The sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, and everything is full of life, which is the biggest feeling of Ryan and Allendo along the way.

The two had left the Silent Forest three days earlier and had followed the directions on the map of Orlando towards the city of Jegnas. Along the way, the more they walked, the wider the road became, the river gradually became more numerous, and the stream that could be crossed in a few steps gradually converged into a large river dozens of meters wide, and it was necessary to cross the boat to make the transition.

After moving away from the Silent Forest in the south, Ryan suddenly found that his daily diet had also changed, like the Talen sheep and Talen cattle that were often eaten in the north, which were basically extinct, and even if they were, the taste was far from the same, and the price was ridiculously expensive. On the contrary, fish often appear on the table, and the cooking methods have become colorful from a single barbecue, such as sturgeon soup, chowder mussel meat, and smoked and grilled sea bass.

The destination of Lane and Alendo's trip is called the city of Yegnas, which is the largest and most important city in the southern part of the continent. The largest city on the continent is naturally the imperial capital Fernando City, but this city built by the last of the seven heroes, the youngest student of the ** division Meren, and the alchemist Jessie is only two hundred years old, far less than the second largest city on the mainland, Jegnath City, which has a history of at least a thousand years.

The city of Jegnath is named after the Elven language, and it is said that the city was built by the elves with the help of humans. In the Elven language, Yegnath means the pearl of Eslar. However, this name, which is literally translated from Elvish, is quite tongue-twisting after it is changed to the lingua franca of mankind, but it is its other name, "Free Paradise", which is easier for others to remember.

For thousands of years, the city of Jegnas, a paradise of freedom, has always believed in the tenet of "no one offends me, I will not offend anyone", and from the day it was built, it has been a neutral city and does not participate in any wars between countries and peoples on the mainland. Even the long war of mankind, known as the "Hundred Years of Catastrophe", and the catastrophe of all mankind such as the invasion of the undead two hundred years ago, did not affect this area.

In the free paradise of Jegnas, as long as you follow the rules here, anyone can live here, whether it is a prince or a nobleman or a commoner beggar, the city is treated equally, which is the biggest reason why Jegnas City is called "Paradise of Freedom" by everyone.

Ryan has always been puzzled, if the invasion of the undead was because the main battlefield at that time was in the north, and the evil legion that swept the entire north was wiped out when attacking Sunrise City, so it did not affect the free paradise of Yegnath City, then the main battlefield in human history was in the south of the continent for a hundred years, and in the whole hundred years of conquest, why no king thought of occupying this city that was irresistible in terms of geographical location and wealth?

Along the way, getting closer and closer to the free paradise of Jegnas, seeing the shops on both sides becoming more and more dense, Ryan's idea became stronger and stronger, and he believed that he would definitely find the answer to his question in this ancient and mysterious city.

When Ryan stood on the street in the business district of the free paradise of the city of Jegnas, he was far more shocked than the first time he saw the imperial capital of Fernando. Ryan had heard a lot about the free paradise of Yegnas since he was a child, and the furs and magic cores produced in his hometown were probably sold here by merchants for a satisfactory price if they were of high quality, and the fur of the Earth Bear that his teacher Galib had killed back then was said to have been sold for an unbelievable price here.

In Ryan's heart, the city of Yegnas, the free paradise, should have high walls, at least like Fernando City, how can it also have a ten-meter high appearance, and four carriages running side by side on the city walls should be about the same. Outside the city walls, there should be a wide and deep moat, there is a shortage of water in the north, so Fernando City does not have a moat, but the south has plenty of water, how can Ryan estimate that there must be a five-meter-wide moat?

Unfortunately, Ryan's eyes clearly told him that all of what he had envisioned was wrong, that there were no high walls, no wide and deep moats, not even a single obvious defensive structure, not a single patrolling soldier. All Ryan saw was a wide street and neatly lined streets.

Ryan rubbed his eyes in disbelief, everything in front of him was still the same, it seemed that he was not mistaken. Ryan spent a few silver coins and asked the "sellers" on both sides of the street, who told him firmly that this was the fake city of Yegnas, the beautiful city known as the paradise of freedom.

Ryan completely ignored Alendor and Xiaobai, who were traveling with him, and squatted on the side of the street, staring intently at the flow of people coming and going, and his head was in chaos. With no walls, no moats, and no army to see, how could the city defend itself, from being the target of an ambitious king in the midst of a hundred years of catastrophe?

The crowd suddenly became chaotic, and a middle-aged man dressed in a gentleman's costume pushed away the crowd in a panic and ran over, and behind him, there were seven or eight men armed with various weapons. The middle-aged man turned his head to look and saw that the nearest man was only less than five meters away, and his heart was deserted, he didn't know what he tripped under his feet, his center of gravity was unstable, and he fell in front of Ryan at once.

A "bang" brought Ryan back to his senses, and he stared blankly at the middle-aged man lying in front of him, who propped up his upper body with one hand, revealing his nosebleed face. It was a familiar face, and Ryan remembered where he seemed to have seen it, but he couldn't remember it for a moment.

At this moment, the seven or eight men came after them, and when they saw the middle-aged man fall to the ground, they stood in a semicircle and surrounded him with a sinister smile on his face.

The middle-aged man wiped his nosebleed with one hand, but unexpectedly it brought the scars on his face, making him twitch in pain, and then at the same time, the middle-aged man also saw Ryan in front of him, his eyes lit up, and he shouted: "Ryan magician, is it really you?"

This familiar voice awakened the memories in Ryan's mind, outside the city of Elfa, the middle-aged merchant, the thief Scar, this scene of the past flashed before Ryan's eyes. Ryan finally rang the name of the middle-aged man in front of him: Franner. The merchant who hired himself for 50 gold coins and invited himself to the pride of the Lion King.

Recalling the time when he just walked out of his hometown, Ryan couldn't help but sigh, this time passed really fast, and a year passed in a flash. But Franner didn't have the heart to "remember the bittersweet memories", he didn't know where the power in his body came from, so he jumped up all of a sudden and shouted at Ryan: "Dear Ryan magician, save me!"

Ryan was stunned, in his impression, this Franner in front of him was full of confidence in every move, how could he have fallen into such a field now? But anyway, Franna is an old man after all, as long as he can help, he must help him no matter what.

Before Ryan could speak, one of the seven or eight men who surrounded him, a bald man who looked like a leader, began to speak: "Flanner, why didn't you run away?"

"Run?" Ryan asked, when he heard this, to the bald man, "What the hell is going on?"

Franner's face turned red, when he was walking with Ryan that day, he was full of confidence, but he didn't expect that when they met again, it would be such an embarrassing situation.

"Who are you?" The bald man looked Ryan up and down, and when he saw that Ryan was wearing an adventurer's costume made of linen, he said disapprerovingly, "Don't make trouble, this guy owes us money, and we have to be in debt." ”

Ryan's magic robe was destroyed in the tomb and he threw it away, and now he was wearing the most ordinary adventurer's costume, so naturally he wouldn't attract the attention of others. Hearing the bald man claiming to be a debt collector, Ryan frowned and asked, "How much?"

"I, I borrowed them a thousand gold coins some time ago," said Franner, stumbling "luck...... The goods...... Alas!"

"That's a lot of nonsense!" the bald man laughed at Flanna and said, "You borrowed a thousand, and now it's been a whole ten days, it's not a thousand!"

Ryan immediately understood what was going on through the words of the two, and he immediately said, "How much is it?"

"You?" The bald man didn't expect Ryan to help Flanner pay off the debt, he hesitated for a moment, and said, "One day is one percent interest, and these ten days are two thousand six hundred gold coins." ”

The bald man took out a contract written on a sheepskin from his bosom, pointed to the text on it, and said, "It's clearly written here! ”

Franner looked at Ryan with a pleading look on his face.

Ryan didn't expect the interest to be so high, but he didn't hesitate, he took out the money bag that Faras gave him directly from his arms, and then said to the bald man, "I'll pay it back!" Then Ryan turned his head and said to Flanna: "I'm not familiar with this aspect, look at it, what other procedures do you need?"

Flanner was overjoyed, and he clasped his hands to his chest, and pressed the heart that was about to jump again. The bald man hesitated when he heard Ryan's words to repay the money, and his eyes looked around, as if looking for something in the crowd.

Naturally, the ecstatic Franner didn't notice this detail, but Ryan and Alendor on the side saw this together, and a common question came to their minds: "What is he looking for?"