The mysterious underwater world is vast and has many races such as Nagas, fishmen, lizardmen, snakemen, etc. However, unlike the land, this place has been ruled by the powerful Nagas since tens of thousands of years ago. Although the Nagas are very powerful, their population does not have an advantage in the underwater world. Therefore, in order to meet their own ruling needs, the Nagas have built strong fortresses in strategic locations on the seabed, and then relied on these cities. Rule the nearby territory,
As one of the female heirs of the Naga royal family, Tisilis was granted a huge area in the eastern part of the seabed. Here is the Tisilina Fortress, one of the five major fortresses of the Naga clan. It actually means "the city of Tisilis". There are 100,000 elite Naga troops stationed in the fortress all year round, and there are multiple large magic teleportation arrays. These troops can be mobilized to other nearby fortresses at any time. Support, it can be said that this city is the core of Tiselis’ rule.
In order to ensure absolute safety, garrison fortresses like "Tisilina" naturally do not allow foreigners to enter and exit at will. This will restrict commercial trade, so many years ago a certain Naga Queen issued an order Commercial transfer stations are built on the outskirts of each garrison fortress. All material transportation and trade in the underwater world are carried out in such commercial transfer stations. In order to prevent other races from doing evil things, possessions are not allowed in such commercial transfer stations. The military and chambers of commerce traveling around can only hire free mercenaries to protect themselves, and how can ordinary mercenaries be the opponents of the nearby elite Nagas who have undergone strict training? Therefore, the biggest profit of this kind of commercial transit station The one who can only be the Naga tribe itself,
However, after tens of thousands of years of development, these original commercial transfer stations have slowly developed into huge commercial cities due to the increase in trade. However, the Naga garrison fortresses near them have not changed much. As a result, with the As time goes by, the creatures in the underwater world have become accustomed to treating these commercial cities as the center of a region, and regard the Naga fortresses and other racial gathering places as satellite cities of such commercial cities. This was also the original What the far-sighted Naga Queen did not expect,
Of course, apart from a little false reputation, the development of commercial cities is only good for the Naga people, because the Naga lords who rule here can obtain a large amount of tax money from commercial taxes without leaving home, and they can also quickly Sufficient resources were quickly raised through merchant guilds traveling around the seabed, so by the time of Tisilis, many Naga lords could no longer bear the loneliness and left their own fortresses to live in nearby commercial cities. among,
As long as trade caravans keep coming and going between large commercial cities, small commercial cities will naturally appear in certain places along the journey. Saluofin is one of them. This permanent city The small city with a population of only tens of thousands was originally just a dozen undersea caves. Since the terrain nearby was relatively flat and there were no dangerous sea beasts or ferocious undersea aborigines, the trade between the Naga capital and Tisiliena was limited. Caravans often choose to rest in this place, so they slowly build a city based on these underwater caves.
Salufin is located on the submarine plain and is located at the transportation hub of the eastern territory of the Naga Empire. It produces abundant food resources, so passing caravans will rest here for a few days and replenish the food they consumed before continuing on the road. This This is also the reason why the permanent population of this city is only tens of thousands, but the floating population in a year exceeds one million.
In order to reduce extra consumption, many large-scale chambers of commerce simply bought a piece of land here to build houses and stock up on food in Saluofin, so that when their caravans pass by here, they no longer have to worry about trivial matters such as food and accommodation. Therefore, in More than half of this underwater city is occupied by outsiders, and it is not uncommon for many houses to remain uninhabited for months. Anyway, with the protection of the magic barrier, there is no need to worry about thieves sneaking into it and causing any unnecessary problems. Loss,
In an inconspicuous corner of the Salufin Chamber of Commerce area, there is a building about two stories high. This building is completely different from the houses in the human world. It actually looks a bit like a large conch. This architectural style can be seen everywhere in the entire underwater world. It is said that this building originally belonged to a small or large chamber of commerce, but the chamber of commerce failed in a speculative business and was later pursued by numerous creditors. It had no choice but to disband, and all its properties that could be sold were disposed of. As for this extremely dilapidated building here, it was not worth much at all, so it was thrown into this corner and allowed to slowly deteriorate.
If someone really sneaks into it quietly, they can only see that all the furnishings and stored materials in the entire room are the same as when they were sealed. But who knows that they are deep underground in this building? , there is actually a secret room tens of meters square hidden, but the entire secret room is really completely closed, and there is no direct connection with the building above. If some special means are not used, such as "teleportation" magic Wait, you can't even think about traveling between the upper and lower levels.
The secret room of tens of meters is not big, but it is not too small. The floor, walls and even the stone wall above the head are all covered with dense magic spells. These strange spells are so complicated. They are so complicated that ordinary people will feel dizzy even if they just take a glance at them, let alone identify their specific functions.
Suddenly, the magic spell engraved in the secret room gave off a faint light. It was obvious that someone had activated the magic circle here. After a short time, the entire magic circle was fully activated and started to operate. The underground secret room had been silent for who knows how many years. It was also filled with very strong magic fluctuations in a short period of time, but under the protection of the outer magic barrier, not a trace spread out from the secret room, so what happened here was not noticed by any outsiders.
After the mana fluctuations that repeatedly stirred in the narrow space of the secret room reached an astonishing intensity, a dazzling bright light instantly filled the entire secret room, and six blurry figures slowly appeared in the center of the secret room in the strong light. On the magic circle, after a while, the sudden strong light began to weaken slowly, but the six blurry figures became clearer and clearer. Finally, all the light disappeared from the secret room, and the entire space returned to In the original dim state, six humanoid creatures with their eyes tightly closed appeared in the originally empty room.
Ryan closed his eyes tightly, resisting the dizziness in his head, and slowly adjusted his breathing. Even though he had legendary strength, he suddenly passed through the space magic circle conveyor belt and didn't know that he was in a foreign land hundreds of thousands of kilometers away. , the physical and mental fatigue caused by this kind of space journey still made him definitely a little tired,
After a few minutes, Ryan slowly recovered. He opened his eyes, and what he saw was the secret room tens of meters square. After just a few glances, Ryan roughly understood the magic spells engraved around the secret room. At this time, Tisilis also opened her eyes. She folded the tail fins of her lower body and sat down on the ground. Then she said to Ryan: "Very good, everything is going well. You are welcome to come." Come to my world, Ryan.”
"This is the underwater world, why don't you see the sea water?" Faras regained her composure for the third time, and asked in a curious tone: "Well, the air is quite humid, but the environment here... is quite the same as Sea Breeze City. Similar."
"Undersea creatures do not necessarily have to live in seawater. In fact, strictly speaking, many of the creatures on our seabed are amphibious. They can survive even if they are left out of the water for a long time, but there will be a strong discomfort. It’s just a feeling, usually the place where we live will use a magic barrier to separate the outside seawater, because although our bodies are not afraid of being soaked in seawater for a long time, many things in the room are not, such as the large number of magic circles here." Perhaps because she returned to her hometown, Tisilis was in a good mood. After she explained, she couldn't help but said: "Fanny, let's not talk about this anymore. Thank you very much for coming here to help me this time. I will ask you if I have the opportunity." You should taste the specialties from our seabed. These are delicacies that are absolutely unimaginable on your land.”
"Okay, I'm really looking forward to the delicious food being praised by members of the Naga royal family." Farasi didn't mind Tisilis using her nickname. After all, now that we are in each other's territory, we have become allies again. It is necessary to have a good relationship with each other. The two of them chatted slowly to pass the time. It was not until sisters Sophie and Natasha fully recovered that they turned their attention to Ryan next to them. At this time, Ryan had basically put the entire I kept the magic circle settings in the secret room in mind.
"Next, I will use teleportation magic to take everyone to the space above. In order to ensure the privacy of this place, there was no direct channel to connect when it was originally designed." After Ticelis explained a few words, she said in a deep voice Reciting a long magic spell, she wrapped six people, including Ryan, with a ball of soft blue light. With her current strength, it was a bit difficult to take six people to teleport short distances, but it was still possible. It can still be done,
"This is an inconspicuous little city, but it is the only way back to my territory. We will wander around the mercenary guild in the city for a while. If we can find a way to go to my home city, near Tisilina The mercenary mission couldn't be more perfect. It doesn't matter if there isn't one. There are countless caravans and mercenaries on these roads every day. There should be no problem if we keep a low profile." Tisilis explained as she led everyone there. At the door of the house, she finally reminded: "Everyone, remember, from now on, you should try not to talk to outsiders, and talk to each other in Naga language as much as possible, because this is the lingua franca of the underwater world. It’s not easy to arouse suspicion.”
Just when Ticelis and others walked out of the conch-shaped house, the ground under their feet suddenly trembled violently. Tiselis quickly looked up to the sky, only to see a layer of blue magic barrier in the sky. It was shaking constantly. It was originally a defense system used by the snail fin to shield it from seawater erosion, but now it seemed that it might collapse at any time due to the violent attack. The scene in front of her shocked Tisiris, and she He shouted out loud: "How is it possible? A war actually broke out here."