97. Portal
As the conversation progressed, Ben and Rand talked about the Dragon Kingdom, and Ben gave a little introduction to the dethroned king turmoil he had heard about nine years ago, to be precise, the large families banded together to launch a palace coup d'état and overthrow the previous king.
The former king Arnold Red Dragon, the son of the former king and the former prime minister of the kingdom, Beto Lanyuan, ascended to the throne after Arnold broke through the high ranks, but not long after Beto died, the five great nobles on the ground proposed that Beto had been involved in the case of Jokoda Red Dragon, and asked Arnold Red Dragon to investigate and publish the facts of the case.
Arnold refused, and the five families launched a coup d'état with the royal capital and the local Magister family for various reasons, forcing Arnold to abdicate and leave the palace and flee the imperial capital.
Although the impact of this coup d'état was huge, the killing at that time was very small, because the three pillars of the Red Dragon, Flying Dragon, and Blue Dragon families controlled the control of the various forces in the royal capital, and chose to stand by and let each power enter the palace when forcing the palace, and other legends in the kingdom did not want to divide the kingdom.
In the final stalemate, the Imperial Prime Minister (demigod) appeared and presided over a high-level and legendary meeting of all the families, which finally confirmed Arnold's downfall at the imperial level.
Then several large families quarreled with each other over the question of who should choose the new king, and finally the Earl of the North, the White Owl, became the result accepted by everyone, and the Earl of the White Owl, Dusen White Owl, became the Dragon King.
"Isn't the royal family of our dragon kingdom the Red Dragon Family?" Rand really didn't know, after all, he was a kid at the time.
To be precise, even the viscount family in the imperial capital rarely instructed the inside story, at most I heard that there was a meeting at that time, and the next day it was announced that the king was unable to perform his duties due to physical reasons, and the not too hardened King Dusen did not even ask the great nobles from all over the country to bring all the vassals to the royal capital to meet him.
"Yes, but not all demon bearers can inherit the throne of king, and the most basic requirement for succession is to be at the top of the ranks," Ben explained.
In the world of magic, strength and blood together affect the change of dynasty, according to the law of succession to the throne, the high-ranking male descendants have the right of first succession, followed by the high-ranking female descendants, then their high-ranking husbands, and finally the female high-ranking partners of the male descendants, if these people are not suitable, they must be chosen according to rank and kinship from the side brothers of the old king.
At that time, the high-ranking descendants of the Red Dragon family were relatively thin, and in 910 there was a coup d'état, when His Majesty Jokoda Red Dragon was assassinated by his younger brother Kaeya Red Dragon, and then there were no high-ranking professionals among their generation's demon supporters.
However, the old king Balla had a lot of daughters, so that all the earls and marquis of the field in the entire kingdom were the sons-in-law or nephews and grandsons of the old king, and the rank requirements of the field nobles were also high, so from the prime minister of the kingdom to the major nobles, they could inherit the throne of the king.
However, there are conditions for them to inherit the throne, that is, as long as they and the descendants of the Red Dragon Family break through to the high rank, they will give up the throne to the descendants.
Therefore, in the end, Beto Lanyuan, the son-in-law of Borya Red Dragon and the prime minister of the kingdom, inherited the throne, and when he and Mia Red Dragon's eldest son, Arnold Red Dragon, broke through to the high rank, Beto Lanyuan would give way to Arnold Red Dragon.
"It is also a tradition of the Red Dragon family to marry and marry with the big family, which is to prevent the unfortunate absence of the family from taking the throne."
Hey, the big family is more troublesome, but Rand feels that his family may not be small in the future.
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Rand and Ben Kaul talked freely in the middle of the night, Ben is very knowledgeable, funny, as long as he talks about history and theory, he is particularly level, although Rand likes to complain in his heart, but he never behaves as a lord, so that Ben Kaul is also very enjoyable.
It was so enjoyable that Rand dreamed of goblins and red dragons at night, and he had planned to get up between 8-9 o'clock, but he was also an hour late.
Today is the day when Rand agreed to go to Dragon's Tooth City, he first has to go to the portal courtyard of the Earl's Palace, from there to the teleportation hall of Dragon's Tooth City, and then visit Antrechi of the Blue Dragon Family, get his own space props, and then take his subordinates to settle in the royal capital and set up the royal capital's chamber of commerce.
Before leaving, Rand went to look at Neil again, after all, Neil was going back to the viscounty in a few days, and Rand specially handed over all the magic gifts he bought yesterday afternoon to Neil, and asked Neil to help him bring it back.
He also went to see Wendy and a few other girls, and asked with a smile if they had any results yesterday when they left in a hurry to develop a magic device.
Unexpectedly, Wendy really gave him a palm-length "bright stick" that he could hold with one hand, which was actually one of the concentrated magic items that Rand brainstormed with Wendy yesterday, but he didn't expect Wendy to really make it.
Before noon, Rand took Mace, Dogtooth, and his carriage and guards to the outside of the Earl's Court.
Said that this is a separate courtyard, in fact, it covers a larger area than Lante's chamber of commerce outside the city, and from the outside it looks like a boxy, more than 40 meters high stone building, but after entering, I found that there is a huge pillarless hall inside the building, and the space of the hall goes straight from the ground to the roof, and this hall is equipped with a huge magic portal with a height of about 30 meters.
The portal is like a rectangular gateframe, 30 meters high and 20 meters wide, and after the teleportation circle on the ground is opened, the door frame gradually becomes dim and translucent.
This portal runs intensively from noon to afternoon every day, and if you want to pass through the gate, you need to make a reservation for the location you want to go to the day before, and then go outside the gate of the annex the next morning to see the opening time of your destination.
Because there is only one door, the opposite position will only be opened once a day in both directions, and if you miss it, you can only come back another day.
Once the portal is activated, it is a Crystal Swallowing Beast, which consumes more than 10 Crystal Crystals to open, and consumes Crystal Crystals every minute when it runs continuously.
Therefore, the space mage in charge of the magic circle in the other courtyard will concentrate the destination before operation, which can reduce the number of destination changes and reduce the cost and maintenance needs.
If it is a popular location such as Dragon's Tooth City and the Imperial Capital, but the cost of individual passage will be relatively low, each person needs 5-10 gold coins to pass, the specific amount depends on the number of people teleported on the day, the price of horses is the same as that of people, and carriages and other goods need to be charged according to weight.
If you go to a more remote place, or you will wait for more than 10 people to pass together, or it will be Kryptonite, pay 8-10 magic crystals to open the portal once.
This time, Rand went to Red Dragon City, not just to go to school, but to be able to settle in the imperial capital and be able to carry out long-term business activities.
With many tasks, Rand paid a large fee for his men, the black-scaled horses, and the carriage, and was finally allowed to enter the Dragon's Tooth City within 15 minutes after 12:30 noon.
Passing through the portal is a very special experience, as if you have entered a cold mist at the touch, but at the same time comes the feeling of confusion in the mind and even a certain discomfort in the soul.
According to the mage next to the portal, all kinds of reactions are normal, and more importantly, once you pass through the gate, you must run a few steps quickly to not delay the passage of the people behind you.
After passing through the portal, Rand was affected the most violently among all of them, and at the moment of passing through the gate, Rand even felt that he saw two selves, one was the fourth son of the baron who was Rand Galloping Horse, and the other was He Chao, the two selves were so different, but they touched the same.
Before he could react, Rand had already arrived in Blue Dragon City, and he could only walk a few steps quickly and gasp for breath on the side of his black-scaled horse, and Rant, who had not yet recovered his strength, vaguely heard the shouts of others.
It was the receptionist arranged by Antrechi, who had been waiting for a long time to guide them.