Chapter 70: Academy of Magic [Ask for Tickets!] 】
It has been two or three days since I came out of Nafu City, and I am getting closer and closer to the royal capital.
Claire was lying in the carriage at this time, and did not bring anyone over, so she brought the wolf king over as a mount, because it did not want to walk, it wanted to get into the carriage and was kicked down by Claire.
Behind him was a procession of horse-drawn carriages, all of which were grooms selected by Claire from the original shop to transport goods, and the carriages carried monosodium glutamate, shredded squid, and wooden boxes.
There were no guards along the way, and there were several fourth-level magic scrolls in Claire's space ring, and she was not afraid that any robbers would dare to come and rob her. If there are really archmage-level robbers, then he thinks he is unlucky, he has mixed up to the archmage level, and he is still doing this kind of thing, what can he do, if he doesn't spend nearly 100,000 gold coins on other archmages, he wants to invite them to do this kind of thing, and the goods in his convoy have not yet reached 100,000 gold coins.
The closer you are to the royal capital, the more horses and convoys you will encounter, and the safer you will become.
Suddenly, the carriage paused, and Claire sat up.
The coachman outside explained in a panic: "Lord Viscount, there are strange birds in the sky! ”
Claire lifted the curtains and leaned against the window to look up at the sky.
With his knowledge, he quickly recognized it, it was the traffic mount of the Wangdu Magic Academy, the light-chasing bird can spread its wings to more than two hundred meters, and it can easily carry hundreds of people on its back, it is said that it is a hybrid of a magic master of the Wangdu Magic Academy, which is very fast but has no attack power, and is used as a means of transportation later.
However, it is not something that ordinary people can afford, at least with Claire's current net worth, she can't afford it at all, and the threat in the air is also very big. Because its own strength is too weak, it generally has to be followed by an archmage-level mage to resist the interference and sneak attacks of other aerial demonic beasts.
Claire also saw the teenagers who stuck out their heads from time to time on the back of the birds, and their eyes were full of anticipation, and said to herself: "This time period should be the time for the enrollment of the Magic Academy, and these should be the children of nobles from various places." ”
Magic and fighting spirit are not the same, generally only those who have some money in the family can practice, except for a few who are really talented, most of the magicians are from noble backgrounds, otherwise you will have to spend dozens of gold coins to do an experiment, but your family's annual income does not exceed three or four gold coins, what kind of magic do you do.
The Academy of Magic officially entered at the age of sixteen, and when Claire's family was not in the middle of the road before, his father spent tens of thousands of gold coins every year to invite some senior mages to teach him to learn magic, in order to be able to directly enter the Royal Capital Academy of Magic as a junior mage at the age of sixteen. However, it is a pity that Claire finally learned to be a junior mage, and if she entered the magic academy, she would definitely be a big step ahead of the rest of the students, but the family went bankrupt and could only return to the viscount to inherit the territory.
However, the strength of these noble children who sit on the light-chasing bird is definitely not as strong as Claire's previous strength, and the really powerful nobles either live in the royal capital, or live in the big cities in the kingdom, and those big cities also have special magic academies, so they don't need to go to great lengths to come here to study, even if they really admire the royal capital magic academy, they will not come with so many people on the light-chasing birds, which will lower their status.
"It's okay, let's go directly." Claire pulled down the curtain and commanded.
The coachman looked at it a few more times in surprise, and then reluctantly withdrew his gaze and continued to drive the horse forward.
After nearly half a day's journey, Claire looked at the gate of the royal capital, which looked like a hill from a distance, much more magnificent than the city of Nafu.
Claire touched her nose, "It's not been a month, and I'm back." ”
After arriving at the gate of the royal capital, Claire got out of the carriage and rode on the wolf king, these goods have to go through several layers of review when they enter the royal capital, just hand them over to the people below, and they don't have to follow, just let Shane send someone to pick them up when the time comes.
The soldiers guarding the city didn't react too much when they saw the Wind Wolf King under Claire's seat, and they were used to seeing these nobles riding strange magical beasts in and out of the royal capital.
However, the captain politely called Claire: "Dear Viscount, your mount needs to be subject to some control, otherwise you will not be able to enter the royal capital." ”
Claire nodded, and passed the message to the Wolf King to keep him from resisting.
"Have you seen it, the strength of these soldiers guarding the city is all silver-level, and their captain is a gold-level knight, and a single knife can cut you in half, so be careful not to wave everywhere in the royal capital, understand?"
The wolf king whimpered a few times, and then honestly put on a metal ring like a neck sleeve, which is a magic device that can instantly release electric magic to paralyze the opponent's body when the demonic beast is crazy and bites everywhere, and every demonic beast that enters the royal capital must wear it.
The royal capital is divided into the inner city and the outer city, the outer city lives more residents, and the number of people in the inner city is not so small, it can also be considered that the people living in the inner city are rich merchants or nobles, while the outer city is more of some ordinary residents, of course, there are exceptions, four of the five churches are in the outer city, of which the main church in the kingdom is also in the outer city, and the largest magic academy also occupies nearly half of the area in the outer city.
There is no obvious architectural barrier between the inner and outer cities, which is a regional concept spontaneously formed by the residents of the royal capital.
And Shane's store is in the inner city, Claire rode the wolf king to the inner city, as soon as she entered the inner city, Claire clearly felt the gap between the inner and outer cities, just like from the residential area to the commercial area all of a sudden, you can see a very obvious change.
"emmmmm, I seem to have forgotten to ask where Sean opened that store." Claire scratched her head.
But I didn't care.,Anyway, it's so famous, you should be able to find it by asking someone.。
Claire looked at a girl in front of her who seemed to be waiting for someone, "Excuse me, do you know where iodized salt is sold?" ”
"Are you calling me?" The girl asked, turning her head and pointing at herself.
Only then did Claire see clearly that there were two cat ears on the top of the other party's head that were different from humans, "Cat ear girl? Claire said to herself.
"Well, can you tell me where the store that sells iodized salt is?" Claire asked again.
The cat-eared lady showed a sweet smile when she saw Claire's dress, pointed to the tavern not far away and said, "That's not in a hurry, let's go have a drink first, and I'll take you over myself after drinking." ”
Claire was stunned, she had just entered the royal capital and met the wine tray?
So he refused: "Well, I'm not an adult and can't drink." ”
"It's okay, this little master, no one else will know about you and me." The cat-eared lady threw another wink at Claire, deliberately lowering her body to reveal a large area of snow white.
The corners of Claire's mouth twitched, and she secretly kicked the wolf king, signaling it to hurry up, he didn't want to be entangled by this half-orc.
"I'm allergic to alcohol." Claire said expressionlessly.
Mao's Ear Niang took a few steps forward and pulled the distance between the two into a few points, "It's okay to do other things without drinking, people can get drunk when they drink juice." ”
"Shhh The wolf king showed a fierce expression and scared the other party back a few steps back, as Claire's mount, it still doesn't understand whether Claire is tempted, you hairless ugly bastard!
"Please get out of the way, otherwise my family's prosperity will bite someone."
Seeing that Claire really couldn't be pitted, the other party could only stomp his feet angrily and turned sideways.
Looking at Claire's back, the cat-eared lady said angrily: "Obviously it's usually very useful for these little boys, why don't you eat this soft and hard." ”
The status of the orcs in the kingdom is not high, and they are generally sold in the form of slaves, Claire also heard when she was in the royal capital before, there is a nobleman who also bought a large number of orcs to open a prostitution hall, but after a long time, there are some free people, but they are also engaged in some menial work, such as the half-orc that Claire met just now is probably a wine trust, luring people to the restaurant to spend money with beauty, and then found that a lot of money was spent when checking out, By the time you want to take the next step, you won't be able to find anyone.
The other party is also very good at selecting guests, and generally the local ones will not start, specifically selecting those who come to the royal capital and want to be drunk and have no foundation, those people can only break their teeth and swallow when they are deceived, it is obvious that the beast-eared girl just now took Claire as a target, if it is a local, where will someone ask for directions.