Chapter Ninety-Six: The Shocking City (Part II)
"Rex, what does Alchemy City look like?" Salin asked Rex fifty miles from Alchemy City. They were able to move forward at full speed by this time, and Schika's injuries were completely healed. The distance of fifty miles is only a little more than an hour.
"I don't know. Rex's answer made Salin feel strange, in his heart, there were few things that Rex didn't know about the affairs of the Qin Empire.
"The route we took was so urgent that I never had a chance to contact my own people. Rex explained to Salin. Seeing that Salin still had an ignorant expression, Rex smiled: "Alchemy City is not another city, there are often changes, even the magic tower outside the city.
Rex's words made Saleen even more confused, but he didn't ask anymore, anyway, when he arrived in Alchemy City, everything would be understood.
Saleen had never been to Alchemy City, but his teacher, Jason Statham, was from Alchemy City, and he had an inexplicable affection for the city.
Salin originally thought that after seeing the Holy Rock City, he would not be shocked by other cities, but when he was still more than ten miles away from the Alchemy City, he clearly saw the outline of the Alchemy City.
Instead of city walls, he saw magic towers, he saw a complex of urban buildings formed by tall buildings within the city.
Five miles away from the city, he relied on his cold vision to see the towering magic towers outside the city, but compared to the buildings in the city, the height difference between these magic towers and the buildings in the city was too much.
What kind of buildings are they? taller than a ten-story magic tower! Salin didn't need to look at it with cold vision, he knew that most of these buildings were taller than the main entrance of the Qin Yin Empire's imperial palace. He had seen in the book that the Holy Cathedral of the Radiant City was the tallest building on the continent of Myers, but when he saw the buildings of the Alchemy City, he felt that the Holy Cathedral could not be taller than these houses.
Alchemy City is not without city walls, but this section of the city wall is completely connected by different styles of castles, the city walls are uneven, and for the sake of artistic beauty, there are also a lot of reliefs. With these reliefs, trained swordsmen can easily climb without ladders.
Most of the building materials of these castles are low-level magic materials, but no matter how low-level, they also have the qualifications to build magic towers. On the walls of the castle, all the reliefs and patterns are not dyed with any color, and are completely determined by the natural color and texture of the stone itself.
The main gate of Alchemy City doesn't look like a city gate no matter how you look at it.
At the end of the road, two statues stand tall, more than 80 meters high, and you will feel dizzy when you get closer. The two humanoid statues were covered in lifelike animal skins, and the statues' eyes were looking down as they looked up. One of them, holding a long sword in his hand.
Salin saw that the statue had a third eye on its forehead, but the statue was based on the Three-Eyed Giant.
The giant plane has long been lost, unlike the undead plane, and there are necromancers who can summon some creatures. The Giant Plane simply exists in legends.
Under the long sword, there is a huge dragon head. The sculpture carved in the form of a dragon head was the main gate of the Alchemy City, and Salin felt the majesty of Sen Ran in his heart.
He had seen a dragon, and the majesty emanating from this dragon's head was incomparably similar to that of a living dragon.
The main gate of this alchemy city is fundamentally based on the only legendary myth on the Mers continent. That was the story of 30,000 years ago.
The gods coveted the abundance of the Myers continent and launched an inter-plane war, the war spread in countless planes, and the human race commanded nearly a hundred dimensional creatures, competing with the gods for the dominance of the Myers continent.
The three most courageous races under the command of humans are the Demon Race, the Dragon Race, and the Giant Race. The gods are retreating, and they are about to lose the passage of the gods to all planes, and they will be imprisoned in the boundless void. A weak deity tempted a powerful being among the dragons, causing at least half of the dragons to betray humanity.
At this time, rumors spread that most of the creatures in the plane believed in one thing, the plane of human existence, to destroy all living beings. The battle turned down, and the rest of the story was divided, the gods finally failed, and the humans lost their best friends, the giants.
The Giants expressed their frustration in this war, and after helping humanity slay the rebellious dragons, they disappeared from the planes, and legend has it that they broke the shackles of the planes and entered an even larger world.
Then came the time of chaos, and a new god appeared on the continent - Myers.
The goddess Myers never needs any faith, and she will give you gifts whether you are a believer in her or not. Her temple, most of the time, is dealing with troubles after the battle of the planes.
No matter how untrue the chaotic era more than 30,000 years ago was, Kelsaren knew that such a legend could not be recorded in the history books. In particular, the Holy See once swept three-quarters of the continent, and many texts were burned as [***].
In the past thousand years, except in the notes of magicians, the circulation of this story has only been limited to the mouths of wandering poets of the Qin Yin Empire.
Such words are written on paper and are blasphemy against the Lord of Radiance. The gods love mankind, so how can they take the initiative to start wars? Moreover, history has been submerged for so long that many people do not even believe that mankind has had such glorious years.
The gate of Alchemy City was simply designed based on this legend, and it was impossible for the Holy See not to know such a design. Even if Alchemy City didn't build a ten-story magic tower, it would be tantamount to telling the Holy See, the magician, that he would never believe in your gods.
The dragon's head is more than 20 meters high, the huge dragon's mouth is open, and six pairs of dragon's teeth of different lengths are carved with huge magic arrays. There is no need for a city gate at all, and anyone who enters the city may be attacked by the magic array on the dragon's teeth. Salin felt dizzy again, he simply calculated the 12 magic arrays, and his mental power involuntarily decreased sharply, as if he had been absorbed from the outside.
Salin even suspected that the two giant statues more than eighty meters tall were also weapons of attack, but he couldn't think of what such a tall puppet needed to be able to drive.
Before entering the city, Saleen was struck by this group of sculptures to something deep in his heart. Humanity was once so glorious, why, now most people choose to forget? Only the magicians are still pursuing the truth and moving forward with difficulty.
Many people feel that mages are withdrawn and unapproachable, and even mages who serve royalty or nobility have difficulty communicating with the people around them. But Salyn knew very well that this was not because mages had power, but because the way they saw the world was too different from that of ordinary people.
Ordinary people, who would think about what will happen in a hundred years? When they eat, will they think about what their food is made of? They don't even want to know how many bones there are in their bodies, let alone why magicians are so powerful and always high.
More and more people only focus on the present and lose the ** of knowledge. Many magicians feel sad when they look at ordinary people, and even if someone wants to become a magic apprentice, it is only to learn a survival craft.
Magic apprentices have so much work to do that they don't starve to death. Some people just want to learn a memory magic, recognize a lot of words, and go to the business house to manage the accounts.
There are more than a billion people in the entire continent, and the number of mages is not even one percent at all, and most of them are concentrated in Qin Yin. Rex used preferential conditions to absorb low-level mages and apprentices, and in ten years, the entire Qin Yin went to Kushui County with only tens of thousands.
Among these tens of thousands of people, most of them are apprentices, if you count the low-level mages alone, I'm afraid it will barely exceed a thousand, right? These 1,000 low-level mages account for less than one million in the entire continent in the proportion of human beings.
Salin suddenly understood why there was an alchemy city, a city that was the hope created by the magicians themselves. Every mage who enters the city will see that group of sculptures and will be reminded of the glory that humanity once had.
There were no guards in Alchemy City, the gates were never closed, and no one collected the city taxes. The streets seem to be much narrower than those of Holy Rock City, not because the mages in Alchemy City respect the royal family of Grykos, but because the carriages in and out of Alchemy City are relatively small.
There are a lot of great mages here, and space equipment, although still expensive, is not a rare item, and there is no need for the huge carriages of the Empire to carry those low-level wooden crates.
The streets of the city are not straight, and the mages do not need cavalry, they have all kinds of golems in their hands. Besides, no one dared to attack Alchemy City, Salin saw hundreds of magic towers outside the city, but he had not seen the legendary nine nine-story magic towers, which were east of Alchemy City, facing the sea.
Alchemy City has a history of a thousand years, except for ninth-level magicians, ordinary magicians can't live that long, and at least half of the hundreds of magic towers have lost their owners. These magic towers will not be touched, and they have become the graveyard of the magician's final resting.
There are no gaps in the streets of Alchemy City, and all the paved stones are tightly connected by alchemy, and they are seamless. The worn parts are mended every year, and there are too many apprentices and low-level mages here.
Huge buildings littered Salin's amazement, and Saleen saw a tall tower with metal skeletons, inlaid with crystals. Even if you have used a scrapped crystal, this can no longer be measured in gold coins. Everything in Alchemy City seems to have this characteristic, here, you can only buy the most low-level things with gold coins, such as low-level magic cores.
Salin even saw puppet horses, pulling carriages as they walked through the streets. The windows of the house are transparent glass, except for the crystal. Scrapped crystals are not too big. The glass was so large that Salin even saw a shop on the side of the street with a glass vitrine window on the first floor that was more than five meters high, which was almost the entire height of the first floor.
It's a city of great wealth!The Scorpian-like traits of Saleen's blood jumped out, and he felt that he couldn't even calculate how much Alchemy City was worth even with a magic counter.
"Hey, sir, do you need help?" said a man in his mid-fifties, dressed in orthodox clothes like an apprentice's, walked towards Salin.
(To be continued)