July in Castletown,

When the rainy season comes, all the plants in the city become lush and green, and the morning sun shines through the trees and into the streets, turning into bunches.

Roy was supposed to be on duty at the temple this weekend, but today he needed to go to the gladiatorial arena in Uptown.

It had just rained before dawn, and now the sky was clear, and the stone floor was covered with water stains.

Roy sat in the carriage with a very heavy suitcase in his arms, and quietly watched as the carriage entered Uptown.

The Upper Town of Castletown is home to the Silvermoon Elves.

The lower town is home to the half-blood elves.

There is a very clear dividing line between the two towns, it is a cliff that wraps around the mountainside, the narrow cliff wall is less than ten meters high, and the top of the cliff is built by the Silver Moon Elves into a ribbon of stone paths, this stone road leads up to the upper town of Castletown.

There is actually a stone road built under the cliff, but this road is a bit rough and more like a narrow laneway.

There are five avenues between the lower and upper towns, which connect the upper and lower towns, and these five streets are the most prosperous commercial streets in Castletown.

At the intersection of the main street and the stone cliff, the elven builders designed a huge arched stone bridge with gentle steps on both sides.

The arched stone bridge is flanked by stone sculptures of the heroes of the Silver Moon Elves, each with a flower planted underneath it, and the outermost part surrounded by a low wall of shrubs......

The cliff is now overgrown with vines, and if you don't go into the city, you can't see it at all if you look at the hillside from the sea.

There is a big difference between the buildings in the upper and lower parts of Castletown, and many of the buildings in the lower town are small stone townhouses, which are built against the mountain, and what the mountain looks like, they will also change with it.

Of course, these townhouses are not all stones, and these stones are stacked on top of two floors at most, and there is a wooden structure on top.

There are a lot of townhouses in the lower town, and they are well built.

When you go to the seaside, almost all the buildings there are wooden houses......

The Roy's house was a small wooden building with a two-foot-high base made of stones.

Once you enter the upper town, you will find that the buildings in the lower town seem to have disappeared all of a sudden.

Over here...... Almost all of the houses where the Silvermoon Elves live are treehouses.

The Silver Moon Elves built their homes on large trees that were not arranged in an orderly manner on the hillsides, and even the stone pavements of the upper town were winding, with gardens and lawns everywhere, and fountains at the entrance of the street not far away.

Of course, this is only the residential area of the ordinary Silver Moon Elves in the upper city, and does not include the Elf Academy, library, opera house, art exhibition hall, etc.

The Elven Academy is located in the heart of Castletown, but on a hillside beyond a cliff.

From here, you can walk up the avenue to the top of the mountain, where there is not only a huge stone sculpture of the Silver Moon Elves, but also the Tree of Life in the city of Castletown, on which the Council of Elven Elders of Castletown is located......

There are also various guilds on this street, the mercenary and adventurer guilds, the magic guild being the largest, and of course there are some magical herb guilds, jewelry guilds, mining unions, leather craftsmen's guilds, metallurgical forgers' homes, and so on.

……

In fact, the architectural style in the Elf Academy is all in the style of a treehouse, and at least three of the teaching buildings are carved out of ancient trees, and there are lush branches and foliage on the roofs.

The houses where the elven nobles lived were not actually castles like human nobles, or manors enclosed by walls.

The nobles of the Silver Moon Elves like to build their homes on some large ancient trees, and Claire has a tall ancient tree in her house......

The Colosseum in Castletown is at least a few kilometers away from the Elven Academy, which is already on the edge of the city.

Roy, Jasper, and Abt stepped down from the carriage, only to find that the huge arena looked the size of a football field from the outside, and it was supposed to be the stump left by a dead tree of life.

Now the roots of the tree have begun to petrify, and the perimeter is covered with green vines.

The elven craftsman built a narrow staircase along the roots of the tree outside, and at the end of it was a large wooden door, and two elven guards stood on either side of the gate.

If you go inside, you will enter a passage carved out of the roots of the tree.

Jasper and Abt wore the robes of a probationary priest and followed Roy, who was carrying a large suitcase, and the three of them walked to the gate, trying to talk to the two guards before they could let them go.

I've heard that there is an entrance fee in the gladiatorial arena, but this entrance looks deserted, and no matter how you look at it, it feels a little depressed.

"Roy, Jasper, Abt, come in."

Claire is wearing a set of delicate leather armor, wearing this ironwood short sword on her waist, the leather surface of the leather armor is pressed out of some very gorgeous dark lines, even those buttons are gold and silver, after wearing this set of leather armor, Claire's body has a much less feminine aura.

He ran through the passage to the door, beckoning Roy, Jasper, and Abt to hurry in.

"Claire, do you want a ticket here?"

Jasper looked around and saw that there was no one else at all......

Claire walked up to Roy's side and patted her forehead a little speechlessly when she saw that he was carrying a huge suitcase with a log shield and a one-handed mallet hanging from the outside of the suitcase.

And only then did he say to Jasper:

"Don't you all know that the Council of Elders canceled the Colosseum's for-profit tournament three years ago? Since then, it has become indistinguishable from some ancient ruins. ”

"Only the nobles like to come here to settle some disputes at every turn, and when some things can't be argued, everyone will run here to settle them, and it slowly becomes a habit......"

Claire patted Roy's suitcase and led the three of them into the wooden passageway, saying:

"Roy, yesterday I told my sister about the battle plan, she agreed with our battle plan, but she didn't recommend you to wear chain mail, thinking that this set of heavy armor is too heavy for you, in fact, there is also a heavy leather armor suit in the leather armor, that set is a little lighter than chain mail, do you want to try it?"

Roy shook his head and said to Claire, "Just wear this set, I've been practicing it for many days now, and I'm getting used to it......"

"Well, according to your opinion!" Claire didn't bother and readily agreed.

The inside of the passage was not too stuffy, but it smelled of decay.

Maybe it's because it's very humid during the rainy season, and there are even mushrooms growing in some damp places.

I don't know how many times these wooden steps have been stepped on, many of them are low in the middle and high on the sides, and they are very worn.

Only the surrounding walls can be seen with whitewash.

Jasper couldn't help but ask:

"Why didn't I see anyone else? Roy, didn't you say that there were a lot of students from the Beginner Martial Arts Workshop who were coming to watch the battle? ”

Claire walked in front and turned her head in response, "They all take another audience passage, our passage is the gladiator entrance, and Steve and Adams enter through the opposite entrance. ”

Abt said, "I said...... Why is that staircase so narrow outside......"

The passage was less than forty meters long, and the four of them quickly reached the end, where through the archway they could see the bright light outside, as if they were entering a stadium.

The middle of the huge round stump was empty, so the elves carved a grandstand around the stump, and the empty center of the tree happened to be the gladiatorial arena.

The gladiatorial arena below was at least eight meters away from the upper stands, and a group of elven students from the junior martial arts workshop were sitting in the stands, everyone was chatting together, and when they saw Claire and Roy appearing on the side of the stands, they waved to the two of them.

There were a few other spectators around the stands, and the elves gathered on Claire's side were Claire's relatives and friends.

Roy saw Belil in the crowd at a glance. Miss Claire, who was surrounded by a group of young elves, seemed to be chatting about something interesting.

Across the street were Steve and Adams, and the family and friends in the stands on their side looked more ......

……

Walking into the stands of the gladiatorial arena, the sunlight is a little dazzling......

Roy was still thinking about ...... The Grand Priest Reed said to him in the morning in the temple:

"Roy, do you know how many blessings there are in the magic arts?"

Grand Priest Reed stood beneath the idol in the main hall and asked Roy.

Roy looked up at the Statue of Liberty and replied:

"I know the power blessing, I've learned this!"

The Grand Priest Reed approached him and said:

"In the kingdom of the gods, the goddess is not the only one who holds the power of the Light, but only the angels hold the power of the blessings of the Light, and these blessings are what the goddess learned from the archangels."

"It is said that the goddess has learned a total of eight powers of blessing, but in fact, as far as I know, there are only four, and I have only learned three of them so far, namely: the blessing of protection created by the archangel of courage Impreus, the blessing of power created by the archangel of justice, the blessing of power created by the archangel of justice, and the blessing of wisdom created by the angel of wisdom Masayr."

Roy didn't expect that there were so many kinds of blessings, and he didn't expect that the Holy Light was not unique to Lady Liberty......

At this time, I heard the Grand Priest Reed continue:

"Roy, you have to remember that each priest can only choose one archangel to stand behind him in battle, so this priest can only give his companions a blessing power."

"Now that you have learned the blessing of strength, this time before you fight, I will grant it to you...... The blessing of the patronage of the Archangel Imprys. ”

Before Roy could react, the divine pattern in front of Grand Priest Reed shattered instantly, and then a shield appeared on Roy's chest and slowly merged into his body.

(End of chapter)