December 10, 996

From the luxury carriage of Rand, you can already see the 40-meter-high walls of Maned Wolf City and the towers within the walls.

"My lord, there is Maned Wolf City in front, and the main body of this city was built 1500 years ago by the first generation of Maned Wolf Marquis, when in order to assist the Maned Wolf family against the orcs,

It is said that the demigod from the imperial capital brought a magical fairy queen, and that queen only took a month to build the entire city wall, and the mane wolf city is still repairing the original city wall."

Pete drove the carriage as he introduced Rand to the carriage box in the back.

Rand listened to Pete while eating dried fruit, and now there was no need to move frequently, and the assembleable lookout post behind the carriage was useless and had been converted into an entire storage area.

Gandalf gave Wendy a lot of simple and effective magic patterns.

Wendy used these patterns to repair some of the broken or broken circles on the magic carriage.

According to Rand's idea, some space was added to the storage area of the carriage to refrigerate food and preserve magic crystals, and now Rand's carriage is more like an RV.

Sitting in the RV and listening to Pete talk about the magic fairy again, Rand became even more curious about this legendary magical life.

"My lord, look at that magic tower, it is the magic tower of Cohen Maned Wolf, the most powerful archmage of the Maned Wolf family, but Lord Cohen usually walks in the school of Blue Dragon City and doesn't come back much."

"Well, the big tutor always likes to find topics, and it's enough for the apprentices to run the laboratory, understand." Rand complained in his heart.

"Pete? Have you ever seen a magic goblin? ”

"My lord, I have seen those miraculous beings, and I assure you, they are the most attractive beings in the world."

"Oh?"

Maned Wolf City is located on a rocky hill about 200 meters high, the highest core part of the mountain is the castle and family shrine of the Maned Wolf family, and the sunny part of the mountainside is the Earl's Castle of the current Maned Earl.

The Count's Castle, together with the cathedral, theater, barracks, council chambers, guild halls, and gladiatorial arenas, form the core of the city's public facilities, and the outer part of this core area is surrounded by shops, restaurants, taverns, trading markets, and several residential areas, with the outermost part being the huge city walls.

Cohen Manewolf's magic tower looks like a tower from the outside, but in fact, the group of houses at the base of the tower is also several castle-like buildings connected together, located in a corner of Maned Wolf City.

Those who can live in the residential areas of Maned Wolf City are either the direct lords and demon supporters of the Maned Wolf family, or the family knights of Count Maned Wolf himself, as well as the representatives of various vassals stationed in Maned Wolf City.

Ordinary residents working in the city can only live in a few residential areas outside the city, so outside the walls of the maned wolf, there is a large residential area, and corresponding markets, temples, churches, taverns, bathhouses, etc.

Because in the living space, there are three kinds of people living in the core of Maned Wolf City, inside the city, and outside the city: families, nobles, and commoners, so there are great differences in security, religion, taxation, and management.

The maned wolf family, as a family that has been rampant in the northwest territory for thousands of years, the large and small clans are entangled, and the castle of the maned wolf family occupies nearly half of the area of the maned wolf city, and the size of the core maned wolf family shrine is equivalent to the area of the cathedral in the city, and the family sacrifice has always been held by a temple priest (junior magister level) family priest.

The cathedral in Mane Wolf City is the largest religious facility in the entire city, and it is also the headquarters of the Temple Alliance in the entire Northwest Territory, its bishop is directly appointed by the Holy See Holy City, and the cathedral enshrines all the recognized gods of the entire human empire, and the altars, places of worship, temples, and churches outside the city are places of worship for a god or several gods who are more prosperous than incense.

Not only religious sites, but also in terms of security and taxation, the city is patrolled by the Maned Wolf Knights and a vigilante team of the Count's direct demon supporters, while the outside of the city is managed by several side branches of the Maned Wolf family.

The Rand's team had already arrived outside the city, and Obote and Mace, who had been to Maned Wolf City, had found a warehouse for the goods to be placed, but doing business in the outer city of Maned Wolf City also required the Earl's consent, so Rand's first stop in Maned Wolf City was to visit the Earl's Palace.

The procession soon reached the city gates, where Rand's party consisted of 21 demon lovers, 20 guards, including Pete, and the girls' carriage had joined Neil.

"My lord, when we pass, the guards of Maned Wolf City will collect our tolls."

"I'm a viscount and I have to pay it too?"

"My lord, this is the entrance tax required by the Maned Wolf Count, you don't have to pay it, but the cavalry does, we still have to go from the Earl's Mansion in Maned Wolf City to Dragon's Tooth City."

In big cities such as the royal capital and the imperial capital, there are special agencies responsible for portal services, but a small city like Mane Wolf City can only go to other cities through the portal in the lord's mansion.

According to Pete, the nobles above the earl level in the empire basically have portals at home or in the city, and there are special space mages of the Star Society who are responsible for running these expensive portals.

Of course, the existence of the teleporters is undoubtedly very convenient for the nobles like Rand, who need to go far away and don't like the pain of bumps, at least saving Rand more than half a month of travel between several cities.

Originally, Rand planned to ride a horse or carriage directly from Maned Wolf City to Dragon's Tooth City, but even Huck and Albert didn't know that Count Maned Wolf had a special courtyard in his house for teleportation.

According to Pete, this portal was built by the current Earl of Kempins after he succeeded him through the connections of the royal capital, and he also secured his position as an earl in the family because of this gate.

At the gates of the city, Rand's convoy was treated with extra courtesy because it was guarded by 20 heavily armed cavalry, and not only did the demons stay away, but even the demons who were about to enter the city quickly avoided it.

The chaos of the barbarians has just ended, and everyone is afraid that this is a remnant of the wandering barbarian squad.

"Pete, your convoy is big enough, if I didn't recognize your flag with galloping horses, I would have thought which marquis had arrived."

Knowing that Fernando Manewolf, the eldest son of the earl who was coming from Rand in the near future, had been sending people to watch at the city gate, he planned to give him a dismount.

In Viscount Bob's account book, he spent three digits of gold coins to fix the eldest prince, and specially sent several black-scaled horses to be able to communicate with the old earl alone.

For this reason, Bob specifically described the future earl as a perfect inheritor of the old maned wolf's character, always keeping his mouth on all valuable matters, visiting every shop in the city every day like a dog kennel, and wanting more witches and magical equipment than food.

Rand, who had read Viscount Bob's accounts, was very impressed by the maned wolf duke, so he prepared early.

"Fernando Maned Wolf Knight, long time no see, greetings to you and Lord Earl" Rand heard the voice of the eldest prince and opened the car door to say hello.