Chapter 4 The Lion City
The cause of the Jade Light is still an unsolved mystery. People only know that this is a special beam emitted from the extreme depths of the underground, ignoring the obstructions, ignoring everything and directly hitting the sky. This emerald green light has no effect, and its symbolic significance is greater than its practical significance. However, in the Jade Empire, it is a very important natural phenomenon because it symbolizes the authority of a lion.
According to legend, in the era of pioneering light shining with a desirable glow, the fearless Lionheart Knight led a team of pioneers to the north, determined to expand the power of mankind to the barren land in the north, and build a city belonging to mankind in the wilderness there.
Fighting for food with the fierce monsters and living space with the dangerous wilderness, they fought hard all the way, and even if they suffered heavy casualties, they would never look back. They went deep into the wilderness, after 210 days and traveled nearly a thousand kilometers, and finally entered the wilderness where no one stepped into the wilderness. However, at this time, the development team with only more than 300 people had exhausted all their supplies, and they were unable to ignite the rain for several days. More than 300 people could only tremble on the cold night. Not only had to endure the torture of hunger, but also had to fight against the dangerous darkness, always beware of the spying of hungry monsters in the darkness, and prevent them from dragging people away one by one.
At the most desperate moment, the emerald light lit up, and the emerald green light column rushed straight into the sky, bringing light and hope to the pioneering team. With the lighting of the light column, they found large ripe fruit trees around the light column, able to survive the most difficult night, and found patches of wild wheat nearby. After harvesting, they finally replenished their food.
The Lion Heart Knight believed that this was the gift of the gods and the will of the gods. The gods were reminding him in this way that this was his destination. So, the Lion City was established. In order to commemorate the light pillar of the rescue and pioneering group, the Lion Heart Knight named it the Emerald Light and named the new territory the Emerald Corps. He finally expanded the power of mankind to the northern wilderness, and he succeeded.
Unfortunately, he failed too.
Because this place is not a land that no one has ever set foot on.
In the seventh month of the establishment of Lion City, more than a dozen explorers of Lion City were exploring the surrounding dense forests, and they found a settlement of intelligent creatures in a woodland. There are currently no intelligent creatures, only a dozen beds made of large quantities of leaves, and a message written on the leaves.
The message was left with only a few lines, but it almost made the Lionheart Knight angry to death.
"We've been here, we've left again. Later Trail Blazers, no matter who you are, do you feel that you've finally reached a place that no one has ever been? Do you feel proud that you're amazing? Angry, cry, haha, we've actually been here a long time ago, hahaha. In addition, the fruit trees outside are planted by children, you are not allowed to eat them. They are carved on the trees, and those who steal fruits are all idiots."
This tone, this attitude, and the evil taste of using children to plant trees. Damn the forest spirit, you must be!
The hope of taking the first footprint failed and was ridiculed by extremely vicious mockery, but this is not all. People's sad discovery was more lively than they thought.
Not long after, near a dense forest tentatively named Desperate Forest, explorers discovered a cave on an unknown mountain with traces of the living of intelligent creatures, and as expected, the information left by these creatures was carved on the stone wall.
"The group of idiots below are so annoying. They call us down to play with them every day. Do you really have a luxurious organ like a brain? Do you want our wings to hang on the trees? It's okay if you jump around in our experimental fields every day. We don't care about the creatures taught by Lord Anika, but you actually stuffed them into your mouth. Wheat is something that eats seeds, not leaves. Do you really think you are a deer? No, I can't stand it anymore. We want to move, pray that these stupid deer won't chase after you. What? Who am I writing this for? Of course, it's for you, idiots, idiots, idiots, I hate you!!!"
Very good, it's so lively, who else is below?
This is the only thought in my heart after reading the copied message with a expressionless face.
However, he was not qualified to be dissatisfied. The fruit trees were planted by forest spirits. The wheat fields that were thought to be wild wheat were actually experimental fields of Winged Man. The pioneers could survive all the only thing they could do was rely on the marks left by these two hateful creatures many years ago. What qualifications did he have to be dissatisfied? Not only could he not be dissatisfied, but he also had to regard these two creatures as benefactors and demanded that all the excuses and entrusted people treat these two creatures respectfully.
Many years later, the Winged Man and the Lionheart family negotiated, hoping to move the Brilliant Capital to the near-imperial territory, and even occupy a small piece of imperial territory. They thought it would be a very difficult negotiation, but they did not expect it to be extremely smooth. The Empire agreed very happily. Now it seems that the unexpected success is also related to the anecdotes thousands of years ago.
"Maybe those winged people at that time were the ancestors of your Celes family. If this is the case, you can still collect wheat money from the Lion Heart Emperor. The wheat is not worth much, but the interest rate for thousands of years is calculated..."
"You can really come up with a way to extort at any time, Shull, no wonder there are rumors that you are called a vampire in your city, and what about your liturgy and virtue as a priest?"
"I'm sorry, I was cheated of 500 gold coins at the beginning. In order to have a meal, I had to sell my virtues. Yes, it was sold with my face."
It was the early morning of the next day. The floating boat took advantage of the night and passed through the wilderness outside the city without any danger and arrived in the territory of the Emerald Empire.
The border division method of Pavatiga human countries is very distinctive. The territory of a country is not connected in pieces, but in a unit of metropolitan system. As long as the lord of the metropolitan system belongs to a certain country, the scope of this metropolitan system is the territory of the country. The metropolitan system may not be connected to each other. Sometimes, due to various reasons, a country cannot occupy a blank area between two territories for a long time, so it can only allow its territory to be divided into two parts. Large troops can pass through safely, but even if it is only a dozen kilometers deep, ordinary people must be prepared to die if they want to travel.
Just like the hundreds of kilometers of deep wilderness that I had just crossed, it was a blank area between two unconnected territories of the Emerald Empire. Even floating boats flew through the air and had to travel carefully while the night was shining.
Yes, take advantage of the night.
Walking through the wilderness from the ground, of course, when it is bright during the day, although the monsters can see you, you can also see monsters so that you will not be caught off guard by a sudden attack. Moreover, you can clearly observe the road conditions during the day. Sometimes the dangers brought by the environment are greater than those of the monsters.
But flying in the air is different, especially for fixed routes. The only road condition that will cause trouble is the mountain. The problem is that even at night, as long as your eyes are not blind, such a large mountain cannot be invisible, so there is no need to worry about the road condition at night. As for the monsters, in the world of Pavatiga, most flying monsters are night blind, and only a few small birds of prey can hunt at night, so sailing at night is much safer than during the day.
All night was safe. Although the "stupid children" mentioned by Shuer really felt that the airship was fresh, and ran wildly in the corridor of the cabin for several hours, until he was beaten by Shuer alone, he calmed down. Even though Pastor Talinna prayed to Dark Moon all night because of fear of heights, begging Dark Boat not to fall, no matter what, this air travel experience that had never been before made everyone very satisfied. Well, at least he was very satisfied with the sleeping environment, because the airship was much smoother than the carriage.
Early this morning, everyone got up early and had a rich breakfast provided by the Winged Humans. While standing leisurely on the deck waiting for the airship to arrive at their destination, they appreciated the knowledge that Shuer used in classics, crazyly satirizing the ancestors of the Winged Humans and the Emerald Empire, and even the Lin Jing also attacked them.
It must be admitted that Yulia said it is not an exaggeration. If the floating boats can be popularized, it can really change the way the Pavatiga travels. If you sleep easily like this, you can cross the wilderness and walk on land, you can't even think about it. However, considering the nearly luxurious energy consumption of floating boats, it's still a long way to go to popularize such things.
The more you sail, the more lively the place you pass by, the city is prosperous and the villages are full of villages and towns. You can even often see mercenaries escorting caravans traveling through the wilderness between the cities. Compared to the deserted border area I passed yesterday, this place is like another world.
More than half an hour later, looking up from a distance, a dark shadow seemed to be a mountain, emerging from the end of the horizon.
As the distance gets closer and closer, it is becoming clearer and clearer. It is not a mountain or hill, but a huge city, a larger city than the Rose Capital, which the Rose family has worked hard for nearly a thousand years.
At the edge of the city, a stone wall ten meters high is surrounded by a closed ring, guarding the inner and outer city of more than 60 square kilometers within the city wall.
The ring-shaped outer city guards the inner city, and gray and black smoke columns can be seen everywhere in the outer city, knocking on anvils, cutting wood, rotating millstones, and even explosions of alchemy failure. Well, in the end, just ignore this. As long as there is an alchemy workshop, explosions, explosions and explosions are absolutely indispensable.
Obviously, the outer city is an industrial gathering place, and various industrial facilities are built here in a centralized manner, which not only ensures the cleanliness and beauty of the inner city, but also makes material transportation more convenient.
Within the more towering inner city walls, there are naturally commercial areas and residential areas. Of course, the most important temple area is also located here. The magnificent palace, magnificent temples, commercial areas with towers, and residential areas with simple atmosphere, from a distance, the momentum of the thousand-year-old ancient capital is coming.
If you are careful, you will notice that, whether in the inner city or the outer city, there are many roofs with a half-meter-sized orange straight line drawn on them. Looking down from a high altitude, these orange lines are connected into two straight lines, just like a passage built on the roof, extending all the way to a high platform on the edge of the inner city.
Chapter completed!