Chapter 127: A Trip to the Imperial City [Listing for the First Decision!]
Bajie, who was on the side, rubbed his worried eyes, completely unaware of what was going on in the Dao, and he and the Shadow Dragon slept like a dead pig last night.
It's a pity that Long Yi still wants to ask Mentor Aveni about the location of the Elven Forest, but since Aveni is not an elf, it is probably useless to ask her.
Ryuichi left the dormitory and walked down the road like a thief who had just stolen something. Not long after leaving, I happened to meet Erin.
"Hey, why is there a strange fragrance? It's so fresh! Brother Long! Are you secretly going to see some woman!" Xiao Zi shouted loudly, Xiao Zi and Erin were together last night, but she always felt a little uneasy, and there was a faint inexplicable restlessness.
Erin leaned over to Ryuichi and sniffed, but didn't smell any aroma.
"How is that possible!" said Long Yi righteously.
Nonsense, the aroma is coming from somewhere!
In the morning, Long Yi washed it very carefully, but somewhere left the aroma in someone's mouth that could not be removed in any way. And last night, the dragon scale armor was scrapped directly after being cut by Yavini, so it was naturally impossible to block it, and Long Yi, who had no choice, could only hope for the almighty time to dilute everything.
Luckily, Erin wasn't bored enough to sniff the dragon all over her body.
The Academy City is not far from the Imperial City, only a day's drive away. The Empire has been working on an airship project, which is said to be able to reduce the time to four hours, but it is unclear when the first sea trials will be available.
After a day, the two finally arrived in the imperial city. And I don't know if Irene's habit is or if the smell is really gone. Erin didn't talk about the scent.
Imperial.
The greatest city of the White Dragon Empire, the economic and political center. A prosperous place where every inch of land is valuable.
The imperial city of the White Dragon Empire was fifty miles from east to west and forty miles from north to south. There are more than 20 million people. There are 300,000 troops stationed all year round, and on the top of the highest hill behind the palace, among the magnificent White Dragon Tower, there is the peak of the White Dragon Empire's military strength, and the Dragon Knight of the Protector is stationed.
The Imperial City is the pride of every citizen of the White Dragon Empire, and it is the pride of every Imperial City person. This pride comes from the heart and is engraved in the bones. Every outsider can feel the pride expressed by the residents of the Imperial City when they talk about 'our Imperial City'.
Generally speaking, horse-drawn carriages from other places were not allowed to enter the Imperial City. College City is an exception, though. Therefore, the carriage of the two of them easily entered the imperial city area. However, this place is still far from Erin's house, which is the Iron Blood General's Mansion.
When you come here, you come to Erin's territory. Erin excitedly pulled Ryuichi to show him the grass and trees they saw in front of them. As a turtle in the countryside, Long Yi immediately showed the quality of a good student who was diligent and inquisitive, and kept asking this and that, which made Erin addicted to being a teacher.
All along, Long Yi has been too good, so that Erin has a faint sense of inferiority in front of Long Yi. This time Erin just found out. It turns out that Long Yi has so many people who don't know the way!
But in Erin's heart, she admired Ryuichi even more. Look at Brother Long, although he is so good, he can bravely admit his shortcomings. It's really the perfect Brother Long!
Although the imperial city is large, it is also divided into three layers, the outer city. Midtown, and Inner City. The Iron General's Mansion is in Midtown. Horse-drawn carriages are not allowed to enter. Luckily, it's not that far.
The outer city is a residential area. Handicraftsmen and small traders are the mainstay. Midtown, on the other hand, was a residential area for imperial officials, a high-end residential area, and a high-end commercial area. As for the inner city, it was where the emperor was located, and it had nothing to do with the commoners.
Long Yi and Erin walked on the road, Xiao Zi followed Erin, Bajie staggered behind Long Yi, and the shadow dragon lay on Long Yi's shoulder. This pair is also quite conspicuous. The man is tall and mighty, and the girl is pure and sexy. Along the way, Erin continued to act as a guide, constantly introducing the dragon to the shops and mansions he passed by.
Suddenly, an exclamation interrupted the two's trip.
"Sister Irene!"
When I looked up, it was three young people, and it was the one on the right who greeted me.
Tall and handsome, with long blond hair, neatly dressed, and a tiger head coat of arms hanging on his chest.
"Brother Alec!" Erin looked at the man, and immediately stood up and said hello. Neither affectionate nor partial.
"Ha Luha, congratulations, Sister Irene, I heard you got a good third place!" Alec said.
"Brother Xie Lu, Brother Xie Alec, I'm still far worse than my brother, you won the second place!" said Erin.
It turned out to be the second!
Long Yi recalled it for a moment, and immediately thought that among the three people in Ace's group, there was indeed one named Alec.
"By the way, His Majesty the Emperor has sent an invitation letter to the top three, have you received it?" Alec said enthusiastically.
"It's been received!" said Erin.
"I'm looking forward to seeing you in your evening dress, Sister Irene. Alec said enthusiastically.
"Thank you!" said Irene.
"Okay, okay! Sister Erin has just returned to the Imperial City, and before you have time to rest, you pulled her and asked this and that. No matter how good your relationship is, you don't always have to let your family go home and rest, right?"
Of the three, the man in the middle finally spoke.
Short gray hair, medium build, ordinary appearance, ordinary temperament, ordinary clothes, and feels like an ordinary person. However, when Alec heard his words, he immediately nodded and took a step back: "By the way, Sister Erin, I haven't introduced you yet. This one is the eldest son of Justice Orr, Nigau-Orr. The one on the left is Justice Orr's second son, Negan Orr, and the three of us are good friends. ”
Erin nodded her head in greeting, and Nigo seemed to be quite sensible. But Nanegan stared at Erin up and down from the beginning, and that look was barely disguised.
"Then, Sister Erin, you go home and rest first, and I'll go back to the Iron Blood General's Mansion to see you!" Alec still maintained his enthusiasm.
Finally, seeing off the three of them, Erin looked at Ryuichi helplessly.
From start to finish. The three people on the opposite side didn't even look at Long Yi, let alone say a word to Long Yi. And I haven't given Erin a chance to introduce Ryuichi. Take the big guy of the dragon one. Naturally, it is impossible for them not to see it. And this deliberate blindness is obviously something else in it.
"It's fine. It's just a child's trick. "Long Yi is very open-minded. He could feel the hostility in the air, and he could guess where it was coming from.
But what does that have to do with me? If you don't accept it, you come up and practice, who is afraid of who!
Finally, near noon, the two finally arrived at the Iron Blood General's Mansion, a huge mansion covering an area of nearly ten hectares.
The imperial city is every inch of land. Being able to have a huge mansion covering an area of nearly ten hectares in a place like the Imperial City is enough to show that the emperor attaches great importance to him.
Yes. The Iron Blood General's Mansion is a place specially painted by the current emperor's father. At that time, the iron-blooded general Chiron was also the commander of the third and fourth legions. He led the third and fourth legions to hold the five legions of the Black Dragon Empire on the border for a year. Now Chiron has long since relinquished military power and turned to the study of war countermeasures, and at the same time compiled several war textbooks, which are still one of the standard textbooks of the command college.
From various aspects, Long Yi learned about the legend of the old man Kailong. Yi admires this kind of person very much from the bottom of his bones, Long Yi thinks that he is not good at commanding wars, so he is very strategic about this kind of strategy. The man of God who won a thousand miles is still very admired.
Erin led the dragon all the way to General Chiron's study, and after a gentle knock on the door, General Chiron's hoarse voice came from inside.
"Come in!"
The door opened, and Erin appeared in the study.
"Grandpa!"
"Erin, you're back!"
Looking at the old general's face, a stiff excitement appeared. Long Yi can understand that this kind of perennial expressionless person has emotional nerves in a semi-necrotic state. It's not easy to make a stiff and excited look.
Although Ryuichi was an outsider, he was welcomed by the old general. Lukewarm. It's exactly how much Ryuichi likes it.
After a brief greeting of warmth, Erin returned to her room. Girls. There's still a lot to pack. There were two people left in the study, Long Yi and the old general, two people, one tall and one short, one old and one young, looking at each other.
"Tell me about the journey. General Chiron said.
"Erin's performance is very good, or rather, it is so good that it is beyond my expectations, and now Erin is already fifteen layers of mana. Long Yi said.
"Very well! And then?" General Chiron was pleased to hear that Erin was already fifteen layers of mana. He had always thought that Erin was a rare genius in the family, but he didn't expect that he would still underestimate her genius!
"It's gone. ”
"Gone?"
"Yes, no. ”
"You left the academy for two and a half months, and then you just summed it up with one sentence that Erin behaved very well?" General Chiron looked at Ryuichi dissatisfied.
"Are you also interested in my performance? Okay, after so many battles, I have also improved, and I am now a twelve-level fighting spirit. Long Yi said with a smile.
"Boy, don't play any tricks on me, you know that's not what I want to hear. "Chiron came to the dragon, although his height was much shorter than Long Yilai, but in terms of momentum, the honest Long Yi actually did not have any advantage.
"Okay, then I'll start with that ninth-level composite monster we met at the beginning. Long Yi cleared his throat and prepared to speak.
"Wait a minute!" Chiron suddenly interrupted Ryuichi, and then he turned around and paused for a moment before muttering. "Forget it, I won't listen. ”
"Oh?" the dragon smiled.
"Hey, I see what you mean, boy! Erin has chosen her own path, and I, an old fellow, have to let go after all!" General Chiron shook his head helplessly and laughed. The smile was still stiff, but it was heartfelt.
"Actually, you should ask Erin. Long Yi said, "Along the way, Erin has been working very hard. I think her efforts, in addition to herself, may be more for her beloved grandfather. ”
Chiron listened, then sighed slowly, and said, "I don't know how to do it, but she is the granddaughter of my iron-blooded general, since she has chosen to take this path......
"She's not a cold dragon slayer, she has relatives. She was only sixteen years old. Long Yi said.
Chiron didn't continue to speak, but stared at Ryuichi with both eyes. It became more and more difficult for him to understand what was going on with this Ryuichi. At a young age, he dared to run to his iron-blooded general to preach. Although he has a lot of point. But the truth is reasonable, Kailong has been used to seeing life and death for so many years, which truth he doesn't understand?
Family affection is always the most vulnerable part of war in the end, and may even become an obstacle to war. His son was executed in the Black Dragon Empire that year, and Kailong didn't even shed a tear in front of everyone, and people even called him a cold-blooded general.
But what's the use of showing the pain in your heart?
This is war, who cares about your pain!
"Ahh
Chiron shook his head. No longer looked at Long Yi, but sat silently behind the wide desk.
Since the old general didn't drive people away, Long Yi didn't plan to run around.
In the huge study, there is a large desk, a sand table covered with a black cloth, and the most conspicuous thing is the bookshelves on the four walls. The collection is full of books, and it looks really amazing.
Since Long Yi had nothing to do, he simply flipped through Chron's collection here. The most common ones here are history and war records.
These Ryuichi have all seen some of them from different sources, and some people with great vision will get inspiration from these to govern the country and war, but Ryuichi is not very interested in this. His eyes were drawn to a book.
Dragon Knight Air Combat Advanced
When you open it, it tells about the dragon knight's aerial grappling skills. The Dragon Knight is not unlike a fighter that uses cannons and missiles, and most of the Fighting or Spell skills have a very close range. The two sides are more of a close battle. Even hand-to-hand combat. How the dragon knight teamed up with the dragon to win in the dogfight. I'm afraid it's something that a dragon knight can't fully grasp in his life.
Long Yi just glanced at it, and his eyes couldn't be pulled out.
"Tsk. This flight maneuver...... It's a dragon, and it can even do this kind of action. However, this is not scientific, if you do a little barrel roll, use speed for distance, stop faster, and reduce the burden, and at the same time can give the dragon knight a continuous combat angle. ”
While muttering in his mouth, Long Yi gestured with his hand to make an airplane and make movements of his imagination.
Fighting in the air! This is my brother's business! If Long Yi hadn't held back his desire to let Bajie transcend the perfect evolution, he would have ridden the dragon to soar into the sky. Of course, on the other hand, Long Yi was originally from a professional class when he was a pilot. Having been systematically trained, he believed that only warriors with complete training could lay the most solid foundations, and it was not appropriate to ride directly on the dragon to fight. That's why he came to the Dragon Knight Academy to learn everything in the fastest time possible.
Long Yi was immersed in his own worldly realm, while General Kailong, who was watching from the sidelines, froze. Because he saw Ryuichi's gesture, although it was similar in that book "Dragon Knight Air Combat Advanced", it was not exactly the same. And it seems to be more efficient to do the same thing!
But Chiron didn't make a sound, he looked at Long Yi quietly, Long Yi turned the pages one by one, almost every air combat action he had to comment on himself, and then make a move in his hand, and sometimes think about how to cooperate with the dragon knight's battle.
Although the book is very thick, it is more of a commentary, and there are less than a dozen kinds of actions in total. Long Yi flipped through it, then stuffed it directly back into the bookshelf and read a sentence in his mouth.
"Slag ......"
There are also many such books, such as "The Deduction and Significance of the Coordinated Advancement Tactics of the Air Force and the Army," which seems to have come from a student's thesis at the command college. Long Yi flipped it over and said: "The air force does not give full play to its advantages in mobility, but also cooperates to advance, is it full of walnuts in its head......?
"On the possibility of the Wyvern dropping troops in the rear of the enemy? ”
Long Yi would comment on one or two sentences almost every time he flipped through a book or two, and his words were nothing more than "scum!", "interesting!", and "!". It's rare to hear him say, "Not bad." ”。
And these views are strikingly similar to Chron.
This kid looks like he has a long muscle and a brain, but he didn't expect to be a talent.
In fact, where does Kailong know that Long Yi has his own modern military experience summarized for many years in the world, and through those experiences, he can consider the feasibility of these articles throughout.
"Boy, will you lead your troops into battle?" Chiron asked suddenly.
"Me?" the dragon smiled, "give me a squad and I can win you until the end of the war." But if you give me a legion, I'll make sure you'll end the war in no time. ”
"Oh, you're so good?" Chiron laughed.
"yes, I'm going to lose fast, and then the empire will fall and the war will be over. Long Yi said.
"Huh?" Kailong was stunned for a moment, his mind was a little stiff, and he couldn't figure out Long Yi's joke for a while, but he understood it in a blink of an eye. This is what Ryuichi told him, Ryuichi is a fighting talent, what he is best at is charging into battle, he will defeat all enemies in front of him, but he is not good at winning a battle.
"!" Chiron wasn't quite used to Ryuichi's way of making jokes about the country, but he could also understand that this was a generation gap.
Just then, there was a sudden knock on the door outside.
"Come in!" said General Chellon.
The door of the study opened, but it was the person Long Yi had just met who came in.
Alec.
"Hello General Chiron!" Alec said with a senior salute.
"Oh, isn't this the Iron Tiger's Alec, and your grandfather and your father are alright?" Chiron beckoned.
"General Xie Lu Xie cares, and my father and grandfather are very good. Grandpa is working on a new formation, and he said he would defeat you in a few days!" Alec laughed.
"Hmph, you go back and tell that old guy that he has lost three times, and if he loses again this time, don't hang the Iron Tiger badge when you go out in the future!"
"Yes, the younger generation will definitely tell grandpa truthfully when he goes back. Alec said.
"You're here for Erin, aren't you? she'll come later, you wait for her here. By the way, Alec, you can also help me see how this battle is going to be fought. Long Yi, don't shrink back, come and take a look!" General Kailong came to the sand table next to him, lifted the cover, and inside was a battle that had not yet begun.
There are five dragons on one side, defending a small city, some big and some small. On the other side, there are ten dragons, cooperating with the army.
"This is the question I designed for your grandfather, I am the attacker, he is the defender. Chiron said to Alec.
"This, I'm afraid it......" Alec just glanced at the battlefield situation, and knew that there was no need to think about this kind of disparity in battle, only the side of the five dragons lost. But he can't say that he can win alone, right? That may not be too ignorant of other people's iron-blooded generals, this is originally the question that Chiron used to embarrass his grandfather, how can he win?
"Let's take a look, how do five dragons win?" asked Chryone.
"It's easy. Long Yi said.
"How to win?" Chiron saw that Long Yi didn't even think about it, so he was even more curious, this kid wasn't talking nonsense, right?
"This is me. Long Yi pointed to the dragon knight who was the leader.
"And then?"
"And then it was a win. Long Yi said with a smile. (To be continued......)
PS: [It's on the shelves!