The farthest distance between the north and south borders of the empire was nearly 7,000 li, which is more than 13,000 li when converted into a unit of length for Tangulas. The canal did not originate in Phoenix, and its length is close to five thousand miles.

The ship hired by Saleen was not very fast, and could only travel about 20 miles per hour, but it could go nearly 500 miles in a day. If it's a real clipper, even if it's just a sail, it can reach the level of a thousand miles.

It was exactly five thousand miles from Evantel to Pompeii, and in the last few days, the captain quickened the speed of the ship, and it took exactly ten days to get from Evantel to Pompeii.

In the past ten days, Saleen has had a very happy time. He and Rex had finally mastered a little bit of their magic dispersal skills during their last day. This skill may not be effective on others, but the ability of two people to cooperate with each other has been multiplied.

Pompeii is also a large port city, where the canal meets the Emerald River, where the two rivers merge into a wider river that flows east into the sea.

Pompeii's geographical location was more important, and commerce was more developed. Ships hired by Saleen are to be inspected here, and stop by to replenish water and vegetables.

The captain came to Salin in a special way, and he said, "Master Mage, the Fran Duncan is going to be overhauled in Pompeii, and it has to be inspected, this ship was originally registered in Pompeii, it will take a day, do you want to go to the city?"

As soon as Salin wanted to refuse, Rex had already said, "Okay, it's a little boring to stay on the ship, Salin, let's go to Pompeii and have a look." ”

Since Rex wanted to go ashore for a walk, Saleen didn't care. Sika has been concentrating on the white bone necklace these days, saying that he doesn't want to leave, and Neris is not very relieved to put it on the boat, so he has to let Sika stay alone, and he can Rex take Naris off the ship and walk to the dock.

The pier of Pompeii is larger than that of Evantel, and it is bordered by the largest seaport of the Empire in the east, the southern border of the Empire in the west, and the artery of the Grand Canal in the north and south.

Unlike Evantel, Pompeii is an ancient city, older than Qin Yin's history. It's just that the current city of Pompeii was built later.

Rex explained the history of Pompeii to Salin with great interest, this ancient city originally belonged to a duke of the Fourth Dynasty, after the Rebellion of the Dark Mages, the Fourth Dynasty was no longer able to control the local nobles, and the lord of Pompeii became a powerful party. Before Qin Yin was founded, Pompey was one of the few cities in the south that was not immediately defeated.

At that time, countless soldiers were killed in the battle under Pompeii, and the Founding Emperor, in his anger, sent eight ninth-level magicians to cast eight forbidden spell scrolls in different directions of Pompeii. Thousands of years of ancient cities were destroyed. Today's Pompey was rebuilt by later emperors on the basis of seized alchemy drawings.

When the city was rebuilt, millions of bones were excavated from the ashes of Pompey. You can imagine how prosperous Pompey was back then.

Standing at the foot of the city, Saleen listened to Rex's account of the history of the city, and his heart was shaken. The white Pompey is magnificent, and if you don't count the material, the scale of the city is not below that of Holy Rock City. The most striking are the sides of the main entrance. On the white city wall, there are magical images drawn by magicians to come to life.

It was a picture scroll of the real battle, and on the long scroll with the city wall as the carrier, the situation when Qin Yin's army attacked Pompey was carefully described. This huge picture scroll was all printed on the white stone city wall with dragon blood ink, black and white, but it made Saleen smell blood.

Qin Yin soldiers, dressed in double metal heavy armor, stood on a building car dozens of meters high and jumped towards Pompey's city wall. It was a huge demonic beast that pulled the building car, and Qin Yin's ironclad cavalry met Pompey's army that rushed out from the city gate, and a huge flying puppet flew out from Pompey's city wall, emitting thick smoke, and rushed towards the building car.

At the rear of the battlefield, Qin Yin's army was assembling the magic stone cannons, and from Pompeii, there were trebuchets attacking these magic apprentices who were assembling the stone cannons. The huge chariot was destroyed by the boulders thrown by the trebuchet, the horses and monsters rolled on the ground in agony, and a soldier had to end his mount's life with a short sword.

The apprentices of magic were intently oblivious to the boulders thrown from within the city.

The picture is static, as if the battlefield has been magically cast and fixed forever. Qin Yin's magician faithfully recorded the scene of the year, no one was righteous, and Salin only saw the tragedy.

There are two gates, there is an urn city, and a metal bridge hangs over the urn city, and the metal bridge has arrow holes, and the enemies who enter the urn city can be attacked at will from above. The scale of this urn city is somewhat large, and in the center stands a stone monument that is higher than the city wall. The white stone tablet is engraved with names.

"These are the Qin Yin people who died in Pompey that year, and on the back is the list of fallen soldiers of the Grand Duke of Pompey. This is how Qin Yin was established. Rex stood under the stone monument with a look of respect in his eyes.

She revered the founding fathers and the Grand Duke Pompey, who died in battle.

"I don't know what the nobles who don't advance or retreat in Garudan will think when they see this stone tablet, hehe......" Rex's tone became calm. At this time, her body revealed the temperament that an imperial county king should have.

"If it were a Skochenian, it wouldn't be like that. Salin looked at the white stone tablet and suddenly said to Rex with emotion.

"Oh?" what will the Skaudians do?

"The Skodians will fence off all these paintings and steles, and build a city, and whoever wants to see it will have to pay at least one silver coin. ”

"Hahahaha......" Rex laughed. Saleen's joke was a little cold, but it was a good relief for her depressed mood. "Salin, I didn't expect you to tell jokes too. ”

"I didn't expect you to laugh like that. Saleen looked around, and many people were already attracted by Rex's laughter. Rex and Naris are two beautiful people, she smiles uncontrollably, and she doesn't care about the eyes of others. Saleen, however, did not like to be watched, and was visited by many people here, and Salin pulled Larex by the sleeve.

There were Qin Yin soldiers standing guard next to the stone tablet, and several soldiers looked at Saleen's mage robes and did not come up to dissuade Rex's rude behavior.

"Let's go into the city, Pompey has trading houses from the Cloudstream Empire, and there are also Scochenians doing business here. Maybe we can buy the goods we need. ”

"I think it's time to buy some clothes first, our outfits are really eye-catching. ”

Saleen had long felt wrong, he was a fourth-level mage, and he was still wearing a white mage robe, and Rex's colorful magic robe was even more eye-catching. He was still followed by Neris in the middle of summer, and Neris was still wearing winter clothes. Fortunately, he didn't bring Xika out, and Xika's weapon was quite shocking, and these four people were eye-catching targets wherever they went.

"What are you afraid of, in Alchemy City, there are all kinds of strange clothes, and there are magicians wearing animal skins, the same as the Caucasians. ”

Seeing that Saleen looked depressed, Rex smiled and said, "Then get a beautiful dress for Sika, can you, I can give you a set of magic robes, which have the teacher's constant three magics, and you can wear them all the way to level six." ”

Rex was used to being generous to the people around her, and she said casually, not realizing that the gray magic robe was what she had worn herself, and it was somewhat inappropriate for Salin.

Fortunately, Saleen will forget the identities of Lord Rex and Beauty as soon as he touches the word magic, and he remembers Rex's original gray magic robe, which is a good equipment. What's more, there are three constants of the eighth-level magician on it, which is very important to himself.

"Why don't you find a place to put it on now? "Salin is also not polite to Rex, the secret between him and Rex is of great value, a magic robe, it is no longer a bribe.

"What's the hurry, you're wearing gray magic robes, are you embarrassed to bargain with someone?" Rex took Saleen with him, and wanted to take it away from the heart of Pompeii.

Pompeii's prosperity is different from that of the Holy Rock, there are too many merchants from outside the city, there are Yunliu people from both land and sea directions, there are Scochenians from the northern canal, and the most strange thing for Salin is that there are Tangulas here.

The two countries have already started a war, and these merchants are not afraid of being killed by the emperor to vent their anger, and they remain in Qinyin. This is really asking for money and death, and the current emperor's father died at the hands of the Holy See.

"Rex, I see you're quite familiar with the road, you've been to Pompeii before?" Salin followed Rex, leaving the main road, and swaying through the alleys, to an old town, where the storefronts were not large, but each had a huge crystal window. This kind of crystal window means that the store is special, and it is usually a place where commodities are traded except for valuables, and there is no need for a large storefront.

This style was passed down from the Skochenian Empire.

"Qin Because of every city with a population of more than 10,000, I wrote down a map. "Rex is a little proud, this is the advantage of the royal family, mastering the details of every city in the empire, in order to better control the local nobles. Qin Yin's city construction was not arbitrary, it had to be approved by the royal family, there were complete alchemy drawings, and there were less than thirty fixed patterns.

More than 20 kinds of city layouts can play a huge role in wartime, and there are many changes, but for a great magician like Rex, no matter how Pompey changes, the basic layout will not change.

The three of them came to a small square, the floor of which was paved with crimson bricks, with several bronze statues in the middle, and low shops on all sides, each no more than two floors. In Pompeii, where every inch of land is at a premium, such a house is even more expensive.

"Which one to choose?" Rex looked around, there were more than forty shops here, and those who could open stores here had a certain strength.

"That's it. Salin pointed to a larger shop. This shop is the size of three other shops, and the roof is high, but it is only one floor. The doors and windows of this shop are larger than others, and it has the temperament of a nouveau riche. Salin knew in his heart that there would be no outbursts here, only shrewd businessmen.

(To be continued)