Chapter 004: Memories of the Past

Characters in this chapter: Alleyne, Wiggins. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

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The Riwa is a paradise for the Wanderers. It also has a more figurative name: the City of a Thousand Sails.

This seaside megacity is the largest port in the northern part of the Calradia continent, and is a veritable city of sin with dragons and snakes.

This port city is one of the main seaports on the Calradia continent and the largest city in the northern part of the Kingdom of Vegia.

In terms of the size of the city, it is smaller than the royal city of Sagoth in the Kingdom of Nord and the harbor city of Aaron in the Duchy of Rhodok, but it is much larger than the other two seaport cities of Woche and Tiha.

The city was surrounded by walls, which were garrisoned by the capital garrison, or "Guardians of Virginia".

The poor built their little shacks outside the city. It is very densely populated, but it is dirtier and more unsightly than other cities. The stench of garbage in the city can be smelled outside the city walls.

It has endured the enormous internal friction of the ruling class, the nuisance of external pirates, and the decline of the labor passion of the city dwellers.

In response to the city's decline, the ruling class supplemented its plummeting population with exiles fleeing from other city-states, so it became the home of most of the exiles.

In this harbor is the royal fleet of the Kingdom of Vegia. In addition, the city is also famous for producing goldware. The garrison responsible for maintaining law and order is known for its well-trained Virgian guards.

The port, which is divided into an inner harbor and an outer harbor, is separated by a breakwater.

The inner harbor is the part of the outer harbor that is relatively far from the sea. The inner harbor generally has additional protective bodies, often as a mooring place for warships.

The Outer Harbour was larger, but the Inner Harbour had a better anchorage, and the Inner Harbour was on one side of the wall, and a new stone wall was built on the breakwater that was thirty feet high and nearly a mile long, with towers every 100 meters. The inner harbor could accommodate more than twenty warships.

A gray-green boulder rising fifty feet from the sea chokes the passage of the outer harbor. There is a ring of weathered stones on the top of the rock, which is the remains of the ring fort of the ancestors of Kalad hundreds of years ago. The ruins have now been re-armed, guarded by trebuchets, fire-breathing crossbows, and crossbowmen.

Numerous small boats shuttled between the large ships on the docks, their sails sewn from scraps of cloth, and in the middle of the canvas were embroidered with the motifs of the things they sold: sewing needles, fried onion rolls, linen shorts, leather, and all sorts of things.

The wet dock looks a little chilly in the early morning.

Although there are beautiful goddesses, the pier is still very chaotic, or in other words, very prosperous. Countless vendors compete for business, and all kinds of aromas waft by.

At the entrances of some shops, brightly dressed men and women shouted loudly to buy their goods.

Of course, the shops with the highest specifications do not need to be purchased, and the owners of these stores only need to wait quietly in the store, brew a cup of black tea, and wait for the business to come to the door.

It's just the view on the most decent avenue behind the warehouse on the docks.

Around some of the gutters, garbage has been piled up. Every day a few old men come and use iron rakes to pull this garbage all the way into the river, but there is so much of this garbage that no one will believe that this garbage can be carried away by the river, and they will eventually become silt under the pier Who knows what's inside, even thinking about it can make people sick for a long time.

The city sits neatly on the north bank, and the wide, straight avenues are paved with large pebbles to make it easy for pedestrians to find their way. The houses were made of whitewashed stone and roofed with dark grey stone slabs.

Fishing market, nestled between the Outer Harbour and the Seal Gate. Thick walls surround the city and lead to the port by the Seal Gate.

Nestled inside the Seal Gate, King of the Fish Plaza is a cobblestone plaza. There is a fountain in the center of the square. There is a small alley leading to a tavern.

Walking on the pier road leading to King Fish Square, Wiggins suddenly asked, "Boss, have you ever been out to sea?"

Looking at the rough sea in front of him, Alleyne shook his head. It wasn't the first time he had come to this squalid and bustling city, he had the opportunity to go to sea, but only as a pirate.

He declined an invitation from a pirate captain, even though the other party promised him that the reward would be handsome. But Alleyne was unwilling to rob ships and cargo, harming innocent merchants and sailors for the sake of money.

"I remember the first time I went to sea with a group of friends from the same village," Wiggins began to recount his past. "Only two out of ten families in our town are fishermen, and the rest are all pirates. ”

Aren wasn't surprised by this, as almost all the pirates in the entire continent of Calradia were Nords. "Wiggins, where is your hometown?" he asked curiously.

"Buyoun, in the far northwest of the continent of Calradia, a forgotten corner. Speaking of his hometown, Wiggins' mood seemed a little low.

"Is it near Chelbek Castle?" said Ellen after a moment of thought. "I remember that the history books of Calradia said that you Nords landed here when they invaded the continent of Calradia. ”

"I don't know much about this history," Wiggins replied, suppressing his emotions. "But I know very well what you said about Fort Cherbek, Sir, every summer every man in our village who is sixteen years old is summoned by the lord of Fort Cherbek. Two months later, only half, if not less, of the men returned to the village. The men who came back brought with them the poor dinar that they had received from the lord and gave to them, while the families of the men who did not return received nothing. Wiggins' voice was filled with a lingering heaviness.

"What happened, where did all the people who didn't come back?" asked Alleyne.

"They all went out to sea with the lord of Fort Cherbek, who went out and let his warriors lead us to do some plundering of ships and goods at sea. Wiggins suddenly laughed and said, "Fishermen who weren't pirates at that time have become pirates." His smile was mixed with an inexplicable sadness.

Wiggins went on to tell his story. "I remember the first time we went to sea, our boat was nothing more than a dilapidated fishing boat, but we relied on this fishing boat to grab a cargo merchant ship near the port that was about to enter the port. Later, on our way back with joy, we met a group of real pirates near the waters of Cape Bay. ”

Alleyne listened to Wiggins' story as if he were in it.

"When we met at sea, we pirates followed the old tradition of tied-up the ships together without saying a word, after which we set up a gangplank in the bow of the ship and went head-to-head in turn. Everyone who walks on the springboard faces such a fate, either killing them all, or dying in battle, and having their companions behind avenge themselves. ”

"If you feel scared, you can turn around and jump into the sea, no one will chase the deserter, but the one who gives up his qualification to fight is no different from the dead, and even his family will ignore his existence from now on. Therefore, the first in line in the bow of the ship were usually the most elite fighters. We were naked and naked, roaring roughly, and enjoying the hearty battle unremittingly. We know that the springboard under our feet is soaked in the blood of our ancestors, and our own descendants will also settle in the same place. ”

"And you were the first warrior to go into battle at that time. Alleyne suddenly came to a conclusion.

Wiggins nodded and said no more, pulling his boss through the market and towards the King of Fish Square.

Lazy eel, a tavern. It offers the most beautiful prostitutes, women and the strongest liquor in the port of Zhiwache, as well as meat pies filled with lard and cartilage.