Chapter 11: Departure, the Boundary of Divisions
Originally, Trank planned to inquire a little about the route from Mecca City to the boundary of the division that day, and then set off to the boundary of the division. But when Trunk had spent another afternoon, he was fascinated by the prosperity of Mecca, and he decided to stay two more days, after all, he didn't know when he would come back to Mecca after leaving this time. Trank spent two days walking around the city of Mecca with great pleasure. Among them, he was most shocked by the mercenary guild, the Magic Guild and the Versailles Chamber of Commerce established the headquarters in the western part of the empire, and the entire city of Mecca was divided into two major districts, the western and eastern districts, by the Thames River running from north to south. The palace is located on the west side of the River Thames, so compared to the two districts, the entire western district is more prosperous than the eastern district.
The Mercenary Union, the Magic Union, and the Versailles Chamber of Commerce, the headquarters of the three major forces, are located in the center of the western part of the imperial capital.
The building of the mercenary union is relatively simple, a huge circular building mercenary hall, standing on the mercenary square, the building is round, surrounded by kilometers and about 50 meters high. The square is crowded with people of all kinds every day, armed with all kinds of weapons, wearing all kinds of clothes, riding all kinds of magical beasts, all kinds of people. They came and went, constantly entering and exiting the mercenary hall, handing over tasks and receiving rewards.
Relatively speaking, the Magic Guild is a little deserted, and the building of the Magic Guild is also a circular magic tower, but the tower is not high, and it is a bit short compared to the magic tower towers around the palace, but the tower body of the Magic Guild is relatively stout, and the radius must be about 500 meters. The people who go in and out of the magic union are a bit formal, most of them are wearing magic robes, and of course, there are many warriors who come to enchant weapons or buy magic weapons, or invite magicians to go where to make magic arrays.
The largest area is the Versailles Chamber of Commerce, the entire Versailles Square, there are more than a dozen huge buildings, inside, medicine shops, weapons shops, auction houses, money houses, all the trades that can be related to martial arts and magic can be found in this huge area of the Chamber of Commerce gathering place, such an imposing building complex, than the other two major chambers of commerce in the rest of the city of Mecca to establish a complex of buildings. This also fully shows that the relationship between the Versailles Chamber of Commerce and the Bligh Empire is closer. It's no wonder that King Aya sought out the Versailles Chamber of Commerce for cooperation in the first place.
The city of Mecca, built over the River Thames, is the most memorable part of Trunk's visit. They have different shapes, some are bird-like, some are snake-shaped, some are fish-leaping dragon gate-shaped....all kinds of strange shapes, rough Bligh people, and there are some Qingyang people on the bridge building. Several of the bridges that Trunk has visited have been built very wide, each of which is about 100 meters wide. The main body of the bridge is made of metal and earth, and the locals of Mecca say that each bridge was built at great expense. It was made by dozens of Holy Order mages, hundreds of 9-star magicians of various departments and thousands of construction workers, and with famous bridge experts invited from all over the world, and spent dozens of days working together. After the bridge is made, there will be thousands of summoners who summon thousands of huge beasts, densely spread on the bridge, they jump, run, and crash to detect the load of the bridge. This is not the end, when the load is cleared, the city lord of Mecca City, let the city guard general, send those who ride the fat and stout earth dragon city guard knights, 10,000 knights, divided into ten columns, back and forth around the built bridge for three laps, in order to test the toughness of the bridge. Only when these tests are over will the Lord's Mansion announce to the entire city that the bridge is officially passable.
Two days later, early in the morning, Trunk embarked on a journey to the realm of divisions. From the imperial capital to the realm of the division, there are four modes of transportation, the fastest one is to take the teleportation circle of major cities, the fastest and most expensive, you can reach the destination in a while, only the powerful nobles and very rich people of the empire can consume. The second is to take a flying transport mount and fly directly to the nearest city to the boundary of the division. Galleon City, taking a flying mount is also a way to show off wealth, a little rich businessmen and nobles whose family economic status is not too good like to ride a flying horse, the speed is also very fast, it only takes five days to arrive, the third is to hire a carriage or take a carriage from a car dealership, this method is the slowest but also the most comfortable, it takes about 15 days, the last one is to take a boat in Mecca City, along the Thames River north, to Dunlan Port, and then take a carriage to the boundary of the division, in this way, about twelve days or so to reach the boundary of the division, Trunk thought about it for two days, and decided to ride to Galleon CityTrunk has come to love the feeling of looking out from above.
When I came to the flight point in the northeast corner of the city of Mecca, the flight point of each city was divided into zones, and the flight point in the northeast corner only flew in the northeast direction, and the flight point in the other corners only flew in other directions. In this way, you can save a lot of mounts and gather customers.The sky is just hazy, but the flight point is already full of people, which shows that there are indeed many rich people in Mecca. You must know that a safe, fast, and smooth flying mount is really not something that ordinary people can sit on, only those nobles and wealthy people will ride.
Trunk, who had bought the ticket, quickly waited for the flying mount he was riding. There are many kinds of flying mounts, there are fast ones, small ones, slow ones, large ones, in short, the faster the speed, the higher the price, Trunk chose 1 small size, the faster the speed of the bat, when Trunk boarded the manta bird, the flat back, fixed with more than 20 seats. Some of them have already sat down, only a few 7-8 empty seats remained, and when Trunk came up, he immediately attracted everyone's attention, a handsome young man, his eyes were like the blue sea, shining brightly, under his handsome nostrils, the slightly curled lips, exuding kindness all the time, and the long hair of a dark blue shawl, with the fair skin, was really beautiful and flawless.
Trunk didn't care about the eyes of others, and calmly sat in his own seat, quietly waiting for the mount to fly. Not long after the time passed, a girl and an old man came up on the back of the bat beast, and the old man followed closely behind the girl, and the discerning person could see that the old man was the housekeeper of the girl's house. The two sat down on the seat opposite Trunk, and then the girl noticed that Trunk, who was sitting opposite, immediately had his eyes shining, and Trunk looked at her as well, smiled and turned his head to look elsewhere.
The girl saw that Trunk ignored her, and then she grabbed the arm of the old man beside her and pushed it gently, and the old man knew what she meant at a glance, and shook his head helplessly and smiled. Then he said to Trunk, "Little brother, I don't know where you're going?"
As soon as Trunk heard that the other party was asking him, there was no need to hide it, so he replied, "I plan to go to the Trial Valley of the Master Realm to participate in the trial."
"Oh, do you want to participate in the trial? But I see that the little brother, he is only a 5-star peak cultivator, will it be a little reluctant to participate in the trial at this time" The old man said Trunk's cultivation at a glance.
"Hehe, it's man-made, you have to try it before you know," Trunk didn't explain much to him.
When the old man heard this, he nodded secretly and said, "This young man has a good temperament." He glanced at the girl beside him, and then smiled, "The old man is the second butler of the Marquis Mansion of Nalan in the Empire, Lin Yuan. 8 Star Fire Mage" Then he pointed to the girl beside him and said with a little pride, "This is the daughter of the Marquis of Nalan, Nalan Yan, a 7-star wood mage."
As soon as Lin Yuan's words fell, the people around him suddenly began to whisper,
"It's 7 stars at such a young age, genius!"
"Well, it's still the Marquis's family, and I've definitely been admitted to the academy."
After Trunk heard Lin Yuan's words, he secretly thought, "Shouldn't the Marquis of Nalan's Mansion be the Nalan Earl's Mansion?"
"My name is Nalan Yan, what is your name and where are you from?" Just as Trunk was pondering, Nalan Yan saw that Trunk had not spoken, and did not wait for Trunk to speak, so she directly asked the question she wanted to ask, Lin Yuan saw that Nalan Yan was so impatient, so he had to shake his head and chuckle.
"Trunk, Tulinn," Trunk said, referring to the place of birth that Minsk had arranged for him.
When Nalan Yan heard this, she continued to ask: "Where is Tulin, is there anything interesting?"
Hearing Nalan Yan's question, Trunk immediately wiped a cold sweat, he didn't know what was interesting about Tulin, and he couldn't answer at all....Just when Trunk was embarrassed.
At this time, the figure of a young man slowly walked up, and immediately attracted the attention of Nalan Yan and Lin Yuan. This was to relieve Trunk, and the young man was followed by a middle-aged man who also looked like a butler. Nalan Yan saw the girl, who seemed to know her, and snorted softly at him. When it was Lin Yuan, when he saw the young man, he hurriedly saluted: "Lin Yuan has seen it, Young Master Roy", and the middle-aged man also saluted Nalan Yan: "Stella has seen Miss Yan."
After Na Roy sat down, he looked at Nalan Yan, and immediately smiled, and said happily to Nalan Yan: "Haha, Nalan Yan, you see that we are still very fateful, and we can even go to the realm of the division to catch the same flying horse."
When Nalan Yan heard this, she glanced at Roy with her eyes, and said in annoyance: "Roy put away your boring tricks, you have been sending people to keep an eye on my house for almost half a month."
"Hehe" Na Roy didn't feel embarrassed at all, "Nalan Yan, when the Imperial New Year is half a year later, you will be my bride, what does it matter if I send someone to keep an eye on my fiancée's house."
Nalan Yan suddenly became anxious when she heard Roy's words, and in a panic, she actually glanced at Trunk, and found that Trunk didn't care about the conversation between the two, she breathed a sigh of relief, and hurriedly said: "Roy! Marriage is also half a year later, and now I have nothing to do with you at all."
That Roy was not stupid, she noticed Nalan Yan's eyes looking at Trunk, and then realized that Trunk, who was sitting next to him, was more attractive to the girl than he was. Roy snorted lightly and said to Nalan Yan: "Isn't it just a little white face, look at him, he is only a 5-star cultivator, what is there to like, I, Roy, am also a 5-star fighter, and I am also the grandson of the dignified Earl Russell, which point am I not better than him?"
When Trunk heard that the quarrel between the two had spread to himself, he smiled helplessly and ignored it.
Nalan Yan saw that Roy had brought the topic to Trunk, so she obediently ignored Roy and closed her lips tightly, which made Roy a little uncomfortable.
After Roy and his butler got on the flying horse, the flying jockey activated, and the two magic circles engraved on the flying horseman's body, the soundproof magic circle and the flow blocking magic circle, eliminated the noise of the flying horse's wings and the air flow caused by flying too fast.
A little uncomfortable, Roy began to talk to the housekeeper Stella beside him, but the eyes that glanced at Nalan Yan from time to time completely betrayed his heart, Stellan was also a good person, and he saw the thoughts of his little master, so when he was talking to Roy, he kept talking about some topics that Nalan Yan was interested in, and sure enough, after a while, Nalan Yan was attracted by the conversation between the two, after all, it was still a little girl under 15 years old, and her curiosity was too serious... When Lin Yuan saw such a situation, he could only sigh, he could penetrate Stella's tricks, but he couldn't debunk him, after all, Nalan Yan and Roy still had to get married in the end, unless there was a miracle... But is that possible...
The Nalan family doesn't want to marry the Russell family, Roy, this kid is already notorious at a young age in the aristocratic circle, it can be said that he has all the stinky problems that the nobles have, and he doesn't have the advantages that the nobles have. However, after the old Earl of Nalanten died unexpectedly 10 years ago, Nalanteng's eldest son, Nalan Ji, succeeded to the position of marquis, and then the status of the Nalan family in the empire began to decline, especially in recent years, many nobles who had a grudge against the old earl before joined forces to suppress the Nalan family, if it weren't for Count Russell's sake, he would give the Nalan family some help every year, then maybe the current Nalan family may be difficult to maintain their own industry. Two years ago, Nalan Ji was having dinner with Roy's father, Russell Rook, because Rook gave Nalan Ji a lot of help that day, and Nalan Ji was also happy that day, and then he drank a little more wine, and he made a mistake after drinking, and that night Nalan Ji promised to marry Nalan Yan to Roy. The next day, after sobering up, Nalan Ji wanted to admit it, but the hateful Luke actually took out a contract written in black and white, which stated that if he did not fulfill the contract, he would be compensated for liquidated damages according to 10 times the amount of the dowry. How can the current Nalan family have so much money, if it is really compensated according to this figure, then the Nalan family will be poor and only have 1 title left, because Nalan Ji not only has to use all his own property to pay off his debts, but also has to advance his salary for another 10 years to compensate for this liquidated damages... Fortunately, the heavens are pitiful, Nalan Ji's second daughter, who has had an excellent wood mage talent since she was a child, has cultivated to 7 stars at a young age, and has also obtained the admission qualification of the division realm, which also makes those enemies of the family a little more restrained.
Lin Yuan thought of this, he felt extremely sorry, thinking of this, he hated and feared the Russell family, he glanced at Nalan Yan, and then at Roy, and after finding his smile that the conspiracy was about to succeed, he couldn't help it for a while, and interjected: "Young Master Roy, you are only a 5-star cultivator, and you don't know what you have to do in the realm of teachers."
When Na Roy heard this, he didn't care, and said with a little smugness: "Young Master, I just broke through to 5 stars recently, and it just so happens that my future wife also went to the realm of teachers, so I will follow to play, maybe, Young Master, as soon as I participated in the trial of the Trial Valley, I was immediately admitted to the academy..."
As soon as Roy's words fell, the people around him, as if they had heard what he said, immediately remembered some good-natured laughter
"Ahem" Stella beside Roy, after hearing the words of his young master, he didn't know whether he was really choked or fake..."Our young master is also talented, as long as he is willing to work a little harder, it is not difficult to enter the academy to study." Stella hurriedly complimented Roy to cover up his mistake...
Time passed slowly, and when the rider flew for about an hour...
Suddenly, Lin Yuan's brows furrowed, and then the middle-aged housekeeper also noticed that something was wrong. Standing on the body of a goshawk spirit, exuding a murderous aura all over it... Suddenly, the entire people on the bat beast noticed something unusual, and after a while, everyone was in chaos, and the bat beast that was flying forward was also frightened by the strong murderous aura emitted by the black shadow. The beast controller struggled to control the manta sparrow to stabilize its body. Lin Yuan, looking at the sound and shadow floating in the air, he said loudly: "The old man is the second butler of the Marquis Mansion of Nalan in the Empire, Lin Yuan, an 8-star mage, I don't know what you have to do here."
"Tut-tut, 8-star mage?" Although he was quite far away from the manta beast, the voice full of cold smell still clearly reached everyone's ears through the soundproof magic circle, "It's really not qualified to sacrifice to me to the ghost slash, then use your blood to sacrifice the ghost thorn spirit I just refined recently!" Lin Yuan looked at it, took out his magic wand from his sleeve, raised his hand to bless himself with a flame shield, and then the magic wand in his hand kept flying towards the ghost thorn spirit, "poof", five huge fireballs went straight to the five ghost spirits, "pound" sound, four of the five thorn spirits easily dodged, and the only one that was a little thick and slightly thick was smashed by the fireball head-on...
When everyone saw it, they immediately cheered loudly. Lin Yuan also breathed a sigh of relief, at least one was killed, and it wasn't for nothing... But why, how could the black shadow on the opposite side, who was obviously only a 7-star martial artist, bring such huge pressure to himself.
The joy didn't last long, and after the black smoke dissipated, a bombed black stabbing spirit appeared in front of everyone again, and the blow of the 8-star fire method failed to kill a ghost spirit with a maximum of 7-star strength, because these ghosts could only condense weapons, and there was no trace of armor on the whole body. Then he rushed towards Lin Yuan again.
"Ho ho ho, old man, you are too weak, you can't even kill such a fragile 7-star ghost...", the black shadow mocked Lin Yuan with disdain...
At this time, Lin Yuan, who had already been approached by the other four ghosts, didn't have the energy to ask his own questions at all, and he kept throwing fireballs and casting flame binding spells with his left hand to control the actions of the stabbing spirits. The staff in his right hand is also constantly consuming a lot of magic power, and the magic cover that has been slashed by the thorn spirit is somewhat crumbling.
Stella next to him saw that Lin Yuan was constantly besieged by five ghosts, and he was a little dangerous, he roared, and his fighting spirit surged out, and a layer of armor condensed by earth-based fighting spirit faintly appeared on his body. He wielded the two sledgehammers condensed by his fighting spirit, and smashed them all at the group of thorn spirits, "bang", the unlucky thorn spirit who was hit by Lin Yuan's fireball just now was smashed by Stella again... The other four ghosts, who had dodged in time, glanced at each other, and then together they gave a salute to the unlucky thorn spirit who had been smashed and flew away...
It's too humane, and it's too unkind to take the 8-star warrior in your eyes, this is the first feeling that the 5 thorn spirits bring to the audience next to you...
The black shadow was on fire, and shouted angrily at the smashed ghosts: "Damn earth spirit, if you want to be hit again, I will let the ghost slash swallow you and not leave any scum...", and then he yelled at several other ghosts, "Hurry up and solve this group of garbage for me, I don't have time to waste it on you, you keep playing, I swear to make you look good!"
The four ghost spirits and the earth thorn spirits who were smashed and flew away couldn't help but shiver all over their bodies.
The five ghost spirits suddenly burst out with the momentum of their whole bodies, gold, wood, water, fire, and earth, and the Five Elements Thorn Spirit Array opened. At this time, among the crowd, another 8-star fighter joined the battle, but in the face of the five thorn spirits who put out the five-element array, the three 8-star warriors looked so fragile and could be killed at any time.
Seeing such a scene, Roy's already frightened teeth began to tremble a little, and he regretted: "There are so many 9-star guards in the family, why don't I bring a few"
Nalan Yan, as soon as she saw that the three 8-star martial artists were suppressed like this, she took out her staff and prepared to rush up to join the battle...
"Since you're here to find me, why bother with the innocent," Trunk said to the dark shadow with a blank face.