Chapter 123: Distorted Beauty
If we look at it from a human perspective, the architectural style of the elves is very strange. According to human habits, whether it is the Neville Federation, the Falar Empire, or the neutral land, or even the human land people in the Sea Kingdom and the mages who distinguish themselves from humans on the Butt Plateau, as long as the race is originally human, the architectural styles are different, but on the basis of it. The architectural styles of humans often remain straight. No matter how strange the appearance is, the inner structure of the building is often square and neat. Even if there are polygons in the house, each side is straight. Moreover, in a building complex, the size of the buildings will not be too different, which is more in line with human aesthetics.
But the architectural structure of the elves is completely different from that of humans, or most races. Their buildings are not so much like houses, but almost no two of their buildings are the same. The elves generally regard trees as their homes. Even if they build their own buildings, they rely on trees and are built on the canopy rather than on the ground. Therefore, their architectural style is strictly restricted by the canopy, and the structure of the house is designed according to the shape of the canopy, the direction of the branches and the degree of strength of each branch.
Therefore, their buildings do not have a fixed style, and are particularly distorted compared to human buildings. The inclined center of gravity, crooked wavy walls, windows of different sizes, irregular roofs, narrow tops and wide doors at the bottom. These are fatal flaws for human buildings, and are reflected in almost every house of the elves. If such a house is in the human world, no one dares to live in it, but the elves live very comfortably, and even the royal palace is built in this style.
However, the most powerful thing about the elves is that they can transform these characteristics that are defective even from an aesthetic perspective, and then transform them into advantages through their own modifications. The undulating roofs are decorated into waves on the sea. Walls of varying lengths are modified into legs of giants kneeling on one knee. Windows of different sizes are adjusted with colors. After adjusting them with the original side-by-side windows, they add visual layering, which seems to be different because of different distances and distances.
During the construction process, the elves designers put their artistic talents to the extreme during the construction process. Although each house in the entire palace still looks a bit inconsistent after being modified, once these houses are combined into a building complex and combined into a palace, all the sense of incongruity is made up for by the other buildings, and overall it looks extremely harmonious. Even if it is just a little change in the shape of a certain house, it will destroy the beauty of the entire building.
Their artistic quality is not only this level. Every building, every pillar, even a window lattice and a door handle, even the most inconspicuous corners, the most inconspicuous parts have been carefully carved by the builders, and are covered with exquisite patterns. Most of the patterns are plant-like, making every house seem to be built around flowers and grass. Of course, even without these patterns, the palace is still built around the palace. Not only are the branches and leaves of the world trees, but also a large number of vines grow. Various flowers bloom on the vines, and a faint fragrance fills the entire palace. These fragrances are not as strong as those in the flower path in the swamp, but a light fragrance, just like the feeling given by the elves, noble, elegant but always keep a distance.
Since the palace is built in the canopy, with a large number of branches, leaves and vines blocking the view in the middle, it is impossible to see the overall shape of the palace. However, it is speculated that it should be that the world tree is the center of the circle, which is distributed in an annular shape, and the trunk that everyone is standing on is the main road leading to the palace.
It was not until this time that the girls discovered the existence of the city guards. Since entering the elf royal court, the girls have been observing everywhere. They have indeed seen many elves civilians along the way, but apart from the guards around them, they have never seen an elf Lin Guard who serves as the city guards. This always gives people the feeling that this city has no public security and defense power. When they climbed to the palace, the girls finally saw the guards. These guards did not patrol around like other cities, but only stood guard at some nodes that crossed between tree trunks. Indeed, with the particularity of the palace, as long as these nodes are controlled, it is enough to control the traffic of the entire air road network and will not allow any suspicious people to pass through.
"Actually, there are still many guards in the Elf King's Court, not just concentrated near the palace." Panis discovered the curiosity and doubts in the hearts of the girls and explained in a low voice: "But those guards are all served by the Elf Lin Guard, and the Lin Guards are all rangers. It is not easy to find a trace of the existence of an Elf Ranger in a forest. Some powerful rangers are hidden, and even if I want to find it, it takes a lot of effort. In fact, there are many guards along the way we have just passed, but they are just hiding in the trees."
"Why do you need to hide?" Catherine asked in confusion: "According to common sense, a large part of the purpose of urban guards is to deter those criminals, not just to arrest them. In other words, urban guards exist to prevent crime, not just to fight crime."
"How many people commit crimes in a city where all intelligent creatures are above silver?" Panis asked back: "Can those who have the courage to do such things be shocked by some golden-level city guards?"
"Uh, it probably can't." Catherine was stunned and said with a wry smile: "Actually, it's hard for me to imagine a city where all high-level professionals are. In short, only the city of elves is of this level."
"Well, this is the case in the elves. After all, the starting point of this race is too high." Panis nodded and said, "In fact, there is nothing special about such a city. The biggest feature is that there are few people committing crimes, the city's security is very good, and living in such a city is very safe."
"Strange, I once read a research report about urban security." Vivian woke up from her meditation and said in confusion: "According to their research, if there are more people in a city with strong strength, the worse the security of the city is, to a certain extent, and it will even fall into chaos."
Chapter completed!