Chapter 52: The Magic City of Minos

The Kingdom of Silia was located in the southwest of the famous trading city of Gistanpur.

The whole country is at the southern tip of the Colin Peninsula in the west of the Saturn continent, with an area of 153,000 square kilometers and more than 800 islands, with a total area of nearly 30,000 square kilometers, accounting for 20 percent of the total land area.

Minos, the most famous magical city on the continent of Saturn, is located on the island of Crete, the largest of these islands.

Crete is located in the southern part of the Corinthian Sea and is the key point of traffic in the Corinthian Sea. It is about 260 kilometers long from east to west, about 55 kilometers at its widest point from north to south, and 12 kilometers at its narrowest point. With a total area of 8,252 kilometres, the island has fertile land and a mild climate suitable for the development of animal husbandry and agriculture. These unique geographical conditions made Crete one of the first regions in Silya to enter the era of civilization.

The magical city of Minos was built in the southeast of Crete, under a hill called Mount Xos, and the entire city covers an area almost the same as Chengdu City, with a large harbor on the east side of the city, and a large harbor full of ships.

Minos is a fully autonomous city, including the entire island of Crete, which is under the rule of the Minoan Magical Council.

Due to the distance between the Saturn continent and the blue moon, which is known as the land of God's favor, is too close, the magical energy of the Saturn continent is very poor under its influence, and the local professionals in the continent are relatively rare, which causes the Saturn continent to become a relatively low-level planet in the other world, and the powerful forces and churches in the other world do not pay attention to the Saturn continent.

This has also caused the history of the Saturn continent to never have a legendary professional, and those talented professionals have all immigrated to live in continents with superior magical environments, including the land of the gods, before they are expected to be promoted.

But it is precisely for the same reason that Misos, which has the entire Saturn continent and the only interplanetary teleportation platform, has become the most important city on the Saturn continent, and all kinds of large chambers of commerce and professionals on the continent have to use this platform to travel across continents, which makes the Minoan Magic Council, which has control over the entire island of Crete and collects teleportation fees, even richer.

Aristok was a native of Minoan, and in the city of Minos he had his own residence in a six-room house with a small courtyard, which was the inheritance left to him by his deceased parents, and there was an old housekeeper and a family of servants, Wen Jiming and his party, who temporarily lived in his home after arriving in Minos.

Among these people, only Aristock has been to the land of gods, because of the regulations of the land of gods continent, Wen Jiming and the others must wait for the return of the archmage Herodotus, and then they can teleport under the leadership of the archmage, otherwise the guardians of the teleportation array on the side of the blue moon will not allow them to enter the land of the gods.

Everyone was at Aristok's house, enjoying lunch together.

Silly's eating habits are similar to those of the Western countries on the earth, and the level of cooking is estimated to be similar to the level of the West on the earth for hundreds of years BC, plus Aristock himself, except for this set of properties left by his parents, he was not rich at all, and when he returned home, he specially asked his servants to go to the market to buy some meat, so that everyone's lunch was not too simple.

So the lunch in front of everyone was a large slice of black bread per person, plus a large bowl of broth made of chicken and bacon, served with onions and turnips, and served with boiled and salted green beans.

Aristock himself is a little embarrassed now, he is used to eating the modern dishes of Wenfu, and at this time he also feels that the dishes he ate with relish when he was a child are now difficult to swallow.

Wen Jiming doesn't care, experience life.

At this time, it is estimated that the diet in all places is similar, mostly boiled, stewed, and baked. These cooking techniques, coupled with the lack of condiments, make the diet of the nobles very simple, not to mention the food on the table of ordinary people.

He was now battling the hard black bread with the small silver knife he had with him.

He laboriously slice the bread while chatting with the Aristock men.

"Actually, this kind of brown bread is still nutritious, you just can't eat it."

"Fermentation is not as good as fermentation, and the oven is also a primitive oven, which cannot achieve the effect of full baking, I have studied this, and when the time comes, I will write you a method, you can leave it to your housekeeper, and you can earn some pocket money when you are not at home."

Berov was very interested when he heard this, and asked Wen Jiming.

"Do you still have research on these? It's hard to imagine a lord like you like to work on these things. ”

"The so-called progress of society."

Wen Jiming began to enter the state of Teacher Wen.

"It is the responsibility of those of us who have the ability to continuously improve our spiritual civilization and material civilization, and clothing, food, housing and transportation are part of the concrete embodiment of material civilization, so we can constantly improve our food culture so that we can enjoy better food and wine."

Berov agreed.

"You're right, I like food and wine, in addition to these plus beautiful women, I think it's enough in this life, of course, I also like adventure life, and when I have children in the future, I can brag to them about my adventures back then, which is also a happy life."

Wen Jiming guarantees.

"You'll have, I promise. By the way, Aristock, why do we have to wait for the Archmage to lead the team himself before we can enter the Land of the Gods? ”

After taking a sip of vegetable soup with a spoon, Aristock began to popularize knowledge to Wen Jiming.

"The city with the teleportation platform in the Land of the Divine Favor is different from ours, it is a neutral magical city, where the major powers and churches have their own institutions, and the ruling council of the entire city is made up of representatives of these institutions."

"From that city's teleportation platform, you can teleport to almost all the major continents of this world, and there are more people coming and going every day than you can imagine, and low-level continents like ours are naturally restricted from entering and exiting."

"At present, the city stipulates that except for those who are registered with various institutions in the land of the gods, they can bring one person in and out, only those who are above the twelfth level of the professional level can bring more, so we can only go together after the teacher comes."

Wen Jiming listened to the analysis.

"Because our continent is too close to the Blue Moon, so they have too much magical energy there, which makes us too barren here, am I not mistaken, does it mean that the Blue Moon is absorbing the magical energy that should belong to us?"

Aristok thought for a moment.

"Your theory also makes sense, just like Minos has a magic array that gathers magic power here, and the magic power around it is relatively small, but your Great Xia is ridiculously small. The entire continent has never seen a country with such little magical energy. That is, Chengdu City is much better now, probably because Master helped you establish a magic array. ”

Wen Jiming agreed.

"I've also been speculating about why Great Xia's energy is too poor, do you think it's because of those Taoist priests, if it were them, they would definitely have a station in Great Xia, could it be that those Taoists also established a formation similar to Minoan in Great Xia, collecting magic power, and taking away all the magic power?"

Aristock's eyes lit up when he heard this.

"Don't say it, it's really possible, this can explain why Great Xia's magic power is scarce, if that's the case, we can deal with it in a few ways!"

Wen Jiming was very interested.

"What are the methods, let's talk about them."

Alistock continued.

"One is to establish a magic circle on the border of the territory so that the local magic power will not be taken away, but this requires a lot of material and magic devices, and the investment is very large."

"There is also the possibility of finding their magic circle there, and then destroying the magic circle, and we are still reasonable, because it is our territory, they naturally belong to the unreasonable side, but if we do this, it is equivalent to putting the contradictions between the two sides on the table, and maybe the relationship between the two sides will be affected in the future."

Wen Jiming pondered after hearing this, and while he put the cut black bread into the vegetable soup and soaked it, he thought about the gains and losses of the two methods, and only spoke after a while.

"They say that they are Taoists of the Cloud Heaven Dao Academy, and we can inquire in the land of the gods to see if we can use negotiation to resolve this matter."

Soon after lunch, one of Aristock's junior disciples came to the door and told everyone that the archmage would return to Minos before dinner, and he was ordered by the archmage to send a message to Aristock, asking him to take Wen Jiming and the others to walk around Minos City first.

The buildings in Minos City are all obviously in a unique Western style, because it is a magical city, the roads are still quite clean, and the population of the whole city is not very large, only more than 30,000 people live in the city, most of them are related to magicians, either magicians and magician apprentices, or people who work for magicians.

The city is full of all kinds of magic shops, Wen Jiming even saw several restaurants specializing in magic food, and when Wen Jiming walked to the square in the center of the city, he finally saw the famous Mage Tower for the first time in his life!

Aristock immediately introduced Wen Jiming.

"The location of these mage towers is our mage school in Minos, and the tallest tower is owned by the teacher, and only the teacher and the other magic master in this city are the thirteenth-order mages closest to the legendary mage. The teacher's mage tower is only twelve meters high, because no matter how high it is, it will be difficult for the teacher to control the tower. ”

Wen Jiming asked strangely.

"Why is the Archmage still single? Do you want to dedicate your life to the cause of magicians? ”

Aristock asked Wen Jiming.

"Do you know what the greatest pursuit of all Saturn professionals is in this life?"

Wen Jiming shook his head.

Aristock said solemnly.

"It's to break through to the legendary profession in my lifetime, and the teacher said that if you can't be a legend, you won't get married!"