Chapter 5 The Imperial Capital!

The sun sets, and in the blink of an eye, half a month has passed. Xing Ling was still holding a grass in his mouth, followed by his pet Xiao Hei and his party driving on the forest path. It can be seen that the Shadow Forest is really as large as the conjecture of Star Zero, almost comparable to the Amazon forest on Earth. With the two lost lambs, Star Zero and Little Black, I'm afraid they won't be able to get out of this Shadow Forest.

The structure of the Shadow Forest is very peculiar, with eighteen bends in the river, and if you are not careful, you will go back around. Towering trees also shade the sky, and without the help of any equipment or magic, humans will often get lost in the Shadow Forest, and only very few magical beasts that can leave a mark scent will be able to get out of the Shadow Forest by instinct.

Star Zero learned a lot of knowledge about the continent along the way, and he knew that this world was called Nolan. The Nolan Continent is named after Nolan, which is not the same as the Earth's land, due to the special structure of the planet, only the center of the Nolan Continent is a resource-rich place. To the north is the cold, extremely cold land, and only the thickly fured orcs can withstand the bitter cold. To the south is the Forbidden Mountains, huge mountain ranges that run along the edge of the continent and are inhabited by dragons and elves. There are also rare elves who live in the center of the continent, usually some elves who wander to the center of the continent due to famine.

Xing Zero learned from the old butler that the Nolan Continent had experienced a race war, and the human race had won to form today's situation. After defeating the other three races, the human race united to establish the Holy Empire, and built the imperial capital in the plain surrounded by a huge basin in the very center of the Holy Empire. It took hundreds of years to build the imperial capital, and it cost one-tenth of the total human population of the continent at that time.

Originally, the population base caused by the war was not large, and one-tenth of the population was requisitioned to build the royal core city. Then the empire began to develop the economy and restore production from this huge city, and gradually expanded the sphere of human influence, building cities all the way out, until now it has expanded to the northernmost city of Edel, which is close to the northern orc kingdom. The southernmost city of Yodel is near the Forbidden Mountains.

The entire empire was merged from the original three empires into one, and the three most powerful royal families formed the core of power in the three empires today. The three schools hold the three major powers of politics, economics and justice. It is equivalent to the three companies checking and balancing each other, forming a system of separation of powers. The country has a long history, and magical scientists have made magic more convenient.

Basically, the technology that Star Zero can see on the earth has also appeared more or less on the Nolan continent, and it is basically in the industrial age compared to the civilization of the earth. For example, a car that does not use a horse-drawn horse is only driven by Warcraft crystals. Some civilian items such as the lantern of Warcraft are lit. However, most of the high-end technology requires the magic crystal of high-level demonic beasts, and ordinary people can't afford to use them at all, and demonic beasts are already difficult to catch, and they must ensure that they kill demonic beasts without destroying the magic crystals.

The massive need for magic crystals has also led to the creation of a number of guilds, which will issue tasks for some mages to do, similar to bounties.

On the way, the old butler showed Xing Ling some basic magic skills, such as: how to sense the elements, how to mobilize them, and other knowledge that some magicians will know. The old butler was very surprised to find that Xingling's strength had reached the level of intermediate to senior mage apprentices, and he didn't even know this knowledge.

Xing Ling could only smile awkwardly: "Haha, I may be born beautiful, right? haha", with the same prevarication, he confused the things that couldn't be explained. No matter how he looks at it, it's suspicious, and in the end, Star Zero can only use him to explain all this with his non-existent otherworldly father.

The old butler said, "Your father is an irresponsible father, how can he not even tell you this basic knowledge, you will have problems with your magic and fooling yourself." It is very likely that you are not affinity with other elements or have a low affinity, and if you call each other, it will cause elemental necrosis, which may be life-threatening!"

Xing Ling was shocked, it turned out that magic was still so exquisite. When I was in high school, I didn't read a lot of fantasy novels, but there were never such miscellaneous rules. Isn't the protagonist in the novel supposed to be cool? Xing Ling studied it carefully and came to a conclusion, when you really cross, don't refer to the cool text you have read...... At least before the crossing, Xing Ling still liked to read Shuangwen, and now he sneered at Shuangwen! He secretly said in his heart: "I'm scared to death, I almost had an accident, but fortunately, my life is big." In the first few days I was here, I practiced magic a lot. ”

There is a reason for Xing Ling's random practice, because he found that in addition to his special feeling for the water element, he can also communicate with other elements well, without a sense of strangeness, and the elements also like him. Star Zero was so "mentioned" by the old housekeeper, and vowed never to touch the elements other than the water element again, because he had a dick silk dream, he couldn't die, since the first time he saw Erica, he decided to marry the most beautiful girl, raise the fiercest dog (Little Black QAQ), and ride the wildest horse.

The old butler interrupted him and said to him, "Xingling, behind the mountain peak in front of you is the imperial capital." When you see the imperial capital, try to be restrained, don't dance with your hands! Passers-by will see jokes. ”

Xing Ling swore a flag, patted his chest and said: "Don't worry, old butler, I have seen the world, how can a small city let me dance? In the past few days, Xiao Hei has basically recovered the basic strength of the 3rd order demonic beast, reaching the standard of a human high-level mage apprentice.

The breeze blew through the green leaves, and the carriage engraved with the word "Ai Jinfen" drove steadily through the forest, crossing one mountain peak after another. Finally, the outline of the imperial capital is clearly visible, and the first thing that catches your eye is the towering walls of the imperial capital. The 50-storey city wall surrounds the entire city, and countless financial and material resources have been spent on this city wall, which is vividly reflected in the construction of hundreds of years.

The entire wall has an oval shape, which echoes the topography. The four huge steel gates were driven by eight Rank 7 high-level Breaking Blood Divine Dragon's demonic beast crystal nuclei, and under normal circumstances, the city gates were not closed, and were guarded by a team of neat and orderly soldiers. These soldiers are specially trained to increase their combat effectiveness with the help of the Mage's secondary magic bonus. On the walls of the city are mages dressed in royal attire. Above the four city gates, there are two responsible royal law saint guards, basically the matter of breaking into the city gate has appeared in history, and the consequences are also obvious, death! The rest of the law saints are guarding near the palace, guarding the safety of the highest authority of the empire. The guards of the eight Dharma Saints made it possible for no force on the continent today to break through unscathed.

Erica and Blackie sat in the carriage, and the butler introduced some things to Star Zero in order to drive the carriage, and they both sat in the driver's seat of the carriage. As soon as the carriage drove to the marble main road outside the city wall of the imperial capital, Xing Ling danced with excitement and shouted: "Wow, wow, wow, so big! How can this city wall be so tall, a full 200 meters? This is too tall, how did it come about, it is really a magic workmanship, a magic axe!"

The butler pulled Xing Ling to sit in the driver's seat and said, "Who just said that he hadn't seen anything? It is impossible to dance with his hands?" Xing Ling laughed awkwardly: "Hehe, I am also the first time to come to the imperial capital, this spectacular scenery will be very happy if my father sees it, he especially likes to visit the spectacular scenery around the world" As he spoke, Xing Ling really missed his father a little, shook his head, and Xing Ling was once again attracted by the prosperous scenery in the imperial capital.

There are all kinds of things on the road, and there are all kinds of magic crystals of warcraft. There are constantly vendors with towels around their heads and trouser legs rolled up to sell their wares. "Don't miss it when you pass by, the staff that has just been baked, the staff that has just been baked, only 1 imperial coin, only 1 imperial coin~". "Sir, how about taking a look at this necklace, it can make your mana fluctuations increase." "Roll on, Lao Tzu's mana is the best in the world, you don't need it." "Please, give me some money to eat, I haven't eaten in days, okay, old man" "Get out! tell Hanako not to bother Lao Tzu! tell you to get out, can't you hear? Get out!"

All kinds of imperial capital life suddenly poured into Xing Ling's mind, and Xing Ling was speechless all of a sudden. This scene is similar to the earth, there are also small traders, there are also people who are sophisticated, and there is also a hot and cold world. Xing Zero has a lot of indescribable feelings in his heart, he wants to help all the poor people, but he is not capable, he is also new to this world, he is not much better than a beggar in a way. Thinking of this, I looked at this gorgeous carriage again, and touched my trouser belt, which was deflated, and I didn't have any money, and my clothes were very old. He couldn't help but want to ask the Ai family for money in return, but he had said a great favor before. He struggled for a while, forget it, a manly man, it is difficult to chase after a horse, which is the basic truth of the world is unchanged, work hard! earn! earn!

The carriage continued to drive towards the Ai family's forest garden, and along the way, the cries of vendors continued to spread, from the prosperous walls of the imperial capital to the dense forest.