Looking at the majestic city wall, Qin Lun narrowed his eyes slightly and raised his palms to block the scorching sun above his head.
The city walls are all composed of huge base stones. The city gate in the middle is five meters wide and about eight meters high. There is a towering arrow tower on the left and right, guarding both sides of the city gate like guards. On the high wall, patrolling soldiers can be seen everywhere. .
In front of the city gate, there is a stone arch bridge connected. The arch bridge crosses the Sword Sea and flows through this inland moat. It is far away from 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's Gate in Faerun Continent. After leaving Durag's Tower, their bad luck along the way seems to have finally come to an end. Although he still encountered some low-level undead along the way, he did not encounter any irresistible dangers, and he arrived at Baldur's Gate four days ago.
Baldur's Gate is named after the legendary navigator and pirate, Baldurn. He often ventures across the Sea of Swords, and builds towers by the sea in his own name as a guide for ships to return home.
Due to the existence of pirates such as Bode'an, this small fishing village, Baojianhai Port, gradually prospered and attracted many merchants and inland farmers to settle here.
Later, merchants and coast guards made up of farmers built the walls to protect their goods from outside dangers. It's just that they deliberately excluded the port area where pirates were active from the wall, and imposed entry fees on pirates and merchant mariners.
The captains were outraged at their selfish behavior and refused to pay the entry fee. When the city wall was being built, Bo De'an happened to be out to sea, so he didn't know about it. When he returned, he found the pirates imprisoned beyond the walls, unable to withstand the attack of Orcs and barbarians, Baldurn was outraged.
In a rage, Bo De'an led the captains to kill those selfish and arrogant businessmen and farmer captains, and dissolved the council composed of these prosperous farmers. At that time, only four people in the entire parliament survived because they did not support the decision of the parliament.
After the incident, Bod'an paid and ordered the construction of the outer wall, and rebuilt a bridge gate in the port area, which is the origin of Baldur's Gate. After a combination of formidable force and fortified defenses, the orcs were finally defeated. Balduran appointed those four dukes to stay at Baldur's Gate.
After all this was over, Bo De'an went out to sea to find the legendary Angome Island, and never came back.
Today, this seaport city, which was founded by pirates and survived the chaotic era, has become a free country. Humans, elves, dwarves, barbarians, nobles, farmers, merchants, adventurers, all kinds of characters can be found here.
Together with Waterdeep City in the north, Calimport in the south, and Askatra, the capital of Amn in the south of Baldur's Gate, it forms the entire commercial chain along the Sea of Swords.
These four Sword Coast ports have their own characteristics, and among them, Deepwater City in the north can best accommodate various continental civilizations. In that city, it is said that even drow, the public enemy of the mainland, and orcs can make public appearances, and no one will specifically target them.
Askatra, the capital of Amn, has the strongest commercial atmosphere. Due to its geographical location in the center of the entire Sword Coast trade circle, all the guys who worship gold coins gather here. Of course, such an atmosphere also makes the city undercurrents swell, and there is never a lack of intrigue and betrayal.
As for Baldur's Gate, which is located between Askatra and Waterdeep City, it combines the advantages of these two cities. It has the racial tolerance policy of Waterdeep City, and at the same time, it also gives preferential treatment to merchants traveling between the north and the south, and rarely imposes heavy taxes.
For historical reasons, the city is the most tolerant port for pirates along the Sword Coast. For this reason, the fleet of Baldur's Gate has very strong combat effectiveness. Not to mention Waterdeep City and Amn, even the sea fleet of the mainland power Calinthian will find it difficult to defeat them.
"Let's go, let's go back to Bilunda Villa!" Qin Lun pulled his hood to cover the sharp ears of the Moon Elf, and instructed Emily and Lorraine behind him.
The two passed through the city gate in a low-key manner and headed towards the aristocratic area of the inner city. The lower city in the port area of Baldur's Gate and the upper city where the merchant nobles are located have very different architectural styles.
Most of the port area is Baggett architecture, with a wild and uninhibited style, which is very eye-catching. On the other hand, the Upper Town, where parliamentary nobles and big businessmen are entrenched, has more Victorian-style buildings, with a solemn and elegant appearance, full of aristocratic atmosphere.
The residents of the port area are mostly civilians, as well as merchant sailors and pirates who come and go here. The Upper Town was originally the stronghold of merchants and parliamentary aristocrats. Although hundreds of years ago, Bode'an broke down the barrier between the two urban areas to a large extent, but today, the division of the two classes has once again become the theme.
After Qin Lun and his party arrived at Baldur's Gate without any risk, Mileras immediately visited one of the current leaders of the parliament, the Duke of Birenda. The title of Duke of Birenda is not a title in the popular sense, but a permanent position of the Baldur's Gate Council. It was once established by Balduran himself after the turmoil, and it has been used to this day.
The Duke of Birenda has always been friendly with the elves. Of course, he does not distinguish between moon elves and 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 much different.
Upon learning of Mileras' arrival, the Duke immediately arranged a residence for them in the aristocratic district, and notified the parliament of the elf envoy's visit to Baldur's Gate.
In this way, even if the spies of the Zhentarim learned about them, they might not be able to act before everyone left Baldur's Gate, which was the purpose of Mileras. As for what would happen after that, Mileras didn't think too much about it, and Qin Lun didn't intend to ask too much. Anyway, he had already decided to withdraw from the world of Toril at Baldur's Gate and return to the Broken Starry Sky.
The reason why he and the two apostles Laisi are still staying here is to wait for the lost and remaining members of the fortress. Although they were unable to contact any of them due to the long distance, there are still lists of living members in the apostle soul seals of Qin Lun and Lai Si.
Of course, the list of team members has now been reduced a lot. Lost, including Rice, has a total of four names on display, and the remaining three are Kelly, Robin, and Thief Perth.
The loss of the fortress team was also extremely huge. Except for the magician Nicole and the thief Longer, the names of everyone else disappeared, which surprised Qin Lun. Whether it is Philip or Stark, in fact, the young people felt that they had hope of surviving before.
Although the members of the Fortress team do not have as strong a reserve of high-level items as the Lost team, in this world, Nicole, whose ability has almost been strengthened to a high-level state, can still cooperate with the second-level senior MT Stark and the second-level mage Philip. Among the undead under unified command, the one who slashed a bloody path.
Although Mileras thought it would be difficult for Kelly and the others to survive, the shrewd Sun Elf prince did not question everyone's decision to stay. This is not only related to Qin Lun alone, Lorraine and Emily also have companions and teachers who were lost in the Valley of the Undead. They also want to know the news about the mage Angelo and the dwarf elder Leuer.
After Elistine arrived at Baldur's Gate, she could only stay in bed for the past few days, and the backlash from the spiritual world had weakened a lot, but because she sang the song of elves in the valley of the undead and forcibly used high-level magic—Pale Forest, Now the repercussions are starting to strike. Now he eats, drinks, and sleeps in his own room. He often sleeps after eating, and eats after sleeping, looking sickly.
And Mileras also did not go out for activities. He agreed to everyone to stay at Baldur's Gate without hesitation, and temporarily gave up continuing the ancient road. Of course, he had his intentions.
Mileras's room was specially arranged in a hall, and in the center of the hall was the obelisk of Uvilun that was uprooted by Qin Lun. Now the prince of the sun elves can't wait for one person to be used by two people. After the Duke of Bilunda provided him with a batch of magic spar, he surrounded the obelisk day and night and began to copy the inheritance classics of the Uvelun elves.
Qin Lunke promised to give him a copy of the rubbings, and Mileras would not forgive himself if he missed copying a copy of a classic during the few days of waiting. Sometimes, too strong a sense of responsibility is not a good thing.
Except for Qin Lun, almost no one dares to enter Mileras' room now. Not to mention the increasingly irritable temper of the Sun Elf prince due to lack of rest, even the sour smell of sweat in the room is really unbearable.
"Mirelas, stop copying, you should go out for a walk, Baldur's Gate is a good city!" Qin Lun pushed open the door of Mileras's room, waved the stench from his nose, and frowned at Prince of the Sun Elf.
However, he was taken aback for a moment. The obelisk in the hall was still emitting a hazy light, and a magic circle was formed on its base to provide magic power to the obelisk in order to keep it going. Reveals the internal runic tome.
Mileras, who was supposed to be on the desk behind the obelisk, buried his head in writing, was gone now, and he could only see piles of neatly stacked parchments. These were the books that the Sun Elf Prince had already copied.
Qin Lun shrugged his shoulders and looked around the obelisk with great interest. He had no interest in the inheritance of the elves and just looked around casually.
This thing is useless to the apostles, even the magic books inside need a lot of time to learn to master. The apostles don't have this kind of time, as long as the law allows, they can master a magic in an instant, and they only need to practice and use it later.
"You're blocking my sight!" A tired voice suddenly came from behind the pile of books.
"Crash!" The parchments stacked on the desk were scattered on the ground, and Mileras' messy head like a chicken coop poked out from behind the desk.