of the once prosperous kingdom that covered the entire continent of Calradia, the Kalad Empire.

At the beginning of the empire, there were only a few large cities with walls, such as Sagos, Zhivadin, and Zhivacheze, and these cities later became the economic and military centers of the five great powers of Calradia, including Uxhall.

But the real spring of Uxhall was born during the Nord invasion two hundred years ago, when Tiha, Wochez, and even the imperial capital of the time, Sagos, were all captured by the Nords roaringly, and the northern coast of Calradia was in flames. When Herick Brex trembled in front of the hungry axe, Uxhall, in the remote interior, was the absolute rear behind Dehrim in the center of the continent, where almost all of the craftsmen and merchants of Calradia were concentrated, day and night to swallow a large number of supplies, arms, soldiers, and horses from the continent of Charonay and the Sultanate of Salander. Every day, thousands of recruits, thousands of armor suits, nearly 10,000 knives and guns, hundreds of thousands of arrows, and nearly 1,000 Arabian horses of the purest blood passed through Uxhall to reach the imperial fortress of Dehrim, and they provided the most solid material foundation for the brutal defense of Zhiwache, the defense of Zhivadin, and the future Great Kalad counterattack. Although the Nord kingdom finally took root in the continent of Calradia, because of the undoubted supply of goods from Uxhall, the Nords had to stop near the current Nord border after swallowing a string of bitter consequences.

Despite the threat of the Nords, the vicinity of the border between Calradia and the Nord was devastated to the point of almost no vegetation, and at that time the vast majority of the inhabitants of Calradia began to move inward, and at least a third of them eventually settled in the vicinity of Uxhall, a city that had previously existed only as a military station, and thus finally became one of the top cities in Calradia. Otherwise, the Svadian Emperor Haraus would not have stayed here for more than three months every year.

Two years ago, Parabun fell into the war of the Rhodoks, although after nearly a year of tug-of-war, Parabun finally fell back into the hands of the Swadians, but the Swadians also paid a heavy price for this, once proud of the pinnacle of the five powers, to the Swadians, who boasted to be the orthodox inheritance of the ancient Karad Empire, and now compared with the national strength of the other four powers, there is nothing too prominent. Even the Kugit Khanate, which had been entangled in civil strife, took advantage of the unpreparedness of the Svadians on several occasions to rush into the territory of the former First Karadia Empire to burn and loot. In the past, the proud Swadias had long been clamoring to step on Kugit and kill him, and now, they can only make solemn representations and strongly protest a few words without being soft or hard.

After the Paraven Rebellion, Uxhall became one of the most important cities of the Swadian Empire, and even directly became the capital of the empire.

Uxhall thus ushered in the second peak of its history.

Tens of thousands of artisans and hundreds of caravans followed, carrying goods worth more than a million dinars every day. According to the trade tax of 10 per cent stipulated by the Svadia Empire, Uxhall alone can extract more than 100,000 dinars of taxes a day, and all of them will be used to pay for military expenses. However, in practice, this tax often reaches three out of ten or four out of ten when it is collected, and when it is handed over, it becomes five or three out of a hundred, and the rest is often lost in the blank and innocent expression of the tax collector.

For example, the tax collector in front of me right now.

"I've said it many times, you're suspected of smuggling bread, linen clothes, and socks!" said the tax collector, touching his beard, and looking down at us haughtily.

"Bread?" Finn's eyes were red, as if he was ready to go up and fight hard, he glared at the tax collector viciously, reached out and grabbed the bread in the package, and nibbled it clean, "Now we don't have to smuggle bread!"

The tax collector looked at Finn, and then at the crumbs in his hand, "Are you threatening me? Or do you want to be a new cargo for slave traders?"

Finn couldn't help it, and reached for the dagger behind his buttocks, but Sephiroth grabbed his hand.

This is the gate of Uxhall, as far as we can see, there are at least two hundred city gate guards, if there is any disturbance here, the elite regular army stationed in it can reach up to 60,000 will rush out, not to mention a few of us, even the entire Legion Commander who came to the meeting will not be spared.

I stepped forward, took a bag full of dinars from my bosom, smiled and stuffed it into the tax collector's coat.

"I'm sorry, this little brother of mine is not sensible, you can bear more. I smiled and said, "I won't tell you, my brothers are actually here to go to relatives, those bread or something are really the dry food we prepared on the road, as for those clothes and socks, we carry them with us to change and wash, you have a lot of them, your eyes are like torches, serious and responsible, loyal to the people's guard, naturally you are aware of everything." ”

The tax collector pinched the pocket in his arms, frowned, and said, "That's it...... Ahem, so many clothes, and you still say that they are not smuggling? You all have an average of one per person! Do you know that linen clothes are in short supply now? I have enough reason to suspect that you are engaged in smuggling, put away your luck and come with me......

I pulled out a larger bag full of dinars and stuffed it into the tax collector's robe.

"What's that...... Where are you from?" the tax collector pinched the pocket in his arms, his brow jumping.

I hurriedly said, "We are from Palaubun, and it has only been peaceful for a few days, so it is not easy. ”

The tax collector immediately nodded approvingly: "It turned out to be a compatriot from Parabun, no wonder, no wonder, it's a relative, why do you only bring this to change clothes? Won't it be enough? Don't look at it as spring now, in fact, there are still cold times, okay, don't worry about it, I'll catch a cold later." Go in, there are a lot of ready-to-wear shops in the city, go and buy some clothes for yourself. ”

With that, the tax collector smiled and moved out of the way, and Sephiroth immediately smiled wisely and nodded, and drove the carriage in.

As soon as I walked through the city gates, Finn grabbed me by the sleeve and said, "How much?"

I touched my arms and said, "It's more than a thousand, and the market price has also risen, and when I came here last year, it was obviously five hundred." ”

Finn's face immediately turned green, and he frantically touched the dagger on his body, trying to jump down desperately.

Sephiroth smiled and said, "I told you not to come with me, the boss and I are not here to travel, we are here to do business, and it is inconvenient to take you with you, regardless of whether you will encounter danger or not." ”

Finn pursed his lips and said, "Just the two of you, one is simple-minded, the other is careless, what can you do without a wise man like me to follow you? I guess I was crushed to death by a big apostate hat before I could open my mouth!"

Sephiroth smiled, concentrating on his drive, not speaking.

The city of Uxhall extends in all directions, and the place where you first enter the door is a hotel area specializing in the business of outsiders, mixed with some newly relocated outsiders, as well as some grocery stores, blacksmith shops, taverns and the like that are trying to survive in the cracks, which is the most chaotic area in the whole of Uxhall. Further inside, there is the main settlement of the natives of Uxhall, where the environment and basic facilities are very good, and the security conditions are also very good, and the innermost part of the city is the Earl's palace of Earl DiLinald, the owner of Uxhall, and another large-scale and beautifully decorated palace next to the earl's palace, which is the palace of King Harlaus.

In the north and east districts of Uxhall, there is a huge military camp, the east barracks are the 40,000 regular troops who guard Uxhall and guard against the Kujits in the east, and the north barracks are stationed with 20,000 elite palace guards directly belonging to King Harauth, which is an absolute force in the hands of Harlaus himself, and will take this force with him wherever Harlaus goes.

But this force is not an airtight iron barrel, at least, as far as I know, whether it is the Inquisition or the Deep Blue, there are quite a few spies mixed in.

Sephiroth suddenly snorted and said, "Boss, I see the dark blue code. ”

I immediately sat up straight and said, "Where?"

Sephiroth pointed to a full-house tavern in front of him, where a bard was bragging and fart, and a small patch of blue paint was somehow sticking to the tavern sign hanging outside.

"This is the temporary joint of the dark blue, and the members of the nearby dark blue see this sign and have to go in and wait for the assignment. Sephiroth explained, "This is a more common summoning secret mark inside Deep Blue, and looking at the tone of this secret mark, the person who left the secret mark does not have a very high position in Deep Blue, and is not even as good as me." ”

I nodded, thought for a moment, and said, "Well, you haven't left the dark blue yet, have you?"

Sephiroth glanced back at me, pondered his tone, and said, "No." To be exact, the other Deep Blue has always thought I was an undercover agent lurking by your side. ”

I said "En" and said, "In this way, you go and explore the situation inside, see what kind of mission this Deep Blue has released, whether it will be related to our incident this time, and you need to know more information about everything." After that, go to the Happy Lynx to find me. ”

Sephiroth answered, and continued to drive our carriage forward without squinting, and then turned into a few dark streets, and when no one noticed us, Sephiroth slipped over the wall and disappeared.