Chapter 32: The Island, the Inner City
Snowflakes fall from the lead-gray sky like goose feathers and fall in the city. There was a whistle from the harbor, the train drove through the streets, and when the snow fell, the pedestrians took refuge under the eaves, and only a few chocobo cars were still on the side of the street to solicit customers, cursing the damn weather in boredom.
Harry and Peter trotted through the snow and got into a covered chocobo.
"Go to the city police station." Harry instructed the coachman.
"Did you two bring your papers? You have to go through the city gates. The coachman reminded.
"Brought it. Hurry up and arrive before the police station gets off work. β
"Don't worry, this chocobo has just reached adulthood and is very energetic!"
The coachman waved the reins, and the chocobo ran wildly like joy, pulling the cart and heading towards the inner city.
The cold wind wrapped in frost and snow blew into the frame, and Harry shivered from the cold.
Peter is okay, thermal underwear and a sweater under the cloak are enough to keep out the cold, after all, his life attributes are much higher than ordinary people.
"Aren't you a magician? Warm up your body. β
Harry then placed a flame shield on the chocobos.
The boiling heat wave suddenly blew towards the back, and the coachman was startled, but the driving of the flaming chocobo was unexpectedly tingened, and the experience of the evil ghost rider belonged to yes.
"Is it really only about defending against magic?" Peter looked at the chocobo running wildly and complained, "You haven't learned any other magic?" β
"How is that possible?"
Harry said confidently, "Magic circle building, forging alchemy, Hogwarts basic charms, I have full marks for these." β
"Isn't there a magic in there that can warm the body?"
"Yes, yes... It's just that last night's consumption was too great, and I'm afraid I'll faint again if I put it on a hot spell. β
β........ Is the cost of the Heat Technique greater than the Flame Shield? β
Harry nodded solemnly.
"That's true for me."
"Awesome."
Peter was amazed.
The Houhai district where the two of them were located was next door to the inner city, and soon, the Ghost Rider version of the land chobo car drove in front of the towering city wall separating the inner and outer city.
In order not to attract the attention of the garrison, Harry snapped his fingers and extinguished the shield.
Between the inner and outer cities, in addition to the city walls, there is also a brackish river that flows into the sea.
The inner city is built on an island in the middle of the city very close to the shore, like the island of Naho in Gotham City, with ten steel bridges spanning the river and connecting the city.
Crossing the bridge, you can see the entire ancient wall of Akneiz.
The wall made of gray-white mountain rock has gone through thousands of years of wind, frost, rain and snow, and still stands majestically on the earth, which is majestic and magnificent.
The city gates alone are each thirty meters high.
The flag of the Kingdom of Ron and the flag of the royal family fluttered above the open gates.
There are 10 groups of doorways in the entire city wall, seven of which are opened daily and nine of which are opened during grand festivals.
When the king is in person, all ten sets of gates will be opened.
There are two ways to enter and exit under each city gate, and there are layers of security checks inside the passage that is more than ten meters long, and residents of the outer city who want to enter the inner city must declare one day in advance and get a pass to enter and exit. At the same time, identity documents and residence information must be checked to ensure that criminals do not infiltrate the inner city.
In the afternoon, it was snowing again, and there were not many people queuing up to enter the city.
Harry directed the coachman directly into an uninhabited avenue in the middle of the city gate.
The road seemed to be for the magnates, and the chocobo was quickly stopped by soldiers with flintlock pistols on their backs, but when Harry got out of the car, he didn't know what documents he had shown, and the soldier's attitude immediately became respectful, and he only checked the identity of the coachman, and let Peter sit in the back without even looking at him.
"What did you show them?" Peter was amazed and asked, "How can a homeless man of unknown origin like me be allowed into the city." β
"Hogwarts student ID."
Harry took out a bizarre card from the inside pocket of his coat, the back of the card face was a very typical European coat of arms, consisting of a golden lion on a red background, a bronze eagle on a blue background, a black badger on a yellow background, and a silver snake on a green background, symbolizing the four houses, surrounded by a black dragon and an "H" shaped symbol.
On the front is Harry's photograph and a message about a black dragon emblem swimming on the card.
"This is the student ID of the Dragon Academy."
Harry said calmly: "With this student ID, you can be visa-free in more than a dozen countries in the Southern Continent, and you can also enjoy the status of a lord in Ron." β
"Turtle turtle, the flag of my hometown is not as good as you in Africa."
Peter has a new appreciation for Hogwarts' influence.
And that symbol on the back of the card...
It is the initials H of Hogwarts.
The brave man who founded Hogwarts is a great time-traveler.
"So, you told him I was also a Hogwarts student?"
Peter asked thoughtfully, this thing is so easy to use, it seems that he can also use it for a fake one.
"No, it's not."
"Then why didn't he check on me?"
"I said that you are a dead man who has just been dug up from the Western Continent, and I have refined it into a magic puppet, and I am going to send it to the inner city to sell."
β........ I thank you. β
No wonder the soldier didn't even look at me, there was dirt.
Harry seemed to guess what he was thinking, and warned:
"Not all Hogwarts students have this treatment, they have to be from Nibelungen House. There are more than 30 people in each class of our house, and the card not only has the Hogwarts number imprint, but also our own origin magic, which can be found out at a glance and is very recognizable, and false testimony cannot deceive people. β
"Don't I look like a magician?"
Peter was not convinced.
"You look..."
Harry looked at the world-weary face hidden under the hood, and felt that he would be checked ten or even nine times if he had ID cards when he entered the city gate.
The wording was organized.
"Advance to the prison system."
"Thank you."
As soon as I entered the inner city, I suddenly opened up.
If the outer city of Aknaids has refreshed Peter's perception of this world city, it is like Victoria in the age of steam. Then the inner city, like Paris in the twentieth century, is full of the luxury and humanistic beauty of the Champs-ΓlysΓ©es, highlighting the word money.
"It's a bit too urban." Peter sighed.
"Indeed," Harry said for the first time entering the inner city of Arknaiz, but his expression was much calmer, "It is worthy of being the oldest city in the Southern Continent. β
Unlike the dense patchwork of houses and shops in the outer city, the buildings in the inner city are clearly urbanly planned, leaving comfortable spaces between buildings so that the sky is not obscured by overly dense high-rise buildings.
The island of the inner city is a climbing peak, which is the highest promontory in the southern continent, and is the highest promontory in the southern continent, with magnificent baroque buildings and antique red brick high-rises rising up the mountain, with magnificent spires, exquisite carvings and magnificent rose windows. The wide roads are spotless, smaller and more elaborate trams pass through the city, red telephone booths, green mailboxes, bronze street lamps, patrolmen on black horses, snow-covered vegetation, monasteries, opera houses, churches, museums, colosseums, aristocratic palaces, garden-like schools, extravagant business districts, fountain squares with white pigeons, and government buildings that look like postmodern buildings......
Eventually, the chocobo stopped in front of a stately building.
Ron's badge of shields, hunters, and eagles is engraved in front of the gate.