Chapter 745: Preparation

The money side was easy, but Leo didn't know why he was here.

Originally, according to St. Phosis's description, after they entered the dense fog, even if they would see some hallucinations and encounter some strange things, there would never be such a thing as space travel, and they should have reached the town outside the wizard's tower, and that was also the place where the power generated by the Night God's sigh book was concentrated.

But the current situation is completely different, whether it is the encounter in Lobe Town, or the situation on the way to the mountainside of Lobe Mountain, it shows that with the change of the world, the power of the night god's sigh on Lobe Mountain has also changed, and whether he came to Jiviel's world by chance, or there is another reason, how to leave here, return to the world of Velon, etc., all need to be slowly found to answer.

At least now Leo thinks that his coming to the world of Givy Elle is not necessarily accidental, because before he entered this world, when he walked in that forest, he could feel some unusual movement on the tattoo on his back, and the power of the nightmare seemed to fluctuate a little, at that time he just thought that he sensed the power of the night god sighing the page, and the resonance, but now it seems that it may not be as simple as he thought.

Leo also talked to Sylvia about the current problem, but Sylvia was obviously more optimistic than him, thinking that if it was really not an accident, then sooner or later they would be able to get clues, and they didn't need to care too much, and they could live their lives as they wanted.

Seeing that Sylvia seemed to regard the present as a foreign trip, Leo didn't know what to say, so he could only let it go.

Later, Sylvia asks Leo to teach him the language of the Tousents, apparently uncomfortable to see Leo talking to people who she doesn't understand a word.

Leo agrees that Sylvia is able to master the language, which saves him the energy to explain again, and that once he has mastered the language, Sylvia may be able to spot the details he overlooked.

In this way, the two of them, who were originally planning to leave the next day, decided to postpone it for a few days, so that Sylvia could familiarize themselves with the language here, and at the same time, they could also wait for a team of wandering knights to pass by, this team of wandering knights has been patrolling the border in this area for the past two years, responsible for clearing out bandits and monsters here.

Sylvia has a great talent for language, and the language here has some commonalities with French and English, so that she quickly mastered some conversational language, in order to be able to exercise her language ability, Leo handed over the matter of foreign communication to her in the past two days, although there were a lot of jokes in the middle, but this was of great help to Sylvia's language learning.

At the same time, Leo also bought some books from the owner of the tavern and a merchant who lived in the town, although Leo could speak a certain Chinese language of the old Earth era, but it was the product of indoctrination, and he himself knew very little about the words of this language, but he knew that when the Federated language was created, this language was not conducive to communication with alien civilizations and was abandoned.

Although it was difficult to read these words at first, Leo had a lot of experience in language learning and research, and soon found a pattern, and by two days, he was able to recognize most of the words except for a few rare words, and reading ordinary books was not a problem.

In the past two days, Leo and the others also learned a lot about this world from the people in the town, and they found that although this world has all kinds of extraordinary powers and strange creatures like the world of Velon, these things are some things that people know, and they are not hidden like the world of Velon, and ordinary people cannot touch them at all.

For example, there are several special non-human creatures in this world, dwarves, elves, dryads, etc., this world also has gods, gods also have churches, and there are a large number of monsters in this world, such as evil ghosts, ogres, demons, cyclops, etc., and these monsters are not hiding their whereabouts, and ordinary people also know that these monsters exist in this world.

There are also many people with extraordinary powers in this world, such as a powerful transcendent called a warlock, some of these warlocks will serve as advisors to the powerful king in the national court of this world, and some will hide like the wizards of the Velun world and devote themselves to studying the mysteries of the power of this world.

It just so happened that there was such a sorceress in the court of the Duchy of Towcent, and this sorceress was named Frimpira Vigo, an extremely powerful master of illusions, and her illusions were almost the same as the real ones, and even produced real destructive power.

After receiving this news, both Leo and Sylvia felt that they should meet the sorceress, because the final effect of the sorceress's illusion was similar to the effect of the Night God's Sigh Page.

Another thing that caught the attention of Leo and Sylvia was that when they asked about the Wandering Knights, they learned that the Wandering Knights were required to take an oath before joining the Towcente, which involved a knightly code called the Five Virtues of Knighthood, which was created and taught to the knights by the Fairy of the Lake.

After hearing this at that time, Leo and Sylvia both thought of the Lady of the Lake in the world of Veron, because the two are too similar, the Lady of the Lake is also the guardian of the knight, and so is the Lady of the Lake, the Lady of the Lake is the creator of the knight's law, and the Fairy of the Lake created the Five Virtues of the Knight, no matter how you look at it, both should be the same existence, so this Fairy in the Lake has become the name at the top of the list of clues they formulated.

On the third day of Leo and Sylvia's stay in the town, a group of knights in gorgeous armor arrived in the town, and behind this group of knights was followed by a large entourage, including the knights' squires and vassals, as well as the footmen who wanted to use the knights' protection to do business in Towcente, but more often ordinary people who needed to go to other towns but feared danger on the way.

The Duchy of Touscent is a very peculiar country, a country that has a large number of knights, but does not have military power in the true sense of the word. The security of the entire duchy was entrusted to a few knights of wandering knights, who were not regular soldiers of the duchy, they were just mercenaries, and the duchy paid them quite well, and hired these knights to patrol the borders and major trade routes, regularly clear bandits and monsters, and protect the caravans and the people in Tousente.

The only quasi-armed army in the Duchy of Touscent is the Duke's Guard in the capital Bockland, but this guard can only be regarded as the Duchess's private army, not the Duchy's army.

Think about the reason why the Duchy of Touscent has such a strange military system should be related to its suzerain, the Nifgaard Empire.

In a book he bought, Leo had read some things about the Nilfergaard Empire, and knew that this empire was extremely powerful, very similar to the early French Empire that unified the Veron continent, and what the Duchy of Touscent did was similar to the Hanosa Alliance in the Veron continent, and in the face of the powerful Fran Empire, they all took the initiative to disarm themselves and bowed their heads.

The treatment received after bowing the head was very similar, the Duchy of Touscent also received considerable autonomy, the Nilfgard Empire did not send troops and officials to the permanent presence as it did with other vassals, and the Hanosa League received similar treatment, which may be the common way for weak countries to deal with strong countries.

Among the knights, a gorgeous knight in golden armor with a red feather stuck in his helmet walked into the tavern, took off his helmet, and showed a face that was about to enter old age, and greeted the tavern owner very naturally, and then took a glass of wine that the tavern owner had prepared and drank it all in one gulp, and then wiped the wine stains from his mouth, and said, "Old Babu, hurry up and fill it with food and water, and we will soon leave for the next town." ”

"Lord Capello, won't you rest here for the night?" asked the tavernkeeper.

The old knight said solemnly: "No! The knight's conference is about to start, I want to rush back as soon as possible to participate in the conference to prepare, and I can't delay on the road." ”

"Do you still want to attend the Knights' Conference?" the tavernkeeper asked.

"Why? Can't I participate, or do you think I'm too old to attend the knights' conference?" The old knight heard the tavernkeeper's question, and immediately widened his eyes, and shouted, "Don't say that I'm not old enough to lift a sword, even if I'm too old to lift a sword, I can still ride a horse, and leave those little guys far behind in the riding competition." ”

Knowing that he had said the wrong thing, the hotel owner hurriedly paid for it, and loudly ordered that the old knight should prepare what he wanted.

"Shall you go up and say hello now?" asked Leo, seeing that the old knight was already sitting alone in the tavern.

"No, I don't. Sylvia shook her head and said, "There is no need for us to take the initiative to contact these wandering knights now, and it will only make people suspicious, we can follow the team on the road, and find an opportunity to get in touch with them on the way." ”

Leo agreed to Sylvia's proposal, and then the two prepared some dry food and other items needed on the road, originally Sylvia wanted to buy two local knight swords to facilitate camouflage, but although there were blacksmiths in their town, they could only make some farm tools, and the blacksmiths who made knightly swords could only be found in the big towns and Bowkelan.

Soon the team of four knights, six squires and a dozen vassal knights had already replenished their supplies, and they did not greet the caravans and ordinary people who followed them, but directly stepped on their horses and continued on the road.

Seeing that the knights had already left, those caravans and ordinary people also hurriedly packed their luggage and followed.

The departing procession was much more bloated than when it entered the town, and in addition to some local farmers who were going to the big towns to buy something, the caravan also bought some of the brewed wine from the town, so much so that the carriage carrying the barrels increased by two.

Leo and Sylvia wanted to buy two horses, but there were no extra horses to sell in the town, so they had to negotiate with the caravan leader and get into the caravan's wagon to transport wine.

The whole team did not walk very fast, and the road was still smooth, after walking through a path built by the vineyard owner himself, it was the main road of the principality, because this main road and the vineyards of the principality were all over the country, so there were many horse-drawn carriages carrying wine to and fro, and the principality had specially repaired this road so that the carriages could pass more smoothly, and the people walking on this road were more like they were on an outing.

"Is there a country in France?" the driver who was driving the car on the road saw that Leo and Sylvia's clothes were different from anything he had seen, and asked about the origin of the two as curiously as ordinary people, and Leo told Sylvia that they were the knights of Fran, and they had heard of the reputation of the Tousente knights' jousting tournaments, so they had come here to participate in the jousting tournaments.

"Yes, to the east, across the Farri Mountains, to the east. Leo said an address that could not be verified.

Although this address could not be confirmed, the coachman chose to believe it, because Leo and Sylvia's costumes were so far from those of Towcente, and so far from those of the northern kingdoms, that there was no other suitable explanation than that of visitors from distant lands.

Then the coachman asked a few more things about the country of Fran, and Leo replied naturally, and then he did not ask any more, and found an excuse to go to the front and change the carriage with the people.

Leo and Sylvia glanced at each other and exchanged opinions, there is no doubt that this coachman must have an official background, but I don't know if it is the official of Towcente, or other officials, otherwise it would be impossible for just a curious coachman to ask those questions, and the two of them had expected this, and they were not too surprised, the only thing that surprised them was that they met so early.

However, if you think about it carefully, it should be a coincidence, the official represented by this coachman, I'm afraid that it was just to spy on these wandering knights, and when they saw the appearance of these two foreigners in strange costumes, they just made routine inquiries.

"Maybe you'll get a knight's certificate for this. Leo said to Sylvia in French.

Sylvia shook her head and said, "It shouldn't be possible, judging from all indications, the knighthood can be regarded as a nobility here, even if it is a wandering knight, this special identity certificate cannot be easily issued to strangers in any country." If you want to get the status of a knight, you can only solve it through merit. ”

Leo asked, "Did you ask me to spy on the bandits in Towcent, trying to use them as a springboard?"

"They're just one of them, it's not enough to just suppress the bandits, otherwise these wandering knights would have become official knights of Touscent," Sylvia shook her head, then was silent for a moment, and asked, "Do you know how to make wine?"