Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Royal Capital
On the 23rd day of the month of the god of nature, the wind is four.
Yezin County, a northern suburb of Sasarama City.
Riding a good mount is fast, but in three days, he has crossed five counties, and at this moment, the king of the kingdom of Loren Magaga is already close at hand.
However, this good mount was not easy to serve, and he waited for ten days in that grove in Dowen County.
On that day, his eyes were transparent and he ran wildly. Ao Zongheng judged that it was looking for a place, and this judgment was correct, but he didn't expect that the person who was looking for a place would actually dig a big hole to hide himself. Ao Zongheng thought of the story of breaking out of the cocoon and becoming a butterfly, so he didn't interfere with it, just meditated outside the cave and waited.
I didn't expect to wait for ten days, if it weren't for the fact that Ao Zongheng felt that its breath in the soil was normal, he really thought it would have died in the mound.
The ring spirit thinks that it is going to evolve, according to her, no matter what world it is, these alien creatures that can evolve and mutate are often very mobile when they evolve, this head does not sound very capable, and it is appropriate to dig a hole and sleep for ten days and eight days if it evolves.
But what makes Ao Zongheng puzzling is that it doesn't mean that it needs to absorb the mage's spell energy for a long time before it changes, why did it change in just half a day?
The point given by the ring spirit is that because Ao Zongheng's true qi is abundant and unmatched, so he fed this fox at one time, and Ao Zongheng can accept this statement, but there are some other reasons in general.
The truth is indeed more complicated, although the mages of the Ploz world attach great importance to the improvement of mana, they pay attention to how to improve their own mana carrying capacity, even high-level mages, they only pay attention to condensing the mana in the body, which is equivalent to the compression and storage of mana. At the end of the day, the goal is to only aim for a large amount and ignore other things, such as manipulation.
It seems sensational to say this - how can a mage ignore the mana control? People who have this idea are confusing spells and mana are two different concepts, for example, a mage uses a waterspout spell, and the waterspout is of course controlled, and the mage can control its power and direction, etc. But in the whole process of casting a spell, the mana is supplied and consumed, if you take a car as a metaphor, the mage is the driver, the mana pool is the fuel tank, and the mana is naturally the oil inside. When the mage wants to use a spell, then step on the accelerator, as for how the gasoline reaches the engine and is converted into power, the driver does not need to know, and the concept of spell is reversed, which is the basic law of spell operation.
And the so-called mage provides magic energy to the skull, in fact, it is not to use the spell against the skull, but the mage to deliver mana to the sku, but because the mages lack the ability to control the mana, the same car as an example, it is like opening the fuel tank cap to the side, which is not controllable by the driver, and the waste is also great.
However, the common "flaw" in the concept of magic in the world of Proz (which they don't consider to be a flaw) is the out-and-out strength of Middle-earth martial arts—controlling true qi is the entry and lifelong lesson of all cultivators, so arrogantly and unconsciously controlling true qi in the bloodline according to habit is the most efficient way to do it. Coupled with the amazing endurance of Ao Zongheng and the non-stop washing, this method similar to True Qi Empowerment is more than a hundred times stronger than that of the mages in terms of efficiency.
Compared to the silence when hiding in the cave, the movement when the level is broken is much greater.
At that time, Ao Zongheng starved for ten days without moving, and was thinking about whether to find something to eat and drink nearby, when suddenly the breath in the mound of earth instantly tripled, and in the blink of an eye, the entire mound was blown apart, and the mud that flew out actually broke a lot of branches with the thickness of the bowl.
In the soil pit, he stood proudly, his face was radiant, and his eyes were bright.
Actually, it's okay to say that it's not a stumbling statement.
After the evolution, the whole appearance of the body is different, taller, and the limbs are thicker, but these changes are nothing, the original brown and black short-haired body has turned cyan, and the eyes have faded and become very sharp. The neck that was originally hairless, but now it has grown two inches long, wavy bristles, and even more strange is that on both sides of the abdomen, there are gills-like openings. It can be said that no one dares to insist that this is a stubborn look.
The Ring Spirit Gang took a name called "Evil Spirit" for this two-year-old evolutionary bird, Ao Zongheng didn't quite understand the meaning of these two words, and the Ring Spirit said that this was to describe the cyan god horse that ran very fast, and Ao Zongheng thought about it and described it quite appropriately.
After evolving, the beast really ran fast, far better than a galloping horse, and more importantly, it actually had a light and agile ability that other beasts did not have, and could carry arrogant and vertical trees to jump up to three feet high on the same place, and move and shuttle through the dense forest, far more than any Middle-earth animal that arrogant and vertical knew of.
In this way, he rode all the way to the king's capital, regardless of the mainland road, almost all of them walked in a straight line, crossed the mountains and crossed the forests, and also avoided all kinds of possible troubles - after entering the direct jurisdiction of the king, the security on the road would be much more peaceful. In order to reduce the trouble, there is no city along the way, of course, Sasarama City is a must.
Looking up, the high wall and big tower, the city Guo Sensen.
The city of Sasarama has a much longer history than the Loren Magaga Kingdom, and is said to have been built more than 2,000 years ago during the ancient Ramado period, and more than 800 years ago it was the imperial capital of the Aung La Yu Empire. The most unique wealth that the city of Sasarama has brought to the city of more than 2,000 years is the largest fortress system in the entire Lorenmagaga kingdom.
There are about 500 large and small cities in the kingdom of Lorenmagaga, and only one-tenth of them have more than two castles, most of which are counties such as Sealand. There are only three triple castles, and Sasarama is the only quadruple castle.
The fourfold castle divided the city of Sasarama into five districts, the first castle was outside the large and small grain fields and fruit fields, and the first castle was the lower castle, where various tenants, slaves, and freemen lived, and there was also a royal garrison camp. Between the second and third walls is called the upper city, where the wealthier freemen, merchants, officials, officers and minor nobles lived, and at the same time it was the seat of the kingdom's administration. Among the royal cities is the fourth wall, also known as the palace city, which is small but is the core of power in the entire Lorenmagaga kingdom.
Since it is the royal capital, the rules are naturally very strict, take this access control as an example, the Loren Magaga Kingdom has an unwritten doorman law, which stipulates that the outer city gate must be closed before sunset, and if there is an inner city gate, it can be closed a moment later. Close the door first outside and then inside, open the door first inside and then outside, this order is not allowed to be messy. In the case of Sasarama, the god of nature, the tenth day is the time when the sun sets, so the first gate is closed at the eleventh hour, the second gate is closed at the second hour, the third gate is closed at the third minute, and the fourth gate is closed at the fourth hour. After entering the dark, not according to the order of the city lord, you are not allowed to enter and exit the gates, but the actual implementation is always to release water, only the outer gate, because it is related to the city defense, the king attaches the most importance to it, and it is very good to kill a group of guards who release water, so the password is not good, it must be a warrant to enter and exit, and the number of people must be clear, and the order is written that three people are three, no more, no less.
Although the royal capital is large, what Ao Zongheng wants is only a list of demigods, which the royal family has and the Ministry of Legal Management also has, but Ao Zongheng doesn't even know where these two places are, let alone where they are. His plan was to find a place to settle in the lower or upper city first, and then slowly find out the information about the list of demigods.
Tarama is the deputy head of the guard of the northwest gate of the first city wall of the royal capital, it sounds like it should be regarded as an official, in fact, there are eight deputy guards at the northwest gate alone, the first city wall is more than a dozen feet high, there is a shift under the door, three shifts a day, and another class is prepared. So Talama is actually just the squad leader of one of the shifts.
Every day, the fifth quarter is not only the time when the first city wall is closed, but also the time for the shift to change the guard, according to the habit of decades, first change the guard, and then close the door, wind and rain do not change. Therefore, residents and tourists who often enter and exit the gate at the last moment know that the moment of the wind is the moment when the customs defense is the most lax -- who is not distracted when they are ready to leave work? What do you say are there really people who are not distracted? The guards said disdainfully: Do we receive the same amount of wages?
It was at this moment that Proud entered the door.
Although there are many people rushing in and out before the gate, there are very few people on horses, not to mention riding a horse that is rarer than a horse.
If you want to say that you are well-informed and have a poisonous eye, there are few people in the royal capital who can compare with the guards of the first city wall, and there are not 10,000 people who enter and exit here in a day, but 8,000, from the princes and nobles to the poor and thieves, all have to enter and exit through the closed door. Not to mention the coercion, they have seen a lot of evolved coveters, although Tamara has never seen such a cocoon, but his experience and intuition tell him that this is the cocoon.
But what about riding a horse and not violating the law of law and order in Loren Magaga, and catching illegal horses? Don't be kidding, that's what the uncle of the legal department is worried about, and it's about Lao Tzu's? The guards of the first city wall are only in charge of two kinds of people -- those who openly violate the law of the kingdom in front of the guards. If it's similar to the wanted headshot posted on the wall, take it down first. Anything else? You must know that the first city gate is full of tenants, untouchables without labor, and free people who are not wealthy.
What's more, Lao Tzu is going to change shifts, who wants to be troublesome? My soldier wants to be troublesome, look back at me to clean him up.
In this way, in the midst of a group of tenants and freemen who returned to the city, under the watchful eyes of a group of guards, he leisurely passed through the five-meter-deep doorway and entered the royal capital in a grand manner.
Just when everyone thought that the trouble would pass like this, at the other end of the North Gate Avenue opposite the gate, there was a sound of knocking over things, shouting left and right.