Chapter 14: The City of Bells
Maseung struggled to get up from the lawn, and now he had a splitting headache and his stomach was tumbling. Damn it! What's going on? Masei rubbed his forehead, trying to make himself comfortable. He looked around, and Eru was long gone, and he had lost his only guide. Zhencheng clenched his fists, and then shook his head helplessly. Scenes from last night's events flashed through his mind, and Makoto felt a heart-wrenching sadness at the thought of the burning house in the fire and Lilisa and Alice who had been taken captive. He fell weakly on the lawn, blaming himself deeply, as if he had messed up everything.
After a moment's pause, Masei looked at the warriors beside him, who were standing in a neat formation not far from him. After last night's battle, Shinsei has used up the summoned population, and only these warriors are left. Shinsei counted the warriors present, a total of 10 sword and shield soldiers, 5 shortbow hunters, and the doctor who was summoned before losing consciousness last night, a total of 16 people. Zhen Cheng lay flat and looked at these soldiers, who were like soulless puppets, tireless and emotionless. What the hell do these guys live on? Masei stroked his hungry grumbling belly, his heart full of doubts. Zhencheng didn't eat a bite of food from noon yesterday to this morning, and he didn't eat a drop of water, and now he is hungry and thirsty. But it's not a good thing at all, at least the injuries on his body have fully recovered, I didn't expect the doctor's recovery ability to be so strong, I really looked at the doctor in surprise. He didn't know that he also had the blessing of a passive skill.
Looks like we'll have to go back to the checkpoint to find Levi. The only clue now is that the Red-Eyed group will be trading near Bell City. Masei patted his head vigorously to cheer himself up, and then he got up and rode his horse. After he got on his horse, the warriors also mounted their warhorses. Masei led the troops and turned back towards the Bell City checkpoint. This time back, Zhencheng is already familiar with the road, and this time there are enough horses to do the transportation, Zhencheng's travel speed is very fast. It seems that on the grassland, cavalry is the king, Zhencheng couldn't help but sigh. Towards noon, Maseung turned back to the vicinity of the checkpoint.
"Captain Levi!" Maseung shouted impatiently.
"Why are you again!" Levi heard the shout and impatiently poked his head out of the high platform of the level.
"I'm going into the city, can you let me in?" Shinsei asked.
"Tell me why you went to the city, and then show me your diploma!" Levi glanced at it and shouted pretentiously. In fact, the city lord of Zhongshan had already given an order, if Zhencheng wanted to enter the city, no one would stop him, but Zhencheng didn't know now.
"Well, I don't have a diploma." Zhencheng was slightly embarrassed, not to mention the diploma, a week ago, he didn't even know about the magic wall.
"What are you going to do when you go into town?" Levi asked.
"I... I want to sell my horses! Maseung looked at the horses riding under the warriors, and a flash of inspiration flashed. He knew that if he brought the sheep and horses into the city, the checkpoint would not stop him, and this was what Lilisa told Mako. In fact, not only pigs, sheep, cattle and horses, but even people, it doesn't matter. The Grans Empire acquiesced in the existence of slavery. Any resource can be traded on a large bazaar.
After listening to Zhencheng's words, Li Wei snorted disdainfully, this kind of low-level lie can't deceive anyone. But looking at Maseung's anxious figure at the bottom of the level, the person from more than twenty years ago still came to his mind. "Switch!" Levi shouted at the guards behind him, he didn't want to continue to ramble.
The guard received Levi's order and pulled the winch hard, and with the friction sound of the iron chain sliding, the gate of the checkpoint slowly lifted.
"Thank you! Drive! Maseung briefly thanked him, and then led the troops through the checkpoint smoothly. Li Wei silently looked at Zhencheng's distant back, his expression still complicated.
Zhencheng galloped down the road quickly, watching the whole picture of Zhong Zhicheng gradually become clear. Soon he saw the river that Eru had mentioned, the moat of the City of Bells, more than 100 meters wide, stretching west until it was out of sight. If you want to enter the City of Bells, this moat is an insurmountable chasm. It has to be said that the construction of the bell city is very clever to make use of the natural geographical location. The purpose of Zhencheng's trip was not to enter the City of Bells, so he led his troops along the river all the way to the west, along the river to find traces of the Red-Eyed Crowd. Sure enough, after walking for a while, Makomi found the traces of the carriage rolling over, and the further he went, the deeper the traces became, and the road became more and more muddy. The wind blowing on his face was also full of a wet and salty smell, and it seemed that Masakoto was already very close to the sea.
Makomi led the troops on a difficult trek, and the horses neighed one after another, as if to suggest that there was no road ahead. Makoto didn't want to give up and led the troops in the pursuit until all the carriage marks disappeared ahead. From this place, all traces of the Red-Eyed disappeared, and there were two large round wooden stakes on either side of the river, which seemed to have crossed the river by some special method.
Looking at the vanishing traces, Makomi knew that it seemed unnecessary to pursue him. Since the red-eyed people have crossed the river, then Zhencheng will also cross the river and continue the pursuit. He didn't have the special method of crossing the river like the Red-eyed Ones, so he could only turn back to the City of Bells and cross the river from the bridge that entered the city. After such a toss, when I arrived at the City of Bells, it was already close to dusk in the afternoon. The true inheritors were tired and weakened, and they entered the city in embarrassment.
The City of Bells, one of the three main cities of the Grans Empire, is very large. The total population of Bell City is more than 4 million people. There are 15,000 regular archers, 10,000 cavalry, 35,000 infantry, 5,000 special units (bell armor) and 5,000 patrol guards, a total of 70,000 troops. As the name suggests, the City of Bells is a city built with several jagged clock towers as the main body. Not only is it uniquely shaped, but it is also the technological core of the Grans Empire, where there are several famous technological artifacts of the Granse Empire. For example, Zhong Jikai, an exoskeleton battle armor that uses gears to drive. In addition, there are large siege equipment Trojan horse chariots and powered airboats. Because of the advanced science and technology of the City of Bells, it has attracted a large number of outstanding imperial scholars. The overall security and the quality of residents in Bell City are relatively high, and it is the best area in the whole Grans.
Shinsei tilted his head and looked at the introductory board in the City of Bells City Pavilion. The content written in this string of large Chinese characters also greatly subverts the original cognition of Zhencheng. In order to enter the city, both Maseung and his subordinates surrendered their personal armaments. Now, Shinsei and 16 of his subordinates are standing stupidly in the pavilion of Bell City in thin cloth clothes, looking for some public information. Looking at the sun gradually setting outside the window of the exhibition hall, Zhencheng felt helpless. He has no money on him, all the money is given to Elu, and Elu has stolen his mobile phone at some point, and now he can't afford to pay for a hotel for 17 people.
"Hey, forget it, let's stay here tonight. After all, this is currently the only public place that is open all day. Makoto comforted himself, and he casually found a step to sit down, staring at the display board of the overall city model of the city of Bell in the center of the exhibition hall. On this panel, you can see the structure and division of the entire bell city. Looking at the meticulously carved models, he was a little surprised that the people here had such a level of technology to make such a fine thing.
After a few days of continuous tossing, Zhencheng, who was physically and mentally exhausted, lay down on the cold marble stairs without any mind.
Forget it, I couldn't sleep for a while when I was hungry, so I concentrated and opened the recruitment panel of 'strife' again. Looking at the indicators and content on the panel, Zhencheng studied it carefully. The content of the panel is still very similar to the content of 'Strife' at a glance, and the attributes of the Soldier are exactly the same as those in Strife. This allows Zhencheng, who is a master of discord, to have a lot of room for skill and play. However, there are also many details on the board that differ from those in the Discord game.
First of all, the level of Discord has been added, and now the level of Discord held by the True Inheritance is gamma level, which can summon the race of Terrans and the number of people that can be summoned is 0. This is very different from the game, where there is no level of strife, and the summoning of soldiers is also made with crystals. In the other world you are in now, the summoned soldiers do not last forever, and the duration of existence varies depending on the type of warrior, but generally exists for between 15 and 30 days (except for special summoned characters).
Secondly, there is the method of obtaining the summoned population and the escalation mechanism of the strife. Summoned populations can be obtained by killing enemies, increasing their own combat power, and increasing the level of discord. As the level of strife increases, it will unlock higher privileges, be able to summon larger teams, achieve multi-racial summoning, and even allow classes to upgrade and evolve themselves.
Finally, an extremely important panel appeared, the Personal Properties panel. This panel keeps a list of the stats and skills of Shinjo. The values of the true inheritance are divided into four major items, and each value is divided into three sub-items.
Makomi takes a look at this own property panel and carefully reads the above contents.
Name: Zhencheng, Age: 17 years old (psychological age 20 years old), Comprehensive combat power 77 (Physical Attack 30, Physical Defense 35, Magic Attack 0, Magic Resistance 12)
List of individual potential attributes:
Brawn: 30 (Strength: 7 Agility, 8 Intuition: 15)
Spiritual Power: 300 (Holy Power: 100 Mana: 100 Witchcraft: 100)
Intelligence: 170 (Sight Range: 50 Master: 60 Prediction: 60)
Stamina: 50 (Physical Resistance: 10 Magic Resistance: 10 Stamina: 30)
Skill list: Passive skill [Flesh Rebirth], Passive Effect 1: Restore three critical damage to the limit. Passive Effect 2: Increases the healing speed of non-lethal damage by 40%.
At present, Zhencheng can only read his own personal attribute panel in detail, and the rest of the people's panels, whether they are allies, neutrals, or enemies, have different levels of reading permissions, and they cannot view all the content if they lack permission. Makoto put his arm on his forehead, he already had a general idea of his basic attributes. If you want to see the detailed attributes of other people, it is estimated that the only way to become stronger and improve the system level is to work hard.
At night, the city of bells is very quiet, except for the constant sound of the clock moving from the bell tower above the exhibition hall, Masamu can barely hear any other sounds. After concentrating on the 'strife' system for so long, tiredness and sleepiness began to sweep over the body. At this moment, several strange noises suddenly broke the silence of the night.
This is...... The sound of a fight!! A clever man quickly got up from the steps, pricked up his ears to listen, and stared out the window with his eyes motionless. I only listened to the noisy sound getting closer and closer, and finally arrived not far from the window. Accompanied by the sword light and sword shadow, several figures flashed quickly against the eaves of the wall.
The three watches in the middle of the night acted strangely, could it be a red-eyed person? Zhencheng didn't have time to think about it, he quickly ordered the soldiers to follow him, and chased the few figures who had just left in the night.
Masei trotted all the way in the direction of the figure's departure, following closely behind. Eventually, the figures stopped at a wide street corner. Masei hid beside a pile of debris not far away, watching them. Through closer inspection, Makoto saw their faces clearly.