Ertoriel, a new city on the banks of the Chongsa River, was established in recent years as the city-state of Jianwan, and was the center of trade and agriculture upstream of Baldur's Gate, full of fertile fields and watermills, agricultural estates one after another, huge windmills and houses that flowed along the tributaries of the Chongsa River, and tall windmills and farmhouses piled up along the veins of the hills.

The Oi Sa River here is already in the middle and lower reaches, and the current is relatively fast, and ships heading to the Baldur's Gate have to wait for it to pass.

The Tzeentch Sky Survey fell into the bushes, and in a few moments a group of heavily armed soldiers arrived on horseback. The leader was obviously a very powerful knight, and judging by the way he held his sword and the skill he handled his horse, Aaron knew that he had definitely undergone sufficient military training since he was a child.

Hell Knight.

Aaron silently recited the salutation Eleanor had mentioned.

The city-state of Eltoriel was formerly known as the Hell Knights, named after the arrival of an angel from the Heavenly Mountain, who saved nearby villages and led soldiers willing to follow her into Hell, and then the soldiers who were lucky enough to return were called Hell Knights, the leader of the Hell Knights, Delt, and a devout Heim guard founded Eltorel.

"Hey, you guys!" The Hellknight, dressed in a beautiful set of Mithril chain mail with sun and crescent motifs on his breastplate, looked fairly young, with standard blonde hair and blue eyes: "Are you all right?" I see you have fallen from the sky, do you need help? ”

"We're fine." Aaron habitually said, "Thank you, where is this?" ”

Hearing Aaron say that it was okay, the Knight of Hell immediately changed his face, and he said very proudly: "So, welcome to Eltoril, a sacred city, the toll fee is 5 gold coins per person, and the carriage and cargo money are calculated separately, what is your name?" I'm good to register. ”

"My name is Gray Parvatt Mau-Mao." Naturally, Aaron is in charge of negotiating with outsiders, His Excellency the Viscount shook his head and said with exhaustion.

"......" who knew that the Hellknight's movements were sluggish for a moment, and he skillfully took out a pen from behind him and wrote on parchment: "Okay, Lord Aaron Salian registers one, Lady Eleanor Dinemore registers one, and how many people are in the carriage?" ”

“？？？ Do you recognize me? ”

"Who doesn't recognize His Excellency Aaron Salian, the Champion of the King, the head of the Arabell's Five, the Viscount of Cormier, and the Chosen Elect of the Silver Virgin?" Hell Knight rolled his eyes: "Everyone has heard of what you look like, as long as it is a blonde with blue eyes and a height of about 6 feet 2 inches, and his appearance is so handsome that he does not look like a mortal creature at all, and his eyes have a sense of oppression like a cloudy sunny day, then it must be that Lord Aaron has not run." ”

"My name is Hilde, the Knight of Hell of Eltorel, and welcome to Eltorel." Hell Knight then wrote, "As for the one next to you, with long bright blonde hair, hemp braids, and priest's robes, it must be Lady Eleanor!" ”

"Am I right? Mr. Grey Parvatt Mao? ”

Hell Knight Hilde asked with a hint of humor.

"Poof." Eleanor couldn't help but hide her mouth and snicker, Miss Pastor didn't care much about her reputation, but she felt very proud of Aaron's popularity, she never cared how well she could be evaluated, but she was very useful for Aaron's praise from others.

"Okay." Aaron thought to himself that his popularity was too high, which was really not a good thing: "There are six people in the carriage, and we are all in a little trouble. ”

"6 people, counting the carriage goods, the toll tax is a total of 60 gold coins, what's the trouble?" Heard continued.

"This." Aaron pulled out a perfect Mind Flayer's head and shook it back and forth with a few sticky tentacles.

"Ertoriel thanks for your contribution!" Hilde immediately changed his tune and said, "Please let me give you a discount, 30 gold coins!" ”

"This is a document with the royal seal of Cormier." Aaron pulled out another royal paper.

"Okay, it's free." Hell Knight Hilde couldn't help but be disappointed on his face: "Tom is on top, this month's performance is gone." ”

"Show me the way, that's the best performance." Aaron found the Hell Knight quite amused: "You're hosting an envoy of the nation!" ”

"That's right!" Hilde slapped his thigh: "This way, please!" ”

As an emerging city-state, Eltorell was still very weak at this time, and the Hell Knights were only two or three hundred in total, in contrast, although the Cormier Kingdom in the middle of the kingdom was not large, it had always been a powerful country in terms of military and mage strength, especially in recent years, when Ahsan IV defeated the nomadic invasion, Lady Raul won the Battle of Arabel, and Aaron hosted the "Fourth Wall" grand celebration, all of which made Cormier's momentum reach its peak.

Correspondingly, the small city-state of El Torel was naturally treated with the highest courtesy.

Hell Knight Hilde took Aaron and others into the city, as a new city-state, Ertoriel temporarily took extremely developed agriculture and monopolized the transit fees of the lower reaches of the Okina River as his main income, the city was under construction everywhere, the upper city formed the domain of the nobles around the castle of the "Supreme Rider" and the station of the Hell Knights, and the lower city was composed of mostly wooden double-storey houses, trade was very developed here, and there were a large number of farms and livestock farms around the city, Along the way, Aaron saw thousands of cattle and sheep on a cursory look.

The distinguished guests arrived, and the knights of hell soon got the news, and a small team of heavily armed knights arrived, escorting Aaron and others into the city to meet the lord, but unfortunately the great lord of Eltoriel, the holy warrior Delt, was not there, he went to Silvermoon City to convene the meeting of the Northland Lords Alliance, Aaron met with the members of the upper house of the city, and conveyed greetings from the east to Eltoril.

This part is more tedious, so I will skip it here.

The House of Lords expressed the highest degree of welcome to Aaron's arrival, and to Aaron's surprise, it was not the nobles who welcomed him the most, nor the Heim guards, who were not the backbone of the Knights of Hell, but the priest of Ilmat, the god of suffering, who thanked Aaron for his selfless donation, and said that he could contact him directly if he had any questions.

It seems that those tens of thousands of relief meals really worked!

Aaron couldn't help but think to himself, the standard relief meal he donated to the church of Yilmat was fish and chips + potato paste + vegetable bacon sandwich + bad barley wine, and the God of Suffering didn't say anything, but afterwards let his pastor tell Aaron that he was satisfied with his donation.

After that, Aaron and the others stayed at the Eagle Hotel in the city under the arrangement of the city council, Aaron chartered the entire three floors of the hotel, and Hell Knight Hilde was sent to be his guide during this time.

Chartered the third floor of the hotel, and settled Barrell and Charlotte who had passed out first, Aaron left Vanessa and Kafka in charge of safety, and he went down to the first floor of the hotel with Eleanor and Heald.

No one welcomed the Drow Elfs, and if it weren't for Aaron's claim that they were his hired guards, Vanessa and Kafka would have gone to jail.

Yes, Eltoril is such a strict place, the city-state founded by the Haim Paladins has taken the rules and order to the extreme, emphasizing fairness and justice, leaving no mercy, and resolutely eliminating any factors that may threaten the city, even including some gods and beliefs.

On the streets of El Toriel, anyone who says dirty words and colored jokes can be warned by the Knight of Hell.

The brown wooden floors, the two rows of tables and chairs lining the stone walls, the aroma of burning stove stews, the large barrels piled up behind the bar pouring ale from the faucets, the bartender wiping beer glasses, and the bard singing songs, all seemed to go back to the night Aaron and Eleanor returned to Susar together.

Holding Miss Pastor's small hand, Aaron couldn't help but smile.

Eleanor, however, did not seem to be happy, and there was an obscure complication on Miss Reverend's delicate countenance, and she smiled a little at Aaron before saying nothing.

There were already quite a few guests on the first floor of the hotel, and Aaron had already been recognized, and there were at least three ladies and a gentleman who came up to Aaron for an autograph under Eleanor's unkind gaze, and one of the ladies asked Aaron to sign his name on her corset.

Aaron was generous enough to be gratified, and asked for a cup of hot water of Amm whenever he came up to him to sign.

So everyone on the first floor of the hotel came up to ask Aaron for an autograph, and Hell Knight Hilde had to come forward to stop drinking, and the crowd dispersed.

"Is this your first time in Eltoril?"

Hilde made a good trip, and Hell Knight was in a good mood, and he took the initiative to ask, "How long are you going to stay here?" Do you need me to show you around the city? ”

"Are there any famous sights around the city?" Aaron doesn't plan to stay long in Eltoriel, he plans to travel to Baldur's Gate to find Chanem and Ammon, the sons of the Bal gods.

The memories of his past life were very vague, he vaguely remembered that Chanem and Aemon both lived in Candlecastle, and he also remembered that Chanem had an adoptive father.

Is this adoptive father called Godwin or Godfrey?

Aaron couldn't remember it for a long time, he remembered that his adoptive father had died on the first night he escaped from Candlefort with Chanem.

"If you want to talk about our city, we have to mention our Hell Knights, once Lord Delt led the Hell Knights, followed a great archangel into Hell together, it is said that they once went all the way through the eight layers of Hell until the door of the ninth layer of Hell did not stop, but unfortunately, I was still a child at the time." Hilde said proudly, "Do you know who that archangel is?" ”

"Who is it?" Aaron noticed Eleanor's figure tremble, and she took the initiative to hold the vial on her chest.

"Archangel, Lord of the Dawn, Lord of the Dawn, Archangel Zariel!" Hilde patted his chest: "Lord Zariel led the Hell Knights all the way in, otherwise how do you think the title of Hell Knight came from?" That's how it came about! ”

"Wait...... Zariel? Are you sure? ”

Aaron clearly sensed that something was wrong.

Zaryll, is the Archangel?

However, in the information about hell given to him by the bald singer Great Devil Morgan, the Devil Lord of the first layer of Hell is called Zariel!

Did this group of people make a mistake?

"Sure, I'm a Knight of Hell, how could I not know?" Hilde stirred the broth in the bowl with a spoon, and the Hellrider looked like you don't know a foreigner, so don't ask.

"It's Zariel." Eleanor nodded suddenly: "It's her, how could I not know, she saved my life." ”

"Oh? Is Ms. Eleanor a native of El Toriel? Hilde was about to stand up excitedly: "Why didn't you say it earlier?" Where are you from? Why did you go to Cormier? ”

"I'm from Morrowind Village, a half-elf village." Miss Pastor said lightly.

"Uh......" Hilde's excitement immediately went down: "Is it there...... I'm sorry. ”

According to the Knight of Hell, Morrowind was destroyed by the Gnoll tribe about ten years ago, and none of the half-elves survived.

then How did Eleanor survive?

Hilde looked like he wanted to ask but didn't dare to ask, and the Hell Knight wanted to proudly announce that our being raided by the Gnolls was a thing of the past, but he immediately found himself suffocating when he said that it seemed that the Hell Knights were incompetent, not to mention that the Hell Knights were even more incompetent.

He has always regarded joining the Knight of Hell as the value and highest honor of his life.

"It was Zarel who saved me." Eleanor's face was expressionless, and Miss Priest's eyes showed very mixed emotions: "She sent a Dumbo to send me to Cormier, it's as simple as that. ”

"You didn't seem to have told me that before?" Aaron was even more confused: "Eleanor? ”

"I don't want to put an extra burden on you." Eleanor took the initiative to shake Aaron's big hand and apologized slightly: "I thought that when the time is right, I will naturally tell you." ”

"What's the right time?" Aaron smiled, his eyes full of threat.

You're in trouble tonight!

"After the legend......" replied Eleanor very seriously.

Miss Reverend's answer is interrupted by singing on the stage of the inn, where the bard sings a ballad written in Elvish.

A thick sound of grief enveloped the entire hotel.

"Sing a song of Eltoril

Sing of its flowing waters, trees and hills

The morning sun comes out of the red cliff, and the fields are evergreen.

This place is long happy, and it is brave to call home.

Fame spreads all over the world, and there is no slave.

Sing the song of El Toriel

The enemy is in the city

Thousands of acres of fertile land are cracked, and the shadow of the country of hell comes.

The Hellrider is the mainstay, wielding a sword like lightning.

Shouting and charging into a bloody battle, the devil's army suddenly dissipated.

Sing the song of El Toriel

……”

The door of the inn was pushed open, interrupting the minstrels' singing, and a green druid beauty with wavy brown hair and wheat-colored skin in a green cloak and twin knives on her back was followed into the lobby by an honest young man dressed as a standard warrior and wearing a helmet.

Jia ...... Jahira, can we not live here...... You know, Eltoril doesn't welcome half-elves like us, they like purebred humans. ”

"Shut up, shut up, how many times do you want me to say? Outside, don't speak your mind directly! ”

"But, as I said, I wouldn't have any reservations about you."

"You have to be reserved with others, oh, please, my husband, can you think before you speak?"

"But you're so, so ......"

"So pretty?"

"Yes, it's so beautiful, I can't control it at all, I can say whatever I want."

"Hey, Sivannas is up there."

The druid beauty covered her face with a helpless expression, but judging from her facial expression, Aaron knew that she was still happy, and the man behind her, that is, her husband, was already panicking at this time, and hurriedly explained, obviously very afraid that his wife would have an opinion about him.

Aaron thought to himself, isn't this Jahira and Khaled?

Wait, they show up here? Doesn't it mean that the plot of Baldur's Gate is about to begin?!

Updated, ask for a ticket duck~

(End of chapter)