Chapter Eighty-Nine: Heading North
Ever since Chilaviv's incendiary speech, the entire Paradise of Liberty has been in a frenzy, and a steady stream of supplies and mercenaries have been heading to the seaside city of Seabreeze, where they will transfer to sea ships to Sunrise City in the north, and then cross the South Tarren steppes to reach their final destination, the Thor Fortress.
Ryan They only left on the ninth day, because the number of people who signed up was too much, and the messenger of Thor's fortress came too suddenly, a large number of sea ships were on the route, and did not dock to Sea Breeze City, so the sea ships transported could not meet such a huge flow of transportation for the time being, after experiencing the chaotic situation in the first two days, the Free Heaven Merchant Alliance quickly came forward to make arrangements, and divided the mercenaries and materials to Thor's Fortress into many batches, as long as Sea Breeze City had enough capacity, they would immediately board the ship.
As a result, a very common phenomenon appeared, the army supporting Thor's Fortress had already reached Seabreeze City, and the rest of the army stayed in Paradise of Freedom. Ryan and they were placed in the sixth batch, and the reason why they were in this batch was because of Lille and York.
The twenty magicians sent by Chilaviv were all high-level magicians, and they were divided into three groups and went on the road separately, Lille and York and the other six were the second group, and when Lille and York learned that Ryan and they were also going, they strongly invited Ryan and them to go with them, so Ryan and they waited a few more days.
When they learned that Lille and York were also magicians sent by Chilaviv, Ryan had a deeper understanding of the strength of the Dolok Business Alliance, and when he was still in the imperial capital, Ryan heard Victor say that there were less than three hundred high-level mages registered in the Magic Guild, and Chilaviv sent twenty at once.
Franner's previous conjecture was also confirmed. The "Magic Hand" is indeed the industry of the Dorok Business Alliance, and at the same time, as long as you pay a little attention to the organization to which those magicians and mercenaries belong, you can roughly estimate the strength comparison of the various chambers of commerce in the Free Paradise, and there are really many usually low-key chambers of commerce that have shown their secret strength in this support.
On the way to Seabreeze City, Ryan and the others had been sitting in a carriage all the time. The extra-large carriage can accommodate eight people, but now it is only five people and Xiaobai lying in a corner, which is naturally very loose. This was the prerogative of the magician, and Lille and York only casually mentioned it, and soon someone brought the king-sized carriage. The Dorlock Business Alliance will do its best to meet all the requirements of these mages, which is an important reason why Chilaviv can have so many mages.
Along the way, Ryan, Lille and York kept discussing and researching the content related to the magic circle, Lil and York checked Ryan's record in the Magic Guild a little, and found that Ryan only had the qualification of a magic apprentice, but Lil and York, the two masters with high-level magician qualifications, would not snub Ryan, on the contrary, they treated Ryan as the same as themselves.
A magician who can make a third-level magic scroll has at least an intermediate magician qualification, not to mention that the scroll uses the "Magic Matrix Superposition" technology invented by Victor, the only great magician on the continent, and the magic power of the third level is already equivalent to the fifth-level magic. Based on this alone, Lille and York knew that Ryan's future was limitless, so how could they still treat him like an ordinary magic apprentice?
As for Ryan's current embarrassing identity, Lille and York knew very well that it was all caused by the "Wizard's Test Code", and what was two hundred years ago was actually used word for word until now, so how could it work? Lille and York were also deeply affected by it at the beginning.
This group didn't go very fast, because the sea ship they were going to take was still on their way back, and it would take a few days before they could dock at Seabreeze City, so they had plenty of time. In addition, they were accompanied by four mercenary groups with a total of more than 100 mercenaries and 500 carriages. Those mercenaries are all on foot, and the carriage is also fully loaded, so they can't get up as fast as they want.
The road was bumpy, no matter how slow they went, as long as they went in the right direction, they would always reach the end, and after six days of trekking, Ryan and his party finally arrived at Seabreeze City.
Seabreeze City is located in the southeast of the continent, which is home to the largest deep-water port on the entire continent. Most of the transportation between the north and south of the empire, if not by horse-drawn carriages, would have sailed between Sunrise City in the north and Seabreeze City in the south. And for the transportation of bulk goods, you can only take the sea route from Sea Breeze City.
The local population of Seabreeze City is not very large, about four or five hundred thousand, but there will be a large number of merchants here every year, there will be countless mercenaries passing through here, and there are even tens of thousands of porters, most of these porters are from other places, and their income from a year's hard work here is enough to support their families after returning to their hometowns. In addition to these, the Empire also has a garrison of 100,000 troops in Seabreeze City, including 50,000 elite troops, including 5,000 cavalry, 15,000 archers, and 30,000 infantry.
If these populations are counted in Seabreeze City, then the actual population of Seabreeze City is definitely more than one million. Seabreeze is also one of the few cities in the south that the Empire actually controls, and the Fernando royal family also has a temporary palace here, where it is said that there is a magic teleportation array connected to the imperial palace in the northern capital for emergency refuge for the royal family. Of course, this was just a rumor, because there were at least five thousand elite warriors in charge of the security of the temporary palace, and it was impossible for outsiders to enter it.
Since the sea ship still has a day to dock, Ryan and the others have time to walk around the Sea Breeze City, and those mercenaries have already dispersed, and before the time to gather, I am afraid that no one will be able to find them.
Ryan first followed Lille and York to the docklands to have a look, where the landscape was different, especially the towering steel supports on the docks, which opened Ryan's eyes. As soon as the wagons filled with goods enter the docks, they are unloaded by the porters and then loaded into large wooden crates in order. One large wooden box was just enough to fill twenty wagons of goods. Ryan watched as the staff of the docks checked the contents of the large wooden box with the merchants transporting the goods, and then nailed the door of the large wooden box firmly, and then at least fifty porters pushed it forward with rolling logs.
When the large wooden box was pushed to the dock near the sea-going boat, it was tied with thick hemp ropes, which were at least the thickness of a grown man's arm, and Lane roughly counted a large wooden box with at least a hundred ropes tied to it, and those ropes were attached to steel supports. Confused by this move, Ryan whispered to Flanner, who smiled mysteriously and motioned for him to continue.
When the rope was tied, more than a hundred porters gathered, each of them grabbed a rope in their hands, dragged it vigorously, and then slowly lifted the large wooden box through the towering steel supports. For every little lift, more than twenty porters pushed over the huge planks with pulleys and padded them under the large wooden box, which soon surpassed the height of the seagoing vessel.
"Look carefully at the terrain. Franner whispered to Ryan, who followed Flanner's instructions and found that the area where the cargo ship was docked was rather peculiar, a hollow pier, and the ship was parked in the recessed area. On the shore on either side of the ship, there is solid land, each with two towering steel supports. Previously, Ryan was only concerned about the height of the stands, but he didn't pay attention to where they were located.
With the efforts of hundreds of porters, the large wooden box began to slowly slide towards the sea boat. Ryan noticed that the brackets were of different heights, just to use the drop to make the big wooden box slide from high to low, of course, this also required hundreds of meters of porters to grasp the rope in their hands, if the speed of the slide is too fast, I am afraid that the consequences will be very bad.
The large wooden crate slid slowly through the air, the steel support creaking, apparently carrying a huge weight, and the porters who were pulling the ropes on the shore dragged back desperately, their bodies almost clinging to the ground. Finally, the big wooden box came to the sky above the sea ship, under the unified command, the porters slowly loosened the rope in their hands, and parked the heavy wooden box on the open deck of the sea ship.
Ryan and Alendor let out a long sigh, it was the first time they had seen such a spectacular scene. Franner smiled and said, "How's that? Ryan nodded and said, "Very good, everyone's strength is not great, but through such a series of methods and tools, it is possible to move such a heavy wooden box." ”
Allendo asked, "Why do you have to put it in such a big wooden box?
Flanner obviously comes to Seabreeze City often and understands the reason, he explains: "If it is shipped in bulk, it is easy to have problems, not to mention how to ensure that those goods are not transferred along the way, just because of the huge wind at sea, those scattered goods will inevitably be lost by bumps." Now there is a special wooden box, the goods are sealed after being loaded in, and there are fire marks on both sides, as long as you check it at the destination, you can know if anyone has done anything. And do you think that scattered handling is very time-saving? In fact, the use of this kind of large wooden box to carry the whole thing, although it is a little troublesome, but at least it can save more than half of the time, this is not a disguised shortening of the transportation time? Finally, such a large wooden box is also easy to stack, you see, neatly stacked in the cargo hold, is not a more reasonable use of the limited space on the ship?