Chapter 80 Baldur's Gate
Looking at the magnificent city wall, Qin Lun narrowed his eyes slightly, raised his palms to block the scorching sun above his head.
The city walls are all made of huge stones. The city gates are five meters wide and about eight meters high. There is a towering arrow tower on both sides of the city gate like guards. Patrol soldiers can be seen everywhere on the high walls.
In front of the city gate, a stone arch bridge is connected. The arch bridge flows across the Sword Sea through this inland moat, and is located far away in the port area of the city. At the front is a huge lighthouse built on a black reef facing the sea.
The fort gate in front of Qin Lun is the most famous Baldur Gate in the Feren continent. After leaving the Durag Tower, their bad luck seemed to finally come to an end. Although they still encountered some low-level undead along the way, they did not encounter any irresistible dangers and came to Baldur Gate four days ago.
The Baldur Gate is named after the legendary navigator and pirate, Bodean. He often ventures on the sea of swords and builds towers on the beach in his own name as a guide for ships to return home.
Thanks to the existence of pirates such as Bodean, this sword sea port, which is a small fishing village, gradually flourished and attracted many merchants and inland farmers to settle down.
Later, merchants and a coastal patrol team composed of farmers built the city walls in case their goods were in danger of foreign danger. However, they deliberately excluded the port area where the pirates were active from the walls and charged pirates and merchant ships with city expenses.
The captains were angry at their selfish behavior and refused to pay for entry. When the city wall was being built, Bodean happened to go out to sea and did not know about it. When he returned and found that the pirates were locked outside the city wall and could not withstand the attacks from the orcs and barbarians, Bodean was out of his anger.
In a rage, Bodean led the captains to kill all the selfish and arrogant merchants and farmers, and dissolved the parliament composed of these farmers who had made their fortune. At that time, only four people survived because they did not support the decision of the parliament.
After the incident, Bodean paid money and ordered the construction of the exterior wall to rebuild a bridge gate in the port area. This is the origin of the Bodean Gate. After combining powerful force and strong defense, the orcs were finally defeated. Bodean appointed the four men as dukes and stayed at Bodean Gate.
After all this, Bodean went out to sea to find the legendary Angome Island and never came back.
To this day, this harbor city, founded by pirates and survived the chaotic era, has become a free country. Humans, elves, dwarves, barbarians, nobles, farmers, merchants, adventurers, and all kinds of characters can be found here.
It together with the deep water city in the north, the port of Karin in the south, and the Am capital Ascatra in the south of the Baldur Gate, it forms the entire commercial chain along the coast of the Sword Sea.
These four Jianwan ports have their own characteristics, among which the deep water city in the north can best accommodate various types of continental civilizations. In that city, it is said that even the mainland's public enemy, Zoer, and orcs, can appear in public, and no one will target them specifically.
Ascatra, the capital of Am, has the strongest commercial atmosphere. Because it is located in the center of the entire Jianwan trade circle, all the people who worship gold coins are gathered here. Of course, this atmosphere also makes the city surging undercurrents, and there will never be a lack of conspiracy and betrayal.
As for the Baldur Gate between Ascatra and Deepwater City, it combines the advantages of these two cities. It has the racial inclusion policy of Deepwater City, and it also gives preferential treatment to merchants from the north and south, and rarely imposes heavy taxes.
Due to historical reasons, this city is the port with the most tolerance for pirates along the Sword Bay coast. Because of this, the fleet of Bode Gate has strong combat power. Not to mention Deep Water City and Am, even the maritime fleet of the mainland power Kalinshan is difficult to defeat them.
"Let's go, let's go back to the Berenda Villa!" Qin Lun pulled his hood, covered the pointed ears of the moon elf's appearance, and gave Emily and Lorraine behind him.
The two walked through the city gate in a low-key manner and headed towards the noble area of the inner city. The architectural styles of the lower city of the Port of Bode Gate and the upper city of the merchant nobles are very different.
Most of the port areas are Baggett buildings, with a wild and unrestrained style and are very eye-catching. The Upper Town area, where the parliamentary aristocrats and large merchants are entrenched, has more Victorian-style buildings, with solemn and elegant appearance and full of aristocratic atmosphere.
Most of the residents of the port area are civilians, as well as merchant sailors and pirates coming and going here. The Upper City was originally a stronghold for merchants and parliamentary aristocrats. Although hundreds of years ago, Bodean had largely broken the gap between the two major urban areas, today, the division of the two classes has once again become the theme.
After Qin Lun and his group arrived at Bode Gate without any danger, Milleras immediately visited one of the current heads of parliament, Duke of Bilunda. The title of Duke of Bilunda is not a title in the popular sense, but a permanent position of the Bode Gate of Bilunda. It was once established by Bodean after the turmoil and has been used to this day.
Duke Billonda has always been intimate with the elves, and of course, he does not distinguish between the moon elves and the sun elves. In fact, the difference between the moon elves and the sun elves lies in the leadership within the clan. When facing humans and other races, their attitudes are not very different.
Upon learning of Millaras' arrival, the Duke immediately arranged a residence for them in the noble district and informed the Council of the news that the Elves envoys visited the Baldur Gate.
In this way, even if the spies from the Santalin Society learned about their news, they would probably not be able to act before everyone left the Baldur Gate, which was also Milleras's purpose. As for what would happen after this, Milleras didn't think much about it, and Qin Lun did not plan to ask too much. Anyway, he had decided to withdraw from the Torrell world at the Baldur Gate and return to the broken starry sky.
The reason why he and Less stayed here is waiting for the loss and the remaining members of the fortress. Although they could not contact any of them due to the long distance, there was still a list of alive members in Qin Lun and Less' apostle soul seal.
Of course, this list of members has been reduced a lot now. There are four names in total, including Less, and the remaining three are Kelly, Robin and the thief Perth.
The fortress team also suffered huge losses. Except for the magician Nicole and the thief Ronr, the names of others disappeared, which surprised Qin Lun. Whether it was Philip or Stark, the young people actually felt that they had hope of survival before.
Although the members of the fortress team do not have the strong reserve of high-level props as the Lost Team, in this world, Nicole, whose abilities have almost been strengthened to the advanced state, can still fight a bloody path among the undead who have lost unified command.
Although Milleras believes that it is difficult for Kelly and others to survive, the shrewd Sun Elf Prince did not question the decision of everyone to stay. This is not only about Qin Lun, Lorraine, and Emily each have their own companions and teachers to fall into the Valley of the Dead. They also want to know the news about the wizard Angelo and the dwarf elder Loyle.
After Ilistin arrived at the Baldur Gate, he had to be sick in bed these days. The backlash of the spiritual world has weakened a lot. However, because she sang the song of the elf in the Valley of the Dead and used the advanced magic - Pale Forest, the sequelae have begun to occur. Now she eats, drinks, defecation and sensation in her room, and often goes to bed after eating and eats after sleep, looking sick.
Milleras did not go out to do anything either. He did not hesitate to agree to stay at the Baldur Gate and temporarily give up continuing the ancient road. Of course, he had his intention.
Milleras' room was specially arranged in a hall, and the center of the hall was the Uvellen obelisk that was uprooted by Qin Lun. The Japanese Elf Prince now wanted to break it into two people. After Duke Berenda provided him with a batch of magic crystals, he surrounded the obelisk day and night and began to copy the inheritance of the Uvellen elves.
Qin Lun promised to give him a rubbing. If he had copied less classics during the few days he had been waiting, Milleras would not forgive himself. Sometimes, being too strong a sense of responsibility is not a good thing.
Apart from Qin Lun, no one dares to enter Milleras' room now. Not to mention that the Japanese Elf Prince's increasingly irritable temper lacks rest, even the sour smell of sweat in the room is really unbearable.
"Millerlas, stop copying, you should go out for a walk, the Baldur Gate is a good city!" Qin Lun pushed open the door of Millerlas's room, waved the stench in his nose, and frowned at the Sun Elf Prince.
However, he was soon stunned. The obelisk in the hall was still emitting a shiny light. At its base, it formed a magic circle of magic crystals, providing magic power to the obelisk continuously so that it can continue to present the rune classics inside.
Milleras, who was supposed to be writing behind the obelisk, was now missing. He could only see piles of neatly stacked parchment papers, which were books that the Sun Elf Prince had copied.
Qin Lun shrugged and watched around the obelisk with interest. He had no interest in the inheritance of the spirit, but just took a look.
This thing is useless to the apostles. Even the magic books inside require a lot of time to learn to master them. The apostles do not have such time? As long as the laws allow, they can master a magic instantly, and they only need to practice and use it later.
"You blocked my sight!" A tired voice suddenly came from behind the pile of books.
"Crazy!" The parchment stacked on the desk was scattered on the ground, and Milleras's messy head, like a chicken coop, poked out from behind the desk.
ps: There is another chapter later
Chapter completed!