After returning to the Silver Wing Chamber of Commerce, Lelouch was not in a hurry about this matter, because even if he was anxious, it was useless. The communication from Free City to Ulduar City was currently in a semi-interrupted state. After all, the distance between Free City and the Yanold Mountains was The distance from Saxony to the Yanold Mountains is two different things. Even the best communication magic device currently developed by Ulduar City cannot transmit it. The letter was delivered through intelligence personnel belonging to the Kingdom of Saxony in the free city, but this was too time-consuming, so what Lelouch said before was completely a delaying tactic, and it would only take one day to delay. As for the reason, Isn’t it easy to find it? Internal disputes, price disputes, sabotage by your own competitors, anyway, you will never worry about excuses.
However, Yalin, who is far away in Ulduar City, also understands this problem. After all, letting Lelouch go out like this has given him high expectations, but he cannot maintain contact with each other for a long time, otherwise, if the two sides There are some troublesome things to deal with, so it will be really difficult to deal with them when the time comes.
When Lelouch left Ulduar City and embarked on the journey to the Free City, Yalin had already begun to solve this problem. The only way was to arrange some base stations for communication magic device signal transmission. The Forest of Mist There is a base station in the Kingdom of Saxony, and there is a base station in the Royal Capital of Saxony. Based on distance calculations, Yalin chose the Kingdom of Kalut, which is close to the Free City, and the location where the base station was established in the Kingdom of Kalut was the Kingdom of Saxony stationed there. country's embassy.
Quietly repairing communication devices in a country's embassy is both confidential and safe. This is what Yalin thought of from the behavior of a lighthouse country in the original world installing monitoring equipment in its own embassy.
The Saxon royal family quickly agreed to Yalin's request. For the Saxon royal family, this was a piece of cake. Anyway, a communication transmission device is not a dangerous magic device, and it is not large in size (about the size of a freezer). Just find it. Just put it somewhere without a magic barrier.
Since the cooperation with Yalin needs to be kept strictly confidential, the Kingdom of Saxony also began to make personnel transfers after agreeing to the matter. The ambassador stationed in the Kingdom of Karut was sent back to the country and replaced with a loyal confidant to take over the job. After taking the instrument to the Kingdom of Kalute, Yalin also entrusted the Kingdom of Saxony to transfer a new communication magic device to Lelouch in the Free City.
Inside the Silver Wings Chamber of Commerce┉┉
Lulu was busy handling the handover of the last batch of alchemy equipment. Sometimes high popularity would bring great convenience, but being too popular would still cause some trouble. For example, there were so many spies who were wandering outside all day long, and spies who were trying to squeeze into the chamber of commerce, that it was really annoying.
For the many forces in the free city that covet Lelouch's wealth, Lelouch's troubles are also their troubles. When the Silver Wing Chamber of Commerce first established its recruitment manpower, it deployed a large number of spies and spies to control almost all important things. department. However, so much time has passed, and the spies and spies deployed have not been able to send back any valuable information at all. Occasionally, some of it is irrelevant or even wrong information!
This situation has continued, causing many forces in the free city to ponder the question whether the Silver Wing Chamber of Commerce's confidentiality methods are too superb, or whether the spies they sent there are too useless.
On the third day after finishing the meeting with the Food Club, Buyani suddenly and mysteriously came back to pester Lelouch: "Are you free now? Brother!"
“Not available at the moment┉┉”
Faced with the entanglement of his 'sister', Lelouch focused on his work without raising his head. During this period, although Buanyani was not allowed to run around to avoid damaging her image of a pure noble lady, he could not hold Buanyi back. Yanni uses the ring to change into another appearance and go out for a walk. It was not easy for Crystal Dragon to return to the city full of treasures. It would be a shame not to make some extra money, especially since the 'Sincere Deception' can not only change the appearance but also hide the aura. In a certain aspect, it can even completely eliminate all the aura of the wearer, making any protective circle invisible. Undetectable, coupled with the crystal dragon's natural magic immunity and space talent, Buyani has repeatedly succeeded.
During this period of time, the city security team in the free city was already overwhelmed by Buyani. It was even suspected that a large-scale theft group had infiltrated the city and was conducting large-scale investigations. Fortunately, Buyani also knows how to measure her crimes. Every time she commits a crime, she chooses an area far away from the Silver Wing Chamber of Commerce and will never attack in the same place a second time. At the same time, she avoids provoking some too powerful chambers of commerce and forces. Changing places continuously made the security team exhausted from running back and forth.
"I found something very interesting today. I think brother Lelouch, you will be interested in taking a look." He hugged Lelouch's neck. Buanyani said in Lelouch's ear with an affectionate look.
Putting down the pen in his hand, Lelouch could hear that there was a hint of urging in Buyani's tone. It seemed that Buyani might have discovered something.
Soon the two 'brothers and sisters' put on each other's rings. Buyani directly used her space talent to teleport herself and Lelouch out together. After finishing the space teleportation, the two of them had arrived at a place in the north of the Free City near the city defense team. Near the military camp, Lelouch looked at a huge stone pillar erected in the center of the military camp with half-squinted eyes on a sloping grassland in the distance.
This huge stone pillar is at least more than three hundred meters high according to visual inspection. Compared with the surrounding low buildings, it seems to stand out from the crowd. The entire stone pillar is black and gray, with many silvery carvings inlaid in the middle that are slowly rotating and rhythmic. Countless strange forces are constantly moving around the stone pillar. Spreading around, and following Buanyani's gesture, Lelouch could vaguely see an identical stone pillar in the distance.
The huge stone pillar more than 300 meters high is an amazing building in this other world. But it was nothing to Lelouch who had seen too many magnificent buildings in the geass world. Even the large buildings in Ulduar City were far better than this pillar. It's just that the power emanating from the stone pillar had to be taken seriously by Lelouch. It was a powerful force with a depressing effect. The closer he got to the stone pillar, the more Lelouch felt as if it was being poured into his body. It became heavier and heavier like a lead weight.
"This stone pillar seems to be the center of some kind of giant formation used to protect attacks and limit enemies. Lord Lelouch, when I tried to get close to the stone pillar for a confident observation, I found that my spatial ability was blocked by the stone pillar. I can't use my space talent within the three hundred meters centered on the stone pillar." At this time, Buanyani's name for Lelouch returned to normal.
"The power of the dragon can also be limited. This is really an incredible discovery." Nodding, Lelouch had to pay attention to the foundation of the free city again. This city can have powerful existences other than gods and countless secular beings. Surviving in the cracks is indeed a skill.
Buanyani also stared at the stone pillars in front of her and pointed to the stone pillars in the distance and said: "I have been collecting information about these stone pillars in the past few days. So far, I have found that there are a total of twelve such stone pillars in the Free City. Stone pillars are generally scattered in the city in this form┉┉"
While talking to Buanyani, she took out a map of Free City and unfolded it. Twelve red circles were drawn on the map, each circle representing such a stone pillar. Judging from the appearance, these stone pillars look like a circle, covering the entire upper-class and middle-class areas with a degree of freedom. Only some middle- and lower-class handicrafts and fields outside the city wall are outside the scope of the stone pillars.
"Is it really a magic circle used for city protection?" Lelouch carefully observed the map and murmured: "So is there any other news about the stone pillars?"
Buyani spread her hands: "It's hard to find out. There are many guards stationed under each stone pillar. These guards are very tight-lipped. Moreover, the stone pillars seem to have the ability to weaken all kinds of strange forces. It seems that it is not only space teleportation and invisibility." , the illusion spell will also immediately fail when close to the stone pillar."
"Well done Buyani~" Lelouch nodded with satisfaction. This news about Buyani is very important. If the Free City has the means to suppress the dragon, then the power of this city must not be underestimated in the future. .
"I don't know who built the stone pillars, and what its main function is. But I have some idea of the daily maintenance and management of the stone pillars!"
"who?"
Buanyani cleared her throat and said with a strange look: "A magic research institution in the Free City, and the person behind this institution is Yunokia, one of the three giants in the Free City that Alisa mentioned before. ”
Lelouch closed his eyes and thought for a moment. Although this always felt a little weird, now was not the time to delve into the matter. His mission in coming to Free City was to establish a stronghold, not to explore secrets. After chatting with Buyani for a few words, Lelouch signaled to return to the Chamber of Commerce first.
Less than ten minutes after Buyani used her space talent to leave with Lelouch, a figure wearing a black windbreaker broke into the military camp under the stone pillar.
He was short and had a mask on his face. No matter how you looked at it, he had the physique of a young man. However, when the young man entered the military camp, the guards guarding the door and the guards practicing inside were oblivious and allowed the young man to approach the stone pillar. After walking under the stone pillar, the young man looked at the huge stone pillar in front of him and took out the necklace he was wearing around his neck. There was a gem that exuded this strange luster hanging from the front of this ordinary-looking necklace. Like life, it shot directly at the stone pillar. The stone pillar that Buyani had previously claimed could break all strange phenomena showed no reaction at all. Instead, row after row of words appeared under the slowly rotating lines in the young man's eyes. .
The strange thing is that this strange phenomenon has not been noticed by the nearby soldiers. Even a mage responsible for maintaining the operation of the stone pillar walked away from the young man in ignorance, as if completely ignoring the person who was copying the stone pillar with a pen and paper. boy of words. (To be continued...)