The morning in Sike City was slightly cold, and the breeze blowing on the body made people feel a bit chilly. Ryan tightened his collar and followed Moneybags John and others slowly into the central square of Sike City. Ryan had only visited this city in a hurry once before and did not go deep into it. Today he stood in this large square that could accommodate 100,000 people, watching the people around him with a bystander mentality.
In the eyes of people in the Imperial Capital or Cassano and other places, the people under Senat's rule should be living in dire straits. They live like a year every day, eagerly looking northward for the Imperial Capital's army to rescue them. However, the situation in front of them is not the same. That's completely true. At least Ryan saw some kind of expectation on the faces of the surrounding guards, just like how the people of the Imperial Capital fought bloody battles with the invading orcs, hoping that their descendants could live a good life.
This discovery surprised Ryan, but when he put himself into the ordinary soldiers around him, he could easily understand the other party's thoughts. Perhaps Senat's rule was quite harsh, but the people under his rule were still reluctant Can eat enough, and in Senat's official propaganda, this is all because the heavy taxes imposed by the Imperial Capital on Sike City have dragged down the development of the entire territory. In order to protect the people here from being enslaved by the Imperial Capital, Lord Senat naturally We must maintain a huge army, and of course this military expenditure must be shared by the people here.
Now that Senat has declared independence and been crowned king, he has become the same existence as Fernando XIV, who is still underage in the imperial capital. Of course, the two different regimes are independent of each other, and the people of Seike City take it for granted. Their lives in the future will not be so hard, because they no longer have to pay taxes to the imperial capital. Anyway, the king of that place has never been here, and it seems that they have never improved their lives.
Ideas like this are actually very popular in southern cities or regions such as Cassano, Liberty Paradise, and Moon City, but the degree varies. At least from the perspective of human history, Sike City has never truly surrendered. The rule of the north naturally has a much greater sense of resistance in this regard, and cities like Liberty Paradise and Moon Moon City have always adopted a neutral stance, often choosing a superficial surrender, but in fact they still go their own way. As for Cassano It was already chaotic enough. Before Ryan unified it, there was no real belonging at all. It was nothing more than a combination of interests.
"Perhaps it was not that Fernando I was unable to use force to force the south of the continent, but that he took into account the differences between the north and the south and chose a long road. Unfortunately, after his death, the empire's successors fell into internal battles. Use your own hands to begin to weaken the precious fighting power of the Imperial Capital Magic Guild." Ryan said to himself silently in his heart: "But times have changed now, no matter what the people in the south think, we must work together to truly fight against the undead army, so …”
"Look, look, ah, here they come. Look, this army is so powerful. Their armors are all the strongest full-body armor." The mercenaries beside Ryan made a sound of exclamation, which made Ryan's mind return. At the coronation ceremony in front of him, he looked up and saw a guard of more than a thousand people quickly entering from outside the square. Every time they took about 10 steps, they would leave two guards behind in a space more than 20 meters wide. People stood on both sides of the road, holding sharp long axes facing the crowd of spectators. The long axes they held were more of a ceremonial guard than a weapon. This kind of weapon looked unusually bright on the outside, and could even be The flat surface of the ax head clearly shows the white pheasant tail feathers on the helmet of the guard holding it.
While these guards were walking forward slowly, dozens of men dressed as servants ran quickly through the central road carrying bright red carpets. They seemed to have practiced countless times and maintained a fast running speed. At the same time, you can still skillfully stretch the rolled up red carpet and lay it in the middle of the road.
Then a large group of young girls came, wearing white sleeveless bras and holding a large flower basket in their hands. Before these girls walked in, a strong fragrance of flowers hit their nostrils. It turned out that the flower baskets in their hands contained the most delicate flowers, all of which were picked just an hour ago. Ryan could even see the dew on them.
"It's really luxurious." This is the only thought in Ryan's mind. Compared with the wedding of Fernando XIII in the imperial capital, Senat's coronation ceremony can be described as luxurious. It can be said that the expenses that Ryan can imagine , everything can be seen here. No wonder Senat is about to issue a large order.
"Boom." The majestic horn sounded, followed by dozens of huge war drums. With the beating of the war drums, a high platform slowly moved towards the viewing platform in the central square. Ryan's forehead was slightly moved. Jump, because he didn't find any traces of magic fluctuations from the high platform, but soon Ryan burst into laughter because he discovered that Senat's chariot was not controlled by magic, but was carried by human power.
The entire chariot is about 5 meters high, but its area is quite large. Ryan made a slight estimate, and it seems that there can be about a hundred people standing on it. However, there is absolutely nothing else on top of the entire chariot. There was only a throne placed in the center, and Senat, dressed in costume, was sitting there.
When Senat's chariot passed by the red carpet, a rain of flowers suddenly appeared in the sky. Those were the flowers scattered by the girls on both sides of the road. The air was naturally filled with a rich and tangy fragrance. This smell made people laugh. Ryan was quite familiar with it, and he suddenly remembered that this smell was one of Farasi's favorite perfumes. This perfume was the unique secret recipe of a certain noble in the imperial capital. The perfume shop he opened was very popular, and the price of each small bottle of perfume was It's quite expensive. I didn't expect that this time they would secretly smuggle this perfume to Sike City for money.
"Hey yo, hey yo." When the chariot under Senat's feet passed by Ryan, the chants of hundreds of people advancing came from under the chariot. Now seeing this rare scene at close range, Naturally, others were ecstatic, but Ryan's nose suddenly itched because he smelled a slight smell of blood in the rich perfume in the air, which was the same as the blood pool in the tomb of King Andrew in Alexandria. The smell he smelled was exactly the same. Just as he looked around, intending to find out the origin of the smell of blood, he suddenly found that the smell had gradually disappeared.
Others might have thought that they had made a mistake, but the experience of Andrew's tomb was something Ryan would never forget, so he would not doubt his feelings at all, but for a while he could not find the source of the blood. It also made Ryan a little strange. He looked around casually, hoping to find something to remind him. When he turned his eyes to the back of Senat's chariot again, a thought suddenly came to Ryan's mind. He finally knew. Where did that smell come from? Yes, it came from Senat on the throne at the top of the chariot.