Chapter 6: The Wandering Poet

The most extensive state in the continent of Husyari was the Oslan Empire. The Otland Empire www.biquge.info stretches from the Saint-Yolman Mountains in the north to the Iberian Forest in the south. It stretches from Xetin Island in the east to Tallinnburg, the largest satellite city on the mainland, in the west. The total area of the empire reached more than 9 million square kilometers. Its capital, the city of Lisbon, covers an area of nearly 300 square kilometers. The city of Lisbon is located in the north, nestled against a hill and bordered by Mont Saint-Jolmain to the north. Because the city wall is surrounded on three sides, the architect has more manpower and material resources to expand the other three walls, the total length of the three walls has reached more than 60 kilometers, and it takes a day and a night to walk around the city, so the three walls of Lisbon City each have 9 gates. The city wall is six zhang high and five zhang wide, making it the highest and longest city wall on the continent today. Raised platforms were built every 500 meters on the ramparts, and on each high platform was a movable trebuchet, and the effective range of the trebuchet was 500 to 600 meters. This means that if you stand in front of the city of Lisbon, you will face at least two trebuchets and of course defend against the archers on the walls. Even if the outer walls of Lisbon can be breached, the layout of Lisbon is complicated, and it is necessary to guard against defenders rushing out from all directions. Inside the outer walls there is an inner wall that is only a little shorter than the outer wall, and there is even a third wall outside the palace. What made the besiegers even more troublesome was that the Oslan Empire implemented a universal military service system, all civilians were veterans, and the permanent population of Lisbon was nearly a million, once the capital was besieged, even if there were no soldiers on hand, the people in power could form an army of 200,000 in a short time. It is also said that there are huge grain storage warehouses in the Saint-Jolmain Mountains, enough for millions of people to eat up to half a year's worth of grain reserves. No one ever thought that Lisbon would be breached, and no enemy ever thought of a way to breach Lisbon. That's why Lisbon is known as the never-falling pearl on the continent of Theseus.

――"Architectural Design: World Famous Cities"

"It turns out that our family is so rich, and there is still obsidian. Bert couldn't believe that his father had hidden such a precious thing. Obsidian is very rare in mineral deposits, even rarer than diamonds, but what makes it a hundred times more valuable than diamonds is the magical properties it carries. Obsidian has its own dark attributes, and unlike ordinary gems that are used to increase the user's mana, obsidian can not only increase the magic power of the dark mage, but also absorb the magic of most other systems. Dark magic is very destructive, but because of this, there is no defensive magic in dark magic. Obsidian makes up for this shortcoming of the Dark Mage, so the price of Obsidian has increased indefinitely. A finger-sized piece of obsidian can be exchanged for an entire city. The obsidian amulet in front of him was estimated to be as expensive as two cities.

Celtic didn't seem to have opened the wooden box, and saw that the amulet that Bert's mother had put in the box was also a clump. Bert thought that his father regretted giving this amulet to him, so he quickly snatched it up. Although this obsidian talisman is very valuable, for Bert, it is the only thing his mother gave him, and he will not exchange it for any amount of money. But maybe Celtic saw that the money was open and exchanged for it, so he quickly hid it.

Celtic also relented, but didn't say anything, obviously he knew the origin of this amulet, but if one didn't say it, the other wouldn't ask. A father and son have the same tacit understanding on this topic.

Bert took the wooden box from his father, and there were several letters from his mother to him. He was about to take it out when Celt reached out and held him down. "Let's look at it after we leave, it's been sixteen years, and it's not bad for a while. Bert nodded silently and tucked the letter into the chest of his shirt.

"That...... You don't have to bring it with you, and you don't need to pay for it anyway if you follow a local tyrant. Grab a change of clothes and let's go. Celtic wanted to pretend to be as normal as possible, but the child was about to go away, and the loneliness in the sentence could not be covered.

Bert is also a thoughtful child, he knows his father's thoughts, in fact, he can't let go of his father either. Celtic is also almost forty years old this year, he has nothing to do all day, his mother is gone, and he is going to go out, I really don't know if he will starve to death at home. Celtic secretly stuffed the gold coins he had just received into the package he had prepared for Bert, then put some clothes on it and handed it to Bert.

Although Celtic wanted to send Bert out of the village, he was embarrassed to let his father send it when he thought that there was a girl waiting at the entrance of the village. He pushed his father back home and ran quickly to the entrance of the village.

Although she waited for a long time, Erin was not in a hurry at all, because when she went out, her parents also nagged her for a long time before letting her out. When she saw the boy running from a distance, she stood up and waved at him. The two young men smiled at each other and walked together on the official road to the imperial capital. In this way, the two embarked on a journey completely unknown.

Selene, the goddess of the moon

It is you who light up the dark night

It is you who pull us out of Satan's vision

When Apollo was asleep

It is your light that shines on the lost traveler

Let's be on a cold winter night

No more fear, no more timidity

It was you who drove away the poor in the shadows

It was you who slumbered the wolves in the forest

Praise be to you, my goddess

You are the sun in the night sky

You can see wanderers everywhere. They would go around praising the gods and singing the praises of heroes in times of peace. He will also scold those in power in times of war and lament the loss of life. They are walking epics, they are chroniclers of history. They use their singing to convey love and justice. In a group of travelers, there will always be one or two wanderers who will bring joy to the group and make them forget the fatigue of the journey. They occasionally charge a fee, but they are light on money, fame and fortune, and more or less money will not affect the quality of the music they play.

The two wanderers in front of them were obvious elves, with slender ears, brown pupils, and slender bodies all showing their noble status. It's hard to believe that the vast majority of wanderers are elves. Nature-worshipping spirits rarely give up their comfortable life in the forest and wander away from home. In the concept of the elves, it is very unlucky to die in a foreign land. After death, the elves will become primordial elves, and then enter the elven fountain to be reborn. The farther away from home is the harder and longer the journey home after death. However, it seems that quite a few elves like the profession of wanderer, perhaps because their lives are too long and they are tired of spending time in the forest. So I want to use my own eyes to record more things and convey more information.

The fledgling Bert and Erin meet the elves for the first time, and they have always lived near the forest, and they like the elves' indifference and non-contention. So when they saw that this group of travelers was also going to Lisbon, the two immediately joined in. It was a caravan traveling between the Vatican and Lisbon, with a few travelers who happened to be on the way. The leader of the caravan is an old fritter who has been in the mall for a long time, and is naturally very willing to travel with people who are strong in martial arts. Especially seeing that Erin is still an intermediate magician, magicians are quite popular no matter where they are. After confirming that Bert and Erin had no ill intentions, he immediately invited them to travel with him.

Bert and Eileen, who were away for the first time, gathered around the campfire with the group, and were very curious about all this, helping the caravan camp and preparing dinner for the adventurers. The traveler was also very friendly to the two helpful friends and warmly invited them to dinner.

"Two young friends, are you going to Lisbon to study or to find a job?" Wanderers will not miss any opportunity to compose songs, and for some young adventurers, they will always pay more attention, after all, heroes are teenagers, and no one can say whether the young people in front of them will become the mainstream of the new generation of history in a few years. For young people, being praised by wanderers at an early age is also very helpful for their future development. A person who is famous will always be treated better than someone who is not.

"We were going to Lisbon to study, and the village magic academy arranged for me to go to the magic academy in Lisbon to study new magic. He's a friend of mine, he's amazing, he's once beheaded a velociraptor with a single sword. Erin quietly pushed Bert to the topic. The strength of the velociraptor has been seen by anyone who travels a lot, and even a battle-hardened veteran is not necessarily a match for a velociraptor or a few. "Traveling with the tiger are either cheetahs or eagles, and the two of them are so outstanding at a young age that they will surely be the heroes of the world in the future. "For young people, wanderers are always encouraging. Sometimes a word can make a person more motivated, and even more so for young people. Although young people are too conceited and can cause them to be complacent, the elves who have read countless people can see that these two young people are not as proud as the noble children in the big city. Especially the boy named Bert, the elf could tell from his eyes that he was actually a rather inferior person.

The evening breeze brings heat from the campfire in the dark night, and the flames fly up with the wind and burn out in the air. The white moon in the sky chases the red moon, and the travelers on the ground fall asleep. Tonight will be a good night, and tomorrow will be a new day.