Chapter 114: City of Daylight

The journey was far more difficult than Kenny had imagined. When the team crossed www.biquge.info the Silk Valley, everything in front of them was exactly what Kane had said: the Plains of Quells was a barren, windswept and lifeless land of grass and mud, and now it was more dangerous than any other place on the continent. Without trees and mountains for cover, the Flame Legion may catch up at some point.

In comparison, the Silk Valley is much more intimate. Although they walked around the western side of the valley, the dense forests, craggy rocks, rugged mountain roads, and windswept peaks reminded Kenny of the Dragon's Blood Forest. There, there was a mulberry hut in which the white dove and old Flynn lived, and where he was reborn and experienced the baptism of fate again and again.

“..... Will you still be separated?" asked Kane as he listened to Kenny's reminiscences of Assyria, looking back at the fading Silk Valley.

"Yes, I still wonder if she's in trouble. Kenny rarely confides in outsiders, not even in front of his long-time friends Lawrence and Mike, and he doesn't know why he trusts Kane Irene so much, and he always feels like another version of himself these days. And this feeling will gradually get worse over time.

"Of course she's in trouble. Kane turned to look at Kenny, "If you really want to be with her, you shouldn't take her back to Assyria." Now that she is the queen of Assyria, she owns the richest territory in Sumer, and you, like me, are an unfortunate lord who is too downcast to be down. He paused, untied the water bag from the saddle, and continued as he unplugged it, "You should think about what her ministers will think?"

Kenny listens to Kane's chatter as he closes his eyes and takes a nap, his gray wolf-striped cape fluttering in the wind.

"The queen has a male pet and a bunch of oil bottles!" Kane exclaimed in a voice pretending to be a jester when Kenny didn't say anything. This does make Kenny open his eyes with a deep rage. "My uncle taught me how to deal with the faces of the council from a young age. Kane wiped the water from the corner of his mouth with his sleeve, "I bet someone must have said that behind their backs, maybe not like that, but at least it means the same." So, from the moment she put on the scythe-crown, you won't be able to, man. ”

"I just hope she's safe. Kenny closed his eyes again.

Thus they marched northward, and seldom stopped or camped on the endless plains, except for the necessary supplies of water and the rest of the horses.

By the time the wasteland had been turned into a field, the dead wood had turned into a fruit orchard, and the sand had ceased to scratch their cheeks, they had been less than a day's ride from Sunshine City, and there were less than eight hundred men left in the Guards who had been turned from the westward expedition to escort. Along the way, they encountered a total of two encirclements and suppressions by the Flame Legion, one during the day and one at night.

During the day, Camille's wolves taught the Flame Legion a lesson, which prompted the following late-night sneak attack. At that time, they had not camped for nearly a week, and while the tired soldiers were sleeping, and even the guards of the sentry were dozing, the Flame Legion tore through their lines like a sharp sword in the night. The entire garrison was on fire, and Kane immediately ordered the Black Armor to break off, and by the time Camille's wolves returned from their hunt, they had lost three hundred men.

A chase on the plains ensued, and the battle lasted until dawn, when the sun rose and Nikko's border guards spotted them and engaged in the battle, and the Flame Legion was eventually outnumbered and had to retreat back to your.

"That's Sunshine City!" Kane said, sitting in the saddle, pointing to a complex of buildings facing the ocean at his back. Nearly twenty days of travel and lack of food and appetite made his face thin, his black cashmere shirt and breeches had long been tattered, and the worn-out riding boots were almost worn out by this time, except for the often sharpened saber at his waist, this lord of your lived like a fleeing beggar.

"Oh. Kenny hastily responded. Compared to Kane, he seems to have long been accustomed to a depressed life, although he also looks like a beggar on the outside, but his spirit is much better.

"Nikko is the greatest territory of Sumer. As they rode across the gates, Kane waved at the guards and told Kenny, "It's a constant rule of daylight that they won't stop when they see the Fire Emblem, because Namu Irene is a close friend of Jefferson Caswell." My father told me that he had been guarding the northern frontier for your for ten years, and that it was there that he had become acquainted with Jefferson, Lord of the Daylight, who had been mortally wounded during a hunt: he was chased by a large pack of wild dogs, and after his own soldiers were killed, he fell from his horse and broke two ribs, which nearly pierced the old man's lungs. My father saved him while he was on patrol, and the guy invited my father to come to Sunshine City, and after a hangover, they went to a brothel together, and they became friends, ha!"

"Jefferson Caswell?" Kenny twisted his beard. The name seemed familiar to him.

"There's Castle of Daylight," Kane said to himself, "it's quite a few years old, but Sunlight City is even older." Second only to Assyria, of course, who left you with sad memories, aha!" Kenny glanced at him in disgust, but Kane ignored it. "Daylight is located on the western border of Sumer, and it connects Uruk, your, and Assyria. Some people say that this place is not only ancient, majestic and magnificent, beyond people's memory, but also makes Enki, the god of water who built Elidu, ashamed of himself, when our god Enki saw the city of sunlight for the first time, he found that the Elidu he built was simply ugly. He smiled, "Of course, these words came from the bard of Nikko. ”

Kenny thinks Kane Irene is better suited to be a bard, this guy has always been a good talker, but the opulence and grandeur of this great city cannot be denied. Almost all of Sumer was in the city of Sunshine, and the streets were lined with buildings in a variety of shades of dreamlike roses, kumquat oranges, emerald greens, violets, and tans.

As they pass a bronze arch carved with a sun coat of arms, Kenny discovers that the glow is delicate jadeite, obsidian, opal, emerald edge, and lapis lazuli. Numerous slender minarets stand tall, not even in Karta nor Assyria, and each square has an elaborate fountain in the shape of a sun, and beside the fountain bards play various musical instruments, singers sing melodious tunes, and beside them girls in colorful clothes dance.

"If you were born in Sunshine City, every day would be a big holiday. Kane said with a smile.