Chapter 67 The City of Legends
Even without looking up at the miraculous sky, Faust on the ground is a magnificent city, with a wide variety of architectural styles as far as the eye can see, with domes, spires, stained glass curtain walls, huge floor-to-ceiling windows, and long, winding outer corridors. Passing through an intersection, Richard even saw arcades covering the entire block. Fountains and small squares are dotted with a myriad of forms, each with its own style, indispensable ornaments, columns, balustrades, stone carvings, broken porcelain or mosaic frescoes.
The whole city is bathed in a faint golden light, as if frozen in the most beautiful twilight. Even the pedestrians who come and go on the street are well-dressed and elegant, which is very harmonious with the style of the city.
In Richard's eyes, there was a different kind of perfection, after removing the awnings, shop signs, various badges, potted plants, moving life, and other man-made things. All the buildings, roads, and even fountains and squares and other urban pieces, whether in terms of materials, colors, shapes, and styles, reflect a peculiar precision, harmony, completeness, and inseparability, as if they were designed and built at the same time, without any deletions. For a city of this size, it's a bit incredible. [Search for the latest update.]
The city's main thoroughfare is easy to identify, the long boulevard that Richard had followed Mordred, and the stones were almost identical except for the slight differences in the grain of each stone, as if they had been mined from the same larger boulder.
The avenue slopes slightly upward, and the more you go, the more quiet it gets, the huge canopy of the trees on both sides of the street almost obscures the entire sky, the branches hang low, and the bunches of unripe dark red fruit hang from it, and the broad, fat branches and leaves sway in the wind. Richard observed the street trees very carefully, and although he could not name them, he could deduce from the characteristics that they should have grown in the humid areas of the south, rather than on the cold, dry plateaus of the north.
Located in the eternal plateau, Faust, as soon as you step into the stone pillar arch, it seems that it is no longer affected by the regional climate, and it is humid and warm all year round, with only a small change, so that you can have such a beautiful scenery of green trees and clear stream fountains.
At the end of the road stood a magnificent temple on seven levels, with six or seven roads that were slightly narrower than the boulevard, leading from all directions. The square in front of the temple is filled with vehicles and mounts, and on one side of the square is a post house for griffins, two-legged dragons, and Moslan eagles. Hordes of slaves, dressed in tunics with family coats of arms, constantly carried heavy loads in and out of the caravanserais. Occasionally, flocks of griffons can be seen landing, and a few nobles in ornate robes often come down.
The temple gate is 12 meters high and 10 meters wide, allowing three large carriages to enter and exit at the same time. Directly above the gate is an hourglass-shaped emblem, the symbol of the dragon of eternity and time. Upon entering the temple, a hall appeared in front of Richard with seven exits and a spiraling upward path.
Richard followed Mordred into the third exit on the left, and came to a smaller side hall. The side hall also has hundreds of square meters, which can park the largest freight carriage, and at the end of it is a teleportation magic array, two magic puppets with simple lines and strange styles are squatting next to the magic array, and from time to time a ray of light comes out of the chest, melting a small piece of metal of the magic array, and then beating it into shape.
Mordred pointed to the two magical golems and said, "They are the servants of the dragon of eternity and time. In fact, no one knows where they came from, and when the Terrans found and settled in Faust, they were already there. You can see them everywhere in Faust that has anything to do with magic. They will automatically repair broken magic circles, repair roads and temples, like a swarm of ants or worker bees. ”
Richard stared at the two magic golems for a long time before asking, "These two puppets are very strange, they are completely different from the magic puppets I have learned." What do they rely on?"
Mordred shrugged his shoulders and said, "It must be some kind of magic that we don't know yet, anyway, if these guys don't have motivation, they will run to the Eternal Dragon Hall by themselves, and stay in it for one night, and they can move for several months." It's amazing, so over time, people have respected them as servants of the dragon of eternity and time. If it weren't for them, perhaps Faust would have ceased to exist a long time ago. So far, at least, human craftsmen haven't even been able to repair the city's things. However, little Richard, so far no one has been able to find out the secret of their construction, once a family secretly captured two puppets, and wanted to take them back for analysis and research, but this move angered the dragon of eternity and time, and overnight the floating island they lived on suffered volcanic eruptions, hurricanes, tsunamis and thunder, and it was completely the end of the world, and finally only a few people escaped from the floating island. Since that time, no one has dared to fight these puppets. ”
Richard immediately grasped an important point: "Are you saying that Faust already existed, and we just discovered it and then occupied the city, is that so?"
"Of course, otherwise, with our current strength, how could we have built such a city. This can only be a miracle!" said Mordred. It can be seen that in the face of great miracles, this bloodthirsty and murderous knight also has to be impressed. He patted Richard on the shoulder and said, "In fact, the real reason why so many families, including your father, want to enter Faust at any cost is for the Eternal Dragon Hall in this city. Offering sacrifices to the Supreme Dragon of Eternity and Time in the Temple of the Eternal Dragon may result in a gift. These gifts are multifaceted, but the most precious of them are blessings and divine graces related to the flow of time. But what you get in the end depends on some luck. Sacrifice was the greatest privilege of the royal family and the Fourteen Wealthy Families. ”
As he spoke, Mordred had already led the lava into the teleportation array, and Richard quickly followed. The teleportation array began to glow with aqua blue, and a thin light curtain rose flat, enclosing the two of them in it, Richard only felt his head slightly dizzy, and the scene in front of him shook for a while and turned into a curtain of colorful lights.
Richard and Mordred appeared in a small square, small in size, about 1,000 square meters, separated by a few low guardrails and other areas. More than ten meters behind Richard is the edge of the floating island, and some fragmentary, independent rocks can be seen floating in the air, slowly flipping and rolling, and moving together along the trajectory of the floating island.
On the west side of the square, a metallic trestle bridge extends several tens of meters long, most of which extends beyond the floating island. This is a passage for griffons and bipedal wyverns to take off and land. So at the end of the metal trestle is a row of warehouses with a nest on the left and right, belonging to a griffon and a wyvern.